Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola’s first collaboration, Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire), was a brassy, bloody steampunk engine, a machine built to deliver timeless fables at high velocity, the whole thing armor-plated in Mike Mignola’s gothic visuals. In Joe Golem and the Drowning City, out on March 27 from St. Martin’s Press, Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola suit up for action once again in a narrative that mixes history, horror, and wonder in a glowing mad-scientist cocktail. Want to know more? So did I; the lads were good enough to let me hit them with a few questions:

[Joe Hill interviews Golden and Mignola]