Art and story: Benedykt Szneider
First published: 2026
Contains spoilers
The blurb: In a remote village gripped by superstition and rot, a grave robber and a ruthless witch hunter are forced into an uneasy alliance. A cursed settlement. A faith twisted into fear. And a dark nun rosing from the depths of Hell itself. This is unflinching folk horror rooted in medieval dread.
The review: Another indie comic from the Afterlight stable, I was drawn to this due to the folk horror description and was not expecting a vampiric element. Starting with a couple of thieves robbing corpses on a battlefield, one flees when the battlefield rats turn on them and ends up in the company of a witch hunter.
He is taken to an abandoned village, which once had a nunnery and is told the story of a nun, seduced in the night, impregnated and then kept alive by the order until the baby was born and subsequently executed. The father brought her back from the dead and to do this “he made her drink the blood of infants, keeping her in a state between life and death.”
Of course, she is still there, fanged and feral… The graphic is not overly long at 60-pages but is bound better than a standard comic book as it is in paperback format. The art works, a scratchy pen and ink style that works well, adding a sense of dread. There are a couple of typos in the lettering but they clearly have slipped past proofing and are minimal. The story deserves expansion – learning more about the witch hunter would be brilliant. 6.5 out of 10.
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