Avatar Press has announced that ALAN MOORE'S YUGGOTH CULTURES AND OTHER GROWTHS, the career-spanning series of out of print and hard to find comic book horror stories from one of the medium's acknowledged masters, will include a coda to FROM HELL by Moore and Oscar Zarate (A SMALL KILLING). The story, entitled I Keep Coming Back, will appear in issue #3 of Yuggoth Cultures, scheduled for release in November from Avatar Press.

"I Keep Coming Back is almost a completely true-life story," notes Alan Moore. "It also serves as a coda to FROM HELL, if you like. It was originally written for an anthology of "London noir," and since the events in it had almost just happened to me it seemed like there was a good little London noir story right there. For people who've read FROM HELL, it's a very interesting little sort of coda to that piece."

"This coda to the masterpiece FROM HELL is a prime example of the type of horror material we are collecting in YUGGOTH CULTURES," notes William Christensen. "And part of the horror is that much of this material from one of the most important creators in comics is either long out of print or has never seen print in the U.S. I Keep Coming Back and the rest of Yuggoth Cultures is a key part of Moore's body of work, and I'm proud to include this series alongside the likes of THE COURTYARD, A SMALL KILLING, and ANOTHER SUBURBAN ROMANCE in our line of Alan Moore projects."

The YUGGOTH CULTURES AND OTHER GROWTHS series also includes such gems as the newly-completed first part of Moore and Bryan Talbot's important lost classic NIGHTJAR, a story started 20 years ago which was supposed to appear in UK comic book WARRIOR, the legendary anthology where other Moore classics such as MIRACLEMAN and V FOR VENDETTA appeared. Work written by Moore with artwork from a number of high-profile creators including, Hunt Emerson, Val Semieks, Jacen Burrows, Juan Jose Ryp, Marat Mychaels, and Mike Wolfer is also included, as are a number of Moore's Lovecraftian epics adapted by Antony Johnston (ALAN MOORE'S THE COURTYARD) and appearing for the first time in comics.

ALAN MOORE'S YUGGOTH CULTURES is a three part, 40 page per issue mini-series beginning in September 2003 from Avatar Press. The series features stories by Alan Moore with artwork from a number of high-profile creators including Bryan Talbot, Val Semieks, Oscar Zarate, Jacen Burrows, Juan Jose Ryp, and Mike Wolfer, with covers by Juan Jose Ryp. ALAN MOORE'S YUGGOTH CULTURES #3, which includes the FROM HELL coda, is solicited for November 2003 release. For more information, contact Avatar Press editor-in-chief William Christensen at william@avatarpress.net.
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