After a tragic encounter with an artifact known as "The Dreamstone," infamous treasure hunter Fabian Gray is possessed by five literary ghosts and granted access to their unique abilities.He is able to channel the fictional spirits of Dracula, Robin Hood, Merlin, Sherlock Holmes, and Miyamato Musash. This feels like a 70s throwback adventure series and is quite a lot of fun. Unfortunately this is the last book and does not conclude the series.

Looks good, but about as run of the mill as storylines get.

With many thanks to my local library, I was finally able to get my hands on this third volume. Summary (slight spoilers):In this volume, we pick up with Fabian traveling to Romania to try to find his friend, Sebastian, who he believes was kidnapped and taken there. In his travels, he learns that the plague has continued to spread, which is causing devastation in many towns. Unfortunately, that is not the only issue; there are also monster people that have been attacking villagers. But these aren...

My rating is really a three and a half. I really like this series, but I feel it's starting to slow down to a crawl. I did like us finally being able to see Dracula's ghost take over. Very interesting.

Excellent addition, now I am sad I have to wait for the 4th volume. Fabian deals with his ghosts, literally and comes to terms with the powers inside him. Wasn't really sure about the added story with the different art style in the back though, which is why I am giving 4 stars. It was rather jarring coming from the style the rest of the series has been in.

I really fun series. Barbiere and Mooneyham are a great team that turned out some great pulp adventure fun. It’s too bad the series ended when it did. I feel like there were plenty more stories for these two to tell about Fabian Gray and the mysterious Dreamstone.

This is the third, and I believe last volume in the series. Herein lies a tale of Fabian Gray and his dealings with the infamous Dr. Moreau. His creatures and creation are up to nefarious deeds in Romania. Gray teams up with Van Helsing and almost kills him while giving over to one of his ghosts, Dracula. The poison in his blood is defeated using Dracula's regenerative abilities, but then he succumbs to the power and for the first time in the series experiences huge powers. He defeats Dr. Moreau...

I now understand that the literary ghosts are more fictional to the reader than the characters here, as this is leaps into the territory of classic heroes and villains filling up the world of Fabian Gray, who may be too serious for his own series.

(Zero spoiler review) 3.25/5This one started out so promising, but halfway through the second issue collected here, I had to remind myself what story I was actually reading. The pulpy adventure cereal with a few dark, conspiratorial overtones had dissolved into a generic zombie beat em up. And not even a very good one at that. My complaint from the previous two volumes, that being not enough words I.E storytelling seemed to have been rectified early on, though it quickly fell into the same old t...

Why am I reading this book?It isn't the artwork... It isn't the dialogue. It has qualities of better books- Fables, the Unwritten, Penny Dreadful (that is a TV show, I know).I actually don't have the answer to this question. It was quick to read. Wasn't filled with useless exposition or redundant dialogue. That is usually the hardest thing to get through, when reading a not so great comic.

Fabian Gray is out hunting for his kidnapped friend and aids a boy in trouble. For his kindness, he get some clue as to what he will be facing when he arrives at his destination. But he still manages to fall into a trap. Lucky for Fabian and the hunter who aids him that his ghosts do not always possess him, but rather aid him. Through sheer perversity, Fabian manages to rescue his friend, obtain the antidote from Dr. Moreau, and escape with skin barely intact. But what will happen next since the...

I really wanted to like this series but nothing really happened? I kept waiting for moment when it would come together and be.... something, anything, but it never did.

Five Ghosts is a weird comic. Although it's not, it feels very retro. Almost like great stories from House of Secrets or House of Mystery. Mooneyham does a lot of splashes and large panels, so sometimes the story seems kinda light. I don't know. I do love the premise and the covers.

It's become obvious now why the series got canceled. It got old to just see Fabian get captured and escape so many times with little substance in between. I don't know why he still allows himself to be captured if he only needs to think of loved ones and he's free the next second. He should have his loved ones on his mind constantly. That would make him invincible.There are few revelations here and no character development, so there is nothing memorable in this volume. Just the same old pulp aga...

'Five Ghosts Volume 3: Monsters and Men' treads into more fictional character territory, and delivers up a rip-roaring pulp adventure.Fabian is on his way to tracking down his friend Sebastian in Romania with the help of the five ghosts he has been inhabited with. And he'll need their help because getting to where Sebastian is trapped, he comes across some super powerful men who seem more like animals. When famous vampire hunter Van Helsing shows up and Fabian is trapped in vampire mode with the...

The critically acclaimed literary pulp adventure continues! Fabian Gray journeys to Eastern Europe on a quest to save his closest ally while battling his own inner-demonsCollects Five Ghosts #13-17 and Five Ghosts: Special #1.

Another great entry in the series. Fabian hunting down a lost friend, meeting new allies, and fighting monsters in the Romanian wilderness. Less globe trotting that the first two volumes but you get a lot more Dracula's ghost that usual.

3.5 stars -- Good stories that pull together Van Helsing and Doctor Moreau -- the titular monsters being creations of Moreau. Van Hesling and the vampire in Gray initially fight (as one would expect) but eventually join forces against Moreau and his plan to use the citizens of a local town as his guinea pigs. The plot is good and I especially like the sepia frames that represent past events. Dialog still on the corny side.

This is a series that keeps getting better. It started off weak for me but the more I read, the more I get into it. The art is beautiful in this volume and the characters seem to have more depth. It feels straight out of the 50s and reminds me of any Indiana Jones movie. This is by far the best of this series so far.

I love this comic series a ridiculous amount. The premise is amazing – Fabian Grey is like Indiana Jones with superpowers – and the art is very pulp-fictiony and the colour tones used add to the creepiness.Fabian travels to Romania to find Sebastian and there he finds a town plagued by a sickness and some strange monsters. Once again, Five Ghosts doesn’t hold back on the violence. The battles are brutal and the monsters are really quite disgusting and scary. Also with Sebastian’s kidnap you lear...