The Haunting of Hill House meets Locke & Key in THE PLOT, a supernatural horror tale where death forces Chase Blaine back to his ancestral home, built on a vast, ancient bog where family secrets just won't stay drowned.

IN ORDER TO RECEIVE, FIRST YOU MUST GIVE.

Chase Blaine tried to run from his family, but when his estranged brother and sister-in-law are murdered, he becomes guardian to MacKenzie and Zach, the niece and nephew he hardly knows. Seeking stability for the children, Chase moves his newly formed family to his ancestral home in Cape Augusta, Maine -- which overlooks a deep, black bogland teeming with family secrets that just won't stay drowned.

THE PLOT VOL. 1 collects issues #1 to #4 of the eight issue series.

From writers Tim Daniel (End After End, Fissure, Denizen, and more!) and Michael Moreci (Barbaric, Wasted Space, Spree, and Revealer) and artist Joshua Hixson (Shanghai Red, The Black Woods, and Batman)

For fans of The Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson), Locke & Key (Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez), The Drowning Kind (Jennifer McMahon), We Have Always Lived In the Castle (Shirley Jackson), Burnt Offerings (Robert Marasco), Wytches (Scott Snyder and Jock), Home Before Dark (Riley Sager), Mapping the Interior (Stephen Graham Jones), and A Head Full of Ghosts (Paul Tremblay).

"There is a great balance between realistic dialogue and unspeakable horror and a cliffhanger that practically demands the reading of the next issue." -The New York Times

"THE PLOT jars, upsets, shocks, and disorients--this comic is out to get you." - Daniel Kraus (New York Times bestselling author of The Shape of Water, Whalefall, Trollhunters, The Living Dead, and The Autumnal graphic novel from Vault Comics)

"THE PLOT is GREAT! CREEPY as hell, but great. Another winner from Vault Comics." - Brian Michael Bendis (bestselling writer of Spider-man, Miles Morales, Jessica Jones, Avengers, and more!)

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