ALSO BY MIKE MIGNOLA
Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire (with Christopher Golden)
The Amazing Screw-On Head and Other Curious Objects (graphic novel)
Hellboy graphic novel series
B.P.R.D. graphic novel series
Witchfinder: In the Service of Angels (graphic novel)
Lobster Johnson Volume 1: Iron Prometheus (graphic novel)
Abe Sapien: The Drowning (graphic novel)
Jenny Finn (graphic novel)
Zombieworld: Champion of the Worms (graphic novel)
ALSO BY CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN
Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire (with Mike Mignola)
The New Dead (editor)
The Myth Hunters
The Borderkind
The Lost Ones
The Monster’s Corner: Stories Through Inhuman Eyes (editor)
Wildwood Road
The Boys Are Back in Town
Of Saints and Shadows
Angel Souls and Devil Hearts
Of Masques and Martyrs
The Gathering Dark
The Ocean Dark (as Jack Rogan)
The Collective (as Jack Rogan)
About the Authors
Mike Mignola is best known as the New York Times bestselling, award-winning creator/writer/artist of the Hellboy series. Mignola lives in Southern California with his wife, daughter, and cat. Visit his Web site at www.theartofmikemignola.com.
Christopher Golden is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of such novels as The Myth Hunters, The Boys Are Back in Town, Strangerwood, and Of Saints and Shadows. He cowrote the lavishly illustrated novel Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire with Mike Mignola, and the comic book series featuring the same character. Visit his Web site at www.christophergolden.com.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
JOE GOLEM AND THE DROWNING CITY. Copyright © 2012 by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
www.stmartins.com
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Mignola, Michael.
Joe Golem and the drowning city : an illustrated novel / Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden.
ISBN 978-0-312-64473-4 (hardback)
ISBN 978-1-4299-4079-5 (e-book)
1. Teenage girls—Fiction. 2. Private investigators—Fiction. 3. Paranormal fiction. 4. Steampunk fiction. I. Golden, Christopher. II. Title.
PS3613.I38J64 2012
813'.6—dc23
2011045605
First Edition: April 2012