With BALTIMORE, Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden Lay Siege to the Reader S Imagination

Contact: Chris Artis, 212-782-9037, [email protected] BALTIMORE, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire By Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden With Illustrations by Mike Mignola To Be Published as a Bantam Spectra Hardcover on September 4, 2007

“With BALTIMORE, Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden lay siege to the reader’s imagination with a grim battalion of gothic images and a thunderous barrage of narrative artillery. This is not a novel: it’s a war machine. Surrender immediately.” —Joe Hill, author of Heart-Shaped Box

“The lush, labyrinthine BALTIMORE evokes the best from two of our most gifted artists. Christopher Golden and Mike Mignola have created a book that will be enjoyed and admired for decades to come.” —Peter Straub, author of Ghost Story

“BALTIMORE is an old time rootin’ tootin’ sense of wonder story dragged through a modern blender, then slow baked in hell. I loved it. It was velvet bullet —speedy and rich in sensation. Go boys, go.” —Joe R. Lansdale, author of Lost Echoes

With the publication of BALTIMORE, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire, an illustrated novel that is a dazzling visual and literary experience, renowned comic artist and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and Bram Stoker Award- winning author Christopher Golden have teamed up to create a stunning collaboration that pushes the boundaries of contemporary fiction. BALTIMORE will be published as a Bantam Spectra Hardcover on September 4, 2007. In the novel, British aristocrat Lord Henry Baltimore, a captain in the British infantry, unwittingly awakens a vampire on a blood-soaked battlefield during World War I, unleashing a virulent plague that wreaks havoc around the world. In a desperate and solitary struggle against this advancing darkness, Lord Baltimore summons three old friends to a lonely tavern in a decimated city—men who are inclined to believe in the evil that is devouring the soul of mankind. As they await his arrival, they share their tales of terror and misadventure, and contemplate what role they will play in his battle. Readers are left with a chilling portrait of a man who has doomed himself to a tragic immortality, as well as a world forever changed by his actions. Mignola’s 150 black-and-white ink drawings, which range from spot art to seven full-page illustrations, elevate the story’s eeriness and help to make BALTIMORE viscerally appealing to fans of fantasy, the paranormal, and graphic novels, alike.

-more- ABOUT THE AUTHORS Mike Mignola is the award-winning creator/writer/artist of Hellboy. He was also visual consultant on both “Blade 2” and the film version of Hellboy. He lives in Manhattan Beach, California, with his wife and daughter.

Christopher Golden is the award-winning, Los Angles Times bestselling author of The Ferryman, and the Body of Evidence series of teen thrillers. He has also written and co-written many books and comic books related to the TV series “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Angel.” He lives with his family in Massachusetts.

BALTIMORE, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire By Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden Illustrated by Mike Mignola A Bantam Spectra Hardcover Publication Date: September 4, 2007 $25.00 / 978-0-533-80471-3 / 336 pages