Earlier this year, comics company Eibon Press began turning the classic films of Lucio Fulci into comic book mini-series’, part of their Saga of the 7 Gates project that continues early next year. First up was a 3-issue comic book adaptation of Gates of Hell (aka City of the Living Dead), and up next Eibon is giving new life to Fulci’s House by the Cemetery.

We’re excited to exclusively let you know tonight that Eibon has enlisted the legendary Vince Locke to do the artwork for their House by the Cemetery mini-series!

Eibon writer Stephen Romano explains to us…

“We weren’t just making idle threats last year when we announced that my collaboration with Derek Rook on LUCIO FULCI’S GATES OF HELL was just the start of an insane 13-issues extended comic book universe. That first part of the SAGA went out in high style earlier this year with GATES issue 3, one of our proudest moments at Eibon. But guess what? That was just the first chapter. The SAGA has now officially entered it’s SECOND PHASE, and we are pulling out ALL the stops. This will come in the form of our utterly batshit adaptation of Fulci’s HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY. And we scored a real high end collaborator for this one.”

“It is a REAL dream come true to work with Vince Locke. He is a 25 year industry veteran, a legend in the business, and he came on board the Eibon team because he likes the way we do business here. He is the celebrated artist of DEADWORLD and the co-creator of my favorite “Splatterpunk” graphic crime novel A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE. Vince is hard at work on HOUSE issue one as we speak, and the book will be available for pre-orders in February.”

“My script for this epic 3 issue mini-series within the SAGA OF THE 7 GATES will take the concept of the Seven Gateways to hell uniting Fulci’s most cerebrated horror films a quantum leap forward, with extended backstory on the Boyle family and of course the infamous undead Doctor Freudstein himself. We’ve remained faithful to the storyline of the film, while exploring many aspects of Fulci’s creepy side plots that were never fully explained in the film, so the whole damn thing is filled with ghosts, gore and mayhem you won’t believe.”

Preview Locke’s artwork below.