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Harrow County
Cover of Harrow County #1 (May 2015). Art by Tyler Crook.
Publication information
Publisher	Dark Horse Comics
Schedule	Monthly
Format	Ongoing
Genre	Horror
Publication date	May 2015 – June 2018
No. of issues	32
Creative team
Created by	Cullen Bunn Tyler Crook
Written by	Cullen Bunn Tyler Crook (Tales of Harrow County)
Artist(s)	Tyler Crook
Letterer(s)	Tyler Crook
Colorist(s)	Tyler Crook
Collected editions
1. Countless Haints	ISBN 9781616557805
2. Twice Told	ISBN 9781616559007
3. Snake Doctor	ISBN 9781506700717
4. Family Tree	ISBN 9781506701417
5. Abandoned	ISBN 9781506701905
6. Hedge Magic	ISBN 9781506702087
7. Dark Times A’Coming	ISBN 9781506703978
8. Done Come Back	ISBN 9781506706634

Harrow County is an American comic book series that ran from 2015 to 2018. It was created by writer Cullen Bunn and artist Tyler Crook, and published by Dark Horse Comics.

Characters

Emmy Crawford

An eighteen-year-old young woman and witch, presumed to be the reincarnation of the witch Hester Beck. She has godlike abilities that allow her to reshape reality at will.

Bernice Anderson

Emmy's best friend, granddaughter of Riah Anderson, and student of Lovey Belfont. She lives in the Black community of Mason's Hollow. She is the protagonist of the sequel series Tales from Harrow County.

Kammi

Emmy's evil twin sister and one of the primary antagonists of the series. She grew up in New York City.

Isaac Crawford

Emmy's adoptive father. He was created by Hester and was one of the townsfolk that murdered her.

Lady Lovey Belfont

An old woman that has spent her life capturing the servants of Hester Beck. She lives alone in Mason's Hollow, where she is shunned by her community for being a witch. She teaches hedge magic to Bernice and tasks her with protecting Harrow County.

Haints

The Skinless Boy / The Tattered Skin

Emmy's mute familiar. He was summoned from the nightmares of a child. Emmy carries his skin around in her satchel and he whispers secrets to her.

Priscilla

A goblin that befriends Emmy.

The Family

Malachi

The head of the Family in the old days, until he became the Abandoned and settled in Harrow County.

Hester Beck

The primary antagonist of the series. She was a god-like witch who was killed by her own creations. Of all of Malachi's children, she was the youngest and his favorite.

Amaryllis

A kindly old woman and the most powerful in the family. Like Hester, she was capable of bending all of reality to her will. Hester murdered and cannibalized her to gain her powers.

Odessa

The head of the family after Malachi leaves. She has a connection to the woods and their animals.

Levi

A psychopomp. He guides the dead to the afterlife. When Malachi was the head of the family, Levi would try to find ways to undermine him.

Other Family members include Mildred, Willa, Kaine, Corbin, and Old Buck.

Publication history

Harrow County

Harrow County began as a serialized prose story called Countless Haints, written by Cullen Bunn and released on his website. Countless Haints ran for ten chapters before it was retired. Later the story was repurposed as an ongoing comic with artist and co-creator Tyler Crook. The main character Madrigal was renamed Emmy, the time period was shifted from present day to the 1930s, and the location was changed from Ahmen's Landing to Harrow County.

When Bunn began working on the series, he wrote the first two arcs so that they told a fairly complete story, though he hoped Harrow County would be popular enough to become an ongoing series. Crook chose to do the book in watercolors to get away from the computer and to make the project more fun for himself. As part of the promotional material for the comic, he created a special ordering form and made process videos showcasing his watercolors. He even wrote music for the first two arcs.

During Harrow County’s run, Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook regularly shared their process in a column called The Harrow County Observer, Tyler Crook's YouTube channel, and in the extensive sketchbook sections of the trade paperback collections.

Tales of Harrow County

Most issues of Harrow County include Tales of Harrow County backup stories. This extra material is only collected in the hardcover library editions. The one-page story "Lovelorn" (story by Cullen Bunn, art by Tyler Crook) was accidentally left out of Harrow County #31, so Dark Horse Comics debuted it as a free online comic.

Tales from Harrow County

On September 10, 2019, Dark Horse Comics announced the spinoff series Tales from Harrow County (not to be confused with the Tales of Harrow County short stories). The series was initially announced as a way to tell stories with different main characters from many different time periods of Harrow County. Misfit City artist Naomi Franquiz drew the first miniseries, Death's Choir, with Bernice as the protagonist. Emily Schnall later joined the Tales from Harrow County team for the second arc.

Trade paperbacks

The trade paperback collections of Harrow County generally come out around four to five months after the final issue of the arc being collected.

Library editions

After Harrow County finished, Dark Horse Comics announced that the series would be recollected in library editions. These hardcover volumes print the comics at a larger size and collect all the special features from both the original issues and the trade paperback collections.

Omnibus editions

In 2020, Harrow County was recollected in paperback omnibus editions. These editions do not include any special material.

Complete collection

In 2024, the original run of Harrow County was collected in a single oversized hardcover volume along with all the special features from previous collections and a gallery of the library covers. Tyler Crook designed a new cover and slipcase for the collection, which was made to look like the drawer Emmy hides the tattered skin in Harrow County #2.

Reception

Critical reception

At the review aggregator website Comic Book Roundup, Harrow County and Tales from Harrow County have received an average score of 8.4 out of 10 based on 205 reviews, with the final issue of the original series averaging at 9.5. In the years since the original series ended, it has shown up on numerous recommended reads and best-of lists for horror comics.

Awards

Soundtrack

Harrow County
Soundtrack album by Tyler Crook
Released	April 13, 2015 (Volume 1) April 30, 2016 (Volume 2)
Genre	Book soundtrack

In 2015, Tyler Crook released a book soundtrack of Harrow County, a month before Harrow County #1 came out. The music was meant to accompany the series' first arc, Countless Haints, with track titles referencing specific moments. A second volume for the Twice Told arc came out the following year.

The soundtrack was repurposed in 2022 for GraphicAudio's Harrow County audio dramas.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Tyler Crook

Adaptations

Audio drama

In April 2021, Dark Horse Comics announced that they had entered into a multi-year agreement with GraphicAudio to create audio dramas of their comics. The announcement of Harrow County being adapted came the following year in August. The audio drama was released across two volumes, the first on September 26, 2022 and the second on Halloween a month later.

Bunn had long wanted an audio drama of the series and had even been pushing for an audio drama adaption before the GraphicAudio deal happened. Director and adaption writer Scott McCormick selected Harrow County after Dark Horse sent him the first four issues and he became enamored with the narrator's voice. In adapting the story, McCormick kept Bunn's dialogue for the characters, but had to augment and write additional material for the narrator. Crook's book soundtrack was used for the music in the audio drama, though sound designer Abby Rose Raetz also wrote additional pieces inspired by Crook's music.

Board Game

On October 5, 2022, Off the Page Games launched a Kickstarter campaign for Harrow County: The Game of Gothic Conflict. Designed by Jay Cormier and Shad Miller, the game also features original art by Tyler Crook and "flavor text" in the cards and instructions by Cullen Bunn. It is set to debut some time in late 2023.

Television

As part of a first look deal between Universal Cable Productions and Dark Horse, a Harrow County television series was in development as of 2015.

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