Howard Chaykin’s Vampire Erotica ‘Black Kiss’ Gets A Compendium

Howard Chaykin’s Black Kiss, a classic vampire erotica series from Image Comics, will get the compendium treatment this winter.

Collecting, per PR from Image, “the original 1988 series Black Kiss #1-12, the sequel series Black Kiss II #1-6, as well as the Black Kiss XXXmas in July Special, Black Kiss Hallowe’en,” the book will also include new material from Chaykin supplementing the main stories.

Here’s the synopsis:

Chaykin’s cult classic Black Kiss is perhaps best described as Anne Rice’s erotic vampires paired with the Hollywood occult underbelly of Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut and wrapped in a Raymond Chandler-inspired hardboiled crime noir.

A Golden Age Hollywood starlit. A sex worker in search of the truth. An occult, Vatican coverup. Black Kiss is an unapologetically not-safe-for-work comic that simmers with femme fatales, vampires, mafiosos, and more, slinking down alleyways toward the smoke-choked lounges that pepper the mean streets of La-La Land.

Black Kiss Compendium will hit comic book stores on November 18, and book stores on December 15, 2026. Check out the cover below.

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