La ballata di Re Orpheus

Plot and script: Mauro Boselli
Artwork: Alessandro Scibilia
Cover: Enea Riboldi

“Orpheus, in front of the Elf King, grabbed his harp and began to sing”... For years, Duncan McGillivray hid the existence of the mysterious “Ballad of King Orpheus” that he heeded in the wind of the Scottish moorlands. Now the song that takes people to death and ill fate has been rearranged by the folk band of his disciple Stuart Morison. Old Duncan wants to prevent the song to be played at Byrnestane Castle, the in the Dark Ages was the seat of the unnameable and bloody rites of the evil Lord Soules and his servant Redcap. But the ghost hunterers from York University are in Byrnestane, too, for a congress about Celtic culture. According to the medium Maud Nightingale, though, there aren’t any ghosts in that place! At least, until the melody of the ballad echoes inside the ancient walls... then, with the help of young Stuart, our vampire and ghost hunterers will have to face the specters at the orders of the terrible Lord Soules...