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Before Dracula, before Nosferatu, there was...CARMILLA.

At the height of the Lunar New Year in 1990s New York City, an idealistic social worker turns detective when she discovers young, homeless LGBTQ+ women are being murdered and no one, especially the police, seems to care.

A series of clues points her to Carmilla's, a mysterious nightclub in the heart of her neighborhood, Chinatown. There she falls for the next likely target, landing her at the center of a real-life horror story--and face-to-face with illusions about herself, her life, and her hidden past.

Inspired by the gothic novel that started the vampire genre and layered with dark Chinese folklore, this queer, feminist murder mystery is a tale of identity, obsession and fateful family secrets.

Amy Chu is a writer for comics and TV, currently with the Netflix anime series DOTA: Dragon's Blood. Her comics work include an acclaimed run on Red Sonja; for DC and Marvel, she's written stories for Wonder Woman, Poison Ivy, Deadpool, Ant-Man and Iron Man. For young readers, she has written the graphic novels Sea Sirens and Sky Island (Penguin Random House) and Ana & the Cosmic Race (Papercutz).

Soo Lee is a comic artist and illustrator who has worked on various covers and sequential art for Image, Oni Press, and the Ahoy series, Ash & Thorn with Mariah McCourt, which has been optioned for TV. She has also done editorial illustrations for Analog Sci-Fi Magazine and Sierra Magazine, and the iconic cover art for the Ringo Award winning anthology, Mine! By ComicMix.