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Here at Dread Central we're big fans of Bela Lugosi's Tales from the Grave (read our review of Issue #1 here) so we're very happy to remind everyone that Issue #2 arrives in comic stores everywhere next Wednesday, May 2nd!

Monsterverse premiered the second issue of its critically acclaimed Bela Lugosi's Tales from the Grave (with cover by the Academy Award winning Rick Baker) at the Monsterpalooza horror event, which was held at the Burbank Airport Marriott Hotel the weekend of April 13th-15th, where everyone agreed the new issue was a spectacular addition to the Monsterverse line of books.

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Bela Lugosi'S Tales From The Grave #2 is a double-sized horror comic book that offers 52 "gore-geous" pages of freaky art and disturbing text and can be found at finer comic shops on Wednesday, May 2nd, for a mere $4.99. That's double the horror of other sorta-kinda-maybe scary comics.

Bela Lugosi...

In October, just in time for Halloween, Monsterverse will be releasing Volume One of its new graphic novel series Flesh and Blood written by Robert Tinnell and illustrated by Neil D. Vokes. Sam Park, West Coast Editor of Monsterverse's Bela Lugosi's Tales from the Grave anthology comics, recently interviewed Vokes and has graciously shared his ten Q&A's with Dread Central.

Well known comic book writer Kurt Busiek describes Neil Vokes as "a true original -- creative, cantankerous, enthusiastic and an all-around great guy." After reading his conversation with Sam, we tend to agree. Check it out below, and let us know what you think!

Q1. Who are you, and how can people learn more about you and your work?

Nv: Neil Vokes, artist. I can be found via my "That's All Vokes!" blog and in the "That's All Vokes!" Yahoo! group.

Q2. What brought you to this moment as a creator?...

Let’s pretend for a moment that you, an FM reader, are a fan of classic movie monsters. You know, stuff like Dracula, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Wolfman, Frankenstein’s Monster, etc.

Got it? Ok, good. Just stay with me here.

Now let’s also pretend that you’re a fan of horror films like those that featured, I don’t know, the monsters I mentioned above.

Wow, you’re really good at this game!

Now that you’re all good and hyped up, prepare yourself for an additional dose of excitement if you also happen to be a fan of comic books. Sometime in September, Monsterverse will be releasing a comic anthology entitled Tales from the Grave. Bela Lugosi (do I really need to tell you who he is? I mean, seriously) will be taking on hosting duties for the horror romp.

Kerry Gammill (Superman, Power...