Official Press Release

The creative team behind 30 Days of Night, Wizard magazine’s “breakout hit of 2002,” launch a new series of occult detective stories featuring the monstrously hard-boiled Cal McDonald. A pill-popping alcoholic reprobate, Cal is the only line of defense between Los Angeles and a growing horde of zombies, vampires, and werewolves. The best-selling comics series is collected in this massive graphic novel, including the hard-to-find short from last Halloween’s Drawing on Your Nightmares special issue, and a new cover by Templesmith!

MGM has picked up the film rights to Steve Niles’ and Ben Teplesmith’s comic book miniseries Criminal Macabre through Dark Horse Entertainment!

The Criminal Macabre: A Cal Mcdonald Mystery tpb features the writing talents of Steve Niles and art by Ben Templesmith. It arrives in stores April 28, with a retail price of $17.95.

The good people at Entertainment Weekly gave 30 DAYS OF NIGHT: RETURN TO BARROW high marks in their most recent issue. They said:

Horror writer Steve Niles and idiosyncratically scribbly artist Ben Templesmith scored a sleeper hit with their clever 2002 tale of a vampire attack on a darkness-swallowed Alaskan town. In this third installment, the bloodsuckers are back – and Niles has concocted enough fresh suspense to allay any fears that 30 Days of Night is being overfranchised (after the horde of spin-offs, what’s next, fang floss?). Will Barrow’s new sheriff coax the secrets from the frost Barrow survivors? And what’s with the gory headless vamp? It all plays like the Wachowskis taking on Anne Rice…without all the lame-ass philosophy. A- – Tom Russo

You can still purchase copies of issue #1 and #2 from your favorite retailer or in the SteveNiles.com Store.