DC's New Horror Anthology Knows What You Did Last Crisis

As portion of its solicitations for the period of September 2024, DC has unveiled I Know What You Did Last Crisis, a superbly titled fearfulness anthology featuring in-continuity stories “set during the events of crises past”—DC’s catch-all word for cataclysmic events meant to streamline its universe’s ever-increasingly convoluted continuity.

This means events similar Crisis connected Infinite Earths, Final Crisis, Infinite Crisis, Flashpoint, Blackest Night, Zero Hour, and countless others volition person the Tales of the Crypt treatment, successful which a revolving doorway of DC’s beloved characters abruptly find themselves successful an unrecognizable satellite warped by the machinations of inter-dimensional gods, oregon Superboy punching the walls of reality. Here’s the synopsis:

In the blackest night, erstwhile the acheronian feels infinite, the precise cloth of the beingness begins to tear…as each large situation successful DCU past rises erstwhile again! These 8 chilling tales, acceptable during the events of crises past, service to pass you, beloved reader: erstwhile successful crisis, ticker your back. In the fractured satellite of Flashpoint, Professor Pyg is stalking Gotham City’s nightclubs, sniffing retired victims! During Blackest Night, Scarecrow lurks extracurricular a movie theater, recruiting caller trial subjects to cleanable his fearfulness toxin! Even heroes similar Nightwing aren’t harmless erstwhile his decease mightiness conscionable person the powerfulness to reverse the harm of Infinite Crisis! All these, positive caller stories from Crisis connected Infinite Earths, Millennium, Zero Hour, The Final Night, and Final Crisis are collected successful DC’s I Know What You Did Last Crisis, a deadly caller fearfulness anthology coming to haunt you this fall!

Featuring stories by Dan DiDio, Rex Ogle, Dave Wielgosz, Rachel Pinnelas, Matthew Levine with creation by Dan Hipp, M.L. Sanapo, Adam Graphite, Sid Kotian, Will Robson, Jordi Tarragona, and more, the solicit seems promising, if possibly a small unambitious.

Setting creepy characters similar Professor Pyg and the Scarecrow escaped arsenic the satellite crumbles astir them isn’t excessively antithetic from the serial killer-meets-natural catastrophe genre, examples of which see the Lifetime channel’s Psycho Storm-Chaser oregon the Fox Family Channel’s Earthquake successful New York. Nightwing contemplating his ain decease besides doesn’t consciousness similar it takes afloat vantage of the book’s reality-warping conceit, but we’ll find retired erstwhile I Know What You Did Last Crisis hits shelves this October 2. Share immoderate of your ideas for Crisis-inspired fearfulness stories successful the comments!

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