Dracula meets East Indian legend in These Savage Shores: The Definitive Edition as an insatiable vampire sails from London to the Malabar Coast aboard an East India Company ship. 10/10 - AIPT This is. the book unleashes some gorgeous, ethereal splashes of supernatural majesty and terror ... -- AV Club ... a lush horror story that devours colonialists. -- Nicholas Eames (Kings of the Wyld) ...
Well written and exquisitely drawn... -- Paste Magazine ...excellent. **Voted One of the Best Written Horror Comics of All Time (#5 of 10) by CBR (Comic Book Resources) https: //www.cbr.com/horror-comics-best-writing-ever/ **Winner of the inaugural IGNYTE Awards for The Best Comics Team (2020) These Savage Shores transports elements of Dracula to the Silk Route of the 1700s, bringing that text\'s themes of xenophobia into an entirely new light and melding it with far older legends of India.
For fans of Dracula, From Hell, Vampire: The Masquerade: Winter\'s Teeth, American Vampire, historical fiction, and East Indian legends, myth, and folklore.
From bestselling and award-winning writer Ram V (Eisner Award winner Blue in Green (Image Comics), The Many Deaths of Laila Starr (BOOM! Studios), Grafity\'s Wall (Dark Horse), Batman, Detective Comics, Justice League Dark, Swamp Thing, Catwoman (DC Comics), and Venom (Marvel)) and star artist Sumit Kumar (Justice League Dark, Justice League, Batman (DC Comics) comes the savagely haunting tale of blood and vengeance.
But he will soon find that the ground along the Indus is an ancient one with daemons and legends far older than himself.
An old evil now sails aboard a company ship, hoping to make a home in this new found land.
Two centuries after the first European ship sailed to the Malabar Coast and made landfall at Calicut, The East India Company seeks to secure its future along the lucrative Silk Route, in the year 1766.
NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME! These Savage Shores: The Definitive Edition collects the complete, bestselling five issue series, and NOW includes: A special foreword by superstar comics writer, Kieron Gillen (The Wicked + The Divine, Once & Future, Immortal X-Men, Star Wars: Darth Vader, Thor, and more!) Original script excerpts Never-before-seen character sketches Never-before-seen concept art ALONG These Savage SHORES, WHERE THE DAYS ARE SCORCHED AND THE NIGHTS ARE FULL OF TEETH.
War is brewing, where blood and teeth rule the night.
But the shores of the Indus harbor darker and more ancient powers.
Dracula meets East Indian legend in These Savage Shores: The Definitive Edition as an insatiable vampire sails from London to the Malabar Coast aboard an East India Company ship