The Eightfold Path: A Graphic Novel Anthology

Sheltered from the storm by a mysterious monk, they sit around the fire and are asked to tell stories to pass the time. Right understanding, thought, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, and concentration—the spokes of spirituality on the Eightfold Path, a Buddhist system of transcendence—inspire this collection of eight wild and terrifying interwoven Afrofuturist stories in the tradition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

Steven Barnes and Dr. Charles Johnson use these contemporary morality tales to show how our dark desires, fears, and mistakes are all part of finding a joyous destiny. The illustrations are executed with clarity and vision with the chameleon-like talents of artist Bryan Christopher Moss.

The Eightfold Path effortlessly weaves spirituality, magic, science fiction, and political criticism into a living thing that nurtures our sense of wonder but also seeks to uncover the truths we are sometimes too unwise or too fearful to see.

As the night passes, the traveler's destinies are revealed, and they learn that there is no turning away form the path to truth!