Descend Into The Terrifying World of John Carpenter’s CATHEDRAL

A brand new terror is emerging from the shadows of John Carpenter’s dark imaginings this summer. Set for release August 4, 2026 via Storm King Comics, CATHEDRAL is Carpenter’s highly anticipated first original graphic novel. It is co-written with acclaimed producer and editor Sandy King and writer Sean Sobczak, illustrated by renowned artists Federico De Luca and Luis Guaragna, colored by Ryan Winn, and lettered by Marshall Dillon.

The middle of downtown Los Angeles sets the scene for John Carpenter’s CATHEDRAL where an abandoned cathedral stands, fenced in and ignored by the world around it. The preoccupied passers-by have long since ceased to notice the dilapidated church in their midst, never mind sensing the danger and centuries old evil trapped inside its walls.

A gruesome murder one late night pulls the structure into the spotlight, triggering a police investigation into the loss of one of their own. Lieutenant Christine Marks, along with detectives Paul Hernandez and Steve Mayfield, must enter the church in search of the monster that murdered her father. Every step takes them deeper into the belly of the church revealing the mystery of an ancient evil imprisoned within.

A master storyteller in horror and science fiction across the disciplines of film, music, comics and games, John Carpenter has been terrifying audiences, writing, directing and producing timeless genre movies like Halloween, The Thing, and Escape From New York, and as an editor and contributor alongside Sandy King to graphic novel anthologies and series Tales for a HalloweeNight, Asylum and Tales of Science Fiction, just to name a few. More than five decades in, for the first time in his career he will release his first original graphic novel with CATHEDRAL. Also to further cement his talents as a composer and musical artist known for soundtracking his own projects, the release is accompanied by CATHEDRAL the album. Details forthcoming.

“I saw it in a dream: a nightmare landscape deep underground filled with monsters too weird and sinister to exist in daylight,” says John Carpenter. “I knew instantly I had to get these things out of my head and into everyone else’s brains.”

“We have a saying at Storm King, ‘Every dream should be a nightmare,'” adds Sandy King. “By reading CATHEDRAL you can take John’s dream and let it become your next nightmare.”

CATHEDRAL will be available on August 4, 2026 in bookstores (bookshop.org), online, and Storm King Comics (stormkingcomics.com), and on August 5, 2026 in comics shops (findyourcomicstore.com).

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