• Cursed with bad luck and trapped in a monotonous life, anunfortunate young man named Zazil longs to escape from the drudgery of hiswaking life and the troubled thoughts that haunt him. A good luck charm thatZazil finds in a dusty curio shop proves to be his ticket away from the mundane,but it brings him everything but good luck. When soul-stealing creatures calledCharnocks pursue Zazil through strange lands and ghost trains, he must use hiswits and courage to escape them - and finally face his past.

• The 13th of Never is filled with detailed ink drawingsthat ring of a modern Edward Gorey, and a storyline filled with darkfantasy.

• Crab Scrambly, the artist known to Slave Labor Graphicsreaders from his paintings in the storybook Everything Can Be Beaten,written by Chancre Scolex (sometimes known as Jhonen Vasquez), now has pennedand illustrated a storybook of his own, The 13th of Never. The 72-pagenovella features more than 30 full-page black-and-white drawings byScrambly.