So there I was building my haunted house outside the schoolWhen along comes a plant that's up to no good.One little portal and next thing I knewI wound up in a fantasy worldI looked around and thought, yo this can't be realEspecially with sexy monstergirls as part of the dealTurns out they think I'm the messiahAnd they all want to become my slavesAnd... honestly, I'm not sure who would be a better master than little ol' me

For 18 year old Sam Bladen, the only bright spot in his small town delinquent existence is Danny Eagan, a nerdy, unstable art student. Responding to a dare, Sam meets Brande, a member of the Sans Merci Troupe and self-styled Messiah of Monsters. Under the charismatic freak's tortuous tutelage, the dare soon turns deadly, and Sam begins an agonizing process which leads him to question the very basis of human morality. Will he choose a comfortable relationship with Danny, or will his self-destructive behavior and encounter with the unknown unbalance everything? An unusual mix of graphic sex and cerebral horror, Sam's unique voice is dark, witty, and provocative. Whoever said true love never dies never had to bury the bodies...

London's dockside is threatened by the twin terrors of a plague leaving bodies covered in tentacles and a slasher killing women in the night. Desperate for answers after the wrong man is executed for the murders, a group of Londoners holds a séance to contract the supposed killer, and his story of a girl born of the sea who has brought a terrible curse only brings them more questions. Mike Mignola and Troy Nixey's acclaimed standalone series is colored for the first time by Eisner Award winner Dave Stewart. Collects Jenny Finn #1-#4 and bonus sketchbook material

Introduction: The Golem condition -- 1. The face of destruction: Paul Wegener's World War I Golem films -- 2. The Golem cult of 1921 New York: between redemption and expulsion -- 3. Our enemies, ourselves: Israel's monsters of 1948 -- 4. Supergolem: revenge after the Holocaust -- 5. Pacifist computers and Jewish cyborgs: fighting for the future

The T&T Clark Handbook of Jesus and Film introduces postgraduate readers to the critical field of Jesus and/on film. The bulk of biblical films feature Jesus, as protagonist, in cameo, or as a looming background presence or pattern. The handbook assesses the field in light of the work of important biblical film critics including chapters from the leading voices in the field and showcasing the diversity of work done by scholars in the field. Movies discussed include The Passion of the Christ, The King of Kings, Jesus of Nazareth, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Son of Man, and Mary Magdalene. The chapters range across two broad areas: 1) Jesus films, understood broadly as filmed passion plays, other relocations of Jesus, historical Jesus treatments, and Jesus adjacent cinema (privileging invented characters or “minor” gospel characters); and 2) other cinematic Jesuses, including followers who imitate Jesus devotionally or aesthetically, (Christian) Christ figures, antichrists, yet other messiahs, and competing Jesuses in a pluralist world. As one leaves the confines of Christian theology, the question of what a film or interpreter is doing with Jesus or Christ becomes something to be determined, not necessarily something traditional.