SATIRE and the SUPERNATURAL!

• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge - Bierce's famous Civil War story, superbly illustrated by British artist John Coulthart

• An Imperfect Conflagration - black humor adapted to comics by Rick Geary

• The Stranger - horror in the Wild West by Mark A. Nelson

• The Race at Left Bower - slapstick comedy by Frank Cammuso

• The Devil's Dictionary - selections from Bierce's book of definitions, illustrated by Leslie Murray

• One Summer Night - a horror tale by Italian artist
Francesca Ghermandi

• The Hypnotist - a history of crime illustrated by Michael Slack

• The Boarded Window - frontier horror by the great Gahan Wilson

• Moxon's Master - early science fiction illustrated by
Stanley W. Shaw

• Oil of Dog - a strange story of childhood by Annie Owens

• Curried Cow - a hilarious saga in comics by Milton Knight

• With an introduction by Bierce scholar S.T. Joshi and an
investigation into the mystery of Bierce's death in comics by
Mort Castle and Dan Burr

• Plus Bierce's Fables, 29 short pieces told in comics and illustration by
J.B. Bonivert, Shary Flenniken, Neale Blanden, Jackie Smith,
Ted Richards, Florence Cestac, Evert Geradts, P.S. Mueller, George Sellas, Dan O'Neill, Skip Williamson, Mike Konopacki, Valentina Campagni, Lance Tooks, Andy Ewen, Simon Gane, Devon Devereaux, Frank Stack, Michael Kupperman,
Chad Carpenter, Todd Lovering, William L. Brown,
Lesley Reppeteaux, Lisa K. Weber, Johnny Ryan,
Antonella Caputo and Nick Miller

• Cover by Anton Emdin, back cover by Donald Marquez, with additional illustrations by Delynne Lorentzen and Mark Dancey