Buffy The Vampire Slayer Omnibus Volume 5

Volume Five of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus series begins immediately after Season Three, after Sunnydale High has gone up in flames. Buffy is plagued by dreams of fellow Slayer Faith, who now lies in a coma. Jane Espenson, the celebrated writer from the Buffy TV show, who went on to work on Battlestar Galactica, writes the powerful Faith story Haunted. And as summer comes to an end, Buffy and Willow begin their first year of college having to take on a local boogeyman in The Blood of Carthage, in a story written by acclaimed Buffy novelist Christopher Golden. Meanwhile, Buffy embarks on a new romance with upperclassman Riley Finn, and Willow and Oz's relationship comes to an end when Oz leaves Sunnydale in search of himself and his Werewolf heritage in Golden's Oz: Into the Wild. This volume also features work by Buffy Season Eight contributors Cliff Richards, Paul Lee, and Brian Horton.

Joss Whedon was born in New York City in 1964. He started out as a staff writer for the 1990s sitcom Roseanne and worked on films, including Toy Story. In 1992 he penned the script for a film, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and when the TV version starring Sarah Michelle Gellar took off in 1997, Whedon had his big break—with its female action heroine, Buffy, became a huge hit. Whedon wrote hundreds of episodes for Buffy and its spin-off Angel, and was nominated for Emmy and Hugo awards for his work. Whedon has come to enjoy a cult following. The author lives in Santa Monica, California.

Cliff Richards is a comic book artist known for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Faith, Dollhouse, Ghost, Spike, and Wonderwoman. Richards was born in Brazil.

Christopher Golden is the New York Times bestselling author of such novels as Snowblind, Tin Men, The Myth Hunters, Wildwood Road, The Boys Are Back in Town, The Ferryman, Strangewood, and Of Saints and Shadows. He has also written books for teens and young adults, including Poison Ink, Soulless, and the thriller series Body of Evidence, which was honored by the New York Public Library and chosen as one of YALSA's Best Books for Young Readers.

Golden cowrote the illustrated novel Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire with Mike Mignola, which became the launching pad for the cult favorite comics series Baltimore. As an editor, he has worked on the short story anthologies Seize the Night, The New Dead, and The Monster's Corner, among others, and has also written and cowritten comic books, video games, screenplays, a BBC radio play, the online animated series Ghosts of Albion (with Amber Benson), and a network television pilot.

Golden was born and raised in Massachusetts, where he still lives with his family. His original novels have been published in more than fourteen languages in countries around the world.

Please visit him at christophergolden.com.