Book List
A complete list of all Insomnia books currently published and in production.
Average Joe by Thomas Romeo , art by Kelvin Chan, colours by Mel Cook
What if Death wasn’t this cold, machine like work horse but just a normal guy? How would he deal with probably the most important job there is? How would he struggle to hang on to what he thinks is right? How could he maintain his relationships and remain human?
As if it’s not enough to wake up not just dead, but Death, Joe finds himself at the heart of the politics of the apocalypse. Before this everything was going to plan.
The other Horsemen are not pleased.
Babble by Lee Robson, art by Bryan Coyle
Carrie Hartnoll is a working class English girl stuck in a life going nowhere fast, but after a chance meeting with her old university professor she heads to America to start a new job as part of his research team.
The team works to resurrect the mythical language of Babel – a language, Curtis theorises, that can be understood by any human being – and use it as the basis for the world’s first universal translator.
In this tale of dead languages and deadly secrets it’s not what you say, but how you say it, that counts.
Buskers by Jeymes Samuel, script by Sean Michael Wilson, art by Michiru Morikawa
Timothy Book is a big success. He has a job in banking, a plush city apartment and a trophy girlfriend. He’s on top of the world – until he crashes back down to earth with an almighty bang!
After a botched suicide attempt, leaves him on the doorstep of ex-best-friend Cabbage, a streetwise busker, he experiences a life he could not have imagined. Forced to re-evaluate his former existence, friendships and relationships, he embarks on an eventful journey back to the real Timothy Book.
Burke and Hare by Martin Conaghan art by Will Pickering, letters by Paul McLaren
Over a 12 month period from 1827-1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland, two Irishmen by the names of William Burke and William Hare murdered 16 people and disposed of their bodies to the eminent dissectionist Dr Robert Knox at 10 Surgeon’s Square. Delve into the murky, misquoted history of Scotland’s most notorious serial killers with a research-based graphic novel that unwravels a ghoulish story of medicine, murder and money.
Features a foreword by Alan Grant, and pin up gallery including Frank Quitely and Gary Erksine
Butterflies and Moths by Corey Brotherson, art and letters by Jennie Gyllblad
Butterflies and Moths is about a young woman attempting to come to terms with a terrible affliction and her past, and in finding a kindred spirit discovers – through blood and betrayal – that death is a natural part of life.
A prequel, “Fragile” to which can be seen in Layer Zero:Choices
Cancertown by Cy Dethan, art by Stephen Downey Colours by Melanie Cook, Letters by Nic Wilkinson
Vince Morley is a man with big problems and a brain tumour like a baby’s fist, living with one foot in a monstrous alternate world he calls Cancertown. When the lost and dispossessed of London start tripping over the same cracks in reality he spends his life avoiding, Morley realises he must confront the residents of Cancertown – and risk finding his place among them.
Cover by Paul Cartwright.
Features a foreword by Bryan Talbot
Cancertown 2: Blasphemous Tumours has been signed with the original team set to return next year.
Cages by Xander Bennet, art by Melanie Cook
What if you’d spent your whole life in a cage, never glimpsing the world outside? What if everything you knew was darkness, fear and cold, clinical steel? What if one day, an angel came to you with a message of hope – a message that you were about to be set free?
Cover by Johnathan Hickman
Features a foreword by Ben Templesmith
Conway by Sean Michael Wilson, art by Adam R Grose
By trying to financially help his grandmother, a young Scottish man gets in over his head with Irish gangsters.
On the journey that follows he begins a loving relationship, steals a large amount of money; and finally resolves the life long tension between himself and his grandfather.
Crowley: Wandering The Wastes by Martin Hayes art by Roy Huteson
Aleister Crowley was a man out of time, born too soon to a world that was not ready for him. Raised among the conservative Plymouth Brethren, he soon shook off their grim shawl of enforced piety and embarked upon a life of sexual adventurism, drug experimentation, and a serious and lifelong study of the occult.
Daemon by Alasdair Duncan art by Roy Huteson
Revenge is sweet. So thinks former pilot Guy Shearman as he festers in a hospital bed. Now a quadriplegic from a terrible accident, all that keeps him alive is seeking retribution on Andrea Robinson, the woman who put him into this state. Only it’s not that simple. Released from his living prison through the corruption of a medical research project, Guy discovers where the blame for the accident really lies.
Revenge is not sweet. It’s complicated. Very complicated.
Damaged Goods Richard McAuliffe, art by Mark Chilcott, letters by Jim Campbell
Last seen in the company of Magpie’s serial killing vacationer in Layer Zero: Choices, Richard McAuliffe and Mark Chilcott are back- and this time they’re delivering Damaged Goods.
This collection of short, dark tales will keep you up all night.
Dead Goats by Oliver Masters
The first casualty of war is truth, it’s said, but next up against the wall is sanity.
The First Earth Battalion, was established in 1979 and entrusted with defending America from all known adversaries. In 2001 Private Tyler Jones wakes screaming from the most vivid dream of his life.
Suffering a nightmarish descent into a world of absurdity and violence, the horrors of which can strip a man of his humanity, Jones is about to discover what happens when warfare is no longer about winning hearts and minds, but weaponising them.
Dream Solver by Luke Foster art by Chris Wildgoose
When 22 year old picture researcher Ione-Rose Young has a disturbing, recurring dream about seeing her own death, she doesn’t know whether to dismiss it as just another weird dream, or worry that it’s about to come true. Unable to shake the dream from her mind, she sets out to decipher its meaning.
Death Hunter: Dead Man’s Gold by James Johnson and Leonardo M Giron
Profit is a haven of fortune that bears more resemblance to a ‘Western Utopia’ than any familiar backwater town. It has been built from the pockets of one man – a man whose past is about to return and fulfil a forgotten curse.
Welcome to the dead west, where greed and corruption shows its true origins.
The Empyre by Stephen Aryan
On his first day in office, the Prime Minister meets a member of his Cabinet he didn’t elect – Alistair Donovan, the Secretary of State for Nocturnal Affairs.
Donovan runs a secret government department that has existed for over a hundred years. In extreme circumstances, when a swift resolution is needed, the Prime Minister calls on Donovan and his team of hand-picked specialists.
The Empyre mixes fast-paced action with politics and drama, charting how the UK starts to become a world leader in a secret technology, and the effects it has on international politics.
Fallen Heroes adaptation by Martin Conaghan, original novel by Barry Nugent
A stalker of demons and legends, a pair of master criminals, a teenager on the brink of madness and a man forever cursed with the desire for vengeance. They are all pawns in a plan set in motion over nine centuries before their birth. Pursued across the globe by enemies both human and supernatural they must overcome their mistrust of each other and uncover the truth before it destroys them all.
Fallen Heroes pits an unlikely group of heroes and anti heroes against an evil which has existed since the first crusade. If they can keep from killing each other long enough they might just be able to stop the world from plunging into a new dark age.
The Fictionalists by Chris Lynch
Welcome to the world of The Fictionalists, seven storytellers trapped in the pages of a graphic novel. The Fictionalists are the only people who know the truth about the world, that nothing has changed here since the dawn of the first word, and that nothing ever is going to change. They have mastered the art of writing their will on to the world but rather than becoming its masters they have discovered no matter what they do, nothing ever lasts for more than a day. The story reasserts itself, forcefully if it has to, and all is as it was. The Editors are always watching.
Focal Point by Jim Alexander, Martin Conaghan and Cy Dethan
The first in a new series of “by invitation” books where we ask three creators for three stories exploring one theme, all linked by a shared “focal point”.
Frank Sartre by James Peaty
A mysterious killer is on the loose in the surreal city of COSMOPOLIS and only one man can stop him! But as panic spreads, that man — part-time nightclub singer, sometime private eye and full time philosopher, FRANK SARTRE — has other things on his mind:
Who is the mysterious stranger known only as ‘Mr Memory’? What is the secret of the library containing only one book? And why do all paths lead back to a fateful car crash one rain swept evening in a very ordinary part of New England?
But remember…beware the girl in your dreams!”
Gamebreaker by Cy Dethan
Those who even remember the legend of Bloodshot Iris and her insane, megalomaniacal schemes consider her a myth. They’re right – and like all great myths there’s a potent, even dangerous, nucleus of truth at her core. When the greatest villain of the Cold War emerges from retirement to reintroduce a disaffected world to the glorious chaos it once knew, she has only one target in mind – her nemesis, the ultimate superspy: Capablanca.
Spiralling Insanity returns to the British spycraft scene as the last remnant of the Cold War makes her bid to kick-start the era of the psychedelic super-spy.
The Indifference Engine by Cy Dethan, art by Robert Carey, colours by Mel Cook, letters by Nic Wilkinson
Responding to a strangely specific job advertisement, a distinctly ordinary twenty-something suburban slacker finds himself in the middle of an inter-dimensional task force staffed entirely by superhuman alternate versions of himself. Struggling to fit in, he uncovers a conspiracy that strikes at the very heart of the organisation – a conspiracy that only he can stop.
Ion Monger’s Daughter by Matt Gibbs, art by Larry Watts
Victoria Cross wants to see the stars. Against her father’s wishes, she leaves the family business to embark on a journey to her mother’s home world. Robbed, ensnared by the criminal underworld, arrested and conscripted into the army as a convict, her bad choices turn her dreams into a nightmare.
Kronos City by Andrew Croskery art by Alex Wilmore, colours by Lauren Anne Sharpe, letters by Jim Campbell
In Kronos City it’s not water running through the canals – it’s time. It’s possible to submerge your head to see visions of the past and future, although it’s risky. If you know how you can even manipulate future events, not just watch them unfold. Some say you can even change not only time, but fate.
Finnegan Vedant, being an enterprising individual, sees here a business opportunity like no other, but when a mysterious client puts him on a case with bizarre consequences, he’s forced to face harsh truths about himself and the world around him. The game he’s playing is for much higher stakes than it at first appeared.
Midnight on The Mind’s Highway by Craig I Gilmore
The, dramatic, hallucinogenic tale of Carl Sark, a man frequently plagued by horrific, vivid nightmares involving disparate parts of a repressed, long forgotten memory. In desperation Carl volunteers to undergo a brand new form of regression therapy – The Mind’s Highway originally created to let people to re-live their fondest memories like they were happening for the very first time.
But as Carl delves back into his past, piecing together fractured memories one-by-one, he’s pursued by a horrific, monstrous force apparently seeking to punish him for something he can’t recall.
MILK by Stref
MILK is a collection of short stories, but unlike most anthology titles they are all the work of one man. Every story in MILK is drawn by the same artist, but unlike most art portfolio books each piece is masterfully executed in a completely different style. MILK is a book you need to bring your brain to, with a range of story telling styles to match the diversity of the art, but it will also make you laugh. The stories are a mix of b&w, full colour and two colour work, sharing a similar themes and a very British strand of dark humour.
Oz: The Fall of the Scarecrow King by Peter Forbes, art by Barry McGowan, letters by Nic Wilkinson
40 years on and something has gone terribly wrong in the Land of Oz. The magic is out of balance. An odd contraption appears in the sky above Area 52, deep in the featureless Kansas Prairie. They have come for Dorothy. She is the only one who can put things right. But time passes differently in Oz and Dorothy is an old lady now and no longer the ruby-slippered girl they remember.
Quarantine by Michael Moreci, art by Monty Borror, colours by Lauren Anne Sharp
Quarantine follows a group of survivors trapped in a small town in the Upper Peninsula (U.P.) of Michigan shortly after a biological plague is released into the water supply. This plague turns a person into a homicidal war machine, which forces the borders to close, leaving our band of survivors to fight for their lives.
Features covers by Keith Burns
Shiver by Christopher Barker, art by Wu Li
Working for a low rate newspaper like the ‘Snoop’ David sees his fair share of unbelievable stories and tales of amazing feats in the face of adversity. He is no stranger to tales of the adrenaline filled car lift or walking through flames to save a friend but stopping a runaway truck barehanded? Normally he wouldn’t believe it, normally he’d assume the brakes happened to be on and did most of the work but this time was different. This time he stopped the truck, and he didn’t feel himself at all.
Shock Theory by Celeste Sharp
After a horrific tsunami, England is abandoned and forgotten; even by history. Rising from dark times, a single city known as Hubris is suspended in the Sky, providing a new life based on technology and social order. The N.O Government has put the clocks back to zero and reinvented London as a completely clean slate for a prosperous society and economy… But Hubris wasn’t just built on the ruins of London; it was built on shock.
Set in a dystopian England, where the totalitation regime uses the Techframe to control its citizens using shock and sedation, Shock Theory draws on the dystopian heritage of George Orwell and Philip K. Dick, woven with theories of investigative journalist, Naomi Klein, to follow Eva and her companions as they attempt to unravel the sinister nature of Hubris and offer the only resistance to the tyrannical Dr.Shock and the New Order government
Sidhe by Rachel Robbins, art by Kev Crossley, letters by Nic Wilkinson
According to Gaelic mythology, five spectres of darkness descended from the ancient fairy race Tuatha De’Dannan: the Bean Sídhe, each bound to one of five powerful families. Once upon a time the Sídhe’s hair-raising screams foretold and warned of impending death. But times have changed, and the Sídhe have returned with a more sinister mission, now their piercing screeches claim the lives of the ailing and infected—before the diseased hosts have become terminal. Every prophecy has a loophole.
Six Months by Jim O’Hara, art by Gary Crutchley
An uneasy exploration of what happens when, perhaps too late, you discover the answers to what it is that gives your life meaning, the relationship between law and society, and what it means when you longer need to hide anything from yourself or others.
Snow: A Reflection on Desire and Depravity by Richard McAuliffe, art by Valia Kapadi, letters by Nic Wilkinson
“…a daughter of the coven will be her undoing.” they said.
Once upon a time there was a land bound by winter, a land where bloodstains of the deepest scarlet and ravens’ feathers, of the blackest ebony, are fallen on snow of the purest white. Oh, you think you’ve heard this story before, somewhere? So how come the mirrors in the castle are refusing reflections? What is that howling noise out there in the darkness? Who has commanded the release of the Seven? And why is the Queen so disturbed?
Snow is a dark and witty exploration of decadence challenged by duty. Building on a subversive deconstruction of classic themes, it’s a sensuous and disturbing story that rips the meat from the bones of what you know, right down to the last bloody scraps.
Sun Moon by Matt Gibbs
One ageing, one eternally young, two lovers must overcome the growing gulf, as their differing social classes remain locked in an endless cycle of oppression.
Exploring love, devotion and duty, SUN MOON is the story of star and time crossed lovers, set against a backdrop of environmental disaster and segregation. One of the underclass, Leto is the son of a cryogenic engineer and destined to follow in his father’s footsteps. A member of the ruling elite, Selene is a young and gifted scientist and one of Leto’s cryogenically frozen charges. As the years pass they fall in love, against the conventions of their segregated society and the counsel of their friends and peers.
For Leto their affair is a few brief days grabbed every few years, for Selene it is the passage of weeks, watching him grow from a boy to a man much older than her. As the years move on Leto becomes a dissident, rebelling against the injustice and oppression of their society, forcing Selene to choose between him and all that she has known
The Ragged Man by Cy Dethan, art by Neil Van Antwerpen and Peter-David Douglas, letters by Nic Wilkinson
Alone and despised, the Ragged Man drags himself through life with the weight of murdered billions on his shoulders. Hated by the world and everything in it, his body is a prison to a race of monsters. With every skin cell he sheds, with every drop of blood, a tiny piece of their reality escapes into ours, and a tiny piece of our world dies.
Who do you think you are?
Unbelievable story and art by Simon Wyatt, letters by Nic Wilkinson
The remote mining village of Bryn Boncath has its share of stories, of local legends, of half believed histories. It is a close knit community, with closely guarded secrets. Strands of Welsh legend, modern murder mystery woven with horror and a dash of crytozoology ask “What if seeing isn’t always believing, but believing will allow you to see?”
Features a foreword by Nick Redfern, author of There’s Something In The Woods
Urban Legends by Steven Stone art by James Daniels
A collection of short stories all based on the urban legends that everyone swears happened to a friend of a friend. The book’s 15 stories range from the comical to the terrifying and all of them leave you with the uneasy feeling that it could happen to you. But they’re only stories right? Right?
Zoo Keeper by Ben Morgan, art by Stephen Kearney
John is a botanist and he’s alone in his garden. There’s only John. And them…
Emerging from his year long studies in a bio-dome John finds a world over run by pets we once owned, animals we once hunted and creatures we have never seen.
Now it’s up to John to save the human race. For a scientist and a pacifist, recreating the most violent species on the planet is against everything he has ever believed, but the world is a changed place. Morals and logic will have to be discarded if John is to play the cat and mouse game of survival.
Features covers by Frank Quitely
