The horror icon Vampirella returns to her roots, courtesy of Bram StokerAward-winning author Nancy A. Collins (Sunglasses After Dark)! Vampirellais sent by the Vatican to investigate the kidnapping of a little girl by EthanShroud and the Chaos Cult, only to become the centerpiece of a ritual invokingLady Umbra, the sister-bride of Chaos, that leaves her marked as a livingsacrifice to the dark goddess who rules the shadows. Hunted by the MallusMaleficarum, an elite hit-squad of monster-killers also known as "TheWitch-Hammer", she finds her world abruptly turned upside down... and herselfunexpectedly allied with the strangest bedfellow imaginable!
