Business was slow. Who am I kidding? Business was dead. Fortunately, the police keep me on retainer. When a crim comes along that doesn't fit neatly on their report - vampire attacks, troll maraudings, faery abductions of children - they call me. This time, it was a grisly double murder committed with black magic. And where there's black magic there's a black mage behind it. Ironically, the White Council of Wizards suspected me, and if they could make their case, deadly justice would be swift. Worse, the killer knew my name. My investigation had become very personal...

Just when I was wondering where my next meal would come from, a murder came along that was right up my alley. Whatever had killed the guy hadn't been human. The evidence: fang marks on the mutilated corpse. A bloody paw print. A full moon. One guess what I was up against. Only, the victim was a bodyguard of mobster Jonny Marcone. Gentleman Johnny, bane of the FBI, who didn't like me much either. A hairy situation was about to get much worse...

I've encountered some pretty terrifying foes in my line of work. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Acid-spitting demons. But I'd never faced anything like this. All over Chicago, ghosts were wreaking havoc. And not just the door-slamming, boo-shouting variety. These ghosts were tormented, violent, deadly. Someone - or something - was stirring them up. But why? And why did so many of the victims have ties to me? I had to figure it out soon, or I'd wind up a ghost myself.

For Harry Dresden - the only wizard listed in the Chicago phone book - when it rains, it pours. In fact, it pours toads - always a sign something bad is about to happen. But Harry takes such omens in stride, given that his rattletrap VW Bug needs constant upkeep, and his 30-pound guard-cat want regular meals. But armed with Bob, a wisecracking skull full of occult lore, Harry takes on supernatural forces galore. For a fee. Never mind that they're usually out to get him first.

In Summer Knight, no sooner has Harry escaped the Red Court vmapires - where he's managed to spark a war between vampires and wizards - when into his shabby office walks none other the Mab, luscious Faerie Queen of Winter. Her assignment? Find the killer of her crony, the Summer Knight, and clear her as a suspect. Not a problem. But first he has to survive his fellow wizards - and their zeal to hand him over to the Red Court to seal the peace.

In Death Masks, Harry is still stuck in Red Court crosshairs and find himself challenged by Count Ortega to a duel guaranteeing the war's end - right on the dais of Chicago's most-watched talk show! What a shame Harry's magic blows up the studio's equipment, allowing him to escape. But not before another guest - Vatican's antiquities expert Father Vincent - hires him to find a stolen Church artifact...and a lethal trophy in the hands of evil: the Shroud of Turin.

Harry Dresden is Chicago's best consulting wizard...if only because he takes jobs no one else dares touch. Like the time he rescued a litter of rare Buddhist temple pups, only to run afoul of monkey demons, barely escaping their hail of explosive meteors. (Well, more like flaming monkey-poo.) Then there's that pesky wizard-vampire war, with Harry still the prime target. Not to mention all those preternatural critters always gunning for his hide. But armed with a blasting rod, his ever-decrepit VW Beetle, the occult-ophile skull, Bob, and his new best-bug, Thomas the vampire - who can make every guy in the room feel like Barney Fife - Harry Dresden is still the man to beat.

After Thomas saves his, er, neck in another vampire skirmish, Harry returns the favor by helping out Thomas' director friend Arturo, whose film crew is dying in increasingly bizarre ways. That can only mean on thing: the dreaded malocchio, the Evil Eye. To put an end to the merciless curse - and find the witch responsible for it - Harry will risk his life more than once to see that no one else dies. But it's Thomas' deepest personal secret that will throw Harry for a loop - and change his life forever.

While trying to coexist with Thomas, now his roomate, Harry is ordered by vampire queen Mavra to bring her something called the Word of Kemmler. But finding this obscure bit of black magic will drop Harry smack in the middle of darkest necromancy - and in hot pursuit of a long-lost book of spells promising absolute supremacy over the dead. Oh, and an end to all the living.

Harry Dresden is the only consulting wizard in the Chicago phone book, and you know the case is bad if the cops have to call on him. Harry has thumped the heart of darkness so often that it's left a mark: a fallen angel has moved into his head, forcing him to fight temptation...as if fighting vampires and other supernatural baddies weren't hard enough. If the White Council of wizards finds out he's hosting a demon, heaven only knows what they'll do.

But when the Council is left shorthanded, Harry is asked to join. Now, as a Warden - a kind of cross between avenging angel and bogeyman - he has to make sure wizards don't use their powers in violation of the Laws of Magic. Which, as you'd expect, makes him even less popular with the supernatural community than he was before.

Harry's old mentor asks him to work a double whammy: look into rumours that black magic is afoot and find out why the Summer Court of the Fae isn't siding with the Council against the vamps. Matters go from bad to worse when movie monsters comve alive at the local horror con...

Someone is killing Wiccans, leaving a cryptic message behind: Suffer not a witch to live. But who would attack the lesser-adept? All the evidence points to the one suspect Harry can't possibly believe is guilty - his half-brother Thomas. So Harry hunts the real killer - and runs headlong into a vampire power struggle. If he screws this one up, a lot of people will die...including his brother.

Harry Dresden's life finally seems to be calming down. The White Council's war with the vampiric Red Court has reached a period of tentative peace, no one has tried to kill him for almost a year, and the worst problem he's had lately is working out how to remove the stains on his carpeting. For once, the future looks fairly bright.

But the past casts one hell of a long shadow.

An old bargain has placed Harry in debt to Mab, monarch of the Winter Court of the Sidhe, the Queen of Air and Darkness - and she's calling hin her marker. Dresden still owes the Winter Queen two favors, and it's time to pay one of them off. Just one small favor he can't refuse - one that will trap Harry Dresden between a nightmarish foe and an equally deadly ally and strain his skills and loyalties to their very limits.

It figures. Everything was going too well to last...

Let's get something clear right up front.

I'm not Harry Dresden.

Harry's a wizard. A genuine, honest-to-goodness wizard. He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket. He'll spit in the eye of gods and demons alike if he thinks it needs to be done, and to hell with the consequences - and yet somehow my little brother manages to remain a decent human being.

I'll be damned if I know how.

But then, I'll be damned regadless.

My name is Thomas Raith, and I'm a monster.

So begins Backup a twelve thousand word novelette set in Jim Butcher's ultra-popular Dresden Files series. This time Harry's in trouble and he knows nothing about it, and it's up to his big brother Thomas to track him down and solve those little life-threatening difficulties without his little brother even noticing.

When it comes to the magical ruling body known as the White Council, Harry keeps his nose clean and his head down. For years, the Council has held a death mark over Harry's head. He's still thought of as a black sheep by some - and as a sacrificial lamb by others. But none regard him with more suspicion and disdain than Morgan, a veteran Warden with a grudge against anyone who bends the rules.

Like Harry.

So when Morgan turns up asking for help, Harry isn't exactly eager to leap into action. Morgan has been accused of treason against the White Council - and there's only one final punishment for that crime. He's on the run, he wants his name cleared, and he needs someone with a knack for backing the underdog.

Like Harry.

Now Harry must uncover a traitor within the Council, keep a less than agreeable Morgan under wraps, and avoid coming under scrutiny himself. And a single mistake may cost someone his head...

Like Harry...

As Chicago's only professional wizard, Harry Dresden has faced demons, vampires, werewolves, dark sorcerers, and hosts of horrors from beyond the mortal realm.

But nothing could have prepared him for this...

I answered the phone and Susan Rodriguez said, "They've taken our daughter."

Long ago, Susan was Harry's lover - until she was attacked by his enemies, leaving her body and soul torn between her own humanity and the bloodlust of the vampiric Red Court. For both her sake and Harry's, Susan disappeared into South America, where she could fight both her savage gift and those who cursed her with it.

Now Arianna Ortega, Duchess of the Red Court, has discovered the secret Susan has long kept, and she plans to use it - against Harry. The Duchess blames Harry for the death of her husband, and she has desired revenge ever since. Susan's secret is the key that will force Harry to take the battle to her, on her own ground, where the might of the Red Court holds sway.

To prevail, he may have to do the unthinkable. For the raging fury of Harry's untapped power has always proved to be his greatest temptation. And now he may have no choice but to embrace the darkness within himself.

Because this time, Harry's not fighting to save a client, or the Council, or the world...

He's fighting to save his child.

Harry Dresden has been many things: Chicago's only professional wizard. A Warden of the White Council. The host for the spirit of a fallen angel. Keeper of the Swords of the Cross. The bane of all who would seek to destroy the innocent and enslave the world...

But dead? That's a new one...

In his life, Harry's been shot, stabbed, sliced, beaten, burned, crushed and tortured. And after someone puts a bullet through his chest and leaves him to die in the water of Lake Michigan, things really start going downhill.

But even trapped in the realm between life and death, Harry can't catch a break. He learns that three of his friends are destined to experience unbearable torment and agony. Only by bringing his murderer to justice can he save his friends and move on to what comes next - a feat that would be a lot easier if he had a body and access to his powers. Instead, Harry must work as a ghost, unable to interact with the physical world, invisible and inaudible to almost everyone.

Unfortunately he's not the only specter roaming Chicago. There are malevolent shadows who haven't forgotten Harry's prediliction for putting evil in its place while he was alive. And now that Harry's on their turf, they are looking for some serious payback.

So the late Harry Dresden will have to pull off the ultimate trick without using any magic - or face an eternity as just another lost soul.

Harry Dresden Lives!

After being murdered by a mystery assailant, navigating his way through the realm between life and death, and being brought back to the mortal world, Harry realizes that maybe death wasn't all that bad. Because he is no longer Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard.

He is now Harry Dresden, Winter Knight to Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness. After Harry had no choice but to swear his fealty, Mab wasn't about to let something as petty as death steal away the prize she had sought for so long. And now her word is his command, no matter what she wants him to do, no matter where she wants him to go, and no matter who she wants him to kill.

Guess which Mab wants first.

Of course, it won't be an ordinary, everyday assassination. Mab wants her newest minion to pull off the impossible: kill an immortal. No problem there, right? And to make matters worse, there exists a growing threat to an unfathomable source of magic that could land Harry in the sort of trouble that will make death look like a holiday.

Beset by enemies new and old, Harry must gather his friends and allies, prevent the annihilation of countless innocents, and find a way out of his eternal subservience before his newfound powers claim the only thing he has left to call his own...

His soul.

Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, is about to have a very bad day...

Because as Winter Knight to the Queen of Air and Darkness, Harry never knows what the scheming Mab might want him to do. Usually, it's something awful.

He doesn't know the half of it...

Mab has just traded Harry's skills to pay off one of her debts. And now he must help a group of supernatural villains - led by one of Harry's most dreaded and despised enemies, Nicodemus Achelone - to break into the highest-security vault in town so that they can then access the highest-security vault in the Nevernever.

It's a smash-and-grab job to recover the literal Holy Grail from the vaults of the greatest treasure hoard in the supernatural world - which belonds to the one and only Hades, Lord of the freaking Underworld and a generally unpleasant character. Worse, Dresden suspects that there is another game that no one is talking about afoot. And he's dead certain that Nicodemus has no intention of allowing any of his crew to survive the experience. Especially Harry.

Dresden's always been tricky, but he's going to have to up his backstabbing game to survive this mess - assuming his own allies don't end up killing him before his enemies get a chance...

As Chicago's only professional wizard, Harry Dresden has had cases that have pitted him against insane necromancers, power-hungry faerie queens, enigmatic dark wizards, fallen angels - pretty much a "who's who" of hell and beyond - with the stakes in each ranging from a lone human soul to the entire human race.

But not everyadventure of Harry Dresden undertakes is an epic tale of life and death in a world on the edge of annihilation.

Here together for the first time in paperback, are the shorter works of #1 New York Times bestselling author Jim Butcher - a compendium of cases that Harry and his cadre of allies managed to close in record time. With tales ranging from the deadly series to the absurdly hilarious - including a story written exclusively for this collection - this is a must-have for every devoted Harry Dresden fan.

"A Restoration of Faith" Main Characters: Harry, Nick Main Elements: Wizards First Published: First publication

"Vignette" Main Characters: Harry, Bob Main Elements: Wizards, Spirits First Published: First publication

"Something Borrowed" Main Characters: Harry, Billy, Georgia, Kirby, Murphy Main Elements: Wizards, werewolves, Faerie First Published: My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding

"It's My Birthday, Too" Main Characters: Harry, Thomas Main Elements: Wizards, Vampires, Incubi First Published: Many Bloody Returns

"Heorot" Main Characters: Harry, Mac, Mouse Main Elements: Wizards, Valkyrie First Published: My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon

"Day Off" Main Characters: Harry, Andi, Kirby, Molly, Mouse, Luccio Main Elements: Wizards, Werewolves First Published: Blood Lite

"Backup" Main Characters: Thomas, Harry Main Elements: Incubi, Ghouls, Wizards First Published: Subterranean Press - 2008

"The Warrior" Main Characters: Harry, Michael, Molly Main Elements: Wizards First Published: Mean Streets

"Last Call" Main Characters: Harry, Murphy, Mac Main Elements: Wizards, Maenads First Published: Strange Brew

"Love Hurts" Main Characters: Harr, Murphy Main Elements: Wizards, Vampires First Published: Songs of Love and Death

"Aftermath" Main Characters: Murphy, Billy, Georgia, Andi, Marcy Main Elements: Werewolves First Published: First publication

When criminal investigations take a weird turn, the officers of the Chicago Police Department call in Harry Dresden! A wizard and private investigator with formidable yet unrefined skills, the young Dresden is more than capable of tracking down and facing the perps, whether they be black magic practitioners, blood-hungry werewolves, or worse! This first volume of The Dresden Files Omnibus collects three complete comic book story arcs, including the exclusive-for-comics tale, "Welcome to the Jungle", the adaptations of the universe-defining "Storm Front" and "Fool Moon" novels, plus additional content set within official continuity of Jim Butcher's beloved magic noir universe.

The world of Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, is rife with intrige - and creatures of all supernatural stripes. And you'll make their intimate acquaintance as Harry delves into the dark side of the truth, justice, and the American way in this must-have short-story collection.

From the Wild West to the bleachers at Wrigley Field, humans, zombies, incubi, and even fey royalty appear, ready to blur the line between friend and foe. In the never-before-published "Zoo Day", Harry treads new ground as a dad, while fan-favorite characters Molly Carpenter, his onetime apprentice, White Council Warden Anastasia Luccio, and even Bigfoot stalk through the pages of more classic tales.

With twelve stories in all, Brief Cases offers both longtime fans and first-time readers tantalizing glimpses into Harry's funny, gritty and unforgetable realm, whetting their appetites for more to come from the wizard with a heart of gold.

"A Fistful of Warlocks" Main Characters: Annastasia Luccio Main Elements: Wizards First Published: Straight Outta Tombstone - 2017

"B is for Bigfoot" Main Characters: Harry, Irwin Main Elements: Bigfoot, elves First Published: Under my Hat: Tales of the Cauldron - 2012

"AAAA Wizardry" Main Characters: Harry Main Elements: Wizards, Spirits First Published: The Dresden Files Role Playing Game Vol 2 - 2010

"I Was A Teenage Bigfoot" Main Characters: Harry, Irwin Main Elements: Bigfoot, wizards First Published: Bloodlite III: Aftertaste - 2012

"Curses" Main Characters: Harry, Gwynn ap Nudd Main Elements: Fairies First Published: Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy - 2011

"Even Hand" Main Characters: John Marcone, Justine Main Elements: Fomor First Published: Dark and Stormy Knights - 2010

"Bigfoot on Campus" Main Characters: Harry, Irwin Main Elements: Incubi First Published: Hex Appeal - 2012

"Bombshells" Main Characters: Andi, Justine, Molly Main Elements: Fairies First Published: Dangerous Women - 2013

"Cold Case" Main Characters: Molly, Ramirez Main Elements: Wizards, Fairies, Elder Gods First Published: Shadowed Souls - 2016

"Jury Duty" Main Characters: Harry Main Elements: Incubi First Published: Unbound - 2015

"Day One" Main Characters: Butters Main Elements: Baka Baku First Published: Unfettered II - 2016

"Zoo Day" Main Characters: Harry, Molly, Mouse Main Elements: Wizards, Spirits First Published: First Publishing

New York Times-bestselling author Jim Butcher expands his beloved "Dresden Files" novel series with the all-new "Dog Men" story set within official continuity, created exclusively as a graphic novel!

Harry Dresden is a man on the edge--and that is something that can be dangerous to friend and foe alike. He's been drafted by a senior member of the White Council of Wizards to investigate a series of murders in rural Mississippi. As always, there's more afoot than is immediately apparent. The question is, will Harry's state of mind keep him from seeing it, and will his actions lead him into direct conflict with the wizard who's depending on his help?

Collects issues 1 - 6.

Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, can't seem to get a break.

When the supernatural nations of the world meet up to negotiate an end to ongoing hostilities, Harry Dresden joins the White Council's security team to make sure the talks stay civil. With the most influential members of those nations gathering in Harry's hometown Chicago is about to get interesting.

But some even bigger problems are arriving, courtesy of Harry's relatives. Family: Can't live with them, can't live without them. His brother is in trouble with a capital T; his grandfather, the Wizard Ebeneezar McCoy, is warning him that a faction in the White Council is maneuvering to kick Harry out; and oh, remember the Accords? The agreement that keeps all those supernatural nations playing kind-of-sort-of nice is under fire, teetering on the edge of destruction. And Harry's brother might have something to do with that.

As dark political manipulations threaten the very existence of Chicago and all Harry holds dear, it'll take everything he has - and then some - to have any hope of succeeding.

Harry has faced terrible odds before. He has a long history of fighting enemies above his weight class. The Red Court of vampires. The fallen angels of the Order of the Blackened Denarius. The Outsiders.

But this time it’s different. A being more powerful and dangerous on an order of magnitude beyond what the world has seen in a millennium is coming. And she’s bringing an army. The Last Titan has declared war on the city of Chicago, and has come to subjugate humanity, obliterating any who stand in her way.

Harry’s mission is simple but impossible: Save the city by killing a Titan. And the attempt will change Harry’s life, Chicago, and the mortal world forever.