Like sports, the victor is he who wants it more. Unlike sports, the loser earns extinction. Mankind has fought for survival over countless millennia, but nothing has threatened humanity's existence like the murderous Alien scourge. While some have tried to use the creatures' deadly abilities to serve their own selfish ends, no one can dance with the devil, and ultimately only one species must prevail. To that end, men have turned their own lethal instincts and cold intellect against the monsters, creating engineered plagues, cybernetic fighting suits, and even bogus android aliens, but survival rides not on technology, but on the primacy of the most deep-rooted, feral instincts. * Nearly four hundred story pages in full color, some never before collected! * Creators include horror novelist Chet Williamson, as well as John Arcudi, Doug Mahnke, Jon Wagner, Ronnie del Carmen, and many more! * Collectes Music of the Spears #1 - 4, Stronghold, Berserker #1 - 4, "Taste", and the "Mondo Pest" and "Mondo Heat" one-shots.

本書は、エイリアンという絶対的な死の象徴に対し、人間がどこまで理性を保ち、あるいは野性に回帰できるかを問うた傑作選です。ホラー作家チェット・ウィリアムスンらが描く物語は、単なる怪物との死闘を超え、極限状態での芸術や倫理の崩壊を鋭く抉り出しています。文明の象徴であるテクノロジーが根源的な恐怖の前でいかに無力か、その皮肉な構図こそが本作の文学的な白眉です。 登場人物たちの知略や兵器は、生存という原始的な本能を際立たせるための装置に過ぎません。悪魔と踊ろうとする人間の業、そして強欲が生む破滅の美学。本作は、ＳＦホラーの枠を借りて「人間とは何か」という根源的な問いを突きつけてきます。圧倒的な絶望の中で輝く、冷徹な知性と野生の衝突に、読者は魂を揺さぶられずにはいられないでしょう。