A free illustrated horror comic
The Woodlands The Parliament in the Pines
Five children entered the woods. Five weapons came back.
The confession hidden inside Black Celebration is waiting past the tree line. Download the complete 24-page companion comic free.
The invitation
The forest has already entered their names.
Cumberland Pines was the kind of town adults called safe. Which meant children were expected to believe them.
When a missing-persons flyer starts whispering, five teenagers follow it past the tree line and find a court hidden inside the forest — a parliament of animals in evening dress, seated at a banquet built out of secrets, reading names from a ledger.
Their names.
Inside the issue
A spoiler-light look beyond the tree line.
The story beneath the story
Black Celebration
The Woodlands #0 is the funny book one survivor spent his whole career hiding his confession inside. The names are changed. The woods are not. Read the novel that opens the file, then return here for what was buried in the ink.
Their evil wasn't chaos.
It was administration.
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The ledger is open
Some stories don't end. They find new ink.
Take the complete 24-page comic with you. Just remember: once the woods know your name, leaving is mostly a technicality.