A quest for the Holy Grail unlike any you’ve ever seen begins here- in a world where the American Civil War ended in a stalemate, the Catholic Church controls Europe, and sorcery determines political power! When a medieval scroll disappears from a Paris church, Doctor Julien Saunière investigates, uncovering a series of horrific ritual murders and an ancient secret society. Julien cannot let these shadowy figures retreat into the darkness, lest they take up their killing once again. His investigation turns into a one-man quest into the bizarre secrets of Catholicism. more »

Sometimes the only person you can trust is a dead man. Prohibition era gangsters grew rich on vice. But unknown to the masses, a more sinister power controlled the crime cartels, using greed, gluttony, lust and other sins to fuel a much more lucrative trade: mortal souls. The long-standing feud between two of the families is about to end thanks to a deal to consolidate power. But before things can be finalized, the bookkeeper tasked to broker the deal is kidnapped. Hoping to find the missing bookkeeper before the deal falls apart, Big Al pulls Eddie’s corpse out of a ditch and puts him on the case. more »

The story of Victor Frankenstein and of the monstrous creature he created has held the reading public spellbound since its publication almost a century and a half ago. On the surface, it is a novel of tense and steadily mounting horror; but on a more profound level, it offers searching illumination of the human condition in its portrayal of a scientist who oversteps the bounds of conscience, and of a monster brought to life in an alien world, ever more desperately attempting to escape the torture of his solitude. A brilliant exercise in the macabre, written with near-hallucinatory intensity, Frankenstein represents one of the most striking flowerings of the Romantic imagination. more »

Your body is their business! Five young students at a Buddhist university find there’s little call for their job skills in today’s Tokyo…among the living, that is! But their studies give them a direct line to the dead-the dead who are still trapped in their corpses, and can’t move on to their next reincarnation! Whether you died from suicide, murder, sickness, or madness, they’ll carry your body anywhere it needs to go to free your soul! more »

Light is a wide-eyed Japanese high school honors student who’s boredom with life is suddenly relieved when an equally bored Shinigami (death god) drops a Death Note into the human world in order to relieve his own tedium. The Death Note of the Shinigami gives Light the power to kill people by just writing down their name while thinking of their face. Light quickly decides that this is his chance to make the world ideal, to rid it of bad people and bring all the evil in it to justice. more »