Every monster has a beginning! Learn the origin of Nosferatu in this full color 100 page+ hardcover NSFW tale of unrestrained gothic horror written by Michael Moreci (Barbaric & Dick Tracy) and illustrated by Todor Hristov (Stranger Things)!
The Book of Nosferatutells the origin of the infamous vampiric monster Nosferatu. You may think you know the story, set aside your assumptions, This tale is unlike any vampire tale you have read! Every monster has a beginning…
A full color 100 page+ hardcover NSFW tale of unrestrained gothic horror written by Michael Moreci (Barbaric & Dick Tracy) and illustrated by Todor Hristov (Stranger Things)!
Emil’s wife is missing.
No one in his village will do anything about it.
No one will even speak of it.
It’s like she never even existed.
But she existed to Emil, and he’s going to get her back.
Emil’s wife didn’t simply vanish, she was taken.
It’s the dark truth everyone knows, but no one will even dare speak of. It’s a curse, a blight, an unstoppable disease for which there is no treatment.
But if you’re already dead—as Emil feels without the love of his life—what harm can he really suffer?
Michael Moreci is a screenwriter and bestselling comics author. His award-winning debut feature film, Revealer, premiered on Shudder in the summer of 2022. His second feature, Holiday Hold-Up, a crime comedy that Moreci co-directed/wrote, premiered on Peacock in 2024. In the comics space, Moreci is the creator of the acclaimed gothic horror series The Plot, the werewolf drama Curse, the existential space opera Wasted Space, and the smash-hit sword-and-sorcery series Barbaric,. He’s also written for numerous legendary characters and properties, including Star Wars, Rick and Morty, Batman, Stranger Things, and more, and he co-hosts The Filmographers Podcast.
Todor Hristov is a Bulgarian artist and illustrator of Stranger Things: Halloween Special, Kamchatka and The Voyage, and The Forever Maps. Born in the city of Karlovo in 1991, he graduated from the “Tsanko Lavrenov High School of Fine Arts” in Plovdiv back 2010, and the same year went to study Printmaking at the “National Academy of Art” in Sofia. JIM CAMPBELL is one of the comics industry’s busiest letterers, whose work currently appears in UK anthology 2000 A.D. every week and in many fine books from Ablaze, BOOM Studios, Dark Horse, Image, Mad Cave, Oni, Titan, Vault and more. He lives, works, and very occasionally sleeps, in a small English market town with a nice pub at the end of the road.
Sonya Anastasova is an artist and illustrator. She graduated with a degree in Industrial Design from the Technical University in Sofia, Bulgaria. Her work includes book cover illustrations for titles such as Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson, Howl's Moving Castle, Castle in the Sky, and House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones. She is also a colorist for comics and graphic novels in the Jack Eridon and Kamikaze series, as well as My Brother Teddy, Napoleon from the Machine, and others.
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (December 28, 1888 – March 11, 1931) was a German film visionary. He is regarded as one of cinema's most influential filmmakers. His best known film is Nosferatu (1922), an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula. The film is considered a masterpiece of German Expressionist cinema and the horror genre.
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The Book Of Nosferatu will be printed at standard US comics size trade hardcover: 6 5/8 x 10 3/16.
You can see a full list of our tiers and rewards in the Pledge Levels section, but in short you can get The Book Of Nosferatu in three collector formats: Digital, Hardcover and Slipcase.
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Ablaze will publish The Book Of Nosferatu in exclusive formats available only to Backerkit backers. The editions will be finalized by the end of the campaign and will be going to the printer for delivery to pledgers for the end of this year!
