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Preview: Vampirella Archives Vol. 3

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Vampirella Archives Vol. 3

Writers: Various
Artists: Various
Cover: Sanjulian
FC | 380 pages | Horror | $34.99 | Teen+

Collecting issues #15-21 of the original Vampirella magazine series, Dynamite continues its resurrection of classic horror! Some of Vampirella’s most memorable stories, including the classic tale “…And To Be A Bride Of Chaos” and her unforgettable encounter with Dracula in “Dracula Still Lives!” A showcase of other short stories not seen in print since their inception are once again included in this collection. Short stories of horror, intrigue, and death are all contained in this beautiful volume. Also collected are more rare and vintage content like “Vampi’s Scarlett Letters,” “Vampi’s Feary Tales,” and “Vampi’s Flames” showcasing some of Vampirella Magazine’s best creators. Legendary talent whose work also appears in this amazing collection include Archie Goodwin, Jose Gonzalez, Steve Englehart, Doug Moench, Esteban Maroto, Richard Corben, and many more.

Vampirella Archives Vol. 3

Richard Corben and Jan Strnad’s The Last Voyage of Sinbad arrives in a Special New Edition in Spring 2026

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Dark Horse Books presents the next volume of the Richard Corben Library, the fantasy masterpiece The Last Voyage of Sindbad, (previously titled New Tales of the Arabian Nights). Written by Jan Strnad, The Last Voyage of Sindbad is illustrated by Richard Corben, winner of top honors like the Spectrum Grand Master Award, the Grand Prix of the Angoulême International Comics Festival, and inductee to the Will Eisner Hall of Fame. This new edition will feature restored art by project art director José Villarrubia, bonus materials, new introductions by Jan Strnad and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, and essays by Harlan Ellison, Maurice Horn, and José Villarrubia, making this the definitive version of this timeless classic.

When a drunken mistake puts a world-weary Sindbad in the crosshairs of an evil Djinn, Sindbad must summon all his courage and skill for a voyage into the deepest recesses of the Land of the Djinn. Guided by a sensuous stranger, he confronts monsters, deception, and horrors from beyond the grave in a quest that demands everything he has left to give. This is the grand, ultimate climax to the legend of Sindbad!

The Last Voyage of Sindbad (hardcover, 120 pages, 8”x11”) will be available in bookstores on May 26, 2026 and in comic shops on May 27, 2026. It is now available for pre-order from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or your local bookstore or comic shop for $34.99.

The Last Voyage of Sindbad

Richard Corben’s Tale of Backwoods Terror Rat God arrives in a Special Hardcover Edition this Fall

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Dark Horse Books presents Rat God, a new hardcover edition of Richard Corben’s Lovecraft and Appalachian horror-inspired stories. Written and illustrated by Eisner Hall of Fame inductee Corben, colored by Beth Corben Reed, and with remastered lettering by Nate Piekos, this updated edition is the next beautifully designed hardcover volume to join the Richard Corben library. It includes a foreword by Bram Stoker Award-Winning author Caitlín R. Kiernan and both the original black-and-white and color versions of the long out-of-print short comic, “The Rats in the Walls.”

Terrible things stalk the forests outside Arkham in this chilling original tale from comics master Richard Corben! An arrogant city slicker on a quest to uncover the background of a young woman from the backwoods finds horrors beyond imagining, combining Lovecraftian mutations with Native American legends.

Rat God (184 pages, hardcover, 8” x 11”) will be available in bookstores and comic shops on November 18 and 19, 2025. It is now available for pre-order at Amazon, Bookshop, Barnes & Noble, and your local comic shop or bookstore for $39.99.

Rat God

The Richard Corben Library adds Rowlf and Other Fantasy Stories to the collection

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Dark Horse Books presents Rowlf and Other Fantasy Stories, the next volume in the Richard Corben Library. This masterpiece, written and illustrated by the celebrated artist, Grand Prix at Angoulême award-winner, and Will Eisner Hall of Fame member Richard Corben, collects a trilogy of werewolf stories in a beautiful hardcover edition. This volume includes a new introduction by Hayao Miyazaki, a postface by project art director José Villarrubia, a cover gallery, original lettering scripts, and more.

Rowlf is a postmodern take on Beauty and the Beast that mixes high fantasy with dystopian science fiction. The Beast of Wolfton and its sequel, The Spirit of the Beast, are ironic love stories of a werewolf family saga. The book closes with a poignant free adaptation of one of the Japanese legends by Lafcadio Hearn called The Story of Oteg.

Rowlf and Other Fantasy Stories (128 pages, hardcover, 6.625″ x 10.1875″) will be available in bookstores on August 4, 2025 and in comic shops on August 5, 2025. It is now available to preorder at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Things From Another World, and your local comic shop and bookstore for $39.99.

Rowlf and Other Fantasy Stories

Richard Corben’s Dimwood to be published for the first time

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Dark Horse Books presents Dimwood, the final graphic novel by the celebrated artist, Grand Prix at Angoulême award-winner, and Will Eisner Hall of Fame member Richard Corben. Written and illustrated by Corben and lettered by Nate Piekos, this special edition collects the previously unpublished Gothic tale and includes a dust jacket, an introduction by award-winning author Joe Lansdale, an epilogue by project art director José Villarrubia, and other bonus material.

In the densely vegetated forest of Dimwood, a young woman returns to her family home after many years of absence. Xera has gaping holes in her memories of her childhood and family, as obscured and dim as the surrounding forest. In Dimwood Mansion, with its decaying, labyrinthine levels, she seeks the missing pieces of her past and makes connections with mysterious disappearances and gruesome murders.

Dimwood (hardcover, 136 pages, 8”x11”) will be available in bookstores on April 22, 2025 and in comic shops on April 23, 2025. It is now available to preorder at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, TFAW.com, and your local comic shop and indie bookstore for $39.99.

Dimwood

Richard Corben’s fantasy saga concludes with Den Vol. 5 The Price of Memories

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Dark Horse Books presents Den Volume 5: The Price of Memories, the final book in a series of graphic novels collecting Richard Corben’s fantasy masterpiece, Den. With illustrations restored by José Villarrubia and re-lettered by Nate Piekos, this special hardcover edition collects the fifth volume of the long out-of-print Den and includes bonus material, a dust jacket, and an introduction by screenwriter Christos Gage.

In Den Volume 5: The Price of Memories, an amnesic Den encounters an unexpected woman from his past. Sienna is a medium that takes Den on a memory journey starting at birth, where he will meet old friends and future enemies and get closer to understanding his journey. This last volume of Den connects all four previous parts of the story and takes Den on perhaps his wildest adventure on the floating Island of Heaven, where an idyllic existence hides a horrifying secret.

Den Volume 5: The Price of Memories (hardcover, 120 pages, 8”x11”) will be available in bookstores on February 11, 2025 and in comic shops on February 12, 2025. It is now available to preorder at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, TFAW.com, and your local comic shop, and indie bookstore for $39.99.

Den Volume 5: The Price of Memories

Dark Horse reveals three frightful releases for 2024

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Horror fans beware, new horror volumes lurk in the distance. What are these terrifying tales Dark Horse Books has to offer? Check out this latest list of horror titles available for preorder from your local bookstore or comic shop now!

Mortal Terror Volume 1 HC

A vampire-flipped Dracula in which mortality means life…and life means death. Christopher Golden, Tim Lebbon, and Peter Bergting, the creative team behind the illustrated prose horror novella Festival, reunite for the new horror comic series Mortal Terror, now in one collective volume!

Vampires Jonathan Harker, Lucy Westenra, and Mina Murray live in underground London, trying to keep the undead city safe from the rumored mortals above who seek to give them life, only to kill them. But when the authorities refuse to believe mortals, let alone the mysterious Count Dracula, are anything more than myth, they are on their own to keep their city eternally dead.

The Mortal Terror Volume 1 HC will be available in the book stores August 6th, 2024 and on August, 7th 2024 in comics shops. It is available for pre-order now, on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and at your local comic shop and bookstore and will retail for $29.99.

Mortal Terror Volume 1 HC

Creepy Archives Volume 7 TPB

Collect Volume 7 of the New York Times bestseller hardcover horror anthology, Creepy Archives, now available in a value-priced paperback edition!

Take a ride on the river Styx with your jovial boatman Cousin Eerie in the panic-packed Creepy Archives Volume 7, now in a value-priced paperback edition. Remove the pennies from your eyes long enough to take in the dastardly dramas from creators Tom Sutton, Ken Kelly, Richard Corben, Doug Moench, Basil Gogos, Carlos Garzon, Nicola Cuti, and more. Also includes an illustrated foreword by comics creator Guy Davis and the first US appearance of comic great Esteban Maroto! Collects Creepy magazine issues #32–#36.

Delve into the Creepy Archives Volume 7 TPB by pre-ordering now on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and at your local comic shop and bookstore. It will be available on July 23, 2024 in book stores and July 24, 2024 in comic shops and will retail for $24.99.

Creepy Arcives Volume 7 TPB

Witchfinder Omnibus Volume 2 TPB

Complete your Witchfinder omnibus library with this second volume, available now in trade paperback. The book features writing by Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson, with art from Ben Stenbeck, D’Israeli, and Christopher Mitten and stunning colors from Michelle Madsen and Dave Stewart.

Discover a nest of vampires, brave a technological “gate” to another realm, and track down the truth behind Jack the Ripper in this collection of three intense adventures of Sir Edward Grey. As the Queen’s personal “Witchfinder,” Grey continues to pursue the occult goings on in London and beyond. But this time the events he encounters–and the things he learns–will lead him to question his very future.

The Witchfinder Omnibus Volume 2 TPB is available for pre-order now on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and at your local comic book shop, and bookstore. It will be available in book stores August 6, 2024 and in comic shops August 7, 2024 and will retail for $29.99.

Witchfinder Omnibus Volume 2 TPB

Dark Horse Comics Celebrates The Legacy of Iconic Horror Artist Richard Corben with the Release of Hellboy Artists Collection: Richard Corben

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Legendary artist Richard Corben created some of the most unforgettable and unnerving comics of all time, inspiring and horrifying generations of readers around the world. Corben’s comic career spanned five decades, with seminal stories in Heavy Metal, Creepy, and Eerie, as well as his legendary fantasy underground masterpieces, like Den and Murky World, which were first published by Fantagor Press. In 2024, Dark Horse Comics will celebrate Corben’s legacy with the publication of Hellboy Artists Collection: Richard Corben, which collects—for the first time in one volume—each and every Hellboy story Corben illustrated. This oversized, 8″ X 12″ deluxe format hardcover features cloth spine and foil cover treatments, and collects more than 300 pages of essential Hellboy stories, including Hellboy: The Crooked Man, which is the basis for the forthcoming Hellboy film from director Brian Taylor.

Hellboy Artists Collection: Richard Corben collects every Hellboy story by Mike Mignola and Corben, including multiple one-shot specials (Hellboy: Being Human, Hellboy in Mexico, Hellboy: The Bride of Hell, and Hellboy: Double Feature of Evil), the short story Hellboy: The Mirror, Hellboy: Makoma issues 1 and 2, all three issues of Hellboy: The Crooked Man, and the original graphic novel Hellboy: House of the Living Dead. All of the stories are colored by Eisner award-winning colorist Dave Stewart and lettered by Clem Robins and the hardcover features a cover by Corben.

Corben was the winner of the Spectrum Grand Master award in 2009 and was elected to the The Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2012. In 2018, he received the Grand Prix de la ville d’Angouleme, which is awarded every year to a comics creator for their career achievement. Corben remains one of few Americans who have been honored to receive this prestigious award. Corben also created the cover art for Meat Loaf’s album Bat Out of Hell and a movie poster for Brian De Palma’s cult classic film Phantom of the Paradise.

 Hellboy Artists Collection: Richard Corben will be published by Dark Horse Comics on May 7, 2024.

Hellboy Artists Collection: Richard Corben 

SDCC 2022: Dark Horse and Fantagor Press launch a series of deluxe graphic novels of Richard Corben’s Library

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Known for his legendary fantasy underground masterpieces published by Fantagor Press as well as in Heavy Metal, Richard Corben’s work returns to Dark Horse in an exclusive line that will reprint his long-out-of-print work with new material in deluxe hardcover editions, including introductions from other comics legends, and never before published graphic novels as well.

The first book in the line will be Murky World, collected completely in print for the first time, presented in a gorgeous hardcover with a dust jacket. In Murky World, Tugat the warrior wakes from a strange dream to find himself in a bizarre land populated by hungry deadlings, cruel necromancers, buxom cyclops, evil cults, and more as he sets off on a dangerous journey with his beloved horse Frix. This special edition also includes an introduction by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, Corben’s Dark Horse Presents one-shot, and never-before-seen bonus material.

To celebrate the Den’s 50th anniversary, Den: Neverwhere will be the next book in the line to be reprinted. Thrust into a bizarre fantasy world called Neverwhere, the muscular adventurer Den goes on an exotic adventure through ancient ruins meeting an evil queen, her sacrificial doppelganger, bizarre lizard men, giant insects, and more strange and dangerous madness in this legendary saga brimming with horror, magic, and violence. This deluxe graphic novel will also be published in a hardcover format with a dust jacket. The art of Den: Neverwhere will be restored by José Villarrubia, Corben’s long-time collaborator who will also write the foreword, re-lettered by Nate Piekos of Blambot, and include an introduction by comedian, actor, and writer, Patton Oswalt.

Murky World HC will be available at comic stores April 26, 2023 and in bookstores May 9, 2023. Murky World HC will retail for $39.99.

Den: Neverwhere will be available in comic shops July 26, 2023 and in bookstores August 8, 2023.

Comics Deserve Better Episode 19: Papaya Salad by Elisa Macellari

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On the penultimate episode of Comics Deserve Better Season 2, Brian, Darci, and Logan discuss the historical fiction/biography/magical realism comic Papaya Salad by Elisa Macellari. This 2020 release is a Thai/Italian comic about Macellari’s great-uncle as he goes from rural Thailand to serving in the military in Europe on the eve of World War II and gives a unique perspective on this historical conflict. Also, there’s the usual news chatter including new Image comics by Guillem March and James Harren, upcoming books Brindille and Chef’s Kiss, and Dan Rather working on a graphic novel. There’s also a discussion of Grant Morrison doing an origin story for Atomahawk, more R-rated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and finally, an obituary for legendary cartoonist, Richard Corben. Other comics mentioned on the podcast were Homunculus, Gonzalo, Minotaar, Cry Wolf Girl, Under the Dead Oak Tree, Karmela Krimm, Phonogram: Singles Club, Ronin Island, The Picture of Everything Else, and Reckless. (Episode art by Elisa Macellari)

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