Exclusive Preview: Mr. Higgins Comes Home

Dark Horse Comics has provided ComicBook.com with an exclusive preview of Mr. Higgins Comes Home, the upcoming original graphic novel from writer Mike Mignola which the publisher will release in October.

When it was announced, Dark Horse described Mr. Higgins Comes Home as an over-the-top vampire story influenced by the movies.

"This one started when a mutual friend pointed out Warwick Johnson-Cadwell's affection for sad werewolves. Then Warwick and I exchanges a few words about vampires and that was it," said Mike Mignola. "Mr. Higgins Comes Home is my very obvious nod to any number of old Hammer Dracula films and my all-time favorite vampire film, Roman Polanski's The Fearless Vampire Killers."

In Mr. Higgins Comes Home, preparations begin at Castle Golga for the annual festival of the undead, as a pair of fearless vampire killers question a man hidden away in a monastery on the Baltic Sea.

The mysterious Mr. Higgins wants nothing more than to avoid the scene of his wife's death, and the truth about what happened to him in that castle. However, these heroic men, sworn to rid the world of the vampire scourge, inspire Higgins to venture out and to end the only suffering he really cares about -- his own.

"Working on a project with Mike Mignola is an amazing thing to be able to do," said Warwick Johnson-Cadwell. "His art and storytelling is a massive influence and inspiration for me and chatting with him about werewolves, vampires and the like was very exciting. When Mr. Higgins Comes Home turned up in my email I was in awe. It's a rollicking vampire romp right in the Hammer vein and it's a pleasure to be slapping that crimson goop they used for blood all over it."

Mr. Higgins Comes Home is due in comic shops on October 25th and in bookstores on October 31st.

You can check out the preview art in the attached image gallery, and the official solicitation text below:

Mr. Higgins Comes Home

Mike Mignola (W/Cover), Warwick Johnson Cadwell (A/C)

Preparations begin at Castle Golga for the annual festival of the undead, as a pair of fearless vampire killers question a man hidden away in a monastery on the Baltic Sea. The mysterious Mr. Higgins wants nothing more than to avoid the scene of his wife's death, and the truth about what happened to him in that castle. However, these heroic men sworn to rid the world of the vampire scourge, inspire Higgins to venture out and to end the only suffering he really cares about—his own. This send-up of classic vampire stories sees Mignola teaming with British artist Warwick Johnson-Cadwell (Solid State Tank Girl, No. 1 Car Spotter) for an original graphic novel as outlandish as The Amazing Screw-On Head.