Séria sa odohráva v New Yorku, ktorý pred štyridsiatimi rokmi pohltila voda po katastrofe. V tomto dystopickom svete sa objavujú nadprirodzené javy a tajomné bytosti. Hlavný hrdina, Joe Golem, sa ponorí do vyšetrovania týchto znepokojivých udalostí, ktoré ohrozujú obyvateľov zaplaveného mesta. Je to napínavý mix hororu, detektívky a postapokalyptickej fikcie.
Forty years after disaster left Lower Manhattan submerged in thirty feet of water, the Drowning City has taken a turn for the weird and Joe Golem is there to investigate. A mysterious and terrifying creature has been snatching children and pulling them into the depths of the canals, and the those that drowned in the floods are coming back to the surface--alive.
"Occult detective Joe Golem invesitgates two supernatural mysteries, while demons from his past seep into the present. When men are being driven mad by otherworldy voices in their heads, Joe's search for an explanation leads to another dimension, and a dangerous man who wants to harness its power. Then, Church leads Joe to a crumbling home where a young woman is being possessed by the ghosts of her family."--
"A chilling new adventure unfolds as Joe Golem investigates the kidnapping of a conjurer and the strange men who took him. Aided by the victim's ward, a spunky teenage girl, the detective soon finds that otherworldly forces are at work. The only way to stop the madman behind the kidnapping and occult activities is to locate a strange object known as Lector's Pentajulum. But how can they locate it, who else is trying to track it down, and how can it save both them and the city?"-- Provided by publisher
"This book collects Joe Golem: the conjurors #1-#5"--Copyright page.
In 1925, earthquakes and a rising sea level left Lower Manhattan submerged under more than thirty feet of water, so that its residents began to call it the Drowning City. Those unwilling to abandon their homes created a new life on streets turned to canals and in buildings whose first three stories were underwater. Fifty years have passed since then, and the Drowning City is full of scavengers and water rats, poor people trying to eke out an existence, and those too proud or stubborn to be defeated by circumstance. Among them are fourteen-year-old Molly McHugh and her friend and employer, Felix Orlov. Once upon a time Orlov the Conjuror was a celebrated stage magician, but now he is an old man, a psychic medium, contacting the spirits of the departed for the grieving loved ones left behind. When a seance goes horribly wrong, Felix Orlov is abducted by strange men wearing gas masks and rubber suits, and Molly soon finds herself on the run. Her flight will lead her into the company of a mysterious man, and his stalwart sidekick, Joe Golem, whose own past is a mystery to him, but who walks his own dreams as a man of stone and clay, brought to life for the sole purpose of hunting witches. Joe Golem and the Drowning City is a new illustrated novel from Mike Mignola, the creator of Hellboy and Christopher Golden. (The paperback edition now includes the short story Joe Golem and the Copper Girl.)
Seit 50 Jahren liegen ganze Teile von Manhattan unter Wasser. Daher nennen die Einwohner diese Bezirke nur noch „Die Versunkene Stadt“. Hier lebt die junge Molly. Sie arbeitet für Felix Orlov, der einst ein gefeierter Bühnenmagier war. Als Orlov eines Tages von seltsamen Gestalten in Taucheranzügen entführt wird, muss Molly fliehen – und rennt dem mysteriösen Joe Golem direkt in die Arme. Der weiß mehr über die Entführung, als er zunächst sagt. Und über das magische Geheimnis, das sich dahinter verbirgt …