The Concept: Cole Gibson is a frustrated fiction writer who discovers that his vivid and disturbing nightmares are a doorway into a frightening hidden realm of reality. He soon learns that the dangers of this dream world are all too real and that the choices he makes there threaten not only his family, but his very existence.

This Issue: "The Vacant"—Cole Gibson's exploration of the astral realm take a terrifying turn as he loses his earthly body to an agent of Ramman intent on taking Cole's family as his own. Despair swallows Cole and new revelations about his past and potential future bring him to the literal edge of oblivion.