The city of Yharnam: an ancient, gothic metropolis and home to the Healing Church. The Healing Church is known for its miraculous blood-based curatives, of which many – citizens and travellers alike – seek to exploit. Recent days have seen the city fall foul to a nightmarish plague known as the Ashen Blood disease, the source of which remains a mystery. Trapped in a threatening world of gods and monsters, where reality is never what it seems, one man resolves to welcome the madness, and the truth it may reveal…
The plague of blood-thirsty beasts has struck the city of Yharnam. The world of old gods is bleeding into reality. One traveller seeks truth in the madness, hoping to unlock the secrets of the universe itself… Unveil reality, as writer Ales Kot (Generation Gone, Days of Hate) and artist Piotr Kowalski (Dark Tower, Sex, 30 Days of Night) once again unleash hell in Yharnam. Set in the world of Bloodborne – Fromsoftware/Miyakzaki’s critically acclaimed videogame! Collects Bloodborne #13-16.
Ten years ago, a mysterious space-ship crashed on Macross Island… In the intervening years, the people of Earth have use the ‘Robotechnology’ from the ship to significantly advance their own technology. The ship – named by the humans as the Super-Dimension Fortress – actually belongs to a race of giant aliens, the Zentraedi. The Zentraedi attack and the crew of the SDF-1 are forced to space-fold away – take a chunk of Macross City (and its 70,000 citizens) with them. The SDF-1 has been in the midst of a long journey back to Earth. Along the way, the SDF-1’s Captain Gloval, was killed under mysterious circumstances and Lisa Hayes took over his position… Rick appears to have gone blind, but has somehow developed a different kind of vision – possibly connected to the Protoculture that powers Robotechnology. He is now concerned that Minmei has been affected… It emerges that Earth’s leaders had told the populace that the SDF-1 had been destroyed, in order to avoid panic about the threat of the Zentraedi. Lisa Hayes has been trying to persuade Earth’s leaders (including her own father) to let them return home, to little avail…Meanwhile, Earth’s Joint Chiefs have been preparing their own powerful defences against a possible Zentraedi attack… Meanwhile, Roy is being held prisoner by Dr Lazlo Zand, one of the first scientists to originally board the SDF-1. During his exploration, Zand had discovered a cloning facility – and the fact that the SDF-1 could travel through parallel dimensions… A deadly clone of Roy is doing Zand’s bidding on the SDF-1, and has murdered TR Edwards, who also knows the secrets of the SDF-1. And finally, Minmei has asked Rick to take her on a secret mission to Aluce Base, while Breetai has goaded Miriya into seeking revenge on Max Sterling.
Max, a wealthy man of the world falls for Molly, a 25 year old paramedic. The problem is: Max is a 300 year old vampire. He turns Molly into a vampire to save her life and a door is opened to his secret world. Molly moves into his penthouse and meets his friends, discovering they are avid art collectors and Jets fans. She has more in common with vampires than she thought. They travel to Moscow, Paris, South Africa and Switzerland where Max shows Molly his lifeWhen young girls are turning up dead with their bodies drained of blood, Max, Molly and their friends look for the killer. Is it one of their own? Or a rogue vampire? Or a kid from a Goth cult?Molly and Max share a secret about their intimate life, something that is forbidden for vampires, something that could destroy them unless they stop. But will they stop before it is too late?
Over five million workers in health care related fields are at risk to exposure to bloodborne pathogens, such as the HIV virus and hepatitis B virus. Designed to meet the current Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) training requirements, Bloodborne and Airborne Pathogens, Sixth Edition is designed to teach students and employees how to prepare for potential occupational exposure to blood or other potentially infectious materials. Bloodborne and Airborne Pathogens, Sixth Edition also includes supplemental information on airborne pathogens, such as tuberculosis, and other unusua
In the vein of their cult-classic dark fantasy titles Demon's Souls (2009) and the Dark Souls franchise (2011, 2014, 2016), game developers FromSoftware released the bleak Gothic horror Bloodborne in 2015. Players are cast in the role of hunters in a hostile land, probing the shadowy city of Yharnam in search of "paleblood." The game achieved iconic status as both a horror and an action title for its rich lore and for the continuity of story elements through all aspects of game design. This first full-length study examines Bloodborne's themes of dangerous knowledge and fatal pride and its aesthetics in the context of other works on game studies, horror and the Gothic. The book's three parts focus on lore and narrative, the game's nightmarish world, and its mechanics.
The nameless hunter continues on his quest in search of paleblood, while all the time trying to avoid the attentions of the horrific beasts that stalk their every move. Written by Ales Kot.
Awakening in an ancient city plagued by a twisted endemic – where horrific beasts stalk the shadows and the streets run slick with the blood of the damned – a nameless hunter embarks on a dangerous quest in search of Paleblood…
