Posted above is our first look at Lucy Lawless in the new Starz series “Ash Vs. Evil Dead.” The show is produced by Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, and Bruce Campbell, reprising his role as boomstick bad boy Ashley J. Williams.

“Ash Vs. Evil Dead” picks up 30-years after Ash’s last battle with the Deadites and finds the reluctant hero forced out of hiding to stop a new uprising. Lawless plays Ruby, a mysterious woman out to nix the source of the evil, who she happens to think is Ash.

“Ash vs. Evil Dead” will feature 10 half-hour episodes and premieres this Halloween. Raimi co-wrote and directed the pilot episode.

Lawless is coming off the Starz original series “Spartacus” and can be seen on season two of WGN’s “Salem.” She is, of course, best known as “Xena: Warrior Princess.”