Crownsville Weaves a Tale of Horror Surrounding a Notorious Maryland Hospital

When it comes to modern fearfulness comics, it's hard to bushed Image Comics' Killadelphia. That's wherefore we're thrilled to larn that co-creator Rodney Barnes is branching retired for a caller fearfulness task astatine Oni Press called Crownsville. And it's 1 with heavy roots successful America's racially charged past.

IGN tin exclusively debut the archetypal preview of Crownsville #1, the archetypal successful a five-issue constricted bid written by Barnes and drawn by Star Wars: Darth Vader creator Elia Bonetti. Check it retired successful the slideshow assemblage below:

Crownsville is simply a modern-day fearfulness enigma centered astir Crownsville Hospital, the infamous all-Black psychiatric institute located successful Annapolis, Maryland. Though agelong since abandoned and near to rot, the infirmary serves arsenic the mounting of a acheronian enigma arsenic a constabulary detective and a writer analyse a mysterious evident suicide.

Here's Oni's authoritative statement of the series:

Founded astatine the crook of the 20th period extracurricular of Annapolis, Maryland, the Crownsville Hospital was a notoriously segregated, all-Black psychiatric institute. After decades of overcrowding and neglect— alongside darker, much persistent rumors of diligent maltreatment and amerciable aesculapian experiments—it was yet closed. Today, it stands condemned—a crumbling testament to a bequest of all-too-real panic inflicted connected a marginalized and susceptible community. But adjacent arsenic a ruin of its erstwhile self, Crownsville inactive casts a agelong shadow. . . . When an unexplained decease wrong the abandoned infirmary is ruled a suicide, Annapolis constabulary detective Mike Simms and writer Paul Blairare are compelled to excavation deeper, lone to observe the world of the horrors that erstwhile took spot determination . . . and the almighty transportation they stock to the anguished spirits of the dormant that are inactive locked wrong its walls.

“Crownsville is the supernatural enigma communicative I’ve been dying to tell,” said Barnes successful a statement. “From a puerility haunt calved successful a spot of pain, it’s my cathartic effort I’m thankful to stock with the world. I can’t hold for folks to get a look astatine it.”

Crownsville #1 volition beryllium released connected November 12, 2025.

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