RAT GOD HC

Eisner Award Hall of Fame inductee Richard Corben’s chilling story inspired bythe works of H. P. Lovecraft finally collected as part of the new Richard Corben hardcover library.Terrible things stalk the forests outside Arkham in this chilling original tale from comics master Richard Corben! An arrogant city slicker on a quest to uncover the background of a young woman from the backwoods finds horrors beyond imagining, combining Lovecraftian mutations with Native American legends.This volume also includes a foreword by Bram Stoker Award–winning author Caitlín R. Kiernan (The Red Tree, The Drowning Girl) as well as both the original black and white and the color version of the long out-of-print “The Rats in the Walls,” a Lovecraft-penned tale adapted by Richard Corben!Collects Rat God #1–#5. Richard Corben was born on a farm in Anderson, Missouri, and went on to get a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Kansas City Art Institute, in 1965.After working as a professional animator, Corben started doing underground comics, including Grim Wit, Slow Death, Skull, Rowlf, Fever Dreams and his own anthology Fantagor. In 1970 he began illustrating horror and science-fiction stories for Warren Publishing. His stories appeared in Creepy, Eerie, Vampirella, 1984 and Comix International. He also colored several episodes of Will Eisner's Spirit. In 1975, when Moebius, Druillet, and Jean-Pierre Dionnet started publishing the magazine Métal Hurlant in France, Corben submitted some of his stories to them. He continued his work for the franchise in America, where the magazine was called Heavy Metal. In 1976 he adapted a short Robert E. Howard story in Bloodstar. In 2012 he was elected to the The Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame. The author lives in Shawnee, KS.