Summer's here and with it comes the end of one series and the beginning of the next.

The current run of Star Wars: The High Republic reaches its finale with issue 10, while the Zombiote outbreak begins in my part of Marvel's Venom War.

All this and a brand new horror short story featuring a terrifying monster too!

WEDNESDAY 7th AUGUST

THR Phase III Issue #10

Writer: Cavan Scott | Art: James Towe | Colours: Jim Campbell | Letters: Ariana Maher| Cover art: Phil Noto

JEDI LOST AND JEDI FOUND!

The team-shattering FINALE of the current blistering run!

A choice given, and a decision made...with terrifying consequences.

TUESDAY 20th AUGUST

Folk Horror

Writer: Cavan Scott | Editors: Paul Kane & Marie O'Regan

From the award-winning anthologists, a beautiful new book of short stories, designed as a perfect gift for readers of the supernatural, and a lifetime of reading pleasure.

A new anthology of Folk Horror stories, covering a wide range of mythologies and dark corners from around the world, revealing tales from the shadows of isolation, creepy forests and horrors rising from the land itself. Award-winning anthologists Paul Kane and Marie O'Regan have commissioned and chosen an outstanding selection of stories with contributions from authors including John Connolly, Adam L.G. Nevill, Alison Littlewood, and Jen Williams.

The full list of featured authors in this book is: Linda D. Addison, V. Castro, John Connolly, Neil Gaiman, Helen Grant, Kathryn Healy, H.R. Laurence, Alison Littlewood, Lee Murray, Adam L.G. Nevill, Cavan Scott, Christina Sng, Benjamin Spada, Stephen Volk, Jen Williams, Katie Young and B. Zelkovich.

The Flame Tree Beyond and Within short story collections bring together tales of myth and imagination by modern and contemporary writers, carefully selected by anthologists, and sometimes featuring short stories from a single author. Overall, the series presents a wide range of diverse and inclusive voices with myth, folkloric-inflected short fiction, and an emphasis on the supernatural, science fiction, the mysterious and the speculative. The books themselves are gorgeous, with foiled covers, printed edges and published only in hardcover editions, offering a lifetime of reading pleasure.

WEDNESDAY 28th AUGUST

Venom War: Zombiotes! #1

Writer: Cavan Scott | Art: Juan José Ryp | Colours: Ceci De La Cruz | Letters: VC's Travis Lanham| Cover art: Juan Ferreyra

DEAD OR ALIVE? OR BOTH?

As the two Venoms face off, a darker strain of symbiote has slithered across New York City…one that can reanimate the dead and turn the living into an engine of mindless hunger with just one bite! That's right - zombie symbiotes making symbiote zombies! And you thought they liked eating brains before!

Planning to pick up any of these titles? Have a question about them?

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