A monster is approaching the Bronze Age city of Yarich. It cannot be stopped. It cannot be turned aside. And the monster is...God Himself. The Canaanite city of Yarich is home to a society that is literate, cosmopolitan - and doomed. Sakal, caravan-master to the Melek or king of the city-state, recounts the tale of the increasingly desperate battle for survival waged by his urban culture against fanatical outsiders - nomads from the desert wielding a terrible supernatural power. Half Deuteronomy, half Gojira, Brookside's story examines the horror that arises from the knowledge of inexorable...

...BECAUSE SHAKESPEARE GOT THE ENDING WRONG THE FIRST TIME. Stripped of his fortune, his daughter, his religion, and even his name, Shylock of Venice (now baptized "Christoforo," under duress) broods over his injuries alone. A mysterious traveler, dressed in black, offers him the chance to avenge himself upon those who have wronged him, and to seize back all that they have taken. When Shylock agrees, they embark on a journey that takes them across Renaissance Italy and through the history of post-Humanist philosophy - and what they find is not what either of them expects.

This time, the isolated farmhouse is a Roman villa. A recovered Latin text tells the story of a struggle between Roman legionaries and the undead in 185 AD. Lucius Artorius Castus leads an expedition to Gaul to defeat a rebellion against the rule of the Emperor Commodus - and gets more than he bargained for when his enemies rise from the dead to fight again. The power of the zombie horde is amplified by the chaos of Ancient Rome's competing religions and superstitions, and the terror the undead bring in their wake foreshadows the incipient medieval darkness already creeping into the world at...