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The story takes place during the Spanish Inquisition. At the beginning of the story an unnamed narrator is brought to trial before various sinister judges. Poe provides no explanation of why he is there or for what he has been arrested. Before him are seven tall white candles on a table, and, as they melt, his hopes of survival also diminish. He is condemned to death and finds himself in a pitch black compartment. At first the prisoner thinks that
...2) The King
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From the award-winning creator of Three Fingers, comes an all-new, pop culture adventure/mystery. The King is an offbeat tale of one very enigmatic Elvis impersonator who's taking the Vegas strip, and the world, by storm. Shrouded in mystery with the shining gold helmet that covers his face, The King's performances are so mesmerizing that fans are starting to believe he really is Elvis Presley. Through investigative reporting and a series of thought-provoking...
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As a leading researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Laura Regan is one of the world's foremost authorities on viral and bacteriological study. Having dedicated her career to halting the spread of infectious disease, she has always considered herself one of the good guys. But when her research partner is murdered and Laura is blamed for the crime, she finds herself at the heart of a vast and deadly conspiracy. Aided by three...
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GRAPHIC CLASSICS: ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE is completely revised, with over a hundred pages of new material. New to this edition are comics adaptations of Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb by Rod Lott and Simon Gane, and Brigadier Gerard in The Castle of Gloom by Antonella Caputo and Nick Miller. Plus Doyle's fearsome pirate "Captain Sharkey", illustrated by John W. Pierard, "The Ghosts of Goresthorpe Grange" by Peter Gullerud, and...
5) Snow Blind
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What happens when you discover your dad isn't the man you thought he was? For high school teen Teddy, life in a sleepy suburb in Alaska turns upside-down when he innocently posts a photo of his dad on Facebook, only to learn he and his family are in the Witness Protection Program. A man seeking revenge invades their town, and soon FBI agents arrive, too. But what if his dad's reasons for going into the program aren't as innocent as he says?
6) Cloaks #3
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Adam and the Cloaks crew rush to track down Evy before she can convince any of the potential candidates to join her cause-willingly or not. But has Adam been put into the field too soon by his father figure Blackstone, and could he be in grave danger?
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Hunted across South America both by the mysterious organization known as CADRE and their former employer Deacon Styles, Weaver and Maggie will have to tap into previously undiscovered powers if they're going to survive. But can their mysterious new ally Morgan be trusted...?
8) 3 Guns
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After barely surviving a barrage of ultra-violence and being burned by those closest to them in 2 GUNS, the lives of ex-undercover agents Bobby Trench and Marcus Steadman get even more chaotic when the pair again cross paths in the pages of 3 GUNS, writer Steven Grant's follow-up to his 2006 crime caper. Now, after racing headlong across the Southwest, desperately outrunning Feds and mobsters alike while trying to clear their names, Trench and Steadman...
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Nate Graft and Edward Hiccox were the young, brilliant co-founders of the social networking company YourLife while secretly running .sve_urs3lf, a hacker collective enabling revolutions around the globe. It's been six months since Ed was killed by a drone on national television while fighting for freedom. It's been six months since Nate lost his company, his best friend, and his mission. Now in charge of the government organization VIGIL, the front...
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Holly learns she's been playing for the wrong team, Weaver discovers the truth about the night his father was shot, and together they edge closer to locating the source of their uncanny powers. Andy Diggle (Snap Shot, The Losers) continues the tale of Dominic Weaver, the man with six billion borrowed skill sets... a con-man with supernatural abilities, drawn into a global conspiracy!
11) John Flood
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Written by Justin Jordan (Sombra, The Strange Talent of Luther Strode) and illustrated by Jorge Coelho (The Haunted Mansion), John Flood is a mind-bending murder mystery that take readers on a wild ride to uncover the truth. As the result of shady corporate experiments, John Flood no longer needs to sleep. Instead, he lives in a constant dream-state where sometimes it's hard to decipher what's real and what isn't. A side effect of his supernatural...
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FBI Agent Thomas Jennings has just arrived in San Francisco, fresh-faced and ready to tackle crime in the big city... but he's not nearly prepared for what he's about to encounter. The city's crime lords are being systematically murdered, and those responsible are the stuff of his nightmares. In a desperate race to end the spree killings and rescue two targeted and helpless children, Jennings will be forced to question every belief he holds dear......
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Karmela Krimm was the most promising young detective on the Marseille police force until she volunteered to take the fall for an operation that went sideways. When Karmela lost her job and became a private investigator, her ideals went up in smoke along with her badge. Perhaps for the better: in the troubled waters she now navigates, ideals are a dangerous luxury.
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THE RETURN OF THE MONSTER! Writer Caleb Monroe (BATMAN) and artist Yasmin Liang (SAINT'S WAY) continue the adventures of the classic espionage icons. John Steed and Emma Peel's greatest foes, the Hellfire Club, have returned with an even deadlier plan to finish off England's top super spies once and for all, with the help of the robotic Cybernauts.
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When Jerome is asked by a lawyer to deliver a letter to an old man living in a village near Grenoble, he unwittingly becomes witness to a private family drama. The old man in question, Antoine Oliveira, is an ex-prisoner, convicted of a double murder. These days he lives as a recluse amongst the ruins of a village that was crossed off all official maps over thirty years ago. In this letter, written by a dying man, Antoine will find some information...
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Preparations begin at Castle Golga for the annual festival of the undead, as a pair of fearless vampire killers question a man hidden away in a monastery on the Baltic Sea. The mysterious Mr. Higgins wants nothing more than to avoid the scene of his wife's death, and the truth about what happened to him in that castle. However, these heroic men sworn to rid the world of the vampire scourge, inspire Higgins to venture out and to end the only suffering...
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The streets of 1953 San Francisco are overflowing with blood, as a pair of ghastly killers continue to terrorize the city. FBI Agent Thomas Jennings has his hands full at his new post. He's got to find two lost children before they become the next victims, he's got to bring the villains to justice, and he's got to keep himself from slipping into madness. From the Japanese Tea Garden to San Fran's legendary Chinatown, the battle rages. Tough, gritty...
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Private detective Jerome K. Jerome Bloche is hired by his friend Father Arthur, a former boxer turned Catholic priest, to look into a series of blackmail letters extorting money from his parishioners that share one odd detail: the money is to be donated to the church to repair its famous organ! Meanwhile Jeromes girlfriend Babette gets a shocking surprise when her father, whom she believed to have died when she was a child, shows up on her doorstep....