Short Stories

The second volume of IDW's re-presentation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's beloved Sherlock Holmes tales presents more of the wily investigator's adventures, including the novel The Valley of Fear; “The Noble Bachelor;” “The Yellow Face;” “The Greek Interpreter;” the novel The Sign of Four; “Silver Blaze;” and “The Cardboard Box.” Kelley Jones returns to provide the cover and over 20 full-page, full color interior illustrations. Learn More

CLASSICS MUTILATED is IDW’s response to the so-called “Monster Lit” trend in mainstream publishing (you know, take a beloved literary classic, preferable by Jane Austin or Emily Bronte, and add monsters to it). We call our version “Ctrl-Alt-Lit”, which incorporates mashup techniques to create fresh and unqiue genre-blending fiction. By using the short story format and a selection of diverse authors, CLASSICS MUTILATED not only rescues Monster Lit from its own built-in one-joke obsolescence (where the book’s title tells the entire story), but also re-energizes the field, creating its own genre. It’s not parody or satire, but way bent fiction done totally straight by some of the brightest talents on the scene, such as Joe R. Lansdale, John Shirley, Nancy Collins, Mike Resnick, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Thomas Tessier, Marc Laidlaw, John Skipp & Cody Goodfellow, and Rio Youers. Notable characters include Snow White, Huck Finn, Capt. Ahab, Sid Vicious, Billy the Kid, Emily Dickinson, Jim Morrison, Edgar Allan Poe, Loki, and Albert Einstein & Eleanor Roosevelt. Some of the featured authors/and or literary works found in these mashups are Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Legends of Asgard, H.G. Wells, Frankenstein, and more. All transformed in ways the mainstream could never imagine, or get away with. Every story appears here for the first time; each one written specifically for this collection. “Dread Island,” a masterful new novella by Joe R. Lansdale, anchors the collection. Note: the print version features 13 stories, the eBook has two extra tales, over 30,000 more words! Learn More

Often thought of as children’s tales, the original stories from the Brothers Grimm are nothing of the sort. Dark, vindictive and full of hard-to-swallow life lessons, this collection of Grimm’s Fairy Tales re-presents these lasting works with contemporary illustrations by Eisner Award-nominated artist Kevin Colden. Learn More

The continued re-presentation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary Sherlock Holmes! Kelley Jones provides striking color chapter art for this third volume, collecting Doyle’s luscious stories in chronological order. Learn More

GI JOE: Tales from the Cobra Wars is an action-packed collection of all-original prose stories. Flint, Scarlett, Destro, the Baroness―they’re all here as the ongoing war between GI JOE and COBRA is depicted from every angle. This trade paperback presents eight novella-length tales, penned by today’s leading crime and thriller writers, such as Jonathan Maberry, Duane Swierczynski, Chuck Dixon, and Dennis Tafoya. Cobra Wars is edited by Max Brooks, who also supplies a new story, and features new illustrations for each story. Learn More

Presenting a dozen-less-two high-value adventures straight from the global zombie/robot conflict, WOMEN ON WAR is definitive proof that IDW’s Band of Sisters can bring the Zombie Terror and Robot Menace as good (if not better) than their ZvR brothers. Tier One Operators in the theater of compelling (and often squishy) action-horror, this unique volume features all-new illustrations by IDW’s latest discovery, artist Ericka Lugo. Award-winning horror/dark fantasy writer Nancy Holder provides an insightful introductory essay. Leading literary experts agree, adding this distinctive title to your library is a real no-brainer, but you must act quickly, we won’t be keeping it in print for long, only initial orders are guaranteed to be filled. Learn More

Mankind has been silently infected by millennia-old bacteria unknowingly exhumed by a scientific expedition in Antarctica. Now, in some rare cases, a person’s so-called “junk DNA” becomes activated, and depending on their racial and ethnic heritage they begin to manifest one of the many diverse forms of the “others” that are the true basis for the legends of supernatural creatures.

Conceived by Jonathan Maberry, V WARS features stories from various “frontlines” as reported by such contributors as Nancy Holder, Yvonne Navarro, James A. Moore, Gregory Frost, John Everson, Keith R.A. DeCandido, and Scott Nicholson (as well as Maberry himself, of course). 

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