"I can't be...just a person, I can't be helpless like that...." -- Buffy, "Helpless" At eighteen, each Slayer must face a terrifying trial: the Tento di Cruciamentum. This time-honored, albeit cruel, rite of passage forces each Watcher to drain the Slayer of all her physical powers and then send her to vanquish a powerful vampire using only her wits. When Buffy Summers underwent her Cruciamentum, she managed to defeat Kralik, a vampire who had been committed to a sanitarium as a human for torturing and murdering more than a dozen young women before he was turned. However, not all Slayers have been so cunning. Tales of the Slayer, Vol. 4 chronicles the Cruciamentum of eight earlier Slayers. From Prohibition Chicago to beatnik New York City, from the sideshows of a traveling carnival to a small Irish farm, from the fifteenth century to the twentieth, the Cruciamentum has tested the prowess of Slayers throughout history. Each of them has had to fight: for her job, for the lives of those she loved, and for her own existence....

Tales of the Slayer, Volume 4 (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Literature & Fiction

GREG COX

MICHAEL REAVES

Jane Espenson

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Scott Allie

Nancy Holder

Kara, Dalkey

Robert Joseph Levy

United States

Simon Pulse

The third volume of the online comics anthology MySpace Dark Horse Presents digs deeply into Dark Horse's broad range of genres and iconic characters, including Stan Sakai's award-winning Usagi Yojimbo and Rob Reger's Emily the Strange. Mike Mignola plucks a character from the backdrop of his Hellboy mythos with the debut of Witchfinder, and Dark Horse presents the first new Creepy stories since that legendary anthology ended in 1983. Dark Horse demonstrates its commitment to webcomics with the hit online strips Achewood, Applegeeks, and others. MDHP Volume 3 is chock full of tremendous talent, old and brand-spanking new, all rounded out by new tales from Joss Whedon's Serenity, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Doctor Horrible.

MySpace Dark Horse Presents Volume 3

Comics & Graphic Novels

JOSS WHEDON

Stan Sakai

MIKE MIGNOLA

Will Conrad

Ben Stenbeck

Farel Dalrymple

Mark Wheaton

Graphic Novels

Dark Horse

Buffy's world goes awry when former-classmate-turned-vampire Harmony Kendall lands her own reality TV show, "Harmony Bites," bolstering bloodsucking fiends in the mainstream. Humans line up to have their blood consumed, and Slayers, through a series of missteps, misfortunes, and anti-Slayer propaganda driven by the mysterious Twilight, are forced into hiding. In Germany, Faith and Giles discover a town where Slayers retreat from a world that has turned against them, only to find themselves in the arms of something far worse. A rogue-Slayer faction displaces an entire Italian village, living up to their tarnished reputation as power-hungry thieves. And finally, with the help of a would-be demon lover, Dawn addresses her unfaltering insecurities.

Predators and Prey (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Vol. 5)

JIM KRUEGER

Drew Z. Greenberg

Steven S. DeKnight

Doug Petrie

Science Fiction & Fantasy

MySpace Dark Horse Presents Volume 5 continues to exhibit the greatest comics creators in the biz alongside the newest newbies trying to break in: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 makes another appearance with lately popular vampire Harmony in a tale from one of the series writers, Jane Espenson; Conan brings bloodshed and barbarism as only he can with writer and artist Darick Robertson; another Robert E. Howard character, Solomon Kane, gives Eisner Award-winning artist Guy Davis a chance to show us his take on the Puritan warrior; Dean Motter's Mister X presents a mystery; and Matt Kindt's Giant Man continues his saga. And then we have the newbies: A sweet story with sweet birdies; a scary story with scary birdies; a Jekyll and Hyde meet Sherlock Holmes mystery; a tragic tale that makes you really feel for all those mythical horrors; and a cross dimensional superhero anecdote that will make you laugh.

MySpace Dark Horse Presents Volume 5

John Arcudi

Adam Gallardo

Jill Thompson

Matt Kindt

Cody Goodfellow

Karl Moline

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The Chosen One has a new lease on life, courtesy of... Kennedy?! In a bold move to give disenfranchised Slayers a meaningful societal role (with pay), Kennedy recruits Buffy to act as bodyguard for high-profile clientele. But unlike the other recruits, Buffy struggles to abandon her Slaying instincts and looks for demony threats where none lie (much to Kennedy's dismay). So it's only natural that her first job is to protect a tech mogul who just so happens to be running from demon assassins! Then, guest writers Jane Espenson (Once Upon a Time) and Drew Greenberg (Warehouse 13) show a new kind of Slayer emerging in a small town about to be contaminated by the growing zompire epidemic!

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 9 Volume 3: Guarded

Andrew Chambliss

Dark Horse Books

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