THE HORROR ARCHIVES · Vol. 012The Sinew FactoriesThe machines don't need workers anymore. They need bodies.

Industrial horror, biomechanical terror, flesh and steel: ten factory worlds where machines use people as spare parts, fuel and building material, drawn for you to color.

Planned

Planned. No edition, price or release date is set.

Front cover of THE HORROR ARCHIVES Vol. 012, The Sinew Factories: a giant mechanical skeleton laced with red sinew reaches over a conveyor belt in a vast factory, with a glowing furnace mouth, smoking chimneys and glass vats of tangled tissue behind it. Orange-red title lettering.

The twelfth volume of THE HORROR ARCHIVES goes to work: ten industrial nightmares of giant factories, rusted steel, grotesque experiments and machines that have started to grow, with six scenes per world.

The Sinew Factories is planned, not released. Its release details, format and price are not set yet.

The books contain gothic, creature, body and splatter horror imagery. They are not made for children.

Series
THE HORROR ARCHIVES
Volume
012
Status
Planned
Planned contents
10 worlds, 6 motifs each (60 motifs)

Covers

Front cover of THE HORROR ARCHIVES Vol. 012, The Sinew Factories: a giant mechanical skeleton laced with red sinew reaches over a conveyor belt in a vast factory, with a glowing furnace mouth, smoking chimneys and glass vats of tangled tissue behind it. Orange-red title lettering.
Front cover
Back cover of Vol. 012, The Sinew Factories. Yellow dripping headline: "The assembly line has learned to breathe." Text: "The night shift ended, but the conveyor belts kept moving. Beneath the factory floor, the machinery is growing a workforce of its own." Taglines: living machinery, flesh conveyors, rusted anatomy. Artwork: a row of half-built skeletal bodies laced with red sinew riding a rusted conveyor belt past furnaces and pipes, with a pair of abandoned work gloves in front.
Back cover

Contents

Working contents from the story bible. Titles and order may change before release.

  1. The Suture Mills

    Textile mills that weave muscle and sinew, sewing bone, skin and metal into endless living conveyor belts

  2. The Pressure Borough

    Hydraulic presses crush buildings, vehicles and people into living building blocks

  3. The Lungworks

    Chimneys made of giant lungs, and townspeople plugged into pumps so the city can keep breathing

  4. The Rust Hatcheries

    An abandoned plant breeding creatures of gears, bone and pulsing flesh that grow by eating people

  5. The Magnetic Butchery

    Magnetic fields drag implants and tools through bodies, leaving sculptures of flesh and bent steel

  6. The Excavator Graves

    Autonomous mining machines that dig up the dead and build ever larger grave machines from them

  7. The Clockbone District

    A city manufacturing time, its people aged, sped up or frozen between turning gears

  8. The Boiler Choir

    Steam organs play in a boiler works where workers have grown into valves and open like bellows with every note

  9. The Wire Dominion

    Cables with living nerve fibres burrow into crowds and turn them into relay stations for a machine mind

  10. The Mother Engine

    Beneath the metropolis, an ancient machine of steel, belts, turbines and millions of remains begins to move

Editions

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Sample pages will be shown here once they are approved for publication.