Edgar Allan Poe's Snifter of Death (2021)

Irreverent, Poe-inspired tales of mystery and inebriation return in a new series! Mark Russell and Peter Snejbjerg expose chocolate vampires, fruit-flavored Frankensteins, and other crunchy creeps in an all-new Monster Serials thriller. If we survive that, writer Stuart Moore and artist Frank Cammuso chronicle an adventure of Edgar Allan Poe when he was a boy! Plus, illustrated prose features!

An automaton equipped to defeat an educated human in the game of chess? Preposterous! Poe himself undertakes to pierce the mechanical mystery in “Chess Player.” Plus! An ostensibly helpful bit of software tries to dominate a writer’s creative process in “Angle of the Odd.” Our special “Dread-of Devices” issue closes out with prose stories and a poem.

It’s MONSTER MONTH in the world’s weirdest horror/humor anthology! Who is killing the classic creatures? Find out in “Edgar Allan Poe’s Gore of Frankenstein!” How stupid were 19th century doctors? Learn the giant, bloodsucking answer in “Annabel’s Leech!” Plus: prose, pix, post, and possibly poetry!

Special Sinister Slogan Issue! MASK UP & VAX UP for “A Tale of the Great Plague!” VOTE GRUE NO MATTER WHO in “Edgar Allan Poe’s Werewolf of Washington!” All this plus a heaping treasure of AHOY illustrated prose!

Two complete, Poe-inflected comedies from new comics writer Kirk Vanderbeek. In “A Pound of Flesh,” a man guiltily obsesses over a debt to a friend who’s died. “Postal” introduces Augie Doobin, a consulting detective who won’t let a dose of LSD interfere with solving a murder case. PLUS: Prose, pictures, and possibly poetry!

Last issue! Our anthology theme this month is, "Complaining and Whining About How Terribly Public Life is Going!" First, a demon drags Poe through the hellish nightmare landscape we call the Internet, in "Silence: A Fable." Then! The American people elect a new President-Death itself, in "Putting the D in DC." All this plus prose, pix, and possibly, poems!