Category Archives: Locke & Key

A Last Light In The Darkness

  Raise your lighter… or your road flare. The last big power ballad is playing and the concert is almost over. Locke & Key: Omega #4 is out Wednesday, April 3rd, at your local comic store, and on your favorite digital platforms. Note: This is a lousy fuckin’ place to jump in if you’re new [...]

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Deal Me In

Just a reminder that on Saturday, February 4th (uh, that would be tomorrow), I’ll be at Jetpack Comics in Rochester, New Hampshire, from 2 – 5 PM, to play the Locke & Key card game with anyone who shows up and wants in. It’s not hard to pick up, it’s relatively fast to play (30 [...]

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Office Porn, Loose Keys, Work Completed

So after a few unexpected delays, this one is out tomorrow: LOCKE & KEY: THE GUIDE TO THE KNOWN KEYS hits stores just in time for Thanksgiving, and is the perfect thing to read while digesting all that turkey. We’ve got a standalone short story jammed in there, an expanded guide to the known keys [...]

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Feast Your Eyes

We’ve still got two issues of LOCKE & KEY: KEYS TO THE KINGDOM left to go, but here’s a preview of the first cover for LOCKE & KEY: CLOCKWORKS, due late spring, early summer. One note: a key detail has been photoshopped out of this image, to eliminate a spoiler from the final issue of [...]

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As Time Goes By

I just wanted to thank everyone who called in orders to Cornerstone Books. Almost everything got signed yesterday night and should go out shortly. Cornerstone actually wound up with more orders than they had books in stock, and so a small number of orders will be signed next week and go out then. Sorry for [...]

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The Keys to the Kingdom

There’s a lot going on in LOCKE & KEY world this month. Here’s a long entry that is actually very short because most of it is pictures. Tomorrow this is out: It’s the third book in the series, and you can find it in bookstores and comic shops everywhere (for the next few days you [...]

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Guilty in Salem/Meet me in Casablanca

LOCKE & KEY vol. 3: CROWN OF SHADOWS is out in hardcover this week, and as noted in my last entry, there are two ways to get a signed copy. The first method would be to order from Cornerstone Books in Salem, MA. They’ll ship to you wherever you live (tho you pay shipping costs). [...]

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Big Blast O’ Locke & Key News

Sorry for the prolonged period of radio silence. I’ve been neck-deep in a new project and the thing is a time hog; it hasn’t left a lot of room for blogging. There’s a lot happening with LOCKE & KEY over the next month. Maybe a visual will help. This, from editor Chris Ryall: You’re looking [...]

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Halfway

This is out on Wednesday: I wrote the first draft of this story – it’s a standalone titled “Beyond Repair” – as part of HEAD GAMES, but when I hit the last page, I realized I was going to have to put it aside for a while. Because when you get to the last page, [...]

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Lockin’ the Vote

Blair Butler’s vote, anyway… Locke & Key: Crown of Shadows #5 is out as of last Wednesday, and Blair Butler just named it her pick of the week. Today is Free Comic Book day, so it’s a good time to visit your local comic store, and if you’re going to be in there anyhow, why [...]

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