Muros: Within Magical Walls
The Case of the Cemetery Girl
Paolo Chikiamco author Borg Sinaban illustrator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Tuttle Publishing
Publishing:3rd Jun '25
£5.99
This title is due to be published on 3rd June, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

An intrepid detective tracks a girl lost amidst Manila's many temptations. Can he crack the case and find the girl before the city erupts into violence?
Muros is an urban fantasy set in an alternate Manila which has been sealed off from the rest of the world for decades. In this fast-paced graphic novel the walled city of Manila, recently freed from a dictator's iron-fisted rule, is a magical metropolis where monsters flit and feed along neon-lit streets. The city, now governed by mysterious Societies, faces rising tensions between the human and nonhuman inhabitants that are nearing a breaking point.
In a world where magic and modernity make for uneasy bedfellows, there are some secrets you simply can't prepare for. Especially secrets that involve a cast of nonhuman characters, such as one-eyed Yomaws (hybrid human-canines), Asu-Gamis (half Aswang, half Inugami) and slinky Silat immortals.
Readers looking for a different take on magic, or those interested in seeing an alternative history set in the Philippines, will find plenty to sink their teeth into here. Fans of Tan & Baldisimo's Trese or Jim Butcher's Dresden Files will also find a heady mix of the familiar and the strange.
"Sinaban's versatile art is appropriately moody, making effective use of solid black fills and silvery-gray shading, while rendering striking fantasy architecture, fast-paced action, and goofy antics. Carlos's prim-and-proper journalist sidekick and the characters' simple and effective manga-esque expressions add levity … Folks who fell under the spell of the Philippines comics scene with Trese will delight in this." —Publisher's Weekly
"If you have an interest in Filipino mythology, or just mythology in general…[or] you've never read a Filipino manga, I highly recommend this book to get started and dip your toes into. It was super interesting-—I just wanna know more!" —Angie Barthel (@chanchokitty), BookTok Influencer
ISBN: 9780804858649
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 340g
112 pages