Based on the follow-up to Gifford’s breakthrough novel Wild at Heart (adapted into the Palme d’Or-winning feature film directed by David Lynch and starring Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, and Willem Dafoe), NIGHT PEOPLE follows a fascinating and fully realized cast of outsiders, loners, and lost souls through four interlocking narratives as they travel a path of intoxication, lust, and spontaneous violence from New Orleans to Egypt City, Florida, and back again.

In the first tale of desperation, fanaticism, and murder, as told by Gifford, Condon, and Level, two ex-convicts—the inseparable lovers Big Betty Stalcup and Miss Cutie Early—are out on parole using their newfound freedom to purify the world of men’s evil influence . . . leaving a trail of mutilated bodies in their wake. As the psychotic dimensions of their star-crossed romance—and the twisting paths that led them to their fateful meeting at the Fort Sumatra Detention Center for Wayward Women—come into full view, their experiment in righteousness culminates in the kidnapping of Rollo Lamar, a kindly attorney whom Betty and Cutie abduct just to see if they can reeducate at least one man on the planet before the demise of civilization.

NIGHT PEOPLE #1—the first razor-sharp issue of the new series from literary icon Barry Gifford, the internationally renowned creator of Wild at Heart and cowriter of David Lynch’s neo-noir masterpiece Lost Highway, as adapted by breakout writer Chris Condon (That Texas Blood, The Enfield Gang Massacre) and incisive artist Brian Level (Cosmic Ghost Rider, Poison Ivy) in a 30-page, ad-free first issue debuting in comic shops everywhere on March 6, 2024.

Take my word when I say this, the first issue is a cool, yet cynical and masochistic. You will enjoy NIGHT PEOPLE #1 and you will look forward to this series.