Simon Spurrier

Simon Spurrier delivers a devastating new chapter in the most brutalsurvival horror story being published. The island was a safe place. Sure therewere petty politics, strife, and discontent, but that was life on Cava. Now thearrival of the American drift fleet brings true civilization back to the littleparadise and opens the eyes of the petty and the jealous. Everythingthey've created on the island is but a shadow of the luxury and apparentsafety the drift fleet has acquired. And what of the strange Crossed woman thatis tied to Shaky's past? Is she a savior holding back the Crossedberserkers from their eventual urges to rape and pillage? Or is she a demonwaiting for the moment to strike? Hell is coming for the island survivors and noplace is safe from the monsters in its wake. In a world without help and withouthope....there is only the Crossed. Collects the fourth chapter of the hit online web comic Crossed: Wish YouWere Here.

Two very different Crossed scribes open new wounds in the miserableworld of the Crossed Daniel Way introduces a naval captain and his crewas they attempt to survive the plague of insanity spreading across the globe in"Grave New World." He's a shrewd man and watching the monsters has given him aninsightful plan for saving those in his charge. But whether it's inspiration orinsanity, the crew still faces the gleeful misery of the Crossed. And SimonSpurrier returns to tell a tale set in the infected outback. Todd drives a roadtrain through the desolate Australian desert. Before C-day he was a loser, anoutcast, a fat nobody with a nobody-job. Now he's an Emperor of the wasteland.His rig and its trailers are the safest place around -- stocked to the brimwith canned food and gasoline. But his desire to have a harem who worship himopens himself up to the true horrors of the outback. In the world ofCrossed... there is no help. There is no hope. There's only theCrossed.This volume collects Crossed: Badlands #44-49 and the CrossedSpecial 2013.

Welcome to Vermintown! Nobody gives a crap about the little people any more. Once they were the mainstay of folklore: goblins, leprechauns, pixies, and fey. But now? Dispossessed, forgotten, doubting even their own traditions, they've trickled into Vermintown: a vast and vile city of a million inch-tall malcontents. Sprawling through an abandoned subway station deep beneath London, here myth has given way to sleaze, drugs, gangland violence, and interracial hatred. Vermintown is where magic went to die. What ever happened to magic? Disenchanted answers that question with all the ugliness of the fairy slums in this first chapter of the collected webseries.

Two of the hottest names in horror deliver three tales of terror in thisvolume of vile repulsions Simon Spurrier spins the mad tale of the insanesurvivalist from Crossed: Wish You Were Here - Jackson What goes throughthe mind of a madman in an insane world? Find out as Jackson revisits histwisted past and ushers out his brand of righteous violence against the maniacalCrossed. And from the Badlands vault comes Spurrier's Crossed taleof hippies meet grindhouse terror like you've never experienced in "AmericanQuitters." Two bikers who couldn't be more different find common ground as theyattempt to deal with the ghosts of the past while facing the harsh realities ofa Crossed world. Finally, experience the first hours of the Crossed outbreak inJapan as David Hine releases the "Gore Angels." What happens when an abusedmanga artist in a traditional Japanese home must not only face grinning Crosseddevils, but also the men that sexually attacked her? The result is a tale ofmisery and vengeance made reality Collects issues #37-43 of the Crossed: Badlands series and theCrossed 2013 Annual.

Manipulation, deceit, and petty politics rule the plague survivors living off the Scottish coast and pretending their isolated island is safe from the Crossed. But every day brings them closer to a horrible reckoning and the truth behind Shaky’s past begins to reveal his hidden nature. Now the island dreamers have met up with a society living upon a floating city of derelict boats. But the feeling that something very bad is about to happen is palpable. And the survivors must decide if they should trust in their new allies or treat the uninfected with as much caution as the insane Crossed maniacs. This is the story of the search for meaning in in a world filled with homicidal lunatics. There is no help. There is no hope. There’s only the Crossed.Collects the third chapter of the runaway hit webcomic from www.crossedcomic.com.

A group of Crossed plague survivors off the Scottish coast defend their isolated island and pretend that they are safe from the gleeful violent misery of the Crossed. Shaky has manipulated his fellow castaways into sending him away from the faux safety of the camp and into the ravages of the Crossed world. His desire to be rid of the infighting and petty squabbling puts him in a much deadlier world but his ultimate goals go beyond the survival and denial of those living on the Coast of Cava. This is his story, the search for meaning in in a world filled with homicidal maniacs. There is no hope. There's only the Crossed. Collects the second chapter of the runaway hit webcomic from www.crossedcomic.com.

A contagion--or a curse--has decimated the planet. Marked with a bloody cross, the Infected are driven to indulge their sickest desires. In this world of psychos, savages, and sexual predators, the few remaining uninfected learn to keep moving: endlessly fleeing fate. This is the story of those who refused. Those who are too desperate, too angry, or too broken to hide from horror. It's the story of a comic-book writer who witnessed the downfall of London, and now finds himself in the midst of a new community, a new start, on a barren island off the Scottish coast. Pretending, just for a while, that he's safe, that he's useful...that he has a future. It won't last. There's no sanctuary. No fighting back. No hope. There's only the Crossed.

A missing mobster. A bizarre spiritualist society. And three deaths, linked by a chilling forensic detail.Working as an enforcer in London's criminal underworld brought Dan Shaper to the edge of a breakdown. Now he's a private investigator, kept perilously afloat by a growing cocktail of drugs. He needs to straighten-up and rebuild his life, but instead gets the attention of his old gangland masters and a job-offer from Mr George Glass. The elderly eccentric claims to be a New Age Messiah, but now needs a saviour of his own. He's been marked for murder.Adrift amidst liars and thugs, Shaper must push his capsizing mind to its limits: stalked not only by a unique and terrifying killer, but by the ghosts of his own brutal past.

Michael Point doesn't seem anything special. He dresses conservatively, is thoughtful, methodical and well spoken. He also happens to kill people for a living. It's not about getting back at the world; for Michael it's much simpler than that: It's All About The Money. But things are starting to get strange: his hits are coming back to life and trying to kill him. Is he losing his mind? Or could it be that the things he sees aren't delusions at all, but hints of a divine conflict: a heavenly war, sucking him in...?