Horror master John Carpenter is making the jump from screen to page this summer with Cathedral, his highly anticipated first original graphic novel set for release August 4, 2026 via Storm King Comics.
Co-written with acclaimed producer and editor Sandy King and writer Sean Sobcza, Cathedral is illustrated by renowned artists Federico De Luca and Luis Guaragna, colored by Ryan Winn, and lettered by Marshall Dillon.
An official logline for Cathedral reads:
The middle of downtown Los Angeles sets the scene for John Carpenter’s CATHEDRAL where an abandoned cathedral stands, fenced in and ignored by the world around it. The preoccupied passers-by have long since ceased to notice the dilapidated church in their midst, never mind sensing the danger and centuries old evil trapped inside its walls.
A gruesome murder one late night pulls the structure into the spotlight, triggering a police investigation into the loss of one of their own. Lieutenant Christine Marks, along with detectives Paul Hernandez and Steve Mayfield, must enter the church in search of the monster that murdered her father. Every step takes them deeper into the belly of the church revealing the mystery of an ancient evil imprisoned within.
The mastermind behind Halloween, The Thing, They Live and countless more horror classics has served as editor and contributor alongside Sandy King to graphic novel anthologies and series Tales for a HalloweeNight, Asylum and Tales of Science Fiction, just to name a few, but Cathedral marks his first original project in the genre.
Of course, Carpenter also being the musical maestro he is, the release of Cathedral will also be accompanied by a new album, with further details on that to follow.
In a new statement, Carpenter teased:
“I saw it in a dream: a nightmare landscape deep underground filled with monsters too weird and sinister to exist in daylight […] I knew instantly I had to get these things out of my head and into everyone else’s brains.”
Sandy King adds:
“We have a saying at Storm King, ‘Every dream should be a nightmare.” By reading CATHEDRAL you can take John's dream and let it become your next nightmare.”
Cathedral will be available on August 4, 2026 in bookstores (bookshop.org), online, and Storm King Comics (stormkingcomics.com), and on August 5, 2026 in comics shops (findyourcomicstore.com). Check out the new cover art below.
