Crownsville: Read the Entire First Issue of the Oni Press Horror Series

Oni Press' Crownsville was easily one of the most exciting new horror comics of 2025, given that it's written by Killadelphia's Rodney Barnes and delves into a dark piece of American history. Now the entire series has been released and is about to be published in trade paperback form. To celebrate, IGN can exclusively offer the entire first issue of the series for free.

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Crownsville is a five-issue limited series written by Barnes and illustrated by Elia Bonetti (Death of Wolverine: The Logan Legacy). The trade paperback features cover art by Andrea Sorrentino (Old Man Logan). Here's the official summary of the series:

Founded at the turn of the 20th century outside of Annapolis, Maryland, the Crownsville Hospital was a notoriously segregated, all-Black psychiatric institute. After decades of overcrowding and neglect—alongside darker, more persistent rumors of patient abuse and illegal medical experiments—it was finally closed. Today, it stands condemned—a crumbling testament to a legacy of all-too-real terror inflicted on a marginalized and vulnerable community. But even as a ruin of its former self, Crownsville still casts a long shadow . . . When an unexplained death inside the abandoned hospital is ruled a suicide, Annapolis police detective Mike Simms and journalist Paul Blairare are compelled to dig deeper, only to discover the reality of the horrors that once took place there . . . and the powerful connection they share to the anguished spirits of the dead that are still locked within its walls.

The Crownsville trade paperback will be released on Tuesday, August 11. You can order a copy on Amazon.

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