I've been sitting on this one for a while now, but I am very thrilled to announce that I am overseeing a re-read of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez's fantastic Locke & Key over at Tor.com. I'll be essentially reviewing the six trades comprising the series.
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| Welcome to the Locke & Key Reread |
Here's the announcement post, and a snapshot from it:
However, one thing becomes quite clear by the end of Welcome to Lovecraft, the first volume of the saga, as uttered by the mysterious being first known as Dodge:
“No. You can’t understand. Because you’re reading the last chapter of something without having read the first chapter. You’re a little guy, Bode. Kids always think they’re coming into a story at the beginning, when they’re usually coming in at the end.”
Superficially, as the story begins, Hill & Rodriguez lull readers in with two common tropes of the horror genre—the home invasion and the haunted house story. This framework is then used as a launching pad into many dark and fantastic realms through the use of the keys, similar to Sandman’s use of dreams.
The first trade/installment is, of course, Welcome to Lovecraft. So please, go and read along or reread the series with me, won't you?
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