Graphic novel
At the request of the publisher and in the interests of clarity I’ve felt obliged to offer a brief sketch of the facts which surround my sordid adventures through the underbelly of the earth. The tedium of a skeptical academic community will not discourage me and I shall not quarrel with those who would characterize me as disingenuous or deranged. I will simply state that the Carnigor is real and the unspeakable threat it represents for our species is dire. Mankind will continue to ignore these facts at its peril.
As my biographer has noted it was my reckless excursions into the occult which effected my passage into the Carnigor. Equipped with that ancient grimore The Carnomicon, I located one of the seven gates and made my way into that subterranean hell. I can assure you that my adventures there left me altered in no small respect. I had gained a new appreciation for those simple pleasures of the gothically unsophisticated.
It was my good fortune to eventually return from the Carnigor to my home in the woods of demon haunted Arkham, and though I had attempted to put the blasphemous experience far from my mind the tales seemed to cry out for a popularization. For this purpose I’ve enlisted the aid of illustrator Billy George. I was attracted to this graphic “comics” medium because of the powerfully visual nature of the events which make up this tale. The impressions of that awful place were forceful beyond any words I might conjure up to communicate them. It is my hope that this interlaced manor of storytelling- the weaving together of pictures and text will most faithfully convey the horror of all that transpired. As always, the success of this is for the audience to judge.
The publishers at Asylum Press should also be commended for their courage in presenting these tales unexpurgated, without comment or qualification. The perverse and blasphemous nature of much of this material is sure to offend the simple minds of mainstream culture, as well as enflame the wrath of those with a more sinister motive: The suppression of material which might alert and prepare the world for the inevitable Carnigorian invasion.
Deanna Carter
Continued at Asylum Press