Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft
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Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them…. and home to a despise-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all…! Acclaimed suspense novelist and New York Times best-selling leader Joe Hill (Heart-Shaped Box) makes an all-new tale of dark fantasy and marvel, with astounding artwork from Gabriel Rodriguez.
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When I first checked into Joe Hill it was on the recommendation of a friend. I wasn’t expecting much, not just because he’s the son of Stephen “The Hack” King, but because far too regularly the kids of legendary people become successful themselves not for their talent but also due to their already having an “in”–that is, they were born on third base, so running home isn’t as huge a deal as for the rest of us. Still, on the might of one person’s opinion, I chose against my better judgment to give the goober a try.
I went with “Locke and Key” for my first spin, mostly because I’ve been a fan of Lovecraft for nearly fifty years; thus, when I saw the title I thought, what the hell, I don’t know much about “Hill” as an leader anyway, so I might as well go with something that looks appealing. Sorry to say, I didn’t realize until a day or two after I had ordered it–too late to cancel–that it was a comic book (yes, yes, I know the trend is to call them “graphic novels” these days, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s a comic book; just like tacking “science” onto “creation” doesn’t lend the boneheaded notion any more street cred).
My terrible.
But I gave it a chance, anyway, even if comic books are not a excellent way to judge a name’s prose style, as the verbiage that would normally be used to clarify scenes and action are generally dropped in favor of line drawings. With that in mind, I have to say in all honesty that even had I not known he was King’s kid I would have either suspected it, or else that he was “influenced” by SK’s work. Hill has the same feel, namely, that of a small boy who has figured out a way to talk dirty about grave stuff like murder and insanity and sex lacking getting into distress. I permanently have a picture of King giggling behind his hand up in the attic, where he just establish his dad’s ancient Playboys. Add to that the standard one-dimensional characters, contrived plots and cookie-cutter morality and you have King. And rumor has it that, Junior, too.
I–barely–gave this two stars, mostly for inventiveness. And because reading it only took up about 15 minutes of my life.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
The tale was okay but nothing that appealing.
Here is the clincher. The antagonists have an mysterious resemblance to The Trashcan Man and Randall Flagg.
It appears the book echoes the same sophomoric views of excellent and terrible that King has. This isn’t permanently a terrible thing, I loved the few minutes it took me to read this.
It gets 1 star because in absolutely no way is this an homage to Lovecraft, AND the actual entertainment derived from it is in no way justified by the cost. For a fraction of the cost I could have gotten any comic book with as much entertainment value. This part of the tale is fleeting and way too expensive for what you get.
Now onto why this is in no way an homage to Lovecraft. Lovecraft writes about the insignificance of man in the face of things we can never comprehend. What Lovecraft does is illustrate the limits of our senses. The darkness for Lovecraft is only slightly perceived. We can never see what dark things exist because we are only human. In his most blunt fashion Lovecraft illustrates this in From Beyond. What makes Lovecraft so eerie is that he focuses on the scientific realization of our fallible senses. From Beyond shows us a perception we cannot tap into, but it becomes that more believable because it is no different then the X-Rays we harness but can never see. Can a dark godlike creature from outerspace be resting in the depths of our ocean? Why not? Lovecraft dealt in the world we have yet to learn, worlds that we cannot tap into but are just as plausible. His tales were about our shortcoming in the face of an expansive universe and perceptions we will never tap into because of our so limited senses. We like to picture ourselves as significant creatures in our interaction with alien life, but what if we are like Lovecraft describes us? What if one day we make contact and we are nothing but ants to these new creatures. What is they do’t even find us worth of interaction, they roll over us like we roll over bugs on the street with our car?
Lovecraft didn’t write about magic keys and secret magical doors. He didn’t write about magical dudes with a bent for evil. There was no evil for Lovecraft just the cold calculated darkness of the universe.
I have read Lovecraft sir and you do his name injustice.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
but a huge fan of Joe Hill. Novel, fleeting tales, comic. A real talent. Let’s hope he is an endurance runner. The baton has not passed in his family tree yet, but he appears ready to compete.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
I read a lot, but I never really write reviews. I place that job to a name else. But I have to write one for Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s fabulous tale. Maybe I am meant to write something, like the Locke family tree from the novel is meant to end up back in the town of Lovecraft? To be perfectly honest, I don’t really consider this review. It is a sales pitch. But why would I want to sell the work of some guy I don’t know? (And no, we are not related).
This isn’t a mere comic book–it is a tale about people. The dialog is sharp. The artwork is plain and detailed. The oftentimes brutal events in the tale reveal the human condition, family tree like, and personal pains. Above all, Locke & Key makes you feel for the characters. If you like character driven fiction, then do yourself a favor and read Locke & Key. I don’t even like graphic novels that much, but I loved this tale and I can’t wait for the next volume.
I’m not going to write any plot details or tale fundamentals, because how they unfold to the reader is perfect. The right mix of pacing between present actions and flashbacks. Go and read about the lives of Nina, Ty, Bode, and Kinsey. Pick up this novel and open the door on Joe Hill’s incredible tale, Locke & Key. Become addicted, like me, because that’s what the cool kids do.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Many things take place when we take trips down memory lane. Fortuately for most of us, they don’t occupy a shadow that looks like a gorgeous woman but that is far from gorgeous living in a wellhouse, a house that isn’t really a house but is more of a portal that goes anywhere – depending on what key you have and what door you plot on opening with it, and a deathtrap that is willing to kill us just to get a name that carries our bloodline back between four wallks. For others, but, its Welcome to Lovecraft, a fun small place where fantastic things like spirit walks do take place and where, if we are really lucky, a psychotic might take place to come and try to track us down!
After reading this, Head Games, and beginning the third installment in the series, I can say that this series has reasonably a bit to give. It all starts here, but, and it starts out rather violently. One of the things I like about the violents that starts this trend toward the keyhouse is that it does not go away easily, either, but that it shapes our characters and makes them into the people we grow attached to. When the youngest of the siblings finds a door that allows him to roam in what he percieves as a excellent place, he thinks that it will let him meet up with his dead father. Additional people reflect he his crazy, mind you, but the kid thinks this is just the way of the world. The same goes for building friends and finding out that a psycho is on the loose and looking for blood. The characters just don’t know how deep persons rivers run, nor do they know just how dark the things that stalk the keyhouse really can be.
Another thing I really like about this tale is that it is open enough to keep the readers in the dark for three books now, and yet it answers certain things at the end of each book. When this book starts, for example, the chaos seems infinite and the horrors seem like untapped wells. As we go forwards, but, we see more and mroe of the players in a larger game but we really don’t know what to expect from them. We only know that they want the keys to this proverbial kingdom and, agreed the chance, they would rend both time and space to get their hands on them. This is exactly what i like about the tale – you really don’t know what to expect nor should you – the world permanently larger than the dancefloor we envision. As I said before, I am now on the Crown of Shadows and, really, I am just starting to place some of the key pieces into place.
That says that a tale is really excellent and really consuming – something you want and need in this day and age.
If you want something to read that will keep you thinking, that has all the fundamentals of ancient horror and new horror combined, and that takes a noteable departure from the same ancient ,musty tales, then Welcome to Lovecraft is a gorgeous butterfly to capture. It will keep you in its thrall, keep you going back through pages after you’ve read it, and make you want more. Either be willing to be addicted to something, back out of reading it, or just hunt for the keys in your spare time and slowly become addicted to the tale. Either way, it is a fantastic time in an odd place.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5