In the dead of winter, during a nasty snowstorm, a routine homicide investigation takes a literary twist. A suspected drug dealer is found dead, naked and with what seems to be part of a larger story written all over his body. This is the beginning of the serial killing spree dubbed by the press as the 'The Writer.' Detectives Sam Burke and Twitch Williams, helped by graphologist Charlotte Garland, have to discover the truth and end the literary nightmare that has descended, like the snow, upon the city.

Dark Horse brings together Joshua Dysart, co-creator of the cult-hit Violent Messiahs and writer of DC’s new series The Demon: Driven Out, and artist J. Alexander, creator of Sirius’s Empty Zone series and recent contributor to Tales of the Vampires. No strangers to monster comics, Dysart and Alexander dig deeper into the mysterious world of the legendary character Van Helsing.

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Four issues mini-series.

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If Nick Barrow can stay alive for 21 days he'll die happy. Everyone Nick knows wants him dead; Mob bosses, contract killers, and dirty cops. Performing the last act of a desperate man, Nick takes out a million dollar insurance policy on himself, payable to his estranged daughter. The problem? The policy doesn't take effect for 21 days. Nick knows they'll be lucky to be alive for twenty-one hours.

Following Ernie final story this story is set to fill in the gaps in his early days as a newly reborn killer.It also contradicts issues 4 & 5 of Evil Ernie Monthly which were not written by creator Brian Pulido and while he did edit those issues he wanted to tell his own story and here it is.

Three escaped convicts, along with a few girls along for the ride, are joy riding across rural Texas robbing banks, heading for Mexico. When they stop to rob the Hewitt family General store, they enter a horrifying world of madness and depravity that even a maximum security prison couldn't prepare them for as Leatherface, Sheriff Hoyt, Old Monty and the entire Hewitt clan hunt them down.

“Once you eliminate the rational, whatever remains, no matter how absurd, must be the Muppets." Join Gonzo as Sherlock Holmes, the world's greatest detective (19th century champion) and his associates Dr. Watson (Fozzie) and Inspector LeStrade (Kermit) in this issue as they embark on THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND. Includes a bonus mystery game, WHERE'S MORIARTY? A not-to-be-missed miniseries that takes your favorite Muppet characters and drops them right into the exciting world of Sherlock Holmes! Cover by MOUSE GUARD’s David Petersen.

Gather up your wooden stakes, your blood-covered hatchets, and all the skeletons in the darkest depths of your closet, and prepare for a horrifying adventure into the darkest corners of comics history. Dark Horse Comics further corners the market on high quality horror storytelling with one of the most anticipated releases of the decade, a edition archive collection of legendary Creepy Magazine. This groundbreaking material turned the world of graphic storytelling on its head in the early 1960s, as phenomenal young artists like Bernie Wrightson and Neal Adams reached new artistic heights with their fascinating explorations of classic and modern horror stories. *Brilliant, classic Creepy stories from 1964-1966 raised from the dead after twenty-five years. *Featuring work by such comics luminaries as Joe Orlando, Al Williamson, Alex Toth, and Frank Frazetta. * Archive editions of Creepy will be the cornerstone of any comic-book library. *Volume One reprints the first five terrifying issues of the magazine's original run, reprinted in the original magazine size!

Radical Publishing releases its latest action-adventure miniseries from the critically acclaimed creative team of Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray (Jonah Hex), with interior illustrations from multi-award winning industry veteran Paul Gulacy! A group of international scientists and archeologists on a publicly funded dig discover a hidden city beneath the streets of Berlin. Constructed as a failsafe option for the Nazi party should they lose the war, the city is also home to Hitler's ultimate doomsday weapon - an Omega bomb designed to wipe out the human race - and it's just been activated. Now, crews of scientists with state-of-the-art weapons and equipment must travel back in time to stop the bomb from going off. However, they soon discover that, rather than going back in time for 24 hours as intended, they've been sent back 65 years into the heart of Hitler's Germany.

This is the first issue of the retitled series, continuing on from Sinister House of Secret Love.

For 25 years, FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully have been shining their ash- lights into the shadows, searching for the truth. To celebrate this anniversary, IDW Publishing proudly presents The X-Files: Case Files! Under this banner, faithful fans will see the release of numerous micro-se- ries, featuring stories that explore X-Files of the past and present by top talent from comics and prose! This second offering comes from legend- ary author Joe R. Lansdale, Keith Lans- dale, and artist Silvia Califano. In “Hoot Goes There?”, Scully and Mulder nd themselves on the road again, this time to a small East Texas town to investigate the disappearance of a woman said to have been carried away by a creature tting the description of a harpy from Greek myth. But things only get stranger from there...

Both volumes are collected here for the very first time and including a special preview of the third and final chapter of this series! In Book One: The Pretenders: She has made the cemetery her home, living in a crypt and avoiding human contact. But Calexa can’t hide from the dead—and because she can see spirits, they can’t hide from her. Then one night, Calexa spies a group of teenagers vandalizing a grave—and watches in horror as they commit murder. As the victim’s spirit rises from her body, it flows into Calexa, overwhelming her mind with visions and memories not her own. Now Calexa must make a decision: continue to hide to protect herself—or come forward to bring justice to the sad spirit who has reached out to her for help… In Book Two: The Inheritance: Despite her self-imposed isolation, Calexa’s ability to see spirits—and the memories she receives from them—guarantees she’ll never be alone, even among the deceased. The only living people she allows herself to interact with are Kelner, the cemetery’s cantankerous caretaker, and Lucinda Cameron, an elderly woman who lives in an old Victorian house across the street. With their friendship, Calexa has regained a link to the world beyond tombstones and mausoleums. Until the night she witnesses a murder that shatters her life—a life now under a police microscope—as their investigation threatens to uncover Calexa’s true identity…

During the original tale told in Joe Hill’s The Cape, our protagonist-turned-antisocial antagonist Eric disappeared for three days as he got comfortable with his new abilities. Where did he go? What did he do? And more importantly, who died during this period? The original creators return to tell a hyper-detailed and hyper-grim story of this oh-so-lost period…

Artist Luc Jacamon and writer Matz (The Black Dahlia) deliver the definitive collection of the Eisner Award-nominated crime saga, The Killer, a hardboiled, noir series following a hitman lost in a world without a moral compass. Get inside the mind of a professional assassin, a man of few scruples, nerves of steel, and a steady trigger finger. A man whose crimes might be catching up with him. A man on the verge of cracking… After misadventures in Central and South America and having earned enough money to retire comfortably, the Killer retires to Mexico, but his colleagues are still in need of his irreplaceable skills… and before long he’s drawn back into the great geopolitical game between Cuba, Venezuela, and the United States.

Story: Austin Tinius & Adam Tinius Artwork: Ignacio Vega, Stefano Cardoselli Cover: Glenn Fabry Synopsis: The year is 2051 in New York City and gravity is a thing of the past. If you aren't anchored to the ground or wearing the newest line of Tycho brand gravity boots, you're doomed to float off into space. Now a new company has emerged with a plan to restore gravity back to New York City, and eventually the world, rendering all Tycho Boots obsolete. On the eve of the demonstration that will restore gravity back to NYC, Holli Hox, the former face of Tycho Industries, finds herself thirty years (XXX) in the future. When Holli learns of an attempt to sabotage both companies, she must brave this hellish future where Manhattan Island floats in the air and a murderous street gang with a vendetta against artificial gravity rules the night, before millions of unsuspecting New Yorkers soar off into oblivion.

A mentally troubled man is suddenly empowered with the ability to leave his physical body in "ghost"; form and manipulate people in strange and disturbing ways. With this incredible power, will he control his demons... or discover even more? JOSHUA LUNA of the Luna Brothers (ULTRA, GIRLS, THE SWORD) makes a solo debut with a dark, supernatural thriller that questions free will and explores the obsessions, addictions and urges we all have and may not have control of at all.

Two issues mini-series.

A serial killer haunts the city streets, a stalker of isolated women who leaves a Santa Claus hat at the scene of his crimes. Pavel, a Russian émigré, assists the police investigation as a sketch artist. But Pavel's true calling is as a tattoo artist, and the so-called Bad Santa killings conjure up memories of the nightmarish world in which he learned his craft: a Russian prison camp that shattered his childhood and destroyed his family. Shifting between the living hell of a 1940s Siberian gulag and the crime-ridden chaos of New York City during the 1970s, this graphic novel's stunning artwork provides an atmospheric backdrop to its tale of corruption, murder, and revenge.