The Thing On The Doorstep (2025)

MINISERIES PREMIERE Daniel Upton and Edward Derby have been best friends almost their entire lives, right up to the point Daniel shoots Edward dead in the Arkham Sanitorium—a crime Daniel swears he didn't commit, despite all the evidence. What happened on that fateful day in Arkham? What is the truth behind this seemingly mindless act of violence? Witness the beginning of this doomed relationship and Edward's slow descent into a horrifying world beyond his control. From award-winning writer Simon Birks (ANTARCTICA, Sinners, Gone, The Shadow Over Innsmouth) with artist Willi Roberts (ANTARCTICA, The Dark, Clodagh, The Blood Below, Remothered) comes a chilling tale based on HP Lovecraft's terrifying story.

Edward has started Miskatonic University, hoping to deepen his understanding in the strange and the occult, but little bargaining for meeting a beguiling woman named Asenaith Waite, who can seemingly control the weather. After a disturbing hypnotism, Edward quickly falls for Asenath, little understanding her true intentions.

A very different Edward returns from Europe—witness to awful rituals in impossible places, but as he tries to convince Daniel of the danger ahead, something strange takes over him; something sinister. In the coming months, Edward's condition deteriorates before Daniel's and Clara's eyes, culminating in a rescue from a distant town—but halfway home, just who has Daniel got in his car?

Daniel receives a visitor with a familiar knock, and Edward explains that Asenath has left abruptly, leaving him to pick up the pieces of his life. After renovating his old family home, Edward's behaviour once again takes a turn for the worse, as Asenath Waite seeks a new place to live.

After being admitted to Arkham Sanatorium in a disturbed state, Edward’s demeanor abruptly changes, and the doctors decide he is well enough to be discharged. Knowing something terrible is about to happen, Daniel and Clara make desperate plans, but nothing could prepare them for the thing that knocks on their front door that evening.