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Take A Trip Into Your Worst Nightmares With Quilte

Article ImageA horrifying new one-shot from the creative team - and taking place in the universe of - And Then Emily Was Gone!

Dr. Karla Quilte is a revered psychologist who uses her unique psychic gifts to treat patients afflicted with recurring nightmares. But when tasked with helping troubled young Adam Whitlock, her journey into his mind leaves her facing forces far more malevolent than bad dreams! 

Read our interview with writer John Lees and get this comic from ComixTribe for FREE on October 29th at your local comic shop!



Halloween ComicFest:
For those unfamiliar with your work, how would you describe Quilte?

John Lees: What if you could take a trip into your worst nightmares? That's the question posed by Quilte. Dr. Karla Quilte is a psychologist who uses her low-level psychic gifts to enter people's dreams and help treat their recurring night terrors. So, with Quilte, we get to explore a world run on dream logic, where everything is strange and unreal, and nothing is quite safe.

Halloween ComicFest: How does Quilte build on the success of previous acclaimed series And Then Emily Was Gone? Can fans expect similar thrills or is Quilte a different approach to the horror genre?

John Lees: I think if you liked And Then Emily Was Gone, you'll also enjoy Quilte. It's not a sequel or spinoff or anything, it's very much a standalone story, but it exists in that same universe, a world where horrible things lurk on the edge of our consciousness, waiting for the right kind of mind to interpret them. And of course, we have more magnificently macabre imagery from artist Iain Laurie!

Halloween ComicFest: What’s the overall takeaway you’re hoping readers will come away with from this one-shot?

John Lees: That they should never sleep ever again! But also that the one-shot can be a fun format to tell stories. You don't always need an ongoing epic or even a miniseries to build a world. With horror in particular, I think the done-in-one nasty works well, it recalls the likes of Tales of the Crypt.

Halloween ComicFest: What makes Halloween ComicFest the perfect event to debut this title?

John Lees: Are you kidding? It's Halloween! I love Halloween, because it's that magical time of year where we celebrate all that's scary and spooky. It's the perfect time to be enjoying horror stories in all forms, including horror comics. And Quilte is a horror comic that fits nicely into that category.

Halloween ComicFest: What Halloween and horror-themed comics are you reading right now?

John Lees: Two of my favorite comics going right now are House of Penance and Harrow County from Dark Horse. Those are so good that I literally carried around the respective first issues in my backpack for weeks, showing them to anybody I met up with and shouting, "LOOK AT HOW GOOD THESE COMICS ARE!" Whenever a properly good, properly scary horror comic comes around I tend to get excited about it and want to start playing cheerleader.

Halloween ComicFest: What are some of your favorite Halloween movies or monsters?

John Lees: No lie, I have watched Halloween on Halloween every year for about the last 20 years. I will always adore it. Trick r' Treat is another top notch Halloween-themed movie. Bonus points to The Nightmare Before Christmas for being both a Halloween film AND a Christmas film! Outside of overtly Halloween-themed and talking about general horror movies that can be enjoyed around Halloween time, The Shining and Texas Chain Saw Massacre rank up among my all-time favorites... Re-Animator if I'm looking for something schlocky!

Halloween ComicFest: If fans enjoy Quilte, what other comics would you recommend?

John Lees: I would of course say And Then Emily Was Gone, but I'm biased! I'd also suggest checking out Uzumaki, Fragments of Horror, anything by Junji Ito really. Also, Emily Carroll's wonderful graphic novel, Through the Woods.

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