After dying in a freak accident, Matt Cahill inexplicably "wakes up"
three months later with the disturbing ability to see things--terrible
things--that others cannot. Drafted as a warrior in the battle between
good and evil, Matt will stop at nothing to destroy the malevolent Mr.
Dark. In The Dead Man Volume 3, a trio of sinister new stories tracks
the reluctant hero on his nightmarish quest.
Matt's search for a paranoid visionary who claims to have defeated a
supernatural entity like Mr. Dark leads him deep into the Michigan
woods. But when he finds himself trapped in a bloody siege between
warring factions, his only hope for escape from an unstoppable advance
of mayhem, carnage, and black magic is to trust his instincts, grab his
ax, and unleash the ferocity of The Beast Within.
In Fire and Ice, a disgruntled ex-employee at a chemical company walks
into the plant and starts shooting, trapping Matt and four other workers
inside. As the body count rises, Matt realizes the shooter has a much
bigger, deadlier plan in mind, one that could leave thousands dead. And
just when he thinks the day can't get any worse, the cunning Mr. Dark
raises the stakes to horrifying heights.
Hungry for respite from his solitary mission, Matt takes a gig working
security at a traveling carnival. But it doesn't take long for him to
realize that something isn't quite right. Sure enough, a series of
violent events rocks the carnival and a charlatan's dark prophecies
suddenly begin coming true. So when she foresees imminent doom, Matt
knows it can only mean one thing: Mr. Dark is here, and it's not for the
cotton candy...it's to ignite a bloody Carnival of Death.
