The horror icon Vampirella returns to her roots courtesy of Bram Stoker Award-winning author Nancy A Collins (Sunglasses After Dark)! Vampirella is sent by the Vatican to investigate the kidnapping of a little girl by Ethan Shroud & the Chaos Cult only to become the centerpiece of a ritual invoking Lady Umbra the sister-bride of Chaos that leaves her marked as a living sacrifice to the dark goddess who rules the shadows Hunted by the Mallus Maleficarum an elite hit-squad of monster-killers also known as " The Witch-Hammer" she finds her world abruptly turned upside down & herself unexpectedly allied with the strangest bedfellow imaginable!