What joy have I in June's return? Dark Horse Comics releases its June and July solicitations, which include B.P.R.D.: A Plague of Frogs, a guest appearance by Hellboy in The Goon #7, a Stevel Niles-Rob Zombie collaboration in The Nail #1 ... and a Neil Gaiman book? Why haven't I seen anything about the Creatures of the Night hardcover before now? Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places:

"Written by Neil Gaiman, art by Michael Zulli.

"From the New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman comes a brand new hardcover collection, featuring two magical and disturbing stories lushly adapted to comics by veteran painter Michael Zulli. Newly rewritten by Gaiman for this graphic novel, these two ominous stories from the author¹s award-winning prose, Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions, feature animals and people not being quite what they seem. In 'The Price,' a black cat like a small panther arrives at a country home and is soon beset by mysterious and vicious wounds. What is he fighting every night that could do this, and why does he persist? 'The Daughter of Owls' recounts an eerie old tale of a foundling girl who was left‹with an owl pellet‹as a newborn on the steps of the Dymton Church. She was soon cloistered away in a local convent, but by her fourteenth year word of her beauty had spread‹and those who would prey upon her faced unforeseen consequences.

"48 pages, $12.95, in stores on July 4."