Welcome to Burden Hill -- a picturesque little town adorned with white
picket fences and green, green grass, home to a unique team of
paranormal investigators. Beneath this shiny exterior, Burden Hill
harbors dark and sinister secrets, and it's up to a heroic gang of dogs
-- and one cat -- to protect the town from the evil forces at work.
These are the Beasts of Burden Hill -- Pugs, Ace, Jack, Whitey, Red and
the Orphan -- whose early experiences with the paranormal (including a
haunted doghouse, a witches' coven, and a pack of canine zombies) have
led them to become members of the Wise Dog Society, official animal
agents sworn to protect their town from evil. This turns out to be no
easy task, as they soon encounter demonic cannibal frogs, tortured
spirits, a secret rat society, and a bizarre and deadly resurrection in
the Burden Hill cemetery -- events which lead to fear and heartbreak as
our four-legged heroes discover that the evil within Burden Hill is
growing and on the move. Can our heroes overcome these supernatural
menaces? Can evil be bested by a paranormal team that doesn't have
hands? And even more importantly, will Pugs ever shut the hell up?
Adventure, mystery, horror, and humor thrive on every page of Beasts of
Burden -- a comic-book series that will capture readers' hearts and
haunt their dreams.
Award-winning comics creators Evan Dorkin (Milk and Cheese) and Jill
Thompson (Scary Godmother) first introduced these very special
investigators in The Dark Horse Book of Hauntings and the other Dark
Horse Book of . . . anthologies, for which they won coveted Eisner
Awards for Best Short Story and Best Painter. Those first tales are
collected here, along with the comic series Beasts of Burden issues
#1-#4.
