At birth, Edison Steelhead takes his mother's life and his father's deformed face. Secreted away by his father to be raised in a remote island lighthouse, Edison relates to his surroundings in the only way he knows how - by capturing them in his sketchbook. Able to find beauty in even the most grotesque of things, Edison embraces his own unsettling appearance and sets out to confront the rest of the world.

Maybe Pearl's mistake was in bringing the creature -- the one she found in her backyard -- to the weird man in the basement of the hospital. She should have told her mom instead. Or maybe her mistake was in keeping the baby monster that the creature birthed. Either way, Pearl's not feeling so good. From the pages of Dark Horse Presents comes The Ninth Gland by Renée French (author of the controversial Grit Bath series). Regular DHP readers loved French's exacting eye for detail and fluid storytelling the first time around, and here's your chance to get new readers hooked on something completely different. Featuring one of the most intriguing stories to appear in DHP in years, this collection answers the fans' demands to experience this whacked-out tale in one sitting.

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Corny is a lonely guy with a crush on his next door neighbor. He watches her life from his window, and imagines himself in it. When bad things begin to happen, Corny knows he has what it takes to comfort her, but cowardice forces him to do it anonymously. Corny is in a tug-of-war between fantasy and reality, and at the center is his heart. This sweet story of an ill-fated romance of the mind is by Renée French, the crafty, twisted imagination behind the hit comic The Ninth Gland. Plus, two covers -- a front cover by The Invisibles' Brian Bolland and a back cover by Hate's Peter Bagge.