The Night of the Ghoul is a new Scott Snyder comic that Comixology is currently publishing. It is a 6 release story and the 5th installment will be published next week. Here are my thoughts after reading 1 - 4 of the series.
The comic opens with Forest Inman, a horror film lover, stumbling across a forgotten canister of footage of the Night of the Ghoul. Director T. F. Merritt's film never made it to the silver screen though. A mysterious studio fire destroyed the footage and killed the cast and crew. No footage had ever been recovered until Inman discovered it. However, the ending of the movie was not among the recovered film. Desiring to know how the movie ended, Inman finds director Merritt in a hospice under the name of Mr. Patrick. An alternating plot concerns the U. S. Army serving in Italy during WWI. Needing to advance to the village of Culla where German soldiers have bunkered down, soldier Kurt Powell and three of his buddies volunteer to do some reconnaissance. However, instead of finding Germans they find a pile of dead bodies.
I was impressed that issues 2, 3 and 4 did not waste paper by merely setting up new characters. All of the characters in this story are introduced in the first issue. The writing style followed the mystery novel format and each issue continued the storyline with increasing suspense. It was a gripping read and I highly recommend it.
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