By Zack Quaintance — Writer Marjorie Liu and artist Sana Takeda — the creative team behind the Eisner Award-winning Image comic series, Monstress — have announced a new trilogy of graphic novels, the first of which is called The Night Eaters: She Eats The Night. It is slated to be published in October 2022 by Abrams ComicArts.

The book is aimed at adult readers, and the first one will span 208 pages. The entire trilogy is being billed by the publisher as “a combination of Monsters by Barry Windsor-Smith and Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan.”

You can find the full plot synopsis from Abrams after the book’s cover artwork and the jump below:

Chinese American twins, Milly and Billy, are having a tough time. On top of the multiple failures in their personal and professional lives, they’re struggling to keep their restaurant afloat. Luckily their parents, Ipo and Keon, are in town for their annual visit. Having immigrated from Hong Kong before the twins were born, Ipo and Keon have supported their children through thick and thin and are ready to lend a hand—but they're starting to wonder, has their support made Milly and Billy incapable of standing on their own?
When Ipo forces them to help her clean up the house next door—a hellish and run-down ruin that was the scene of a grisly murder—the twins are in for a nasty surprise. A night of terror, gore, and supernatural mayhem reveals that there is much more to Ipo and her children than meets the eye.

What is also interesting is this is the second such graphic novel trilogy that Abrams has announced in recent week, both of them from creative teams that have proven to be bankable in the direct market. At the start of the month, writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Andre Lima Araújo announced Phenomena: The Golden City of Eyes, the first of a three-part graphic novel series to be published by Abrams ComicArts. Part one is slated to hit shops on Sept. 13, 2022, with part two arriving in Fall 2023, followed by part three in Fall 2024.

You can find the full write-up of that news also on this very web site.

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Zack Quaintance is a tech reporter by day and freelance writer by night/weekend. He has written about comics for The Beat and NPR Books, among others. He Tweets compulsively about storytelling and comics as Comics Bookcase.