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Brooke believed she understood the tug-of-war between entities seeking to end or save humanity. She believed in the Vanguard — heroes granted immense power via contracts with the eldritch. She believed she would have no part in any of it, and above all, she believed in a path back to some semblance of normality. She was wrong. Follow Brooke and Roosevelt's incomprehensible journey as they contend with forces beyond understanding. As she delves deeper into the abyss, she'll find new allies, horrifying phobias, and a healthy respect for anything with more than two mouths.

Detectives O'Connor and Maddison delve deeper into the mysterious life of Victor Helios, trying to uncover his ultimate goal, while members of Victor's "New Race" begin to show they are not as perfect as he assumed. Randall Six continues his quest to escape from Hands of Mercy as Officer Harker descends into madness, and Erika Helios discovers some of her husband's unfinished creations. Mysteries are revealed and revenge is exacted as this horror epic reaches its apocalyptic conclusion — a story of fast-paced action, gripping horror, and thrilling adventure, adapted by Chuck Dixon with illustrations by Tim Seeley and Scott Cohn.

In the deepest reaches of the Bone Pits, a canine woke up in the ruined remains of a wooden box — with knowledge it shouldn't have, fleeting memories it couldn't reach, and the icy grasp of death crawling up its spine. It simply wished to live another day. In the industrial underbelly of Carmera, gangs, religious groups, Dungeon Barons, and cultists battle for supremacy — blind to what prowls below. In the writhing smog and murky sumps that none dare approach, in the deepest reaches of the dungeon, the last wolf rakes its claws through steel and howls to a distant sky.

Eve was about to make the greatest mistake known to women — texting her ex Claire — when Hell invaded New York. Heaven answered with the Blessing: a System that grants survivors classes, levels, and skills. Eve got Shapeshifter, which sounded incredible until her starting forms turned out to be House Cat, Golden Retriever, and Galapagos Tortoise. Her ex has already made a deal with Hell. Her guardian angel wants her to survive. Her devil has excellent branding. Eve is a hacker — and if the Apocalypse wants to be a game, she will find every exploit in the System and make it everyone else's problem.

To enter Five Peaks Magical Academy you must have a familiar. Abigail hoped for a bird, maybe an owl like her best friend's, or a cuddly cat or loyal hound. She would have been happy with a particularly smart toad, even. Instead she got you.

Colm Avery is a warlock — you know, the "sell your soul for unlimited power" kind. Except he never sells his own soul. Instead he trades the souls of murderers, those already destined for hell, in exchange for hellish gifts. It's hard work, and after six years of 18-hour days he finally has a windfall that lets him take a vacation. A cruise, specifically. Unfortunately, disaster after disaster strikes: food poisoning, bad weather, and pirates. Colm will have to use his magic and his gifts to survive — and to unravel the plot behind all these seemingly unrelated catastrophes. This cruise to Hawaii turned out to be more than he bargained for.

The whole world has gone mad, so it's a good thing that Gambit is already insane. Locked away in a padded room, Gambit watches as the world goes to hell — blood rains from the sky, screams echo through the city, and monsters tear through reality. The world transforms overnight into the GREAT GAME: an apocalyptic battleground where monsters hunt, dungeons materialize, and the System destroys everything humanity once knew, all for the entertainment of an unseen audience. Armed with nothing but his fists, a talking plushie named Panda, and a glitched character Class that shouldn't exist, Gambit fights his way out of the asylum. But his existence triggers alerts across the GREAT GAME, drawing the attention of its agents who hunt players that don't follow the rules. In a world where insanity transforms humans into the very monsters they fear, Gambit's fractured mind becomes his deadliest weapon.

Tal is one of the elite undead soldiers of the Zozheim empire, resurrected from the corpse of an uncounted sacrifice. He does not know the man's name. He does not care. The body is his now. They say Tal exists to serve — and so he drowns and murders and pillages in the empire's name. But one thing is becoming clear: he exists. And soon, that fact will terrify his creators and their enemies alike.

Daggat was born different — a variant monster with a random gift to shape his fate. After faking his death, he sets out on a relentless quest for freedom, power, and a place to call his own. With a mind sharper than steel, a gaze that bends wills, and a tyrant's instinct for control, he gathers a band of outcasts: a savage warrior sibling, a cunning rogue sibling, a cursed and forgotten spider from the attic, a worm with the soul of a dragon, and the last ogre of a shattered family. Each carries their own scars — physical, spiritual, emotional. Together they will claw, scheme, and fight through a world that wants them dead, forging an adventuring party that seeks not just riches and glory, but the power to decide their own fates.

Aiko considered herself a run-of-the-mill office worker: clock in, get yelled at by her boss, clock out, don't get eaten by the monstrous horrors spilling into the world from another dimension. But when a well-meaning friend drags her into that very dimension, Aiko must carve out a new life for herself as one of the monsters people fear. Now she fights back against the protectors she once admired, battling to hold onto her sense of self. Though to be fair, being a fallen magical girl is far more preferable to an office job.

Anomus ip Garma, greatest living architect of the Subori Empire, is tasked by his emperor to construct a tomb for the emperor's concubine upon her death. Anomus and ten thousand workers labor in the desert for years while the emperor's dead love waits, ensorceled and undecaying, for her final resting place to be completed. But betrayal awaits Anomus and all who slaved to build the Tomb — and a dark god has taken an interest in the evils man does to man.

Renee 'Nay' Favreau wanted to be a respected chef with a renowned taco truck. After a deadly encounter with an interdimensional spider, she finds herself in a dangerous new world full of magic and mayhem. She discovers she has the rare power to become an Epicurist — one of the special chefs who can prepare magical meals that give the cultivators known as Marrow Eaters their powers. To survive the heat, she must navigate a world full of gods and monsters.

Candle Enys is no longer human. Her soul belongs to a demon, and she wants it back. To become whole she must travel to the land of the dead and destroy the demon before it can destroy her. Along the way she will make new friends, new enemies, and explore the roots of her draconic heritage — leaving behind a trail of destruction and cake crumbs.

After flunking his university entrance exam, Temaru Ryūta becomes a shut-in preparing for next year's attempt — until one summer day he is inexplicably transported to another world where people like him are expected to become Adventurers. To make matters worse, he is assigned the role of Exorcist, the most dangerous of all Adventurer roles. Ryūta reluctantly becomes the apprentice of a suspicious older Exorcist who proves to be a ruthless teacher. His new career is fraught with terrifying monsters drawn from real folktales and myths, uneasy pacts with supernatural entities, and corrupted Exorcists who have become part of the darkness they were meant to fight. A character-driven narrative with slow-burn progression, in-depth relationships, and mysteries the MC must learn to solve.

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Walter's normal life is turned upside down when the human race is judged worthy of Ascension — granting powers beyond comprehension to those who complete Trials as an Aspirant. The Trials are run by otherworldly abominations who view humanity as little more than amusing playthings. Walter has been chosen by the Absolute Luck System and has infiltrated the Trials as a Lord Arbiter. The problem: he must now balance life as both an Aspirant and an Admin, and he's doomed if either side finds out he's not who he says he is. Navigating this double life with wit, smarts, and a little luck, Walter must survive long enough to become an Unwilling Eldritch Horror of Fortune.

Nyx was born Hollow — an empty vessel in a world of spirits, a condition that should have meant death. Somehow he survived, driven by stubbornness and a touch of madness. In a previous life, he did something reckless: he sent himself his own memories, throwing them into the Flow from which all spirits return. Now those memories have found him, raising questions he can't stop asking — was reincarnation real, would his half-baked plan actually work, and could his life possibly get any worse? It could.

For millennia, the demon lords known as the Goetia enslaved humanity, until a group of mortals called the Archons received divine blessings of power and overthrew them. Under their dominion mankind flourished, though the war in the shadows never ended. A thousand years later, sixteen-year-old Leones' family is executed for the crime of heresy — burned to death for questioning whether the Archon of Flames is truly divine. After manifesting the power to control time, Leones survives and embarks on an uncertain journey for power and revenge. But to overcome a god, he may need help — and along the way he will discover the truth behind the demon lords, time, and reality itself.

Julia is a practical person. All she wanted was a home and family to call her own — a small piece of the world she could say was hers. Instead of arriving home one evening, she finds herself in the Abyss, trapped inside a cursed body. The curse may have caught her, but she certainly won't let it — or anyone else — tell her how she has to live. To escape, she will need to become strong enough to descend to the Abyss's deepest reaches, where the most dangerous secrets lie in wait. There is darkness in the Abyss, and a darkness within her that might draw it in — but she'll need to risk its strength if she ever wants to get home.

Bringing rest to the unquiet dead is not an easy task. It requires compassion, wisdom, patience, strength of arms, and suicidal courage — qualities Paladin Cole, a warrior sworn to the god of death, possesses in full. Surviving beneath the shadow of undeath takes a different set of virtues: intelligence, caution, determination, and the occasional moment of extreme daring. Natalie Striga, a barmaid raised under the vampires' boot in the mountain town of Glockmire, knows these truths well. When Cole arrives tasked with putting the undead to rest, events push him and Natalie together as hidden schemes among the vampire nobility threaten to boil over into disaster. As they unravel a series of mysteries, Natalie slowly realizes there is much more to the world than Glockmire — and much more to Cole than meets the eye.