These Savage Shores (Compact Edition) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781638493754)

The critically acclaimed and bestselling historical horror graphic novel, THESE SAVAGE SHORES, is now a bite-sized edition in THESE SAVAGE SHORES (Compact Edition) - where blood and teeth rule the night.

These Savage Shores (Compact Edition) collects the entire series from Eisner award-winning creators Ram V and Sumit Kumar, named "One of the 5 Best-Written Horror Comics of All Time" (CBR).

Two centuries after the first European ship sailed to the Malabar Coast and made landfall at Calicut, The East India Company seeks to secure its future along the lucrative Silk Route, in the year 1766. An old evil now sails aboard a company ship, hoping to make a home in this new found land. But he will soon find that the ground along the Indus is an ancient one with daemons and legends far older than himself.

Along These Savage Shores, where the days are scorched and the nights are full of teeth.

From bestselling and award-winning writer Ram V (Eisner Award winner Blue in Green (Image Comics), The Many Deaths of Laila Starr (BOOM! Studios), Grafity's Wall (Dark Horse), Batman, Detective Comics, Justice League Dark, Swamp Thing, Catwoman (DC Comics), and Venom (Marvel)) and star artist Sumit Kumar (Justice League Dark, Justice League, Batman (DC Comics) comes the savagely haunting tale of blood and vengeance.

For fans of Dracula, From Hell, Vampire: The Masquerade: Winter's Teeth, American Vampire, historical fiction, and East Indian legends, myth, and folklore.

**Voted "One of the Best Written Horror Comics of All Time" (#5 of 10) by CBR (Comic Book Resources) https: //www.cbr.com/horror-comics-best-writing-ever/

**Winner of the inaugural IGNYTE Awards for The Best Comics Team (2020)

"These Savage Shores transports elements of Dracula to the Silk Route of the 1700s, bringing that text's themes of xenophobia into an entirely new light and melding it with far older legends of India." -- Paste Magazine

"...excellent. Well written and exquisitely drawn..." -- Nicholas Eames (Kings of the Wyld)

"... a lush horror story that devours colonialists." -- AV Club

"... the book unleashes some gorgeous, ethereal splashes of supernatural majesty and terror ... 10/10" - AIPT

"This is a dangerous story ... And too lush to resist." - World Comic Book Review

"Sweepingly epic and intensely intimate ...One of the best vampire stories ever." - Major Spoilers

"Beautiful and bloody." -- Doom Rocket

"Ram V has delivered characters that are beautiful, horrific, vibrant and alive." - Big Comic Page

"These Savage Shores is a love letter to sadness and beauty." - Doom Rocket

"These Savage Shores is a perfect vampire story ... a modern classic." -- Gatecrashers

Author: Ram V
ISBN-10: 1638493758
ISBN-13: 9781638493754
Publisher: Vault Comics
Language: English
Published: 05/05/2026
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs