The Girl, The Priest, and The Devil by Theo Prasidis
Dead Sky Publishing (December 16, 2025)
Reviewed by Joshua Gage
Theo Prasidis is a Greek writer and graphic novelist, published by Image Comics, TKO Studios, Scout Comics, and Dead Sky Publishing. He writes quixotic fantasies about hidden folklore, bizarre rituals and wistful dreams. His newest folk horror graphic novel is The Girl, The Priest, and The Devil.
In Ottoman Greece, a motherless girl named Daphne leads an oppressive farmer’s life. When her older brother dies after a short illness, her patriarch father curses God for leaving him with only a daughter and blames Daphne for the death. Unable to pay the local priest for his son’s burial, he compels Daphne to go to the village and beg for money. Daphne gets rejected and mocked by the villagers as a witch and concubine of the devil, and flees to the mountains, where she finds a gold pouch. But just before she’s about to carry out her escape plan, the Devil pays her family a visit. These lands belong to him, and payment is due. What happens next challenges both traditional family life and the church, and Daphne is caught in the flames of a battle between good and evil.
Theo Pasidis creates a very haunting story steeped in Greek Orthodoxy and folklore. Daphne is a heroine of her time, and Pasidis really taps into a culture of isolation, ignorance, fear, and religious certainty to create an environment for his tale to thrive. The complex relationship of her duties to family and religion, but also to self-preservation, combined with the demonic threat that is so very present in this world, develops a tension that is thick and heavy. The Girl, The Priest, and The Devil is an exciting folk horror graphic novel that belongs on the shelf of any fan of horror.
