Artist Malcolm McClinton has sent Backbrain a sneak preview of his cover art for the first in a graphic novel series featuring Hiram Grange, who is an agent for the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs — a secret organisation run by the Freemasons.
This first book is called Village of the Damned and the series is coming out through Shroud Publishing. McClinton describes it as “visual, raw, grittily violent, more than a little seedy, with supernatural monsters, hot chicks … and very very cool”.
Publisher Timothy Deal describes Hiram Grange as an anti-hero — “an awkward and gangly unlikely hero who suffers addictions to absinthe, opium, and sex. A man as flawed and complex as he is capable and deadly.”
Our primary goal was to create a five-novella series for Hiram, each detailing a separate but connected supernatural adventure. In each novella, Hiram investigates areas of confluence–geographic regions that are hotbeds of supernatural activity. In an area of confluence, Hiram may encounter the undead, lycanthropes, vampires, or any number of otherworldly entities.
The five books in the first “season” of the Hiram Grange Chronicles are:
- Book One: Hiram Grange and the Village of the Damned, Tim Deal
- Book Two: Hiram Grange and the Hitler Gene, Scott Carr
- Book Three: Hiram Grange and the Digital Eucharist, Robert Davies
- Book Four: Hiram Grange and the Chosen One, Kevin Lucia
- Book Five: Hiram Grange and the Nymphs of Krakow, Richard Wright
• Malcolm McClinton’s blog
• More information on Shroud Publishing and the Hiram Grange series
