![]() ![]() ![]() What's the use of a set of magical keys that helped win the Revolutionary War if they can't save the one you love? Though only a one-off story, the themes in "Open the Moon'' resonate with the comic's main series, and how Tyler and his mom Nina Locke spent a lot of Locke & Key's run wishing they could find the one key that can bring Rendell back. This is all to say that, when Chamberlin's son Ian got terminally ill and none of the keys seemed able to fix him, the old man became visibly distraught and heartbroken. ![]() Only, instead of following in his father and grandfather's tradition of using the keys to turn the tides of war in his favor, Chamberlin seemingly prefers to use them to explore the world, and even to use as magical gifts for his children. Like Rendell, Chamberlin also grew up having all the magical keys of Keyhouse at his disposal. Just as The Haunting of Bly Manor is telling a different, yet thematically similar ghost story to that of The Haunting of Hill House, who is to say that the same can't be done with Chamberlin Locke and his family?Ĭhamberlin Morse Walton Locke was first introduced in the 2011 "Open the Moon" standalone issue. ![]() The very existence of Chamberlin Locke and the one-shot issues he appears in stem from the idea that Keyhouse has stood for hundreds of years, with endless stories taking place in and around that giant house. ![]()
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