Descend Into The Terrifying World of John Carpenter’s CATHEDRAL
JOHN CARPENTER – LEGENDARY DIRECTOR OF ICONIC HORROR FILMS HALLOWEEN AND THE THING – ANNOUNCES FIRST EVER ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL CATHEDRAL SET FOR RELEASE AUGUST 4, 2026
VIA STORM KING COMICS
John Carpenter will be at MEGACON Orlando and Sandy King and Storm King Comics will be at HorrorHound at booth i116-i118 this weekend
>A brand new terror is emerging from the shadows of John Carpenter’s dark imaginings this summer. Set for release August 4, 2026 via Storm King Comics, CATHEDRAL is Carpenter’s highly anticipated first original graphic novel. It is co-written with acclaimed producer and editor Sandy King and writer Sean Sobczak, illustrated by renowned artists Federico De Luca and Luis Guaragna, colored by Ryan Winn, and lettered by Marshall Dillon.
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.
A master storyteller in horror and science fiction across the disciplines of film, music, comics and games, John Carpenter has been terrifying audiences, writing, directing and producing timeless genre movies like Halloween, The Thing, and Escape From New York, and as an 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. More than five decades in, for the first time in his career he will release his first original graphic novel with CATHEDRAL. Also to further cement his talents as a composer and musical artist known for soundtracking his own projects, the release is accompanied by CATHEDRAL the album. Details forthcoming.
“I saw it in a dream: a nightmare landscape deep underground filled with monsters too weird and sinister to exist in daylight,” says John Carpenter. “I knew instantly I had to get these things out of my head and into everyone else’s brains.”
“We have a saying at Storm King, ‘Every dream should be a nightmare,'” adds Sandy King. “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).
Written by John Carpenter, Sandy King, Sean Sobczak
Illustrated by Federico De Luca, Luis Guaragna
Colored by Ryan Winn
Lettered by Marshall Dillon
Cover by Federico De Luca120 pp
MSRP: $22.99
ISBN: 979-8-9928116-8-1
But this is only the first step into the dark world of CATHEDRAL. Head to johncarpenterscathedral.com and www.stormkingcomics.com for all the latest secrets of Carpenter’s CATHEDRAL.
About John Carpenter
John Carpenter is an influential filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, and composer whose work has shaped modern horror and genre cinema for decades. A graduate of the USC School of Cinema, he first gained attention with DARK STAR before breaking through with Halloween in 1978, which became the most profitable independent film of its time and launched a landmark franchise.
His directing credits include genre classics such as The Fog, The Thing, Escape From New York, Big Trouble In Little China, They Live, Christine, Prince of Darkness, In The Mouth Of Madness, Vampires, and Ecape from L.A., as well as Starman, which earned Jeff Bridges an Academy Award nomination. For television, he directed “Elvis” and “John Carpenter Presents Body Bags,” and received a CableACE Award for writing El Diablo.
Carpenter is also an accomplished composer, releasing his debut non-soundtrack album Lost Themes in 2014 to international acclaim. Born in Carthage, New York, and raised in Bowling Green, Kentucky, he lives in Hollywood with his wife and producing partner, Sandy King.
About Sandy King
Writer, producer of film, television and podcasts, and CEO of Storm King Productions. Sandy King’s filmmaking career has included working with John Cassavetes, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Mann, Walter Hill, John Hughes and John Carpenter. She has produced films ranging from public service announcements on Hunger Awareness to a documentary on astronaut and teacher Christa McAuliffe for CNN, and major theatrical hits like They Live and John Carpenter’s Vampires. She directed and produced the John Carpenter Live tour film and it’s accompanying Behind the Scenes documentary, and produced the horror/thriller The Manor for BlumHouse and Amazon. In television she produced the series “Suburban Screams” for Universal. Her podcast “Roanoke Falls” for Realm won two Signal Awards. She is currently producing Something Wicked along with Twelve Angry Bears for Cineverse.
King is the first woman to found a comic publishing house. Through Storm King Comics, she has created and written the award-winning “Asylum” series, the multiple award-winning Tales for a HalloweeNight anthologies, and the graphic novel lines Tales of Science Fiction, Night Terrors and most recently, Dark & Twisted focusing on horror stories with no supernatural or sci-fi elements. In December 2019, King launched the comics line Storm Kids offering horror comics for ages 4 to 18 years old, and in 2021, received an Eisner nomination for the all ages title, Stanley’s Ghost. In 2026 she was nominated for a Bram Stoker award for Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel for editing Tales for a HalloweeNight Vol. 11.