[2] Italian artist Werther Dell'Edera created the interior art and Lee Bermejo painted the cover for the book.

Dark Entries is the only publication in the Vertigo Crime imprint to feature an established DC Universe character.

[5]Paul Gravett has said that "Ian's story was a bit hackneyed; it reminded me of the 1959 horror film House on Haunted Hill; this old thing of whether you will survive the night".

[5] Craig Taylor reviewed the book for The Guardian and says the graphic novel "does offer a few clever ideas and some rough, energetic black and white artwork", but felt the plot was slack and the setting as dated and unworthy.

[6] Also at The Guardian Ned Beauman suggested that Dark Entries "does at least overcome most of the limitations of its own suicidally unpromising premise" and "despite some lapses in characterisation ... Rankin does seem to have a basic feel for his adopted hero.