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Locke & Key, Vol. 6

Locke & Key, Vol. 6

ComicsGraphic Novels

Synopsis

Locke & Key, Vol. 6: Alpha & Omega is the sixth and final collected volume of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez's New York Times bestselling comic series, published by IDW Publishing in 2014. It gathers the concluding Alpha #1-2 and Omega #1-5 issues, bringing the saga of the Locke family and the magical keys of Keyhouse to its close.

With the demon Dodge — disguised as young Bode Locke — closing in on the Black Door, the surviving Lockes make their last stand to keep Keyhouse's magic out of his hands, and the secrets built up across the series' run finally come due.

The volume was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Graphic Novel, the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, and the Goodreads Choice Award for Graphic Novels & Comics.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

DarkTenseAtmospheric
Coming of Age

Genres

Comics Graphic Novels Horror Dark Fantasy

About the author

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Joe Hill

Hill is the second child of authors Stephen and Tabitha King. He grew up in Bangor, Maine. His younger brother Owen is also a writer. Hill has three sons. Hill chose to use an abbreviated form of his given name (a reference to executed labor leader Joe Hill, for whom he was named) in 1997, out of a desire to succeed based solely on his own merits instead of as the son of Stephen King. After achieving a degree of independent success, Hill publicly confirmed his identity in 2007 after an articl...

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