A comic book in words, episodic and eerie, The Haunted Hillbilly is a carnivalesque thrill-ride that reads both like a vintage 1950s issue of Tales from the Crypt and a 21st century re-imagining

The Haunted Hillbilly

A comic book in words, episodic and eerie, The Haunted Hillbilly is a carnivalesque thrill-ride that reads both like a vintage 1950s issue of Tales from the Crypt and a 21st century re-imagining of Michael Ondaatjeâ€™s The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. The Haunted Hillbilly is an historical first-person narrative, told by Nudie Â“The Carnival Couturierâ€ (the nameâ€™s a twist on Â“Nudie, the Rodeo Tailorâ€, a real-life figure perhaps best known for dressing Elvis Presley), a gay couturier who, in Derek McCormackâ€™s spellbinding world, also happens to be a vampire. As the story evolves, with its magical poetic cadence, Nudie makes, then breaks, the career of country-and-western legend Hank Williams.

The Haunted Hillbilly