Paolo Chikiamco

Muros: Within Magical Walls: The Case of the Cemetery Girl Paolo Chikiamco

Fans of Trese, Demon Slayer, Jujutsu Kaisen and crime fiction will love this gritty graphic novel!

So you think you know Manila, the walled city recently freed from the iron-fisted rule of a deposed dictator? In Paolo Chikiamco and Borg Sinaban's noir fantasy retelling, magic suffuses the streets and monsters flit beneath neon lights. The Manila of their imagining is an alternate reality where myth and fantasy collide, day and night.

The book features:


The fascinating setting of newly-freed Manila, walled off since World War II, where the Tyranny's regime has fallen and the open city is governed by the mysterious Societies.
One-armed Taga-Sagot-a gatherer of information, answerer of questions, and fount of knowledge-who is charged with finding the missing "daughter" of a small-town mayor.
A vast cast of nonhuman and fantasy characters including one-eyed Yomaws (hybrid human-canines), Asu-Gamis (half Aswang, half Inugami) and slinky Silat immortals



Soon tensions between the human and nonhuman realms hit a boiling point. When the Yomaws are accused of consuming human cadavers, Carlos, the intrepid gumshoe, sets out to clear their name, unmask the true culprits, and find the missing daughter. In a violent showdown, a murderous evildoer gets a lesson in humanity he never expected!