Projet Blaincourt
An idealistic industrialist in 19th century France dreams of revolutionizing workers' rights—until an ancient creature crawls into his mind and drives him slowly mad. A haunting historical horror bande dessinée.
📖 self-published • Started 2022
Northern France, late 19th century. In the smoke-choked factories and cobblestone streets of an industrializing world, Henri Blaincourt is a man ahead of his time—a wealthy industrialist who actually believes his workers deserve dignity, fair wages, and safe conditions. His vision seems almost utopian for the era: a factory where the hands that build are also the hands that profit.
But something old and terrible has been waiting in the dark earth beneath his ancestral home. Something that slithered through the fens of Gaul before Rome was a village, before language itself. When the creature coils itself around Henri Blaincourt’s mind, the理想ist becomes something else entirely. His noble dreams curdle into obsession. His compassion rots into cruelty. And slowly, horrifyingly, the man who wanted to save his workers begins to see them only as fuel.
Presented at Festival Griso-Ludiques 2022, Projet Blaincourt is a chilling 15-page bande dessinée that blends the social consciousness of historical fiction with the creeping dread of cosmic horror. Writer Benoît Chérel crafts a meditation on power, corruption, and the fragility of good intentions, while artist Gregory Floch renders the fog-shrouded factories and increasingly distorted visions with eerie, atmospheric precision.
Perfect for fans of: The Call of Cthulhu, London by Edward Rutherford, and anyone who loves their history tinged with supernatural dread.
