Ian Rankin Makes His Graphic Novel Debut
DARK ENTRIES Ian Rankin Makes His Graphic Novel Debut!
"Rankin has taken his well-earned place among the top echelon of crime writers." - The Observer
To celebrate the launch of the graphic novel, Dark Entries, best-selling crime writer Ian Rankin will be giving a Q&A at Waterstones Edinburgh West End at 6pm on October 15th.
International bestselling crime writer and recipient of an OBE for his services to literature, acclaimed Scottish author Ian Rankin makes his comics debut with the tense and twisting tale, DARK ENTRIES [Titan Books, 2 October 2009, £14.99].
Finding the perfect protagonist for his dark and gritty style, Rankin takes on comics' grim antihero of the hugely popular Hellblazer series, occult detective John Constantine.
Constantine has seen his share of strange things in his career, but nothing could prepare him for the horrors of...reality television. "Haunted Mansion" is currently the hottest show on TV, but when the macabre house actually starts attacking the contestants, Constantine is hired to be the ultimate mole. Locked inside with a cast of wannabe-celebrities, his every move being monitored by a deadly figure from his past, Constantine must figure out who (or what) is pulling the strings before he gets cancelled - permanently.
Illustrated by Werther Dell'Edera, whose work Publishers Weekly calls "as stylized and chiaroscuro-laden as a vintage noir movie," Rankin takes a classic "locked room" scenario and gives it a bloody nose and a cigarette, keeping readers on the edge of their seats until the very last page.
"Rankin and Dell'Edera dial up a very clever, very modern new take on the old haunted house story." - Brian K. Vaughan, author of Y: The Last Man
"This is a classic John Constantine story"
- Warren Ellis (Transmetropolitan, The Authority)
Ian Rankin OBE is the award-winning Scottish writer of the Inspector Rebus detective novels. He has been elected a Hawthornden Fellow, and is also a past winner of the Chandler-Fulbright Award. He is the recipient of four Crime Writers' Association Dagger Awards including the prestigious Diamond Dagger, and won America's celebrated Edgar Award for 'Resurrection Men'. He has also been shortlisted for the Edgar and Anthony Awards in the USA, and won Denmark's Palle Rosenkrantz Prize, the French Grand Prix du Roman Noir and the Deutscher Krimipreis. He is a contributor to BBC2's 'Newsnight Review', he also presented his own TV series, 'Ian Rankin's Evil Thoughts'. Dark Entries is his first comics work.
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DARK ENTRIES
Ian Rankin & Werther Dell'Edera
2 October 2009 Hardback • £14.99 • 216pp • ISBN: 9781848563421
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