![]() ![]() The publisher’s claim of FC or full colour is not accurate: The Keep is a black and white work with gray shadowing and red blood. I’m a fan of Matt Smith and it was his name that was the deciding factor in my purchase. Horror isn’t my usual read but this felt more of a suspense thriller. ![]() Characters develop well, dialogue working what we can’t get from the graphics. It’s a great story that keeps you guessing. Since every darkness has a counterpoint of light they’re brought into the eternal conflict of good versus evil. Once there we’re introduced to an evil that wants to be free. ![]() Bad things happen and a researcher and his daughter are brought in to explain. It’s World War Two and the German Army takes up residence in a keep that has no history. The overall story, pacing, character development are all well done: not being a regular “comic” writer had no ill effect on Wilson’s work. He wrote the novel and came back to the material to write this comic adaptation. Paul Wilson slams it in his introduction. Luckily I didn’t remember anything about the movie since F. Paul Wilson adapts his own story in this 2011 edition with a new cover by Matthew Dow Smith! Now you can re-live the tale as it was meant to be told (we didn’t mention the 1980s movie directly, but…) as author F. But on the eve of WWII, German soldiers move in and awaken something - something hungry - something as merciless as the SS einsatzkommandos accompanying them. The keep had stood empty in the Transylvanian Alps for 500 years. ![]()
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