Niles, Inc.: The Steve Niles-Ben Templesmith machine just keeps churning out the products. What's the current tally? Thirty-seven books? Fifty-one? Eh, who can keep track these days ...

After "Dark Days," the sequel to the mega-hit "30 Days of Night," wraps up in December, the duo will raise the dead again in January with "30 Days of Night Annual 2004."

Niles tells Newsarama that the annual will be a collection of four short stories, each by a different artist: Templesmith, Josh Medors, Brandon Hovet and Szymon Kudranski.

Templesmith's cover looks great, of course.