New Releases by Scott Allie

Three years after accidentally burning her family alive, fourteen-year-old fire starter Liz Sherman travels with Professor Broom to investigate a small New England town, where long ago a terrible witch hunt occurred and now a ghost plagues a priest''s house. Cover by Jo Chen (_Buffy the Vampire Slayer_ Season 8). Art by _Fray_ artist Karl Moline! Ghosts, witches, and haunted houses! "Allie generates a suitable mood of foreboding and horror."IGN "Moline''s pencils are crisp and attractive, a reminder that he''s got a strong eye for characters."Comic Book Resources

Taking place after the events in Solomon Kane: The Castle of the Devil—but written to stand on its own—this new tale delves deep into the horrors scattered throughout Germany''s Black Forest and adapts two of Robert E. Howard''s most beloved Solomon Kane pieces. When Kane comes across gypsies being terrorized by roving bandits, he''s not sure what''s worse—the bandits who wish to rob and rape innocent travelers or the evils that spew forth from the forest, intent on killing every man and woman around! This book also features the "All the Damned Souls at Sea" Kane comic by Scott Allie, Guy Davis, and Dave Stewart; creature designs by Eisner Award-winning artist Guy Davis; and a new cover by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola. • "Solomon Kane is a welcome addition to the other excellent Howard properties produced by Dark Horse."—ComicsBulletin.com

Robert E. Howard''s vengeance-obsessed Puritan begins his supernatural adventures in the haunted Black Forest of Germany in this adaptation of Howard''s "The Castle of the Devil." When Solomon Kane stumbles upon the body of a boy hanged from a rickety gallows, he goes after the man responsible—a baron feared by the peasants for miles around. Something far worse than the devilish baron and the terrible, intelligent wolf that prowls the woods lies hidden in the ruined monastery beneath the baron''s castle, where a devil-worshiping priest died in chains centuries ago. • This team''s debut Kane story is available for free at myspace.com/darkhorsepresents. • "Solomon Kane is one of the toughest Robert E. Howard heroes to adapt to the comics page, but Scott Allie and Mario Guevara have done a stunning job. Unsettling, moody and eerily beautiful, their Kane is absolutely worthy of his creator."—Kurt Busiek • Collects the Solomon Kane five-issue miniseries.

This October, John Carpenter brings one of his most original nightmares back to the big screen with a remake of The Fog, starring Smallville''s Superboy Tom Welling. Carpenter and director Rupert Wainwright (Stigmata) team with Dark Horse to flesh out the story of doomed travelers and the supernatural devastation of a small coastal town. Scott Allie, writer of The Devil''s Footprints and Star Wars: Empire worked with award-winning writer Kurt Busiek (Conan, Astro City) and the director to craft a bizarre story about a Chinese curse and a town plunged into a walking-dead nightmare. A group of Shanghai traders have come to America hoping to escape a string of weird deaths at the teeth and claws of unseen monsters. The arrival of a strange yet familiar fog reveals that the curse has found them, but even they don''t know what that has to do with a pyromaniac refugee from the Civil War, the disappearance of one of their sons, or the terrible change coming over the Americans in this small seaside town.

The Clone Wars have begun! Ever since they were mentioned in the very first Star Wars film, fans have been dying to know more. Attack of the Clones offered a glimpse, but "The Defense of Kamino" brings the galaxy-wide conflict into full view! Two undercover Jedi discover a Separatist plan to destroy the cloning facility on the watery world of Kamino, thus crippling the Republic''s ability to maintain their clone army. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker are part of a Jedi fighter squadron sent to protect the installation, but they learn that there are heroes fighting for the Separatist cause as well as for the Republic, and that Jango Fett, though dead, still has something to say about how this war is fought! Meanwhile, Mace Windu, the leader of the Jedi Council, must deal with a rift in the Jedi ranks--a matter that reveals a Jedi traitor and a new Dark Jedi working in league with Dooku. Mace is considered one of the best swordsmen in the galaxy, but can he stand up to the swordmaster who taught him everything he knows--including the mysterious techinque known as "Vaapad"? New characters and new worlds are revealed as the Clone Wars spreads throughout the galaxy! This volume collects Star Wars: Republic #49-50 and Star Wars: Jedi -- Mace Windu

A vampire power struggle, a roadkill-crazed demon, a fiendish plot to create the Dark Slayer... it can only mean one thing -- Buffy the Vampire Slayer is back TV series, continue, in the sequel to Bad Blood. Buffy''s old enemy, Selke, is back in town, and how... but this femme fatale doesn''t just have designs on the Slayer (in a dangerously literal sense), she wants to organise the disparate vampire factions into a deadly fighting force. All this, plus an enchanted brooch, a demon with a bad habit of attacking moving cars, and, oh yes, Spike, Dru and Angel are back