Locke & Key: IDW Classic Collections--Welcome To Lovecraft and Head Games

by Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodríguez (Illustrator)

Genres: Comics, Horror, Graphic Novels

312 pages, Paperback

Published March 24, 2026

About the author

Joe Hill's debut, Heart-Shaped Box, won the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel. His second, Horns, was made into a film freakfest starring Daniel Radcliffe. His other novels include NOS4A2, and his #1 New York Times Best-Seller, The Fireman... which was also the winner of a 2016 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Horror Novel.

He writes short stories too. Some of them were gathered together in his prize-winning collection, 20th Century Ghosts.

He won the Eisner Award for Best Writer for his long running comic book series, Locke & Key, co-created with illustrator and art wizard Gabriel Rodriguez.

He lives in New Hampshire with a corgi named McMurtry after a certain beloved writer of cowboy tales. His next book, Strange Weather, a collection of novellas, storms into bookstores in October of 2017.

Reviews

[Sarah Rednblack · Rating 5 out of 5]

My first dive into comics outside of the newer Tomb Raider comics. INSANE storytelling, super fun villain, real characters that aren't annoying. Loved the way the story progressed and the sprinkling of the mysteries and the occasional half-answers. Not to mention the wildly detailed art-style that had me staring at panels for a while before flipping through the rest of the story. Can't wait till September now to get the rest in the new print.

[Scott A. Love]

I don't think it's bad, by any means, it's just not grabbing me.