Horror comics the Code. While the genre has had greater and lesser periods of popularity, it occupies a firm niche in comics as of the 2010s. Precursors to horror comics include detective and crime comics that incorporated horror motifs into their graphics, and early superhero stories that sometimes included the likes of ghouls and vampires. Individual horror stories appeared as early as 1940. The first dedicated horror comic books appear to be Gilberton Publications' "Classic Comics" #13 (August 1943), with its full-length adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", and Avon Publications' anthology "Eerie" #1 (January
Jennifer Stevenson (author) underclass. Stevenson has created three series of fantasy novels, loosely set within the same universe: "Hinky Chicago" (romantic fantasy, featuring female heroes Jewel Heiss, a fraud cop/investigator, and Hel, an energy vampire); "Slacker Demons" (paranormal romance, about retired gods now slumming it as incubi); and the upcoming "Coed Demon Sluts" (fantasy paired with "women's fiction", in ways that recovers the conventionally sexist, dark fantasy/horror trope of the succubus to explore female lives). Stevenson also writes "Backstage Boys," a non-magical novel series about the comic adventures of sexy stagehands, turning men who typically perform working-class labor and own union cards, into