The Storyteller (and his dog) are back for another tale by the fire. This time, things are getting witchy.

Archaia just announced their second miniseries based on The Storyteller, which will contain four issues all about witches starting this September.

One interesting note is that one of the stories is based on an unproduced screenplay by Anthony Minghella, who wrote the original Storyteller episodes. Also, I’m left wondering how much involvement the Storyteller and the dog will have in these books. I feel that there has to be more than just the throughline of the recurring narrator to justify a bunch of assorted folktales as “Storyteller” stories. Hopefully the writers below have cracked the code.

The images and issue descriptions below come courtesy of The Nerdist.

Issue 1 (on sale 9/17 in comic shops):

“The Magic Swan Goose & the Lord of the Forest”

Written and illustrated by S.M. Vidaurri (IRON: Or, The War After)

Issue 2 (on sale 10/15):

“The Snow Witch”

Written and Illustrated by Kyla Vanderklugt (Spera)

NOTE: This is a landscape-formatted issue.

Issue 3 (on sale 11/19):

“The Phantom Isle”

Written and Illustrated by Matthew Dow Smith (October Girl, X-Files, Doctor Who, Hellboy)

Issue 4 (on sale 12/17):

“Vasilissa the Beautiful”

Based on the unproduced Storyteller teleplay written by Anthony Minghella, Susan Kodicek, and Anne Mountfield.

Adapted and illustrated by Jeff Stokely (Six-Gun Gorilla, The Reason for Dragons), colors by John Rauch

Keep an eye out for the new Storyteller comics this fall!

Click here to wait until the witching hour on the ToughPigs forum!

by Joe Hennes – Joe@ToughPigs.com