Fullmoon Stories
Story and Artwork by Johan Hoff
Dusk Comics
Release date August 29, 2011
Cover Price: $11.68

In today’s pop culture, when a story is branded as horror, one thinks of violent serial killers slashing people to bits or monsters chasing teenagers down by a creepy lake. While these elements certainly evoke terror, it is refreshing to see a more classic take on horror every once in a while. In Johan Hoff‘s Fullmoon Stories, the author has collected five short pieces of classically styled horror that have all the best elements of your favorite campfire fare.

In the first story, entitled “She Was Loved”, our mysterious narrator tells a tale of a love lost before it’s time, and the lengths a man would go to to see it restored. The masked narrator then takes us to the world of a lonely young woman who, after finding a companion in an odd place, finds herself doing something she never thought possible. An explorer gets more than he could have asked for in “Her Name Was Tragedy” after unrequited love for a member of his expedition is finally returned in a strange alternate reality. Through the narrator we also meet a projectionist who becomes obsessed with something he can’t explain, and the family of a young girl who has been keeping a terrible secret from her.