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M.I.K.
Some blurb from the Renegade Arts Entertainment website…
‘The Spine Chillers’ is a weekly comic strip exclusive to the Renegade website. ‘The Spine Chillers’ relates the little known story about the time the worlds greatest writers shared a small boarding house to create some of the most loved horror stories of all time.
Small press comic genius Ben Clark is the creative talent behind the strip and will be delivering a freshly drawn adventure each Friday.
Marvel at HP Lovecraft’s inspiration for Cthulu, gasp as Ambrose Bierce struggles under the weight of his own creative output, and marvel as Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle mud wrestle to determine once and for all who is the better horror writer.
Click the picture or the link below to read the story…
http://www.renegadeartsentertainment.com/spinechillers/comic/
…and you can see more stuff by Ben, here…
http://magicbeans23.wordpress.com/
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