The Bad Bad Place

THE BAD BAD PLACE

• Publishing Company:

  MARK STAFFORD

• Imprint:

  SOARING PENGUIN

• Format:

  ONE SHOT

• Creator(s):

  DAVID HINE (WRITER)

  MARK STAFFORD (ARTIST)

• Number of Pages:

  112

• Cover price:

  Pounds sterling 14.99

• Publication Date:

  2019

• Age:

  ADULT

• Fiction/Non-Fiction

  FICTION

• Key words:

  FAMILY, SMALL TOWN LIFE, SATIRE, HORROR, PARANORMAL, SOCIAL COMMENTARY, SUPERNATURAL, SUSPENSE, OCCULT, MYSTERY, MURDER, MONSTERS, MOTHERHOOD, POLITICS, ENGLAND,

• Summary:

  

  

  The Bad Bad Place

  It seems that Faraway Hills, the modern community built on the site of the far, far older Crouch Heath, did not satisfy all the needs of the community. When the Castavette Estate reappeared on the edge of town, years after it had been demolished, those needs, those urges, those cravings were satisfied. But what price will be exacted by The Bad Bad Place? David Hine and Mark Stafford, the team responsible for The Man Who Laughs and Lip Hook, bring a new tale of dreams turned dark, and a mother’s soul blackened with revenge.
  A graphic novel by David Hine and Mark Stafford

  “well-paced sense of monstrous sickliness.” –A Place to Hang Your Cape

  “decidedly chilling and disturbing Lovecraftian fable of vengeance, madness and things that go bump in the night” –Mass Movement

  “The Bad Bad Place has the ring of the authentic campfire ghost story, where a few details must remain constant whoever’s doing the telling, but the narrator can embellish away to their heart’s content, stringing the listeners along with the creepy details and evil doings. Hine’s chosen the Lovecraft route of things beyond mortal ken lurking in the dark places beneath awaiting their summoning, yet this is actually a darkly humorous story despite the trappings. Stafford’s brilliant cartooning supplies demented characters brought to ghastly life, and even what are meant to be ordinary people drip with oddity, something wonky about them. He’s not associated with the genre, but his is great underground styling. Literally in some places.
  … gloriously gruesome fun.’
  -Slings and Arrows