House of penance

Peter Tomasi

Book - 2017

"A horrific story of a haunted house and one woman's mission to wash away the blood curse of her husband's invention from claiming her own life and soul"--

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Genres
Graphic novels
Comics (Graphic works)
Horror comics
Published
Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Books 2017.
Language
English
Main Author
Peter Tomasi (author)
Other Authors
Ian (Comic book artist) Bertram (artist), Dave Stewart (colorist), Nate Piekos (letterer)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
ISBN
9781506700335
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

With this unusual take on the real story of the Winchester house in San Jose, Calif., Tomasi (Batman and Robin) and Bertram (Zero), have created perhaps the first biographical horror graphic novel. Sarah Winchester, widow of firearms magnate William Winchester, employs men to continually expand her San Jose house, night and day. Tomasi depicts Sarah hallucinating about the dead killed by Winchester rifles: pools of blood and enormous veins threaten her and the house, with only the continued hammering keeping these horrors at bay. Fictional workman Warren Peck is a newcomer to Sarah's house and, like all the men working there, has a past of horrible violence. Partially because of this, he and Sarah become close. Bertram brings to gory life all of Sarah's delusions as well as Warren's memories of those he killed. His male characters tend toward the grotesque, perhaps closest to the work of Frank Quietly, while Sarah is all cheekbones and huge eyes. The ghosts here are all in the characters' minds but frightening nonetheless. (Jan.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Review by Library Journal Review

Having recently lost her husband and only child, Sarah Winchester inherits a vast fortune owing to her husband's holdings as heir to a rifle manufacturing empire. She's haunted by terrible spirits she believes to be the ghosts of those killed by the very machines that brought -William Wirt -Winchester so much wealth. Possessed by the notion that endless construction work on her mansion might keep the apparitions at bay, Sarah funds constant renovations on her home, transforming the estate into a maddening maze of twisted corridors and stairways to nowhere. Inspired by the legend of the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, CA, Tomasi (Batman and Robin) introduces into the tale a wandering gunman troubled by his own past and explores themes of guilt, madness, and the possibility of redemption. Bertram's (Bowery Boys) illustrations, with the help of colorist Stewart (Heroes), seethe with menace as his exaggerated figures traverse panels packed with dangers both real and-conceivably-imagined. -VERDICT Fans of historical fiction and horror will find plenty to enjoy, although some might be turned off by the focus being more on character and a sense of dread than gore.-TB © Copyright 2017. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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