Les Murailles de Samaris

Les murailles de Samaris is a graphic novel by François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters, the first volume of their ongoing Les Cités Obscures series. It was first published in serialized form in 1982 in the Franco-Belgian comics magazine À Suivre (#53-56), and as a complete volume first in 1983 by Casterman. In English, it was published as The Great Walls of Samaris (Stories of the fantastic) as a serial in Heavy Metal from November 1984 to March 1985, then in 1987 as a complete volume by NBM Publishing. In 1988, Schuiten and Peeters took the opportunity of the second French edition to revise their story, adding content tying into subsequent Les Cités Obscures publications, and clarifying ambiguities of the original. In 2007, a new French printing was further appended with Les Mysterères de Pȃhry, a collection of four previously published story fragments relating to the city of Pâhry. In 2017, IDW Publishing released a new English translation of the revised French edition, re-titled Samaris, and newly translating the appended content as The Mysteries of Pâhry.