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Rand felt an abrupt slap on his heavily padded shoulder. Keeping one eye fixed on the ghostly path ahead, he twisted his neck sufficiently to see Lieutenant Emerson leaning forward to point at an analog dial on the control panel.

After leaving the service, Lee 'Red' Gammon sets himself up as a private eye in New Orleans. In less than two years, he's managed to make an enemy on the local police force and set up a network of eccentric if reasonably reliable informants. Chief among these is Masaka, who appears to be an Oriental girl in her twenties but may be something entirely else. She has an unsettling way of appearing and disappearing without notice, and bringing particularly odd cases to his attention. Cases he would rather do without. First, he had to prevent the summoning of a demon.

The silver man first appeared in the sewers beneath Manhattan, where it killed its first victim. As Saxon and Associates try to track down and stop the man behind the lethal golem, Manhattan erupts in flames. Pursued by the police, who suspect that Saxon and his aides are behind the lumbering horror, the Man with the Green Eyes, Jerry and Weed have only a single evening to destroy the creature and save the city.

The enraged guardian screamed and whipped out one foot to deliver a crushing kick intended to shatter Midori’s spine The artist desperately attempted to shift backwards, but a snow-covered outcropping brought her up short, sending her sprawling. She lost her sword on impact and waited helplessly for the devastating blow. Midori’s eyes widened as Shinichi lunged in front of her to take the brunt of the kick. The sound of his breastplate buckling was loud in the snow-sheathed silence.

Following a painful breakup, aspiring manga writer Shinichi Aizawa retreats from the world and devotes himself to writing. His first concept is Otherworld, a fantasy series set on distant a world peopled by various races. When it is promptly optioned, he finds himself teamed with artist Midori Kano. That's when the fox appears on his doorstep, in the midst of a titanic thunderstorm. Fleeing from the creature, the writer and artist find themselves transported to a world which seems to mirror that of Otherworld.

Two pulp adventure stories set in 1940s Chicago: In the first story, the city is under the control of a ruthless crime boss who seeks to unite all illegal activities under his control. Unexpected competition arrives in the person of a masked killer, The Inferno, who uses flame as a weapon. Opposing them both is The Eclipse, a masked vigilante. In the follow-up story, a new crime lord has stepped in to take the place of the fallen gang leader. He sets his sights on obtaining a powerful new weapon that will guarantee him a stranglehold on the city.

Life seemed to be looking up for private investigator R.J. MacKenzie when he left the Molinski Agency to set up a one-man operation. For the first week, it seemed as if things were falling neatly into place. He solved his first case within a few hours and, when the second proved a bit harder, he’d had the moral support of his temporary roommate, his sister’s Scottie, who was aptly named Mac. Then, his former employer developed an annoying habit of dropping by after hours for a little unwanted socialization. Big Sal drops a casual reference to a new case that he wants no part of.

The 1940s - Big Easy PI Lee "Red" Gammon (The Devil's Dice, Midnight Fugue) is back and having a very bad day. A new client appears and asks him to recover an idol that she insists was stolen from her by a local antique dealer who seems to have no discernible past.

Prizefighter-turned-PI Donald Dugan has been going through a rough patch, between clients who are reluctant to pay for services rendered and Poopsie, his secretary’s borderline psychotic lapdog. When Lt. Hammond, his friendly enemy on the force, suggests a week of solitude and fishing in rural Louisiana as a surefire cure for his woes, Dugan gladly accepts. Things go fine until he finds the dead man dressed in a clown suit floating in the bayou.

New Orleans PI "Red" Gammon has a very much unwanted knack for encountering the diabolical. When three high profile citizens of the Big Easy die under bizarre circumstances, all seemingly linked by a peculiar mark in the palm of their hands, Gammon follows the clues to a very peculiar casino run by the mysterious Mr. Moretti.