An explorer named Fabian Gray has five chunks of a magical "Dreamstone" imbedded in his chest from when it exploded. Through these stones he can call upon five literary ghosts. There is the detective, who is Sherlock Holmes. A ranger who appears to be Robin Hood. Dracula or at least a vampiric figure, though I am pretty sure it is Dracula. Finally there is a magician and a samurai. Neither of these were recognizable as anything other then representations of a genre. The same explosion that imbedded the stones in his chest trapped his sister Silvia. Gray believes the only way to free her is to track down all of the missing stone pieces. This graphic novel series reminds me a lot of Indian Jones. In fact if you replaced Gray with Jones and removed the ghosts it would still be a plausible story right down to the giant spiders and killer tribesmen. If you liked the Indiana Jones novels then you should read this as well.
This was another one of my table finds. I am glad our patrons have such great tastes!
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