Part One of four stand alone stories from KJ Mendenhalls' Book of Monster Origins. Stories have long been told of the Pied Piper who leads kids through the deepest and darkest parts of the forest. But what happens when the children he is leading lose their way? Alone starts out as a feeding frenzy for the creatures that prey in these dark forest.

William Zhu is a homicide detective that has finally arrested the man responsible for over a hundred missing child cases over a thirty year period. Richard Pickman is the man responsible for these serial murders and William Zhu is driven to the edge of his sanity by the atrocities committed by Richard Pickman. William Zhu decides to kill Pickman,

Things ramp up in the late 1970s when the first gold-selling hip hop records are released. Details of Kurtis Blow's world tour and Sylvia Robinson seduces Grandmaster Flash to come over to Sugarhill records where he'll go on to create his most memorable work.

Cole Gibson is a frustrated fiction writer who discovers that his vivid and disturbing nightmares are a doorway into a frightening hidden realm of reality. He soon learns that the dangers of this dream world are all too real and that the choices he makes there threaten not only his family, but his very existence. First two issues were published by

When Hawke and Santini are "hired" by the CIA for an "off-the-books" catch-and-return mission of a South American drug lord, little do they suspect that they are walking into an international incident-in-the-making from which there may be no return!

When the Sheriff of an old western town is framed for murder by the State Marshall, he must realize that all things pass before he loses hope to move on.