Kolchak: The Night Stalker: Lambs to the Slaughter

    (Moonstone, 2003)
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A cult classic, Kolchak: The Night Stalker began as two made-for-television movies—the first aired in January 1972; the second, a year later. These two showings proved successful enough to warrant the launch of a TV series in the fall of 1974. Darren McGavin played Carl Kolchak, a down-on-his-luck reporter who pursued stories pertaining to the supernatural and the extraterrestrial, more often than not placing himself in mortal danger to solve the mystery before the authorities. In 2002, Moonstone began publishing Prestige Format one-shots that pick up where the television show left off in 1975.

Lambs to the Slaughter tells an old story: wide-eyed, hopeful teens come to Hollywood in pursuit of their dreams of fame and fortune, and they’re led astray and eaten alive. What a string of seemingly typical missing persons cases are far more than they appear to be, and the tale is actually older than the usual Tinsel Town sob story. It’s ancient. Mythological, even. More good stuff from the fine folks at Moonstone.

— Thomas Moudry
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August, 2004
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