Myth-Inspired Horror Series THE VINEYARD Coming in August

Writer Brian Hawkins (Black Cotton, Believe in the Name, Don’t Ever Blink) is coming to AfterShock in August, accompanied by illustrator Sami Kivelä (THE HEATHENS, UNDONE BY BLOOD, Abbott), for THE VINEYARD – a myth-inspired horror series about what happens when family values and otherworldly obligations collide.

THE VINEYARD is a family-owned winery that sows and reaps by the blessing of the great god of wine and revelry, Dionysus. However, the Vines family’s patron god requires complete devotion in the form of four sacrificial killings a year before each harvest. This has been done in unfettered obeisance. But all of that changed when the family’s patriarch, Didache Vines, was in a horrible accident that left him paralyzed and in a wheelchair. Now, the sacrificial and murderous duties of the Vines family have fallen to wife and matriarch, Maranatha Vines. With harvest season fast approaching and the family short of their annual sacrificial killings, Maranatha’s struggle with her conscience puts all her family – husband, son and daughter – in jeopardy.

With colors by Jason Wordie, letters from Taylor Esposito, a main cover by Kivelä and Wordie, plus a first issue incentive variant cover by Francesco Francavilla, THE VINEYARD is vintage horror in a class by itself. Comics news site The Beat offers a first taste here.