Not even a pandemic of spontaneous combustion can make me stop raving about Joe Hill's Locke & Key. The horror comic-book series followed the Locke family, who moved to their ancestral home, the magical Key House, after the brutal murder of their father. For its nearly six-year run, readers pored over the story's huge central mystery, which was filled with stomach-dropping scares and fear of bodily harm for beloved characters. So when I spoke with Hill from his home in Exeter, New Hampshire, I couldn't help but immediately ask him about the completed series, leaving the apocalypse of his great new novel, The Fireman, for second.
"That's the thing about Locke & Key ending. It did end, but it has a chance to live again in different forms, whether that's on TV or as an audiobook performance. There may be a chance in the future to do some comics about the earlier days of Key House and other families who have lived there and I look forward to doing that," Hill says. To know that artist Gabriel Rodriguez and Hill will unlock more doors in Lovecraft, Massachusetts, is a great comfort.