The Creeping Below

Name: The Creeping Below
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ISBN: 9798892153737

Brian Azzarello, Vanesa Del Rey

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Boom! Studios
14 April 2026

Horror & ghost stories; Graphic novels

After being kidnapped, beaten, and left for dead, a young woman is brought back to life by ancient Norse powers, intent on exacting her bloody revenge.

THE GODS ABOVE, THE CREEPING BELOW

Val, an American heavy metal fanatic, is on her dream vacation- attending the Inferno Metal Festival in Oslo, Norway. There she meets a charismatic young band, who take her out to a remote forest to show her the local ""haunts."" Taken by their charm and oblivious to the danger, Val is drugged, beaten, and left for dead...

But her story is far from over.

She wakes at dawn, haunted by a vision of rain falling from a wolf's jowls. Stumbling back to Oslo, she finds that the festival has already ended-13 years ago.

The world has moved on and the men who brutalized her are long gone, but when moss and roots begin to sprout from her skin... she realizes that everything has changed. Everything except her desire for revenge, that is.

In nature, there are gods older than man, and something ancient, something... hungry, has awakened powers in her that will guide her rage as she seeks to exact justice on those that wronged her.

Writer Brian Azzarello and Vanesa Del Rey deliver a bloodsoaked feminist revenge saga, blending Norse mythology and eco-horror into a boundary-pushing cocktail of metal, magic, and murder!

Collects The Creeping Below #1-5.

By: Brian Azzarello
Illustrated by: Vanesa Del Rey
Imprint: Boom! Studios
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 259mm, Width: 168mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 381g
ISBN: 9798892153737
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 14 April 2026
Recommended Age: From 16 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Brian Azzarello has been writing comic books professionally since the mid-1990s. He is the Harvey and Eisner Award-winning co-creator (with artist Eduaro Risso) of100 Bullets, along withLoveless&Moonshine. The New York Times bestselling author's work for DC Comics includes the titlesHellblazer, Superman, Joker, Luthor, Before Watchmen, Wonder Woman, & Dark Knight III with Frank Miller. Most recently he and artist Lee Bermejo launched DC's groundbreaking Mature Readers imprint Black Label with the controversial and critically acclaimedBatman- Damned.