Today, Dark Horse Comics announced the newest edition of Steve Niles’ Criminal Macabre: The Complete Cal McDonald Stories, featuring two brand new tales and an introduction by the horror legend John Carpenter. This new, bone-chilling collection collects the complete Criminal Macabre prose stories Savage Membrane; Guns, Drugs, and Monsters; Dial M for Monster; All My Bloody Things, and the two new stories The Dead Son and Out of Water.
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The world has two faces—the natural and the supernatural. The face we see every day, people filing past us in an almost zombie-like stupor, numb to the horrors of everyday life or driven to madness by the pain and agony of modern-day existence. And those are the people who aren’t zombies or monsters!
Cal McDonald is a detective with one foot in the real world and one in the world of magic. For Cal, the horrors we all dream about in the fevered darkness of the night are all too real, kept at bay through an almost constant influx of drugs to numb the pain but never erase it. Cut from the same mold as Sam Spade, Jake Gittes, and the famous detectives of Chandler, Hammett, and Spillane, Cal McDonald, whether he likes it or not, is all that stands between us and the nightmare world just outside our vision.
Criminal Macabre: The Complete Cal McDonald Stories trade paperback will be available everywhere books are sold on March 2, 2022. It is available for pre-order through our ComiXology link and will retail for $19.99.
Praise for Steve Niles and Criminal Macabre:
“Niles [is] one of the greatest ‘monster comic’ writers of the last decade.”–Bloody Disgusting
“Steve Niles has created a tremendous character in Cal McDonald. [. . .] Cal is as badass as they come.”–AIPT
“Criminal Macabre: Die, Die, My Darling! may just be the perfect comic.”–Comics Bulletin
