A SNEAK PEEK at CROWNSVILLE #1
- keepingitgeekly
- Sep 27, 2025
- 2 min read
A new five-part true crime thriller series will be dropping from Oni Press this Fall, featuring creative duo Rodney Barnes (Killadelphia, The Boondocks, and Wu-Tang: An American Saga) and acclaimed artist Elia Bonetti (Death of Wolverine: The Logan Legacy). Crownsville #1 is inspired by the real-life horrors of Maryland's Crownsville Hospital Center, which was in operation from 1911 until 2004. We have a sneak peek at the first issue, which will be double-sized and hitting shelves on November 5th!
The past is a ghost that will devour you whole...
CROWNSVILLE #1
Writer: Rodney Barnes
Artist: Elia Bonetti
Founded at the turn of the 20th century outside of Annapolis, MD, 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
ON SALE NOVEMBER 5, 2025 | $4.99 | 48 PAGES | FC
IOC: 9/27/2025
FOC: 10/20/2025
Below are the variant covers for CROWNSVILLE #1 that will be available on November 5th at your LCS!!
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