"This powerful and diverse collection is perfect for fans of female-led fantasy stories. No damsels in distress to be found here." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) There's nothing more powerful than a witch who believes in herself. Women accused of witchcraft. Fearsome girls with arcane knowledge. Toil & Trouble features fifteen stories of girls embracing their power, reclaiming their destinies, and using their magic to create, to curse, to...

The best writers of our generation retell classic tales. From Sir Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene to E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops," literature is filled with sexy, deadly, and downright twisted tales. In this collection, award-winning and bestselling authors reimagine their favorite classic stories, the ones that have inspired, awed, and enraged them, the ones that have become ingrained in modern culture, and the ones that have been too...

The British are coming! Volume One of the British Showcase Anthology features a collection of stories from some of the best indie talent and new creators working in the British comic book industry. Excite your senses with this cover bursting collection of Horror and Sci-Fi to terrify and delight you.

For more than two decades, Steve Brodner has been the most savage editorial cartoonist/illustrator to work in the United States. (Internationally, his only rival for acid-tipped outrage is England's Ralph Steadman.) And, unlike the handful of his American colleagues who share his go-for-the-jugular approach, Brodner is also a virtuoso draftsman, whose every line and splash of color is an exquisite treat for the eye. Freedom Fries is Brodner's absurdly...

An essential reference to the entire Valiant Universe of heroes and villains! Learn the origins, secrets, alliances, and vendettas of all of your favorite characters. You'll find everything you need to know - from Bloodshot's first firefight, when Archer met Armstrong, the secrets of the Deadside with Doctor Mirage, all the way to the true origin of the X-O Manowar armor and everything in between - all right here!

This is your chance to find out why VALIANT is the MUST READ superhero publisher in comics today with the second collection of Valiant's greatest hits! Re-presenting RAI #1, ARMOR HUNTERS #3, QUANTUM AND WOODY: THE GOAT #0, THE DEATH-DEFYING DR. MIRAGE #1, and HARBINGER: BLEEDING MONK #0 - plus sensational short stories from X-O MANOWAR #25 and ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #25 - start reading here to find out why IGN declares, "If you haven't jumped on the...

Kudo Kazehaya's name evokes the wind, which is given to warn him that one day he, too, might disappear. He almost thought his time had come-until he was rescued by the dark, handsome, and equally mysterious Himura Rikuo. Now they both reside where Rikuo works, the Green Drugstore, a place that dispenses not only medicine but the secret powers of both Rikuo and Kazehaya, as the pair embark on missions into the paranormal at the bidding of its strange...

Tide & Scale is a thrilling anthology meant to awaken the explorer in all of us. These stories are filled with pirates and mermaids on journeys from the depths of the sea to the far reaches of space. For all intrepid adventurers who wish to brave the dangerous waters, we bid you welcome into the deep blue. Beware: sirens lurk here...but so does hope.

Travel across the ages with Lady Zaynab as she meets with various divine prophets and noble angels in a quest to explain the meaning of Ashura and her timeless statement on Imam Hussein's sacrifice: "I only saw Beauty!" Witness a young bird struggle to take flight after she gets lost in the forest, encountering dangers and finding new friends who can help her on her journey home--revealing their companionship to the Imam. Crimson Earth, a collection...