The Devil's Rat Pack is back Satan hosts the party and his guests include Beelzebub, Druscilla Marie d'Lambert (Wicca Girl) and Cheralyn Rose Moscowitz (Daughter of Darkness). The drinks are awesome and a coven of master storytellers -- C.J. Henderson, James Chambers, John L. French, KT Pinto, Robert Waters, R. Allen Leider, Jean Marie Ward, Patrick Thomas, Paul Kupperberg and Danielle Ackley McPhail - relate terrifying and bizarre tales. Step up to the bar, name your poison and hear of vampyress Celeste's soap-opera life; legendary assassin Nalo Thoran puts the hit on his own master with...

AWESOME TALES brings you thrilling new adventures told with the gusto of the classic pulp fiction magazines In the premiere issue, three tales of intrigue and adventure delight and dazzle your senses. In war-torn Europe, The Domino Lady, the original pulp femme fatale, teams with MI-6 supernatural agent Wicca Girl to battle a mystic force threatening London In "Seven Pictures," by Jean Marie Ward, intrigue in the Pentagon leads to jealousy and blood sports. Back in the present day, Wicca Girl teams with Scotland Yard to solve the 300-year old mystery of "The Warlock Murders." "Pretenders to...

World War II, hardboiled cops, and a band of amateur ghost-hunters It's all here in Awesome Tales #2 Awesome Tales returns with a new spine-tingler by R. Allen Leider -- "Der Feurher Mabuse," documents a heretofore unchronicled exploit of Dr. Mabuse, the legendary super-criminal from novels and silent films As World War II rages onward, the Nazi hierarchy begins questioning Hitler's judgment. Is the mind of Dr. Mabuse pulling the nefarious strings? "The Last Redhead" (by John L. French) is a voluptuous foray into hardboiled fiction. Like Mabuse, this dishy dame is pulling the strings on a...

Fantomas His name sends icy shivers down the stalwart spines of French authorities. Fantomas He deals in death and mayhem for high stakes profit No stakes are higher than world freedom, so the shadowy criminal offers to combat the German war machine. When Fantomas makes an offer, the contract is signed in blood ... Plus: "Taxi to Hell" Step on it How often do cab drivers hear that snarled command? This cabbie steps on it, alright - steps on love and hate, stomps on heart and lungs, and grinds out the last spark of life ... Introducing a new hardboiled P.I. hero In "The Emerald Eye,"...

1942, Manchuria finds The Devil Doctor and his sinister daughter in a race with Allied and Axis agents to find as Chinese physicist who has the secret of the atomic bomb. Also in this issue, the Pink Reaper tracks a serial killer, conquistadores face certain death at the hands of Mayan cultists and detective Raphael Jones returns to find the missing parents of a very special child.