(W) Tsukasa Saimura (A/CA) Kozo Takahashi After a grueling and dangerous trip, Maki and Shota finally make it to the Tokyo Dome, the largest refugee camp in the entire Kanto region and one of the last places to survive the zombie outbreak that has overwhelmed the whole world. Maki, who brings with her the remaining doses of the vaccine developed at the Gunma Pharma-ceutical Center where she woke up in the first volume, is taken care of by the people in power in the Dome, where a handful of privileged people under the leadership of Colonel Shimamoto live in luxury, while the majority of the survivors are forced to survive in appalling conditions. Shota and Miura are thrust into the difficult daily lives of survivors who do not have the chance to be privileged. Miura is assigned to a work team while Shota befriends the leader of a gang of chil-dren? Inspired by Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira), The Walking Dead, Romero classics, and new zombie films like 28 Days Later, Crueler Than Dead delights in the meticulous detail of decomposed flesh, with a wicked and hungry eye?evoking a modern visi

(W) Cullen Bunn (A) Juan Doe & Various He is unquestionably AfterShock's most prolific storyteller, having penned best-selling tales of horror, terror and suspense from our earliest days straight through to today and beyond. Now the best, most-requested AfterShock works of writer Cullen Bunn have been collected and pre-sented in this deluxe hardcover volume - including short stories previously only available in the SHOCK anthologies. It's the perfect gift for friends, family or, frankly, yourself. Featuring: BROTHERS DRACUL #1-5,DARK ARK: AFTER THE FLOOD #1-5, KNIGHTS TEMPORAL #1-5, UN-HOLY GRAIL #1-5, WITCH HAMMER OGN, 'Bloodflies' from SHOCK VOL 1, and 'Man, I Am Evil, Dude' from SHOCK VOL 2

(W) Eliot Rahal (A/CA) John Bivens 'Eons ago, visitors from outer space buried an item of unimaginable power in the primordial swamps that would one day become King Lake--a quaint little basin on the edge of Whisper, USA. Millions of years later, a comet's radioactive waves awaken the monster slumbering beneath the lake. As the beast feeds on America's sweet, delicious youth, brain-slugs infect the quiet town, causing victims to vomit up their kill-hungry, zombified skeletons. But for seventeen-year-old Jarrod Parker, none of that stuff matters much. For him, this isn't about the Apocalypse. It's about payback. Nothing--not his friends, not the undead, not even the end of the world--will keep him from vengeance. '

(W) Michael Moreci, Tim Daniel (A) Riley Rossmo, Colin Lorimer (CA) Riley Rossmo WHY WE LOVE IT: BOOM! Studios has a long history of publishing some of the industry's best modern horror, and Curse takes us back to our roots with a werewolf story with a twist unlike any you've ever seen. WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT: The Curse creative team practically screams 'horror'-from writers Michael Moreci (Roche Limit) & Tim Daniel (Enormous) and artists Riley Rossmo (Drumhellar) & Colin Lorimer (UXB), you're in for one of the best reviewed comics of 2014, injecting new life into the classic werewolf story. WHAT IT'S ABOUT: Laney Griffin is a man who will do anything to save his son from leukemia, but the cost of treatment has broken him financially. When he pursues an elusive murderer in the wilderness of his small, rural community in the hopes of securing a substantial bounty, Laney is confronted with something he never could have expected: a werewolf. The captive Lycan, in human form, turns Laney's life upsidedown, forcing him to confront his haunted past and race against the clock because there's o

Curtiss Hill is a millionaire, philanthropist, and famed dog-racecar driver. On the day before the biggest race of the season, his cat-engineer has gone missing! With his rival planning to steal the race, a photojournalist hot on his tail, and a civil war between the cats and dogs beginning to escalate, Curtiss must uncover the truth behind the sudden disappearance of his friend in a race for life, liberty, and freedom! From renowned Spanish writer and artist Pau (The Atlas and Axis Saga, Baboon!)!

(W) Various (A) Tom Sutton & Various Only two things can stop a heart from beating: love and death. It's gang on gang violence as the Maelstroms plan an ambush on the Moxes. The target: corpo cargo worth a heavy sum of cash. But loyalty only goes as far to one's deepest desires, and one member of the Maelstroms has found something worth sacrificing for. Jaw dropping, eyes popping, pulse racing-he's never known anyone like her . . . Created in close collaboration with CD Projekt Red, writer Bartosz Sztybor (Cyberpunk 2077: Blackout, Cyberpunk 2077: Edgerunners) and artist Jakub Rebelka (Judas, Origins) ramp up an explosive love story like no other. Collects Cyberpunk 2077: XOXO #1-#4.

(W) Simon Spurrier (A/CA) Charlie Adlard After the death of Ellie's uncle Alfie, an infamous magician and occult detective, the 72 devils of the Ars Goetia are mysteriously freed from their infernal realm. It's now up to her to track down each of these demons and damn them right back to Hell? using holy water, conjuration, or just her trusty, rusty claw hammer. Meanwhile Dora, a detective traumatized by the same events as Ellie, is suspicious of the untimely death of Alfie. As new terrors unfold, the two witness strange changes to the political landscape of Britain: a gibbering madness infecting the population. Alfie's meddling made more than just the mortal realm a nightmare, so it's up to Bloody El to set things right? with only eternity at stake. Legendary The Walking Dead artist Charlie Adlard teams up with Step By Bloody Step scribe Simon Spurrier to bring readers the most macabre and tenacious new occult antihero since John Constantine! Collects Damn Them All #1-6.

(W/A/CA) Nozomu Tamaki Dance in the Vampire Bund II: Scarlet Order is an all-new ongoing sequel series to New York Times-bestseller Dance in the Vampire Bund. After millennia in hiding, Mina Tepes, the Princess of the ancient covenant and ruler of all vampires wants change. Using the vast wealth of the Tepes line, she has paid off the entire gross national debt of Japan and in so doing, gained the authority to create a special district off the coast of Japan that is to become the haven to vampires the world over!

(W) Cullen Bunn (A) Juan Doe, Jesus Hervas (CA) Juan Doe Two arks were built to survive the Flood. One was filled with the creatures of the natural world. The other was populated by...everything else. Now that the denizens of the DARK ARK have beaten Noah's Ark to land, a new societal order must be created - one based on the rule of monsters. Khalee, a new sorceress, ventures to maintain order amidst the chaos, but her otherworldly masters have a different task in mind. She must devise a way to bring Noah's Ark to the monsters...because the beasts must feed. From writer Cullen Bunn (UNHOLY GRAIL, BROTHERS DRACUL, WITCH HAMMER, Deadpool, Venom) and artists Juan Doe (ANIMOSITY: THE RISE, AMERICAN MONSTER, WORLD READER) and Jesus Hervas comes an even more sinister tale of biblical proportions! Contains the entire series, issues #1-5.

(W) Kenichi Kondo After a dangerous encounter with a malevolent spirit, Keitaro Gentoga wants nothing to do with the supernatural. Unfortunately for this reluctant ghost magnet, he's stuck helping Yayoi Hozuki, a strange young girl who's intent on capturing Japan's most terrifying ghosts and ghouls. For older teen audiences.

(W/A) Kenichi Kondo Hunting ghosts with Yayoi might give Keitaro a chance to lift the curse afflicting both him and his childhood friend Eiko, but is he willing to dive back into the world of the supernatural to do it? Of course, that question might not even matter when a cursed video causes his chance at a peaceful university orientation to go up in flames! For older teen audiences.

(W/A) VARIOUS (CA) Gary Gianni Originally collected as a hardcover, these stories from the likes of Mike Mignola, Evan Dorkin, Jill Thompson, Gary Gianni, Robert E. Howard, and more first appeared in the Dark Horse Book of Monsters, the Dark Horse Book of Witchcraft, the Dark Horse Book of Hauntings, and the Dark Horse Book of the Dead. Now available for the first time in paperback, these haunting shorts have lost none of their spine-tingling genius! Collects the work of acclaimed horror writers and artists Mike Mignola, Evan Dorkin, Jill Thompson, Gary Gainni, Guy Davis, and more!

The manga adaptation of Sherrilyn Kenyon's bestselling The Chronicles of Nick introduces younger readers to the author's most popular franchise, The Dark-Hunters! Nick Gautier has enough trouble dealing with normal teenage problems: avoiding getting pummeled at school, talking to girls, staying out of trouble. Now Nick is facing a whole new world of challenges. As his powers develop, Nick sees supernatural (and potentially dangerous) creatures everywhere he looks. With the help of his Uncle Ambrose - who is actually Nick's future self communicating his thoughts across time - and his new tutor - the Grim Reaper-Nick must learn to control his abilities and elude the dark powers that seek to control him!

(W) Martin Dunelind (A) Peter Bergting (CA) Lukas Thelin Originally crowdfunded in 2015, this illustrated prose/art book fusion features five unique tales ranging from Norse mythology to science fiction. The Dark North showcases artwork by Scandinavia's leading illustrators and concept artists Peter Bergting, Henrik Pettersson, Joakim Ericsson, Magnus Olsson, and Lukas Thelin, prose by Martin Dunelind, and a foreword by author and filmmaker Clive Barker!

(A/CA) Ken Bald Out of print for five years, the iconic gothic romance vampire television series Dark Shadows was so popular and influential that it was adapted in numerous media. In addition to finding its way into 35 Gold Key comic books, Dark Shadows was also adapted into one of the most striking comic strips of the 1970s, running for only one year, from March 14, 1971 through March 11, 1972, with stand out, eye-catching artwork by seasoned comic book and comic strip artist Ken Bald. Hermes Press' new archival edition of the strip features all of the dailies and Sundays, in their original half page format, and in full color, rarely seen documentary material, stills from the show that were used in preparation of the strip and more. The final word on this iconic newspaper strip highlighting the most historic and memorial gothic vampire series ever.

For the first time ever, two of the most iconic vampires in pop culture - Vampirella and Barnabas Collins - meet in a blood-curdling thriller! Can these very different vampire heroes set aside their distrust to together bring down the notorious Big Apple Butcher, or will their bloodthirsty natures destroy them before the killer strikes again? And who - or what - is pulling the strings of the Butcher? The answer is an evil older than Barnabas and Vampi combined! Featuring appearances by Quentin Collins and Pantha, Dark Shadows / Vampirella collects all five issues by acclaimed writer Marc Andreyko and artists Patrick Berkenkotter and Jose Malaga.

Collecting the mini-series.

(W) Scott Snyder (A) Hayden Sherman 'TELL NO ONE' what you find in a secret torture dungeon. Or the previous owner might come back. Snyder and Sherman reunite for this installment of the Dark Spaces horror anthology. A family moves from the rustle and bustle of the Big Apple to upstate New York. However, their father's dream of a quiet rural life are shattered when he discovers a dungeon underneath their land, filled with torture devices, weapons, and a threatening message on the wall that reads: 'TELL NO ONE.' Paranoia sets in rapidly as the father realizes anyone in his new hometown could be the dungeon master. Who can he trust? And how will he keep this secret from his family while keeping them safe?

Aliens! Mobsters! Zombies! Feds! Dale Keown's classic hero, Pitt, makes his return to comics! When Tim and Pitt's mission to track down those infected by an alien virus brings them to The Darkness bearer Jackie's stomping ground in New York, they are invariably drawn together. Both attract the unwanted attention of the Federal Government and mayhem ensues! The crossover reunites The Darkness writer Paul Jenkins (Captain America, Mythos) and Pitt creator Dale Keown (Hulk: The End), collecting the sold out The Darkness/Pitt #1-3 plus a collection of script, toned artwork, a cover gallery and much more. As an added value, this trade will also include The Darkness #75, an all-star anniversary issue by Phil Hester (The Anchor) and a host of fantastic artists! 'Every panel shows the love for the medium and a cunning eye for dynamics, action moments, perspective and the use of light/shadow is used delicately and skillfully.' -Broken Frontier '?an exciting, eye-popping read' - Comic Book Resources '?a hell of a lot of character conflict, cracking dialogue...' - Bleeding Cool 'The concept f

(W) Mike Carey, Arvind Ethan David (A) Brendan Cahill, Livio Ramondelli (CA) Brendan Cahill When the demons came, humanity reluctantly learned to share the world with another sentient race. Sixty years later, this uneasy co-existence has spawned an endless terrorist conflict. Detective Daniel Aston, charged with being the thin blue line between the two sides, is tested to the limit when a demon sets up house inside his soul. But to save his daughter, he'll pay any price-including genocide. Collects issues #1-6.

You wake up in the rubble and see a ragged, desperate one-armed man greeting you. He takes you underground to a safe space, feeds you, offers you a place to sleep, and then announces that he'll take the first watch. It's not long before the peril of the jagged landscape has located you and your newfound protector and is scratching at the door. What transpires is a moment-to-moment struggle for survival - The Road meets Dawn of the Dead. Daybreak is seen through the eyes of a silent observer as he follows his protector and runs from the shadows of the imminent zombie threat. Brian Ralph slowly builds the tension of the zombies on the periphery, letting the threat, rather than the actual carnage, be the driving force.

(W) Joe Corallo & Various (A) Richard Case & Various (CA) Lisa Sterle The Dead Beats music shop is filled with deadly secrets. Run by the mysterious Shoppe Keeper, customers can browse through cursed records, evil sheet music, and instruments of the damned! Our host has dozens of spooky stories to tell you from some of the top names in comics. You're gonna wanna put on your favorite album when you crack open this anthology.

(W) Nadia Shammas (A) Dilon Snook (CA) Jae Lee BASED ON THE BEST-SELLING HORROR SURVIVAL GAME, DEAD BY DAYLIGHT WRITTEN BY HARVEY AWARD WINNER, NADIA SHAMMAS AND ILLUSTARED BY DILLON SNOOK! When the rebellious FRANK crashes into the lives of JULIE, JOEY and SUSIE, together they'll unleash bloody chaos onto the sleepy, dead-end town of Ormond. Witness the terrifying origins of THE LEGION! REGULAR & DM EDITION includes IN-GAME CODE INSIDE!

(W) Nadia Shammas (A) Dilon Snook (CA) Ivan Tao BASED ON THE BEST-SELLING HORROR SURVIVAL GAME, DEAD BY DAYLIGHT WRITTEN BY HARVEY AWARD WINNER, NADIA SHAMMAS AND ILLUSTARED BY DILLON SNOOK! When the rebellious FRANK crashes into the lives of JULIE, JOEY and SUSIE, together they'll unleash bloody chaos onto the sleepy, dead-end town of Ormond. Witness the terrifying origins of THE LEGION! REGULAR & DM EDITION includes IN-GAME CODE INSIDE!

(W) Ryan Parrott (A) Evgeny Bornyakov If the dead could come back for just one night, would we want them to? Meet the Haskins, a seemingly normal suburban family, as they prepare for the annual macabre holiday known as 'Dead Day' - when the deceased rise from the grave from sunset to sunrise. Some come back to reunite with family and friends, others for one last night of debauchery, still others with only one thing on their decomposing mind: revenge. From writer Ryan Parrott (OBERON, VOLITION, Power Rangers) and artist Evgeniy Bornyakov (DESCENDENT, YOU ARE OBSOLETE) comes an unnerving tale of existential horror with grave consequences. This volume contains issues #1-5.

(W) Christopher Sebela (A/CA) Ben Sears Trev, Kent, and Brian are allegedly friends, but are best known as the backbiting hosts of the popular ghost hunting show, Ghost Bros. With ratings falling and competition rising, they gamble it all on the Chernobyl of haunted locations: Edgeway Penitentiary, where the Ghostbros find conclusive proof of the afterlife... After they die and come back as ghosts themselves, trapped there with the angry ghosts who killed them! Now that they're deceased, the Ghostbros have to be the best DEAD DUDES they can be, prove to the world that ghosts exist, and save the lives of their most hated rivals (Oh yeah-and to save the living from a ghostly armageddon, but whatever).

Three undead bounty hunter siblings blaze a path of death and destruction across the old west as a lone tortured soul tracks them, hoping to put an end to the curse upon his family. This year's biggest supernatural western tale is collected here for the very first time! Written by James Kuhoric (Freddy vs Jason vs Ash), illustrated by Jason Alexander (BPRD), and based on character designs and covers by Jae Lee (The Dark Tower).

(W) Adam Cesare (A/CA) David Stoll The Penn Mills Galleria is about to be demolished. Five teens sneak into the mall to take a last look around before it's gone. However, while Penn Mills has been closed for years, the mall is far from abandoned. A night of exploration becomes a shopping spree from hell. The teens must contend with the sprawling, transformative cosmic horror of Penn Mills or be trapped forever within the Dead Mall. Collects the four-issue miniseries.

(W) Ryohgo Narita (A) Shinta Fujimoto Polka and the gang receive an invitation for a corpse hunt from an unlikely duo-Majiri Agakura and Lemmings! Investigating mysterious disappearances in a creepy, abandoned hospital? What could go wrong?

(W/A/CA) Jinsei Kataoka The residents of G Ward band together to confront Warden Tamaki's Ninben, man-made Deadmen created through horrific human experimentation. Ganta's friend Azami was turned into one of the Ninben during a Carnival Corpse show and lost her mind. He'll do all he can to save her, but at what cost? And if things weren't bad enough already, Ganta's friends desert him as a traitor!

(W/A/CA) Jinsei Kataoka After hunting down Tamaki, the Wretched Egg appears in front of Ganta, and he finally learns that it is Shiro behind the mask. Standing before the court, his heart torn between wanting revenge for his slaughtered classmates and not wanting to hurt the person he still cares for, Ganta's sentence is reversed. Still on the brink of despair, Ganta decides to put an end to everything, and then? For older teen audiences.

(W/A/CA) Jinsei Kataoka Ganta and Senji head deep inside Deadman Wonderland to locate the 'chorus blocks,' which are the key to unraveling Wretched Egg's mystery. However, Toto Sakagami appears, and Ganta is captured trying to protect Senji. Meanwhile, Makina discovers Ganta's mother's diary, which contains Ganta and Shiro's shocking past! For older teen audiences.

(W/A/CA) Jinsei Kataoka Ganta and Shiro finally face off against each other inside a collapsing Deadman Wonderland. Shiro speaks of her past and how she's been wishing for Ganta to kill her. Ganta asks her why she killed his friends, but Shiro just pleads with him to make her wish come true. In the end, Ganta cannot bring himself to do it, and so the final battle begins.

Dean Koontz's hit series returns! Detectives O'Conner and Maddison delve deeper into the mysterious life of Victor Helios, trying to uncover his ultimate goal, while members of Victor's 'New Race' begin to show they are not as perfect as he assumed. Randall Six continues his quest to escape from Hands of Mercy, as Officer Harker descends further into madness. And Erika Helios discovers some of her husbands' unfinished creations. Mysteries are revealed and revenge is exacted as this horror epic reaches its apocalyptic conclusion.

(W) Dean Koontz & Various (A/CA) Andres Ponce From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time! Dynamite Entertainment proudly presents an all-new, in-continuity story set within the universe of Dean Koontz's Frankenstein novel series. While healing from a beating she suffered at the hands of Victor Helios (the madman once known as Dr. Frankenstein and her own maker), Erika Five decides to leave the comfort of her glassed-in porch and bottle of cognac to explore Victor's secret home lab, which she believes is an antechamber to something more sinister. With the help of a decapitated head named Karloff, Erika finds a secret lab and within discovers that Victor's experiments are not limited to his attempts at creating a race of super-immortals. No, he has constructed a mirror-like portal to another universe... one of infinite realities that Victor is trying to bridge for his own horrible reasons!

Fear Nothing tells the story of 28-year-old oddball hero Christopher Snow, who lives in the city of Moonlight Bay, California, along with his hyper-intelligent dog Orson, his best surfing buddy Bobby and his late-night deejay girlfriend Sasha. Snow has XP-xeroderma pigmentosum-a very rare genetic affliction that forces him to avoid light at all costs, and will likely give him cancer later in life. His parents died under mysterious circumstances and he's now being stalked by the shadowy characters who want Snow to stop trying to find out how they died--or else they'll bump off his remaining loved ones.

(W/A/CA) Neji Since she was young, Mashiro Unohana has been able to see ghosts. She pretended not to see them so others wouldn't find her creepy, but one day she finds herself caught up in the world of those that are not human -- the Nomans.

(W/A/CA) Shintaro Kago In the first volume of Dementia 21, Yukie Sakai got plenty of experience dealing with oddball patients. But now, in volume two, Kago throws Yukie into ever more surreal adventures, facing off against maniacal diapers, zombie hospital attendants, malfunctioning machines that causes out-of-body experiences and a Santa with dementia! Dementia 21 Vol. 2 presents Kago in peak form, with a series of outlandish, eerie, darkly comedic tales that strain the bounds of the imagination.

(W/A/CA) Aya Shouoto Himari Momochi inherits Momochi House, an estate which exists on the barrier between the human and spiritual realms. Aoi's and Himari's shikigami restraint rings release after Aoi reveals his true feelings for her. Kasha appears and shoots Himari, and she sees her own corpse. Can Aoi save Himari if she's already dead? For teen audiences.

(W/A/CA) Koyoharu Gotouge At Mt. Natagumo, Tanjiro, Zenitsu and Inosuke battle a terrible family of spider demons. Taking on such powerful enemies demands all the skill and luck Tanjiro has as he and his companions fight to rescue Nezuko from the spiders' web. The battle is drawing in other Demon Slayers but not all of them will leave Mt. Natagumo alive...or in one piece! For teen audiences.