Two of Warren Ellis' acclaimed science fiction stories are collected here in Deluxe format with additional sketch and script pages! Lying beneath Europa's (Jupiter's moon) half-mile-thick mantle of shear ice is the only ocean in the solar system besides those on Earth. And within those cold waters could rest the key to life on Earth -- and quite possibly its extinction! It's the job of U.N. weapons inspector Nathan Kane to learn what sort of beings lie under the icy dome. But he's about to encounter resistance of the violent kind from the staff manning Earth's outpost on Europa -- and he'll like what happens even less when the long-slumbering aliens begin to awaken! In Orbiter, a space shuttle crash lands on Earth after being missing for a decade, it unlocks a mystery that will unfold deep in outer space. Can a team of three specialists cheated out of their dream of spaceflight discover the nature of this bizarre space-borne anomaly?

Arizona, 1948. Novelist François Combe has taken up residence with his wife, his son, and his mistress in the strange no man’s land of the Santa Cruz Valley. His imagination is sparked by the surrounding desert, its ghost towns, and other vestiges of the pioneer past. The present, too, draws him in, especially in the border town of Nogales, where luxury and lust come together against a backdrop of misery and servitude… and where games of the flesh are paid for in blood. Sometimes the grass isn’t always greener on the other side of the border.

The newest addition to Warren Ellis' Apparat line of Original Graphic Novels has arrived. 1816 was called "The Year Without A Summer." In the weird darkness of that July's volcanic winter, Mary Wollestonecraft Godwin began writing FRANKENSTEIN on the shore of Lake Geneva in Switzerland. But that is not where FRANKENSTEIN began. It began a few months earlier when, en route through Germany to Switzerland, Mary, her future husband Percy Shelley and her stepsister Clair Clairmont approached a strange castle. Castle Frankenstein, some one hundred years earlier, had been home to Johann Conrad Dippel, whose experiments included the independent invention of nitroglycerin, a distillation of the elixir of life...and the transfer of a live soul into an awful accretion of human body parts...

28DE: Frosty NightTwenty-eight days earlier to Grisly Unit #1 -- It's a frosty night at Stonehenge in England. Sir James Bearden and his wife Mirka are hunting monsters. Three Bamah Bnei Anak royals - President Buer, Prince Orobas, and Count Bifrons - have escaped the Underworld and traveled the dangerous Leng Cosmos returning to Earth. A secret war between Humans and the Nephilim has been brewing for centuries - has that dreaded day finally arrived?

The latest addition to the Dark Horse horror line is this chilling original graphic novel from writer and publisher Mike Richardson (The Secret, Cravan). Twentysomething Meagan Walters regains consciousness and finds herself locked in an empty room of an old house. She’s bleeding from the back of her head, and has no memory of where the wound came from — she’d been at a club with some friends... left angrily... was she abducted? When Meagan peers through the door’s keyhole, she starts to suspect that her captor isn’t quite human...

The south of France: playground of the rich, and a paradise for artists. But where there is money, there is also crime. Alexandre Marni, aka Aliocha, is in the midst of it all as a tattoo artist for VIPs and leaders of the Russian mafia. And he has his own claim to high society: the descendant of a Russian royal family that sought refuge in the Riviera during the revolution of 1917, he wants to take back what was stolen from them. To this end, he will don a new identity to infiltrate the world of organized crime and set things right, whatever the cost.

Sam thought that a tropical retreat could shield him from the pain of a love gone wrong... but when assassins interrupt his vacation, Sam is forced to put down his Pina Colada and pick up his sword. With Sam on the case, those white sandy beaches will be red in no time!

In the English town of Tackleford, nothing goes to plan. From the supernatural through the scientific to the utterly mundane, problems tend to start small and get big fast. Fortunately Shelley Winters and her friends are here to deal with all of them. Or, at least, try.

For all of history, humans have been looking to the stars for answers, but what if the stars have been looking back? Do you believe reports of everyday people being abducted and experimented on by otherworldly lifeforms? Are the bright lights seen in the night sky the cause of a natural phenomenon, maybe they can be explained away by our technological advancements, or are they something much more terrifying? Find out the answers in this book!

Is the government monitoring you? Are there secret organizations controlling society? Do creatures not of this world live among us? All of this and more is explored in this new thrilling series that delves into some of the horrifying truths we believe in the back of our minds. WARNING: This series may very well change how you look at life as we know it.

If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find him, Max Ferlane is your man: a good man with skills a bad past has left him. Now he’s trying to leave that bad life behind, put those skills to good use. He’s in the Congo rescuing a young girl from an arranged marriage when an old employer turns up: the Babylon Agency, specializing in high-profile political exfiltrations. Max is forced into a different, far more dangerous mission that will take him deep into warring jungles and his own past mistakes. For Max’s PTSD hallucinations are only getting worse…

Fate and dark magics come to an isolated village in the form of a mysterious and powerful girl named Autumn, and her companion; a shape-shifting squirrel named Widdershin. They befriend Splinter, a recluse who lives in a house set high in a tree. Secrets, love, and murder will blossom. Meanwhile, a monstrous being watches from the demon-choked boughs of the Black Wood... "Autumn" is ultimately a story of betrayal and redemption, and the search to discover what lies buried deep inside.

It is the winter of 1937, and Aimé Louzeau lives with his mother and their servant. One day, he goes to the Quai des Orfèvres, the police prefecture of Paris, to speak with the vice squad. He currently works in the Criminal Investigation department, but crimes of passion and back alley stabbings really aren't his thing, so he requests a transfer from Chief Inspector Séverin. The atmosphere immediately darkens, as Louzeau is thrown straight into the interrogation of a pimp called Guapito and his prostitute.

Meet Naja, the number three killer in an organization run by the mysterious Zero. She is cold and unfeeling, executing jobs on command, satisfied with a life of controlled order. But when a stranger enters her home and beats her at her own game, everything she knows changes... The epic showdown of world-class assassins starts here!

28HE: Executive OrderTwenty-eight hours earlier to Grisly Unit #1 -- President Barack Obama is prepared to tell the world at his pending White House press conference that "monsters are real" and sign an executive order activating G-Unit to combat the threat of the invading Nephilim on Earth. Meanwhile, the secret events leading up to this decision are revealed as the Pentagon's long hidden partnership with ACS Director Christopher Smalls finally comes to light.

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During the 1851 Great Exhibition in London, two women's lives become irrevocably intertwined when they both fall victim to a nefarious underground fraternity of ex-soldiers from England's upper crust who have sworn their lives to defending the British Empire—as well as their own decadent lifestyles. In this first volume, young rebel Jennifer Winterfield and the mysterious Kitamakura from Japan forge an unlikely alliance along with Jennifer's doctor uncle and a street urchin named Pickles. Together they lay the groundwork for a criminal organization that will go on to sow terror in the hearts of the colonialists and industrialists who tried to put them down.

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Fight crime alongside the one-eyed, two-fisted Chicago private eye in these comics from the early 1950s! At the height of the Mickey Spillane crime novel craze of the early 1950s came Johnny Dynamite to rival Mike Hammer in wild, sexy yarns! Illustrated by Pete Morisi and written by Ken Fitch, the complete mini graphic novels from the rare Dynamite comic book (1953–55) are collected here by the creators of Ms. Tree, Max Allan Collins (Road to Perdition) and Terry Beatty (Rex Morgan, M.D.). Collins, Spillane's chosen literary heir, provides an informative introduction, and a Collins/Beatty Johnny Dynamite tale is included as a bonus!