Locke & Key by Joe Hill

Okay so, these four volumes were a lot harder to get through than the first two. It felt a lot like reading a very adult version of A Series of Unfortunate Events. This poor family was put through every wringer the author could think of. However I did still greatly enjoy the rest of this series, in spite of it ending rather abruptly. There was so much build up but no epic end other than Bode not being dead.

v.3- 140 pages: The dead plot against the living, the darkness closes in on Keyhouse, and a woman is shattered beyond repair in the third storyline of the award-winning series, Locke & Key: Crown of Shadows. Dodge continues his relentless quest to find the key to the black door, and raises an army of shadows to wipe out anyone who might get in his way. Surrounded and outnumbered, the Locke children find themselves fighting a desperate battle, all alone, in a world where the night itself has become the enemy.

v. 4- 146 pages: The Locke children have grown accustomed to the myriad magical keys discovered within their ancestral family home of Keyhouse. They have also grown accustomed to tragedy. What they may not be prepared for is just how closely danger stalks their every move as Lucas "Dodge" Caravaggio, alias Zack Wells, continues his relentless quest for the key to the black door. New keys and old specters join the story as innocence is lost and determination is forged in this collection of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez's Locke & Key: Keys to the Kingdom.

v. 5- 152 pages: Tyler and Kinsey Locke have no idea that their now-deceased nemesis—Lucas "Dodge" Caravaggio—has taken over the body of their younger brother, Bode. With unrestricted access to Keyhouse, Dodge's ruthless quest to find the Omega Key and open the Black Door is almost complete. But Tyler and Kinsey have a dangerous key of their own—one that can unlock all the secrets of Keyhouse by opening a gateway to the past. The time has come for the Lockes to face both their own legacy and the darkness waiting behind the Black Door. Because if they don't learn from their family history, they may be doomed to repeat it, and time is running out...

v. 6- 191 pages: It took two lifetimes and countless victims, but Lucas "Dodge" Caravaggio has his terrible prize at last: the key which will open The Black Door. Disguised in the form of little Bode Locke, Dodge descends into the Drowning Cave, to throw back the door and release the demons on the other side. Those who have stood against him for so long—Tyler, Kinsey, Scot, Nina, Rufus, and all the rest—take their places as the final tragedy unfolds... a confrontation between decency and hate in the caverns a hundred feet beneath Keyhouse, at the threshold of an evil kept for generations under lock and key.

Locke & Key by Joe Hill

 

Locke & Key: Master Edition

By Joe Hill

328 pages

The Master edition of Locke & Key contains the volumes Welcome to Lovecraft and Head Games. 

After their father's murder, the Locke siblings return to their ancestral home, Keyhouse, a place filled with dark doors & magic keys that open them, one of which holds an incredible power. 

I started reading Locke & Key because of the previews for the television show that is based on these books. It looked very interesting and just the right amount of spooky to start the fall with. I have now finished the first two volumes of the series and have the next four ready to go as soon as the weekend starts. I absolutely loved reading this. It has psychological creepy-ness, horror, bad people getting what they deserve, all wrapped up in a mystery that keeps taking unexpected turns. 

If you choose to read these and have already started the show, there are many differences between them so far. However I hope they both end, if not in the same place, at least in a satisfactory way.