VAMPIRELLA FEARY TALES (2014)

"While exploring the Transylvanian castle she's recently inherited, Vampirella discovers a strange old book of 'Feary Tales' that seems oddly familiar. Upon opening it, she is sucked inside its pages and lands in a weird alternate reality, where she is compelled by a disembodied voice calling itself The Storyteller to live out each of the 'feary tales' if she ever hopes to return to reality. In the first issue, Vampirella is surprised to discover herself married to an infamous wife-killer in 'Bluebeard's Blood' by Devin Grayson (Nightwing, Batman: Gotham Knights, Titans), and then finds herself both the belle and the bête of the ball in 'Cinderella? Vampirella!' by John Shirley (award-winning horror & science fiction author, and screenwriter for the 1994 cult classic film, The Crow)."

"Vampirella is still trapped in a mysterious dimension filled with twisted versions of classic children's stories. According to an unseen entity called The Storyteller, Vampirella's only hope of returning to her own world is if she lives out each chapter in the book of 'Feary Tales' until she reaches the end. Vampirella finds herself cast as 'Snow White' in a macabre re-imagining of the classic Betty Boop cartoon, written by Eisner & Jack Kirby award-winner Stephen R. Bissette (Saga of the Swamp Thing, Tyrant, Taboo) and Denis St. John (Monster Pie, Monsters & Girls: Amelia). Then Gail Simone (Red Sonja, Women of Dynamite, Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Secret Six) provides a fresh take on an old fishwife's tale when she sends Vampirella to a 'Thirsty, Thirsty Town' in the Old West to find out whether or not Sailor Jim and his mermaid bride, Nala, really are living 'happily ever after'."

"Vampirella's 45th anniversary celebration continues with this salute to her origins as the ghostess with the moistest, featuring fearsome fables by some of the best creators in comics! Vampirella is still trapped inside the nightmarish netherworld of the Feary Tales book, tormented by the disembodied voice of the mysterious Storyteller, and her only hope of escaping is if she can survive the ghoulish mix-ups of familiar nursery tales until she reaches the last story. But first she must weather Stephen R. Bissette (Swamp Thing, Tyrant, Taboo) and Denis St. John's (Monster Pie, Amelia) macabre re-imagining of the classic Betty Boop version of 'Snow White', then help track down a little missing mermaid in Gail Simone's (Red Sonja, Batgirl, Wonder Woman) 'Thirsty, Thirsty Town', with Storyteller segments by regular Vampirella scripter Nancy A. Collins (Swamp Thing, Sunglasses After Dark)."

"In the penultimate issue of the all-star anthology series celebrating the 45th anniversary of Vampirella's creation, every fang-boy's favorite pin-up ghoul is (un)dressed for success in 'The Vampire(r)s New Clothes' by Stuart Moore (Firestorm, Namor: The First Mutant). Vampirella then goes on to find herself in a very sticky situation in 'Hard By A Great Forest' by Eric Trautmann (Checkmate, Lady Rawhide), while Nancy A. Collins (Swamp Thing, Sunglasses After Dark) has her learning more about her mysterious blonde doppelganger."

"The celebration of the 45th anniversary of the creation of everyone's favorite vampire vixen reaches its senses-shattering conclusion in the fifth and final issue of Feary Tales. Vampirella is shocked when she meets the pun-happy Storyteller face-to-face, only to end up hip-deep in alligators in Steve Niles' (Thirty Days of Night, Army of Darkness, October Faction) swamp-monster retelling of 'The Frog Prince'. Then, in Nancy A. Collins' (Vampirella, Sunglasses After Dark, Swamp Thing) twisted take on 'Sleeping Beauty', a major character from the original Warren run is reintroduced when Vampirella finally discovers the true identity of her mysterious doppelganger and learns about her hidden connection to the enchanted book she is trapped inside in a weird and wicked resolution that ties in with the on-going monthly title-provided Vampi can escape a castle full of walking dead that have awoken from their centuries-long slumber with a royal appetite..."