Hot off the heels of its first Eisner Award win for Best New Series (Somna), DSTLRY announced a new horror one-shot curated by Somna co-creator Becky Cloonan at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday.
Come Find Me: An Autumnal Offering is a folk-horror anthology one-shot featuring stories by six creators including Cloonan, whose contribution introduces her next DSTLRY series. Her story follows a thief who’s cursed to doom everything they touch after they steal the coins laid over a dead person’s eyes.
Debuting in late October, Come Find Me also features some of the most iconic horror creators working in comics: E.M. Carroll (A Guest in the House), Céline Loup (The Man Who Came Down the Attic Stairs), Vanesa R. Del Rey (Scarlet Witch, Redlands), HamletMachine (Lucifer’s Garden), and Molly Mendoza (Skip, Stray). Carroll, Mendoza, and Del Rey’s stories dig into “naturalistic romance and dread,” while HamletMachine takes a Faustian route with a musical demon and their victims.
“Just like Somna allowed me to collaborate with [co-creator] Tula Lotay and create something subversive and unexpected, I wanted to cultivate that same feel with Come Find Me,” said Cloonan. “From a place of selfishness, these are my favorite voices in horror comics, and uniting them has been a nightmare come true. Much like my first contribution in DSTLRY’s one-shot, The Devil’s Cut, you may just see some of these stories set the stage for larger projects.”
Founding editor Will Dennis said, “Following on the huge success of Somna, Becky is at it again with the sexy horror stories! It’s a testament to her stature in this business that she’s managed to assemble such a stellar lineup of established and emerging talent, and I feel very blessed that she’s asked me to be a part of it. It’s going to be an amazing book!”
DSTLRY co-founders Chip Mosher and David Steinberger called the one-shot “as thought-provoking as it is terrifying” and remarked upon how Come Find Me continues their commitment to publishing “unique, high-quality content”—what they call “the DSTLRY difference.”
Although the publisher only launched last year, it’s already gained major accolades from the industry. Its comics appeared on multiple “Best of 2023” lists last year, and on Friday DSTLRY took home its first Eisner Award. It was also nominated in two additional categories, and we’re likely to see its titles on the Harvey Awards ballot come fall.
Come Find Me will be available in October via dstlry.co and at your local comic shop. The one-shot is available for pre-order now.
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