30 Days of Night Deluxe Edition: Book Two

30 Days of Night Deluxe Edition

by Steve Niles, Matt Fraction, Ben Templesmith (illustrator)

Revisit the vampire tale that kick-started a modern horror comics revival in this second collected deluxe edition.

A town plunged into darkness, a group of vampires hungry for blood, and only a husband-and-wife sheriff’s team to stop them. This premise set the stage for an iconic horror franchise that went on to become a feature-length film from Sony Pictures in 2007. The story continues far beyond Barrow in this second deluxe edition.

Co-creators Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith joined by new writers Matt Fraction and Dan Wickline continue the vampyric saga in the Bloodsucker Tales, The Journal of John Ikos, Dead Space, Picking up the Pieces, and Spreading the Disease, plus a number of extras that go behind the scenes of this innovative horror series!

Genres: Graphic Novels, Horror, Fiction, Comics

480 pages, Hardcover

Published August 20, 2024

About the author

STEVE NILES is one of the writers responsible for bringing horror comics back to prominence, and was recently named by Fangoria magazine as one of it's "13 rising talents who promise to keep us terrified for the next 25 years."

Niles is currently working for the four top American comic publishers - Marvel, DC, Image and Dark Horse. He got his start in the industry when he formed his own publishing company called Arcane Comix, where he published, edited and adapted several comics and anthologies for Eclipse Comics. His adaptations include works by Clive Barker, Richard Matheson and Harlan Ellison.

Steve resides in Los Angeles in his bachelor pad with one cat. While there's no crawlspace, there is a questionable closet in one corner and no one is quite sure what is hidden in there...but we have an idea.

--from the author's website

Reviews

[Christopher John · Rating 1 out of 5]

Dnf

Not for me. Not anymore. I used to love horror schlock like this. It's fine if you're into that. I'm just tired.

[Chad · Rating 2 out of 5]

I've got to wonder how thee comics went along for as long as they did. They are terrible. And the one by Matt Fraction was the worst one. The original concept is a good one. Vampires go to Barrow when they learn that the sun doesn't rise for 30 days. Here though, it's just vampire stories set in the same universe. You have vampire infecting astronauts in space and infecting food supplies to turn people into vampires for religious reasons. Every one of these are bad. The art is even worse.

[Damián Apollo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Different stories that relate and don't relate to each other. Few are great, most are bland and Juarez is the worst. Do not appreciate the use of the very real feminicides used as a crappy plot device for a confusing and flat story

[Thomas Wilkins · Rating 1 out of 5]

The book before was mid, and this wasn't any better. It's worse actually, because Steve and Ben weren't working on this one together. I could not get through Juarez. I put the book down and ended up getting rid of it along with volume 1.

[Emma · Rating 3 out of 5]

There were a couple stories I really enjoyed in this one but I fear this series is a convoluted mess and I give up trying to decipher the order of any of these issues on KU LMAO. might come back in the future but I'm burned out on it for now 😬

[don’t sweat the little things · Rating 2 out of 5]

Just didn’t enjoy

[Dave · Rating 5 out of 5]

A stunning series of graphic novels and novellas set some years after events in Barrow, continuing the story arc from the first collection - Book One. The palate and textures are wondrous, and as for the vamps - wow!

I have thoroughly enjoyed how rugged, instinct-driven, and primordial they are from the very beginning, with a real sense of evil and malevolence permeating each page turn. The whole volume has been enjoyable for the stories, the artwork, and the detail, which matches with what precedes them, thankfully.

Book Two really benefits from creative and compelling writing, and that the threads from all stories are developed and then come together as the overarching story reaches its conclusion. Admittedly, there was a mild twinge of something akin disappointment when I read the last few pages of the graphic novel, but that was forgotten when reading the case files and interviews which close things off nicely