Sunday Trade: Beasts of Burden

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Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites written by Evan Dorkin, drawn by Jill Thompson and lettering by Jason Arthur and Jill Thompson

Burden Hill seems to be a normal, peaceful suburb like any other. Yards full of green grass fenced in with white picket. House pets roaming all about. But something dark and dangerous keeps stirring in the nearby woods. Haunted dog-houses, Black Sabbaths and zombie roadkill among other horrors. And as things continue to grow darker one group of dogs must learn to become Wise Dogs (and one cat) to protect their homes and families...

This volume (cheaply priced at 20 bucks for a hard-back) collects the various short stories from the Dark House Book of... anthologies as well as the 4-issue Beasts of Burden mini-series. Giving you eight stories by Dorkin and Thompson of heroic house-pets battling the super-natural that are both wonderfully adorable and terribly horrifying at the same time...