From Wytches to Coffin Bound, Image Comics has a lot of history with the horror genre. And now fans can expect a brand new ongoing entry in the Portland-based publisher's diverse line of horror and suspense titles: The Family Tree.

The Family Tree, written by Jeff Lemire and illustrated by Phil Hester, depicts the carnage a family endures when an eight-year-old girl begins to 'literally' transform into a tree. The series follows the girl's mother, brother and grandmother on a harrowing odyssey throughout the rural United States. It's a race against time as they quest to cure her monstrous condition before it becomes irreversible. The tormented family encounters a wide variety of threats. From zealous cultists to opportunistic mercenaries and muckraking journalists, the family must survive the very worst that their culture can offer all while fighting to maintain a sense of morality and sanity.

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"Family Tree has been a story that has been percolating for a long time, in a lot of ways it’s a return to the tone, and many of the themes, I explored with my Animal Man run; a look at the many horrors that can threaten to tear a family apart, and the bonds that keep them together in the face of unspeakable events." Lemire explains.

This isn't Lemire's first foray into horror, as he is known for his work on titles like Gideon Falls: a haunting saga of a fallen from grace priest and the hair raising legend of a cursed black barn. Hester is a veteran of the monstrous as well, having contributed to titles in like Swamp Thing and Godzilla: King of Monsters.

"I believe The Family Tree fit pretty squarely into both my and Jeff's body of work in that it's undeniably weird, sometimes grotesque, and occasionally violent." Hester went on to say in Image's official release "But underneath it all is the beating heart of a family that finds a way to stay a family under the most extreme circumstances."

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Family Tree's creators describe the title as a 'body horror' piece, a genre of horror fiction characterized by monstrous distortions of living flesh. There's no shortage of body horror in the annals of comic book history, but to see it affect a child protagonist and then witness the excruciating emotional fall out is something new under the proverbial sun. Creepy children are a mainstay in horror, but they usually stay whole and complete even in their horrific forms. This makes The Family Tree unique in an already diverse and varied genre of mainstream American comics.

The Family Tree #1 goes on sale Nov. 13 from Image Comics.