Joe Golem Occult Detective

Joe Golem Occult Detective is a standalone novel by Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola. The first novel in the occult detective series of novels “Joe Golem: Occult Detective” was first published 2015. The series of comic books is an adaptation of the story of Joe Golem from the novel “Joe Golem and the Drowning City”. Dave Palumbo the Spectrum award-winning painter did the covers while the graphics are by Patric Reynolds. The new series is set in a period before the events of “Joe Golem and the Drowning City”, 40 years post the events of an earthquake that leaves Lower Manhattan under 30 feet of water. The lead protagonist in the series is Joe Golem, who is the hero that is on the hut for a terrifying creature that is pulling children into the depths of New York’s canals. Similar to their collaboration in other series of novels such as the graphical Baltimore series, the events in the Joe Golem Occult Detective series happen in an otherworldly Mignolaverse. The Mignolaverse is a shared and strange universe where the Frankenstein Underground, Abe Sapie, BRPD, and Hellboy reign supreme. The series of novel offers a distinctive urban and haunting dystopian horror in mid twentieth century New York City. The series is full of magic, monsters, weird alternate histories, and pulpy goodness that follow Joe Golem as he solves mysteries alongside the enigmatic detective Simon Church.