This event is truly the driver of the entire story, although that is not apparent at first. The series opens with the witch Hester Beck being put to death, in an exceptionally heartless and gruesome fashion. Countless Haints refers to the many ghosts and monsters in the woods of Harrow County (‘haints” is a Southern variation of the word “haunts”). The first collection takes its subtitle from the original title of the book. So I expect to read the entire series in just a few months time, and these are my impressions of the first half.Ĭullen Bunn, script Tyler Crook, art & lettering 8 of the collections, sticking to the four issues per volume convention). Now that I have finally dipped into it I find that the end of the series has been announced with Issue #32 in June 2018 (also announced as concluding in Vol. I consider myself a horror comics fan–longtime reader of Hellblazer, Hellboy, and lots of other scary comics that don’t have “Hell” in the title–but for some reason I kept putting off reading Cullen Bunn & Tyler Crook’s Dark Horse series Harrow County, which began in 2015.
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