AfterShock to Publish “A Foulness in the Walls”

This November, writer Cullen Bunn and artist Rodrigo Zayas are teaming up for a new ‘One-Shock’ from AfterShock. “A Foulness in the Walls” is a personal look at horror, focusing on George, a man grappling with loss after the death of his mother, and the guilt from his newfound freedom now that he is no longer her caretaker.

“[‘A Foulness in the Walls’] is personal on a lot of levels,” said Bunn when asked what inspired the tale. “To this day, I deal with a lot of guilt about being so far away from my parents in their final days. I did the best I could. I know that, deep down. My parents knew it. But there are times when it just feels like I didn’t do enough. I also think of my wife, who dedicated her every free moment to her father and mother in their final days. She did everything she could to take care of them. There’s no question about that. And she still deals with guilt, as if she could have done more. That’s the first big inspiration for the book.”

“The other inspiration is the small, decaying house I lived in for several months while I was in college. I was thankful to have a roof over my head during that time, but the house was an awful, awful pit. I lived there over the summer. There was no air conditioning. It was infested with roaches and slugs. Slugs! They were everywhere! Homeless people would sometimes sneak into the attic to spend a few days. The worst thing, though, by far, was the stench. Something died inside the walls of the house. I could never find the source, but it was a maddening, horrible smell that lasted throughout the summer.”

Zayas’s art for the series certainly captures this frustration in the preview from AfterShock.

“A Foulness in the Walls” is part of Aftershock’s ‘One-Shock’ line of prestige-format stand-alone tales. Bunn is no stranger to the format, having already worked on “Piecemeal” with Szymon Kudranski and “Eden” with Dalibor Talajić. Check out “A Foulness in the Walls” when it hits comic book shelves November 16, 2022.

Written by Cullen Bunn
Illustrated by Rodrigo Zayas
Colored by Lorenzo Scaramella
Lettered by Dave Sharpe

On sale November 16, 2022
Full color, 48 pages
$7.99
One-shot

A Horror Prestige Format One-Shock from the mind of Cullen Bunn!

After a tragic loss, George hopes to rebuild his life. He moves to a new house. He gets a new job. He starts dating the girl of his dreams. Sometimes, though, guilt can be as malevolent as an evil spirit. Sometimes, ghosts follow you. Something is rotting in the walls of George’s new house. Something hungry.
Written by Cullen Bunn (DARK ARK, UNHOLY GRAIL, Basilisk, Bone Parish) and illustrated by Rodrigo Zayas (Cyber Force: Rebirth), comes a story of loss, rot and hunger.