
Faceless breathes new fear into old stories.
For ten years in Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson captured a terrifying childhood ritual. Nightly, Calvin dialogued with the monsters under his bed about their existence. “Are there any monsters under my bed tonight?” he’d ask, only to hear in reply, “Of course not. Come and see for yourself.” from somewhere underneath the bed. Calvin lacked the facts, and without them, consistently stayed up all night with his best friend Hobbes, bloodshot and terrified of ghosts, the bogeyman, and other creatures they could only venture a guess on whether they existed or not. Faceless would have terrified Calvin. A new…