Skybound Entertainment and Image Comics have announced a new Creepshow one-shot adapting Joe Hill‘s 2011 short story “Wolverton Station.”
Per The Beat, Creepshow: Joe Hill’s Wolverton Station #1 is due to hit comic shops in March 2024. The werewolf-themed horror one-shot teams Hill with co-writer Jason Ciaramella and artist Michael Walsh. It features a main cover by Walsh, as well as variant covers by Gabriel Rodriguez and the fittingly-named Maria Wolf. In addition to the cover art, Skybound has also revealed a number of fully-lettered preview pages.
Check out the covers and preview pages for Creepshow: Joe Hill’s Wolverton Station #1 below:
Hill’s “Wolverton Station” was originally published in editor William Schafer’s 2011 collection Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 2. The short story was later republished in Hill’s own 2019 collection Full Throttle.
An official synopsis (per the original story’s standalone Kindle release) reads as follows: “Saunders made his fortune as a hatchet man for hire and has come to England to do what he does best: chop down the little guys to clear the way for a global firm. But his train north just made an unexpected stop to let on some passengers straight out of the worst kind of fairy tale. Now he’s up to his ankles in blood and finding out just what it really means to live in a dog-eat-dog world…”
Joe Hill talks Creepshow’s Wolverton Station adaptation
Hill is certainly no stranger to world of Creepshow. In fact, as a child, he even appeared in the 1982 Creepshow film — which was written by his father, Stephen King. “I’m always glad to renew my acquaintance with The Creep and reconnect with the gleeful gross-outs that are the hallmark of Creepshow in all its manifestations, from film to TV to comics,” Hill said.
“I wrote ‘Wolverton Station’ over a decade ago, working longhand while I traveled the UK by train for a book tour, and right from the start I knew I was writing a Creepshow kind of thing,” the author continued. “It’s the story of a cut-throat dealmaker, someone who thinks of himself as quite a wolf, running afoul of creatures whose fangs are in no way metaphorical. At its dark heart, it’s a fairy tale — not one of the modern fairy tales, the sort safely sanitized by Disney for mass consumption, but the older kind of fable, the sort with teeth. That kind of story is The Creep’s stock-and-trade and so it feels exactly right that the story should be adapted for Creepshow’s pestilent pages.”
Jason Ciaramella and Michael Walsh join the fray
Ciaramella is also very well acquainted with The Creep. “If I had to pick a favorite genre, the mashup of horror and comedy (Is there a name for this? Horromedy? Comorror?) would almost certainly be at the top of my list,” he said.
“So, obviously, Creepshow has been something I’ve loved for basically my entire life,” Ciaramella continued. “Wolverton Station marks my third contribution to the Creepshow legacy, and my second with both Joe and Michael. With Joe, it was a collaboration on a Tom Savini-Directed episode of Creepshow for Shudder called ‘By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain.’ With Michael, though he didn’t know it at the time, it was a special Creepshow-themed set of Magic: The Gathering cards produced by Wizards of the Coast. I love playing in this blood-slicked universe of twists and hilarity and surprise endings, but when I get to do it with a couple of talented creeps like Michael and Joe, well, that’s just something extra special, *innit?”
“*This is not a typo and Jason is not English,” Skybound’s press release reads. “He did, however, have a jolly good time using the word in his script for Wolverton Station.”
For his piece, Walsh said, “I’ve been a fan of Joe and Jason’s work for a long time, so to say I was excited to collaborate would be an understatement. Drawing a terrifying tale tinged with black comedy is right up my alley, and getting to work with editor Alex Antone again has been a dream. I can’t wait for all the horror fans out there to get a bloody taste of what we’ve been brewing up.”
Creepshow: Joe Hill’s Wolverton Station #1 goes on sale March 27, 2024 from Image Comics.
