The classic Collodi tale recast in modern terms as a robot boy, built for an amusement park owned by the evil conglomerate, is brought to life by a whimsical blue alien.

This second anthology of new stories featuring heroes and villains from pulp literature combines the talents of renowned American, British, Canadian, and French authors such as Xavier Maumijean, Kim Newman, John Peel, Chris Roberson, Brian Stableford, and Philippe Ward with a new generation of gifted storytellers such as Matthew Baugh, Win Eckert, G.L. Gick, and Rick Lai.

Everybody searches for that special place to call home. The author shares the first-year diary of how he and his wife found theirs in a village in the foothill of France's Pyrenees mountains.

Fantomas is dead, long live Fantomas. Doctor Omega and Captain Kronos challenge the might of the Vampire City. The Animalists overthrow Babar, King of the Elephants. King Kong falls in love for the first time. Hercule Poirot stalks a Murderer from Beyond, and the Cat Women of the Moon invade the 20th century in this collection.

Join us again for this fourth volume and meet the most villainous cast to ever grace the pages of popular literature, spreading evil from the foggy underworld of London to the seedy taverns of Mars, and from the flowery banks of the Seine to New York's grimy Hell Kitchen. Fantomas, Countess Cagliostro, Victor Frankenstein, Irma Vep, Count Orlock, Erik, Madame Atomos, the Black Coats, Charles Foster Kane, and even Great Cthulhu himself... Dare meet--the Lords of Terror

Cosmic events cause Gullivar Jones and Edgar Allan Poe to meet--and learn to work together to stop the machinations of Rodrik-Usher the Damned before both their worlds are destroyed.

As Hurricane Katrina prepares to strike New Orleans, Hugo Van Helsing, the modern-day descendent of that notorious family, comes to the Big Easy to investigate the mysterious death of his uncle. He must untangle a frightening conspiracy that binds together the murky world of Voodoo and that of corrupt politicians.

This fifth anthology features some of the most amazing encounters between the legendary heroes and villains of popular literature including Count Dracula and Josephine Balsamo, and Lord Ruthven and the Count of Monte Cristo.

The Mystery of the Yellow Room is presented here in a new, unabridged and uncut translation by JM & Randy Lofficier, with 30 pages of original material translated for the first time. It was written in 1907 by Gaston Leroux, the celebrated author of The Phantom of the Opera, and is one of the first and most dramatic locked room mysteries ever published. It is the first novel starring the young crime-solving journalist Rouletabille and concerns a complex and seemingly impossible crime in which the criminal seems to disappear from a hermetically sealed room. John Dickson Carr proclaimed The...