I couldn't quite take her as seriously as I wanted to because (at times) she looked like a clunky, backward child. I guess it could have been done on purpose to make her seem even more sympathetic, but.eh. Plus, Emmy looks like she's maybe 10 years old. Also, it looked like everyone had a perpetual cold, what with all the red noses and cheeks. The only thing I was kind of iffy about was the art. Emmy is about to turn 18, and there's all this foreshadow-y stuff about what might happen when she does.īut seriously, it's a good story. I know you think I'm kidding, but I'm not.Īnyway. Yeah, I don't really know what that is, either.īest guess? It's just the old-timey southern way to pronounce Haunt.īut it runs around helping Emmy, so it can't be all bad, right?Įventually, they become friends, and she carries it around in her bag. And, apparently, that pile of dermis is called a Haint. I do not (personally) see a box full of skin and think: WITCHES!īut this is about a witch. You see that boneless, bloody arm hanging out of a drawer, and what looks like the skin of a face inside it, right? And just like with Colder, my mind goes right to a serial killer who skins his victims and maybe keeps the remnants in a box as a trophy. I mean, this one is nowhere near as disgusting, but it was still very misleading. Well, initially I had the same problem with this cover as I did with Colder. Stir it all up, and you've got a quite a scary mystery!Īlright, when I first got this one, I stuffed it on the bottom of my reading pile. You've got a girl on the cusp of womanhood who may be in danger, townspeople harboring a secret past, and a mystery that gets more frightening the closer it gets to being solved. You Caint Never Kill Them Spooky Devil Women!

Visit his website at Cullen Bunn's Harrow County is actually more like what I wanted, but quite didn't get, from Scott Snyder's Wytches.

Buy him a drink sometime, and he'll tell you all about it. Somewhere along the way, Cullen founded Undaunted Press and edited the critically acclaimed small press horror magazine, Whispers from the Shattered Forum.Īll writers must pay their dues, and Cullen has worked various odd jobs, including Alien Autopsy Specialist, Rodeo Clown, Professional Wrestler Manager, and Sasquatch Wrangler.Īnd, yes, he has fought for his life against mountain lions and he did perform on stage as the World's Youngest Hypnotist. In addition to The Sixth Gun, his current projects include Crooked Hills, a middle reader horror prose series from Evileye Books The Tooth, an original graphic novel from Oni Press and various work for Marvel and DC. The follow-up, The Damned: Prodigal Sons, was released in 2008. His noir/horror comic (and first collaboration with Brian Hurtt), The Damned, was published in 2007 by Oni Press. Louis area with his wife Cindy and his son Jackson. Cullen grew up in rural North Carolina, but now lives in the St.

Harrow County, Vol. 1 by Cullen Bunn