Kammi, like Hester, will plague Emmy for the rest of the series no matter how dead she's supposed to be. Kammi has Emmy's power, but no compassion or empathy.Įmmy is reluctant to go to war with her sister, but Kammi soon leaves her no choice, and the haints of Harrow County choose sides between them.

Emmy is initially thrilled to learn she has a sister, but it soon goes badly.

How exactly the twin infants were separated at birth and Kammi got taken off to the big city is not explained, but Kammi arrives in a fancy car with a silent chauffeur, just aching to be reunited with her long-lost sister and to get back to her roots in Harrow County. In the second volume, we learn that Emmy has a twin sister, Kammi. The people of Harrow County know what she is and fear her accordingly, but it doesn't stop them from running to her for help when they have problems with haints. She perpetrated a reign of terror until the people of Harrow County shot, stabbed, hanged, and burned her.Īs we will learn, in Harrow County, sometimes death doesn't stick.Įmmy decides to use her powers for good, rejecting the idea that she's destined to be like Hester. Emmy is actually the reincarnation of Hester Beck, a powerful witch responsible for creating all these haints. When Emmy's own father tries to kill her, the whole dark story unfolds. The people of Harrow County fear them, yet seem strangely accepting of their existence. ('Or something.' Yes, we'll eventually learn more about that.) In the first volume, Countless Haints, we learn that Harrow County is just full of 'haints,' supernatural ghoulies and ghosties of various sorts. Her mother ran off or something when Emmy was little. in the early 20th century.Įmmy is a teenager who's lived a fairly idyllic life on her Pa's farm. Harrow County is a rural farming community in some unspecified part of the U.S. Its art, entirely done in watercolors, took a while to grow on me, but it really conveyed the eternal late summer of the setting.

The series had something of a slow start for me, though I appreciated its creepy atmosphere. It's a dark fairy tale that becomes darker as the series goes on, and by the apocalyptic finale, it's almost become the stuff of epic fantasy. Harrow County is a Southern Gothic fairy tale. (There is also a two-volume Omnibus set that collects all 32 issues, but without the extras that are found in the TPB and Library Editions.) It's collected in eight trade paperback volumes, and also in a four-volume Library Edition set. Harrow County was a Dark Horse comic series that ran for a total of 32 issues, It told a story that came to a genuine conclusion, rather than merely being discontinued, which makes this a series worth reading in its entirety. But on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, she learns that she is connected to these creatures-and to the land itself-in a way she never imagined. Emmy always knew that the woods surrounding her home crawled with ghosts and monsters.

Harrow County, Vol. 1 by Cullen Bunn