Monster Born

Amanda Lam always finds herself fighting. Humans or monsters—it’s what she knows best.

Kidnapped by an undead creature as a child, she had to fight to survive and eventually fight for her freedom. Since then she has vowed to eradicate the world of the kinds of monsters that caused her so much pain. But when the mother and father she never knew die, her life becomes entangled with her family in ways more complicated than she could imagine.

Join Amanda as she’s recruited to do what she does best in a fight against werewolves, vampires, and more—from master storytellers Steve Niles, Shannon Eric Denton, and legendary artist Tom Mandrake!
Steve Niles was born June 21, 1965. He is an American comic book author and novelist, known for works such as 30 Days of Night, Criminal Macabre, Simon Dark, Mystery Society, and Batman: Gotham County Line. Niles was born in Jackson, New Jersey, and he was raised in the Washington, DC suburbs, developing various creative interests in music, writing, and making amateur films. He is credited among other contemporary writers for bringing horror comics back to prominence. View titles by Steve Niles
Michael Atiyeh is an artist, colorist, and cover artist who has worked on the Conan, Akaneiro, Dragon Age, Dungeon Siege III, and the Fallout graphic novels and comic books. 
You can find Atiyeh's art at m-atiyeh.deviantart.com. View titles by Michael Atiyeh

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Amanda Lam always finds herself fighting. Humans or monsters—it’s what she knows best.

Kidnapped by an undead creature as a child, she had to fight to survive and eventually fight for her freedom. Since then she has vowed to eradicate the world of the kinds of monsters that caused her so much pain. But when the mother and father she never knew die, her life becomes entangled with her family in ways more complicated than she could imagine.

Join Amanda as she’s recruited to do what she does best in a fight against werewolves, vampires, and more—from master storytellers Steve Niles, Shannon Eric Denton, and legendary artist Tom Mandrake!

Author

Steve Niles was born June 21, 1965. He is an American comic book author and novelist, known for works such as 30 Days of Night, Criminal Macabre, Simon Dark, Mystery Society, and Batman: Gotham County Line. Niles was born in Jackson, New Jersey, and he was raised in the Washington, DC suburbs, developing various creative interests in music, writing, and making amateur films. He is credited among other contemporary writers for bringing horror comics back to prominence. View titles by Steve Niles
Michael Atiyeh is an artist, colorist, and cover artist who has worked on the Conan, Akaneiro, Dragon Age, Dungeon Siege III, and the Fallout graphic novels and comic books. 
You can find Atiyeh's art at m-atiyeh.deviantart.com. View titles by Michael Atiyeh

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