Thousand Faces

    (Humanoids, 2005)

This multi–volume tale of 19th century horror flips back and forth between mid–century Britain and the untamed American Plains. On the run from a demonic entity that transfers its essence to successive bodily hosts by way of a satanic blood transfusion, Dr. Frank Quinn abandons his family and fledgling medical career in London to alight for the wilds of America where he joins a tribe of Sioux Indians and rescues a young boy from a massacre. Enemies come looking for Quinn and so eventually does the grown son Quinn left behind as a boy in England.

Set during the incipiency of modern medical science and the early years of surgical practice, Thousand Faces (named for the demonic foe that takes many guises) generates ghoulish narrative heat from the juxtaposition of science and the supernatural. A demented Scottish hunchback, a wizened Indian shaman, and an evil scalpel–wielding surgeon all play vital roles in this sweeping historical epic from French writer Phillipe Thirault (Miss: Better Living Through Crime).

— Leland Burrill
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February, 2005
Cover Price: $14.95
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