The Veil

If you are like me and really enjoy the psychological horror genre, you must pick up the newest addition to my personal graphic novel collection, “The Veil”. The story starts off with a private investigator by the name of Christine Luna who has a special gift. She has the ability to see and speak with the dead. Not like anything you might have seen on network television, she actually feels the spirits emotions and physical pains. It tends to weigh down her own personal life but she tries to make the best of it by using her abilities in her work. Helping the dead get revenge on their murderers and then being paid by unclaimed bank accounts or credit cards that have not been cancelled by that same dead person.
Like most people in New York City, she is struggling to keep her head above the financial water line that was set by the horrible economy. One day she receives word that her families home in Maine has recently caught the interest of the local government who wishes to purchase the land. Her money woes seem to have a silver lining until she decides to visit her hometown to handle things in person.
She originally left the little town of Crooksville as a teenager after the luxury tourist train Acadian crashed in Elephant Mountain. The crash claimed the lives of many people on an end-of-the-school-year trip including her father. After the wreck she had a hard time dealing with reality and was placed into a psychiatric facility and being diagnosed with “Post Traumatic Stress Disorder”. It was in the psychiatric hospital where she was immediately placed on drugs and classified as scytophrenic. No one would listen to her and after the medicinal drugs were issued to her on a regular basis, she wasn’t able to determine what was real and what was a part of her new abilities.

She spent a long time in the facility before a young doctor named Josh had befriended her and took the initiative to take her off of the medication in order to truly listen to her. Soon after the new doctor was taking care of her, she had fallen in love with him and he apparently fell in love with her, I didn’t understand how a doctor could fall in love with a patient of his who was classified to be scytophrenic, but that’s just my brain rationalizing again. The doctors plan for treating Christine was a little more selfish than she originally thought and he ended up writing and publishing a book based on her story. Once she was off the medication; Christine was started to play along with the hospitals rules in order to be released. But the nightmares and visions never stopped, she just adapted to her curse and used it to her advantage.
But now, back in the small town that she grew up in, Christine realizes that things aren’t always as they appear. The nightmares and warnings given to her by the other side are much stronger and more dangerous than she ever expected. The quiet town that she had ran from as a teenager had been calling her back all this time, but without a voice it could only try to make her see the truth. When spirits are stuck without a voice, they can only rely on showing visuals to people who could see them. Sometimes, the dead don’t even know they’re dead until they are reminded of the fact.
What was hiding behind the veil of light that protected the world was about to be pushed aside and show its true self to everyone. A rebirth of darkness that could not be escaped by simply turning on a light was just around the bend and she could feel it coming. But what could anyone do to stop it? This was much bigger than any individual murder that could be solved with the assistance of one ghost. The whole town was hiding a secret and they had been waiting for Chris to come home to complete the plan.
With a couple of childhood friends trying to get back into her life and local spirits trying to show her the real troubles that hide in the darkness; would Christine be able to uncover the secrets of Crooksville? Will she be able to fight back against the darkness or will it engulf her the way a dinosaur would fall into a tar pit? The more she struggles, the deeper she sinks.
The only way to find out what happens, is to pick up this amazing Graphic Novel and see for your self that it’s not always a pretty face that lies behind the Veil.