Seance in the Asylum (2024)

1865. Defrauded spiritual medium Alicia Wilkinson is brought to The Ashcroft Hospital at the behest of Dr. John James Templeton. He offers Alicia a second chance to revive her once-thriving career: Perform a séance amongst the patients in order to drawing out their mental maladies. Alicia performs her first series of séances with the patients-including traumatized soldiers returning from the Civil War, women whose sanity has slipped through their fingers-only to realize their sessions might work all too well. What no one knows is Alicia is a fake. A liar. A cheat... So why are the patients suddenly acting possessed?

Carl, a comatosed soldier suffering from combat fatigue, hasn't spoken a word in   years. But thanks to Alicia's séance, he has finally awoken out from his war-torn stupor. But something is different about him. Something has changed. Not only is he not acting like himself, he appears to be someone else altogether. He seems to be... possessed? But by who?

More and more patients are acting strangely at The Ashcroft Hospital and none of the doctors know why. What’s happening to the infirmed and feeble-minded men and women who wander its halls? They are changing, seemingly possessed… Only Alicia knows the truth—these patients are possessed, their bodies now vessels for spirits brought over from the other side—but no one will believe her. Not Dr. Templeton. Not even close confidant Dr. Reginald Waters. What Alicia fears the most, what no one is willing to admit, is that the number of possessed patients is only growing . . . until it’s too late. • Clay McLeod Chapman brings his horror genius to Dark Horse Comics! • Four issue series.

A riot breaks out at The Ashcroft Hospital. The possessed patients now run the asylum, while Dr. Waters and Alicia fight for their own survival. How can you escape a building designed to keep inmates inside? The patients are not alone. Someone has helped assist in the possession of these vessels of flesh and bone. Dr. Templeton has designs to take his revolutionary form of spiritual therapy into the outside world, converting more men and women into receptacles for the dead. Or has this all been in Alicia's mind? How can she trust her own crumbling sanity?