Carl Kolchak, whether he wants the mantle or not, is the world's premier supernatural investigator. Vampires, werewolves, witches, demons, he has seen it all. Or ... has he? Can even all the horrors he has stumbled across prepare him for the monstrous denizens of the Lovecraft Mythos, let alone its most damned volume, the Necronomicon?

New short stories of searing white-hot prose starring pulpdom's most violent and ruthless crime fighter ever: THE SPIDER More just than the law, more dangerous than the Underworld...hated, feared and wanted by both One cloaked, fanged, border-line crazy denizen of the dark force-feeding hard justice with a pair of 45's Guest stars: The Black bat, The Green Ghost, and Operartor 5 Featuring stories by Will Murray, Mel Odom, C.J. Henderson, James Chambers, Ron Fortier, Bobby Nash, Howard Hopkins, Eric Fein, Gary Phillips, Don Roff, Matthew Baugh, I.A. Wilson, and Rik Hoskin.