Oni Press invitations readers to hitch a trio of ghost hunters within the haunted McCabe Home within the new four-issue collection Plague Home. Written by Michael W. Conrad and illustrated by Dave Chisholm, Plague Home #1 debuts this April, and we’re thrilled and chilled to solely debut the variant cowl artwork for the primary subject!
Beneath, you possibly can take a look at the variant covers by Alex Eckman-Garden, Nathan Ooten, Brian Stage, and Noah Bailey, respectively, and we even have the official press launch with further particulars in addition to preview pages from Plague Home #1.
Press Launch: PORTLAND, OR (January seventh, 2025) – Oni Press – the a number of Eisner and Harvey Award-winning writer of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997, is proud to unearth the cursed covers for PLAGUE HOUSE #1 – a darkish and turbulent four-issue descent into worry from acclaimed author Michael W. Conrad (Marvel Girl, Double Walker) and 2024 Ringo Award-winning artist Dave Chisholm (Miles Davis and the Seek for the Sound) debuting in comics in every single place April 2025!
Along with the problem’s essential cowl by Dave Chisholm, PLAGUE HOUSE #1 will characteristic variant covers from Brian Stage (Star Wars: Vader – Darkish Visions), Noah Bailey (Marvel Girl: Black and Gold, Tremor Dose), Nathan Ooten (Neptune), and Alex Eckman-Garden (Mouse Guard: Legends of The Guard, Artwork Brut). Every cowl highlights a unique type of terror, informing the world of PLAGUE HOUSE from an all-new angle.
“A canopy has to face out on the shelf, it has to pop, it has to have one thing that separates it from the remainder of the stuff on the market,” mentioned artist Dave Chisholm. “For a difficulty #1, it additionally helps if it accomplishes all or a few of the following: 1. Generate a way of thriller, an intrigue. 2. Convey, both actually or symbolically, some kind of thematic content material of the story. 3. Introduce the readers to the principle character. 4. Function as a ‘type information,’ or a ‘type container’ in a approach—so readers have an concept in regards to the kind and design on the pages within the ebook. And, pay attention, I do know there may be actually nothing revelatory about this checklist. The problem is definitely making the factor that hits these standards!”
13 years in the past, Orin McCabe was a household man dwelling a privileged life within the suburbs. At the moment, he’s condemned to dying row for murdering his total household in an surprising match of hammerwielding brutality. Within the aftermath of his heinous crime, it’s fallen to a trio of eclectic, however devoted, ghost hunters—Jacob, the holy man; Holland, the skeptic; and their chief, Del, a real believer within the occult and worlds past—to surveil the deserted McCabe dwelling in quest of proof for the existence of the undead . . . and no matter supernatural supply could have probably fueled McCabe’s inhuman bloodbath. However this ill-matched and uneasy squad of investigators is about to find one thing way more terrifying than any unusual spirit. . . . One thing way more pernicious, way more contagious, that if not contained, may take full benefit of America’s unquenchable urge for food for violence and ship a plague of blood unto us all . . .
“Plague Home is a narrative a couple of haunting, however not one we have seen earlier than, and never one that may simply hit its marks as deftly, horrifyingly, and compellingly because it does,” mentioned Senior Editor Bess Pallares. “Michael and Dave have invested an amazing quantity of care into crafting this story, and I feel their longtime and new readers alike might be pleasantly shocked by this recent and devastating tackle a traditional horror story. The covers from Brian Stage, Noah Bailey, Nathan Ooten, and Alex Eckman-Garden are a testomony to how singularly upsetting this story is, and with each potential warning proper there on the entrance of the ebook, you possibly can’t assist however flip the web page and open the door to Plague Home.”
“Hauntings are like a religious an infection, a cosmic illness afflicting the locations the place tragedies have taken place,” mentioned author Michael Conrad. “What do they demand of us? What are we prepared to do to sate their hungers? Plague Home affords as many questions as solutions.”
Whether or not you like blood, ghosts, or an unsettling, eerie look into darkness, PLAGUE HOUSE #1 will pop off the shelf and drag you into its dusty corners in April!
Plus: Alongside PLAGUE HOUSE #1, don’t miss the whole line-up of genre-colliding new titles coming from Oni Press for Spring 2025:
• MINE IS A LONG, LONESOME GRAVE #1 by Justin Jordan & Chris Shehan | February 2025
• OUT OF ALCATRAZ #1 by Christopher Cantwell & Tyler Criminal| | March 2025
• FREE FOR ALL #1 by Patrick Horvath | March 2025
• PLAGUE HOUSE #1 by Michael W. Conrad & Dave Chisholm|| April 2025
• THE GODDAMN TRAGEDY #1 by Chris Condon & Shawn Kuruneru | Might 2025
PLAGUE HOUSE #1 (of 4)
WRITTEN BY MICHAEL W. CONRAD
ART & COVER BY DAVE CHISHOLM
COVER A BY DAVE CHISHOLM
COVER B BY BRIAN LEVEL
COVER C (RETURNABLE) BY NOAH BAILEY
FULL ART VARIANT (1:10) BY DAVE CHISHOLM
VARIANT COVER (1:20) BY NATHAN OOTEN
VARIANT COVER (1:50) BY ALEX ECKMAN-LAWN
ON SALE APRIL 2025 | $4.99 | 32 PGS | FC
