The "Locke & Key" duo of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez are back together at IDW Publishing, this time revisiting horror anthology TV series "Tales from the Darkside" for comics. CBR has the exclusive first look at Charles Paul Wilson III's variant cover for #1, plus the solicitation text for June's debut issue.

"This is the show that could've been," Hill said in IDW's press release, speaking of the rebooted "Tales from the Darkside" TV series he worked on that did not get picked up as a series, which inspired this comic. "The original 'Tales from the Darkside' was a fun, bleak little spin on the 'Twilight Zone' style anthology. My idea is to give readers a little more. Every story is meant to stand alone, but gradually, you will come to see how they all connect, to tell a single larger story."

Tales from the Darkside #1

Joe Hill (w) • Gabriel Rodriguez (a & c)

Joe Hill's nerve-shredding re-imagining of Tales from the Darkside never made it to your TV set...but the dead are restless and refuse to stay buried! This summer, IDW releases DARKSIDE, a four-issue comic-book adaptation of the episodes written by Hill and illustrated here by Locke & Key co-creator Gabriel Rodriguez! Three stories of the macabre and malevolent! One coulda-been, shoulda-been TV epic on paper with pictures that don't move! Step out of the warm, sunlit world you think of as reality and get ready to take a chilling walk... on the DARKSIDE.

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Tales from the Darkside #1-Subscription Variant

Joe Hill (w) • Gabriel Rodriguez (a) • Charles Paul Wilson III (c)

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

  • The creators of Locke & Key, back together again!
  • An all-new imagining of a classic horror show!
  • The Tales from the Darkside TV show has legions of fans!
  • So do Hill & Rodriguez!
  • Variant covers by Hill's Wraith artist Charles Paul Wilson III!
  • Up first... meet "The Sleepwalker!"