Writer Thom Burgess (Ghoster, Hallows Fell)  has launched his latest venture – Early Haunt – a graphic novel that features four ghost stories from the early days of literature that influenced some of the most famous terror tales. The graphic novel has already proved very successful on Kickstarter and one of the stretch goals is a plan to incorporate augmented reality to the book!

The stories are:

The Death Bride – An Italian Gothic Horror and a primary literary influence to Mary Shelley, writer of Frankenstein.

The Wild Hunter – A German poem which acted as a major inspiration to Washington Irving, writer of Sleepy Hollow.

The Dish House – a Japanese ghost tale, which inspired Sadako in Koji Suzuki’s The Ring

The House in Athens – The first appearance of a ‘chained apparition’, an inspiration to to Charles Dicken’s ‘Marley’s Ghost.’

From the press release: These haunting stories, which all have their roots in real life accounts and ancient folklore are lifted and translated from their unwieldy original text and adapted into a more readable graphic novel format to be enjoyed by a whole new audience. All accompanied by the evocative work of four extremely talented illustrators.

The book will be illustrated by Mike O’ Brien, Brian Coldrick, Brianne Neuman, and David Romero, and Colourist Bryan Valenza.

For more information and to pre-order your copy, head over to Kickstarter now!

Check out the sample images below (click to view full size)!

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