Continuano i resoconti a fumetti di Rick Geary sui grandi delitti e serial killer dell'epoca vittoriana. Come è possibile che, in una città come Chicago alla fine del XIX secolo, un uomo di nome H. H. Holmes abbia potuto uccidere metodicamente più di 200 persone nella sua casa degli orrori? In questo volume si farà luce anche su altri due delitti. Scopriremo i dettagli dell'assassinio di James A. Garfield, 20° Presidente degli Stati Uniti d'America, dopo il cui omicidio, nel 1881, non fu più lasciato ai Presidenti americani il compito di valutare personalmente le richieste di lavoro alla Casa Bianca. Seguiremo inoltre tutte le fasi del processo a Lizzie Borden, accusata di aver ucciso il padre e la matrigna, nel 1892. Una vicenda che sconvolse la società borghese di Fall River, nel Massachusetts e che fu seguita con morboso interesse dai giornali dell'epoca. Tornano le appassionanti ricostruzioni storiche di Rick Geary.

In graphic novel format, tells the story of a family of serial killers who owned a small general store and inn in Labette County, Kansas, from 1872 to 1873.

Presents a collection of tales from Mark Twain in an illustrated format by prominent artists working in the fields of comics, book illustration, and fine arts.

In comic book format, an upper-class woman and a man of lower standing engage in a scandalous secret affair in nineteenth-century Scotland, but the relationship comes to an end when the man is murdered by poison.

This is the true story about the most interesting person you've never heard of: Arthur Cravan, major figure in pre-WWI cutting-edge art circles, was among the greatest mysterious figures of the twentieth century. A self-confessed thief, forger, and con-artist, he used a roster of assumed names and false identities. He was known, at various times, as a novelist, poet, painter, art critic, lecturer, publisher, and the lightweight boxing champion of France. Always a rebellious, restless spirit, this dedicated rule-breaker was a political radical whose friendship with Leon Trotsky earned him the surveillance of the U.S. government - even through his immigration to Mexico with his wife, the poet Mina Loy. In 1918, at the age of thirty-one, the fascinating physical giant vanished without a trace, and - despite several supposed sightings over the years - was never seen again. Is it possible that he became the mysterious, reclusive novelist B. Traven, who wrote The Treasure of the Sierra Madre?

This second edition is completely revised, with over a hundred pages of new material. New to this edition are comics adaptations of Sherlock Holmes in 'The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb' by Rod Lott and Simon Gane, and Brigadier Gerard in 'The Castle of Gloom' by Antonella Caputo and Nick Miller. Plus Doyle's fearsome pirate 'Captain Sharkey', illustrated by John W. Pierard, 'The Ghosts of Goresthorpe Grange' by Peter Gullerud, and 'The Great Brown-Pericord Motor' by Milton Knight. Returning from the first edition are Sherlock Holmes in 'The Copper Beeches' by Rick Geary, and stories illustrated by Roger Langridge and J.B. Bonivert. With a new cover by Kent Steine.

Modern-day Europeans by the millions proudly trace back their national identities to the Celts, Franks, Gauls, Goths, Huns, or Serbs--or some combination of the various peoples who inhabited, traversed, or pillaged their continent more than a thousand years ago. According to Patrick Geary, this is historical nonsense. The idea that national character is fixed for all time in a simpler, distant past is groundless, he argues in this unflinching reconsideration of European nationhood. Few of the peoples that many Europeans honor as sharing their sense of ''nation'' had comparably homogeneous identities; even the Huns, he points out, were firmly united only under Attila's ten-year reign.

Geary dismantles the nationalist myths about how the nations of Europe were born. Through rigorous analysis set in lucid prose, he contrasts the myths with the actual history of Europe's transformation between the fourth and ninth centuries--the period of grand migrations that nationalists hold dear. The nationalist sentiments today increasingly taken for granted in Europe emerged, he argues, only in the nineteenth century. Ironically, this phenomenon was kept alive not just by responsive populations--but by complicit scholars.

Ultimately, Geary concludes, the actual formation of European peoples must be seen as an extended process that began in antiquity and continues in the present. The resulting image is a challenge to those who anchor contemporary antagonisms in ancient myths--to those who claim that immigration and tolerance toward minorities despoil ''nationhood.'' As Geary shows, such ideologues--whether Le Pens who champion ''the French people born with the baptism of Clovis in 496'' or Milosevics who cite early Serbian history to claim rebellious regions--know their myths but not their history.

The Myth of Nations will be intensely debated by all who understood that a history that does not change, that reduces the complexities of many centuries to a single, eternal moment, isn't history at all.

Fascinated by the talent of his favorite magician, Jean Robert Eugene Houdin, young Ehrich Weiss practices his craft until he perfects it and then adopts the name of his role model as part of his transition to becoming one of the most famous escape artists in history. Simultaneous.

To obtain sacred relics, medieval monks plundered tombs, avaricious merchants raided churches, and relic-mongers scoured the Roman catacombs. In a revised edition of Furta Sacra, Patrick Geary considers the social and cultural context for these acts, asking how the relics were perceived and why the thefts met with the approval of medieval Christians.