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Watchmen meets Unbreakable in the darkly disturbing supernatural tale, ATHANASIA, where the heroic dead bleed power into the ground … only to be unearthed by a down-on-her-luck young woman to unforeseeable consequences.Some secrets are best left buried. Forrest Molson is going nowhere. One year out of high school -- and one year into sobriety -- she's working with her father as assistant groundskeeper at Athanasia Cemetery, the final resting place of fallen members of the Dynamic Guild, Venture City's resident superheroes. At her lowest point, Forrest discovers Athanasia's darkest secret. At night, the cemetery soil bleeds a substance created from the spectacular substances that ooze from rotting superheroes. This ooze becomes Forrest's new drug -- and she's intent on using her unpredictable new powers to be judge, jury, and executioner of Venture City's evil citizens. But as she loses her mind to her new addiction, she inches closer to becoming the most evil of all.
ATHANASIA is a superhero story seen through the darkest lens.
From New York Times bestselling author Daniel Kraus (The Autumnal, Angel Down, Whalefall, The Shape of Water) and rising star artist Dani! "...a provactive and unsettling superhero horror story." - Publishers Weekly "Man, this is some high-calibre, nuanced, comic-booking -- really strong storytelling." - Stephen Graham Jones (New York Times bestselling author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter and the Indian Lake trilogy) "...gritty..." - Booklist "...horror fans will find this smart and unpredictable." - Publishers Weekly For fans of the graphic novels
Black Hammer (Jeff LeMire/Dean Ormston
), Watchmen (Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons),
The Crow (James O’Barr +Film
), Kingdom Come (Mark Waid/Alex Ross),
Batman: The Killing Joke (Alan Moore/Brian Bolland),
The Boys (Garth Ennis/Darick Roberson),
The Authority (Warren Ellis/Bryan Hitch);
the films Darkman, Chronicle, and
Unbreakable and the novels
Alter Ego (Alex Segura),
Secret Identity (Alex Segura),V.E. Schwab’s
Villains series (
Vicious and
Vengeful), and Jennifer Estep’s
Elemental Assassin series.
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"Kraus brings the rigor of a scientist and the sensibility of a poet." –
The New York Times DANIEL KRAUS is a
New York Times bestselling writer of novels, TV, and film. His
latest novel,
Whalefall, received a front-cover review in the
New York Times Book
Review, won the Alex Award, was an
L.A. Times Book Prize Finalist, and was a Best
Book of 2023 from NPR, the
New York Times, Amazon,
Chicago Tribune, and more. 20th
Century Fox will release the film adaptation, cowritten by Kraus, in 2026.
With Guillermo del Toro, he co-authored
The Shape of Water, based on the same idea
the two created for the Oscar-winning film. Also with del Toro, Kraus co-authored
Trollhunters, which was adapted into the Emmy-winning Netflix series. His also cowrote
The Living Dead and
Pay the Piper with legendary filmmaker George A. Romero.
Kraus’s
The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch was named one of
Entertainment
Weekly’s Top 10 Books of the Year. Kraus has won the Bram Stoker Award, Scribe
Award, two Odyssey Awards (for both Rotters and Scowler), has appeared multiple
times as Library Guild selections, and more.
Kraus’s work has been translated into over 20 languages. Visit him at danielkraus.com.
