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Jack Kamen's stories for The Vault of Horror, Tales From the Crypt, and The Haunt of Fear favored unnerving creepiness over gruesome shock. With his penchant for deft delineations of scheming women, jealous husbands, murderous love triangles, and not-so-innocent children, Kamen's pen laid down a precise, sure line that brought each story's shock ending into sharp relief. This volume features 27 Kamen favorites, drawn at the peak of powers, including:...

THUS SPAKE VAMPIRELLA! Ever since her long-lost friend returned from the grave in the form of an AI-created automaton, Vampirella has been plagued by fundamental questions of existence. Is the Daughter of Drakulon an actual person? Does she have a soul? Or is she just her mother's construct, like the simulacrum of her friend produced by the living algorithm ARIS? Vampi's powerful emotional connection to this echo of her lost loved one forces her...

IT'S A TEENAGE NIGHTMARE! There's a certain man -- name's Ash, you may have heard of him -- who is doomed to battle against the forces of evil, over and over again, whether he likes it or not. No matter where he goes, the cycle of violence always repeats itself -- until the day that he arrives in the picturesque town of Riverdale. This supernaturally wholesome community seems to break the curse that has plagued Ash ever since he first encountered...

THE WARRIOR'S PATH! Denial, anger, bargaining, depression... Maggie Sutherland has worked her way through all the stages of grief and is finally ready to accept the harsh reality that she really is Red Sonja, and that if she is going to survive in the Hyborian Age she must rise to meet its challenges -- and that means learning how to kill her enemies before they can kill her! Gruff mentors CHRISTOPHER PRIEST and ALESSANDRO MIRACOLO dispense...

LOVE IS STRONGER THAN DEATH -- AND JUST AS TERRIFYING! Sam and Dean Winchester know a thing or two about love and loss. After all, they've abandoned any pretense of a normal life and hit the road to hunt down the entity that took the lives of two of their loved ones. So if anyone can understand the kind of heartache that would cause a person to turn to demonic forces in order to bring someone back from the dead, it's the brothers Winchester. ...

GAZE INTO THE EYES OF THE DRAGON! Even the bravest of adventurers would think twice about taking on a full-grown, fire-breathing serpent in its own lair -- but for the Queen of the Forbidden Mountains, such fearsome creatures are just another resource to be tapped in her relentless quest for power. But such single-minded focus on one all-consuming goal can mask hidden dangers -- particularly in the Fae Realm, where Maleficent has no shortage of...

The whole class now knows that Luna isn't good at sucking blood, and Ootori keeps offering himself up for "practice." A busy summer is on the horizon, filled with tests and club activities!

READING IS DETRIMENTAL -- I MEAN, FUNDAMENTAL! The denouement of last issue's adventure in the woods leads the Winchester Brothers to the local library, which turns out to be more haunted than a graveyard built on top of another graveyard. But after some back-and-forth with the screaming spirits, Sam and Dean are able to ascertain that they're all mostly harmless, and are really just interested in a quiet afterlife among the stacks. In fact,...

The 10th Muse and Juliet go on the run after kidnapping a mafia don's son moments after his induction into la Famiglia. With the entire criminal underworld hunting them down, they must stay ahead of every hitman to avoid a deadly fate.