Prometheus Graft The Slayings at Deaths End #2

MURDER MOST MONSTROUS! Please allow rising star George Northy (Yuletide, EC’s Shiver SuspenStories) and Eisner Award nominee Caitlin Yarsky (Dead Teenagers, Black Hammer Reborn) to introduce Prometheus Graft, Europe’s foremost investigator of improbable events and the world-class intellect once cruelly slandered as “Frankenstein’s Monster” . . . Summoned to Romania to observe an occult summit at the castle known as Death’s End, Graft’s unique set of skills are now needed to solve the brutal murder of a supposedly immortal being . . . Only now even more bodies are quickly piling up and what happens next could soon ignite a cataclysmic war between witches, werewolves, and vampires with dire consequences for humanity. Using his brilliant mind and powers of deduction, can Graft piece together the mystery of who’s really pulling the strings at Death’s End . . . and finger the perpetrator before this deadly game of hunter and hunted claims himself as a victim?The first-of-its-kind comics whodunit continues with a “monster mash murder mystery” so compelling you’ll be flipping through each issue for clues!

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