Dylan Dog: Created by Tiziano Sclavi, Dylan Dog is the most famous horror protagonist in the world of Italian comics since 1986. The series features all the traditional horror elements, with references to Dracula, Werewolf, Frankenstein, etc., as well as modern splatter like George Romero and Dario Argento, and even stories with a detective atmosphere, fantastical, surrealistic, and always with great irony.

Dylan Dog is a private detective who deals exclusively with unusual cases. English, just over thirty, he lives in London, in a house filled with horror gadgets and a doorbell that screams chillingly instead of ringing.

Former member of the Scotland Yard, he has a mysterious past about which little is known, and what is known is wrapped in a dreamlike and surreal dimension. It is not by chance, therefore, that dreams (or rather nightmares) and everything beyond reality are his personal and professional interests. A man who, unlike many, does not deny the unknown but tries to penetrate it and understand it, especially when mystery and horror are hidden in the depths of the unconscious.

Jemma Press, in collaboration with Sergio Bonelli Editore, presents on these pages a selection of the best and most representative stories.

Dampyr: According to ancient legends of Slavic tradition, a Dampyr is a child born from the union of a woman and a vampire. Half human and half "other" creature, he is the only one capable of killing the arch-vampires or Lords of the Night, their sequence of undead and other creatures of darkness that infect our world and others. Harlan Draka is a Dampyr, but he doesn't know it at first. He knows he was born during the last world war and that, for reasons unknown to medical science, his body ages at a very slow rate: Harlan appears to be no more than twenty-five years old. He knows his mother died giving birth to him and that his father was an enemy soldier. He survives by deceiving naive villagers, playing the role of a vampire hunter. In the midst of a relentless civil war, when he is forcibly recruited by a unit of the militia led by someone named Kurjak, to fight a monstrous, supernatural enemy, Harlan Draka discovers that he is truly a Dampyr endowed with extraordinary powers.