Just in time for Halloween, over at the news site Comics for Sinners, you’ll find my review of Vampirella, Vol. 2 #6, which goes on sale November 5th from Dynamite Entertainment. Writer Nancy A. Collins (Sunglasses After Dark, Red Sonja) and artists Patrick Berkenkotter (Dynamite’s Project: Superpowers) and Dennis Crisostomo (Marvel’s Emma Frost) bring to an end Vampi’s world tour of drinking the blood of legendary vampires, and then have her confront the Cult of Chaos as she makes one last attempt to avoid being possessed by the spirit of Lady Umbra, the sister-wife of the mad god Chaos! Head over to C4S to learn how Collins’s first Vampirella story arc turns out.
And speaking of supernatural heroines battling ancient cults, perhaps you might like to read Lorelei: Sects and the City, the StarWarp Concepts graphic novel that stars a soul-stealing succubus in battle with a cult of Elder God worshipers attempting to unleash hell on Earth. This critically acclaimed adventure is, at its core, a love letter to 1970s horror comics, written by Steven A. Roman (that’s me), and illustrated by Eliseu Gouveia (Vengeance of the Mummy), Steve Geiger (Web of Spider-Man), and Neil Vokes (Johnny Demon), with a cover by legendary Vampirella artist Esteban Maroto. Visit the Lorelei: Sects and the City product page for all the ordering information, as well as sample pages.
Over at the news site Comics for Sinners, you can read my review of 
And if you’re a fan of monster-hunting femmes fatale like Vampirella, then you should download 
Monster fans everywhere are over the moon with happiness, because tonight there are two television series premiering on NBC-TV. First off there’s the fourth season opener of Grimm, the popular series about a cop turned monster hunter. That’s immediately followed by the debut of Constantine, starring Matt Ryan as the live-action version of DC Comics’ master of the occult introduced in the series Hellblazer (and not to be confused with the film starring Keanu Reeves, although it was based on the same property). So if monster-fighting heroes are your thing, then let me introduce you to some SWC titles you might be interested in…
The Saga of Pandora Zwieback chronicles the adventures of sixteen-year-old Pandora Zwieback, a Gothy horror fangirl who possesses amazing powers that she just learned about, including the ability to see past the human disguises worn by monsters to blend in with society. Those powers come in handy when Pan, her parents, and her friends are catapulted into the midst of a war among rival vampire clans in search of what they believe is an ultimate weapon. Pan’s story begins in the novel 
At various times on this blog—usually in relation to the 
This past weekend, 
The large fan turnout made it the most successful Doc Con so far, so of course the showrunners wasted no time in inviting Bob back for next year’s gathering! That now makes three conventions in 2015 for which Bob will be a guest of honor: Eternal Con (June 13–14); New York Comic Con (October 8–11); and Doc Con XVIII (October). More information to come as the show dates get closer.
Dave Berns is an artist I knew waaay back in my small-press comics days (late ’80s to mid-’90s), but as he went into professional cartooning and I started up StarWarp Concepts as a publishing house for full-size comics, we lost touch. So imagine my surprise when, in 2003, he sent me the Lorelei pinup you see here—that also showed he remembered my love for the music of late blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan. Nice!
Carmilla, author J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s 19th-century vampiric romance, has influenced generations of dark-fantasy writers from Bram Stoker to Laurel K. Hamilton, and has been adapted for the screen many times, including Hammer’s The Vampire Lovers and Roger Vadim’s Blood and Roses. These days, Carmilla (and her friend, Laura) are the stars of a 
If you’re a fan of the series interested in reading the source material for the series, or are a fan of vampire fiction who’s heard of the novella but never read it, then have we got a book for you! 
Well, this was a surprise that came in the mail the other day: a contributor copy of the anthology L’Almanach des Vampires (The Almanac of Vampires), released this month by French publishing house Riviere Blanche, a subsidiary of indie publisher Black Coat Press. How much of a surprise was it? I didn’t even know I was a contributor to the book until I received it!
Doc Con—an annual celebration of pulp-fiction hero Doc Savage—starts this Friday, October 17, and runs through Sunday. And Bob Larkin—cover artist of SWC’s Saga of Pandora Zwieback novels and legendary painter of Bantam Books’ Doc Savage novels—will be the guest of honor at this three-day event. Doc Con XVII is being held at the Comfort Suites, in Glendale, Arizona. For more information, head over to the 
Over at the news site Comics for Sinners, hot on the heels of my review of Vampirella, Vol. 2 #4 comes my review of 
And if sexy monster hunters are your thing, then you should definitely check out 
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