Secret Society

Secret Society is a gothic horror graphic novel set in a decaying city where the boundaries between everyday life, nightmares, and something much older begin to crumble. What starts as an ordinary night among friends gradually becomes a descent into a world filled with disturbing signs, unexplained figures, strange broadcasts, occult imagery, and the persistent presence of a mysterious stalker. As the characters navigate the city toward a club where they are scheduled to perform, reality begins to behave differently. Familiar places become threatening, strangers seem to know more than they should, and fragments of another world begin to emerge beneath the surface of ordinary life. The story draws on Gothic architecture, Babylonian and Mesopotamian imagery, religious symbolism, ritual iconography, demons, angels, blood, gates, ancient writing, and the recurring symbol of the eye. The city itself resembles a modern Babylon—a place of isolation, noise, confusion, and spiritual disintegration. Broadcasts warn of violence, while cryptic messages and symbols suggest that something much larger may be unfolding. At the heart of the book lies a deliberate ambiguity: is the supernatural truly occurring, or are the characters witnessing another layer of reality that has begun to seep into their own? The comic never provides a single definitive answer. What may appear to be a hallucination could be a revelation; what seems like an ordinary event might conceal something ritualistic and ancient. The reader is left to decide where reality ends, and the other world begins. Secret Society combines hand-drawn comic art, manga-inspired sequencing, collage, print textures, photography, experimental typography Written and illustrated by Ravil Gatiyev, Secret Society is a horror story.