horror comics

A horror anthology centered around one location, a motel off the beaten track of the highway where people in trouble come to stay.[caption id="attachment_1254283" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Art from "Hotell" #4, AWA Studios[/caption]Writer John Lees and artist Dalibor Talajic lay out each issue as part of a tradition of horror comics that go back to the[...]

Zenescope Entertainment is known for its interconnected superhero/horror universe populated by public domain characters, but they have also, in recent years, specialized in horror anthologies. One of their longest-running series, Grimm Tales of Terror, takes urban legends and spins them into modernized, standalone stories that always come with a harsh twist at the end. Now, the […]

In a startling effort to out-pun Kieron Gillen, comics resident pun-slinging provocateur for the greater part of a decade now, IDW Publishing teams up again with writer/artist Nick Roche of Transformers fame for a new horror comic series called… Scarenthood. Tensions between the English and Irish have never been so high as Roche plans to […]

Pre-code horror is one of the best things about the Golden Age of comics. The covers are terrifying, the stories horrifying, and overall they're entirely satisfying. This pre-code beauty from Atlas Comics — the same publisher that brought us Captain America — is one of the best covers from this era, but where can you […]

When The Comics Code Authority came into existence in 1954, popular (and now sought after books), classic horror comics were put to an end Vividly violent and sometimes disturbing images would no longer grace horror or other mainstream comics for the following decades, making pre-code horror one of the most collected books in the comic[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] There's nothing I love more in life than The X-Files. IDW's new The X-Files Origins: Dog Days Of Summer #1 focuses on a young Mulder and Scully, long before they join the FBI — but nevertheless, the two are still solving weird mysteries on their own. For Mulder, it's a mysterious young lady who […]

By William WrightMike Wolfer has developed into a name you can trust in horror comics He's been working in the genre since the late '80s and throughout his storied career he's worked on established properties like Night Of The Living Dead, Godzilla and Friday The 13th Wolfer is probably best known for creating the[...]

Scott Snyder has been warning us for some time that we really might not like the human characters in the Image series Wytches if we knew them better, and especially the most carefully set up as identification characters, the Rook family. In Issue #3 when Charles started to unravel a little, unsure of what was […]

Sitting in a room bathed in the cozy glow of the lights of a Christmas tree on a grey afternoon in December, I'm reading Wytches #3 from Image Comics. And predictably, afterwards I'm casting sidelong glances at my not-fake Christmas tree because it's a tree and it looks shadowy inside beyond the lights, and it's […]

The massive line of artfully preserved and ghoulishly presented Chilling Archives of Horror Comics have reached we lucky readers through a partnership between IDW and Yoe Books, and if there's one man who knows his horror comics, it's this guy.Hear about his work on these mind-bendingly strange and twisted tales here before night sets in[...]

But I didn’t care, because I really just wanted to see these characters getting together and talking together, and to see that world.HMS: One more question: Are the Hellboy and the central core of related comics, horror comics, in your opinion?MM: You know, I don’t think they are It’s funny, because I consider myself a[...]

If there ever has been a long-anticipated book, this is it. Wytches by Scott Snyder and Jock arrives this week from Image Comics on October 8th, clocking in at 30 pages with no ad space used. You can grab a copy at New York Comic Con, speed-read it, then read it again as a chill […]

By Nikolai Fomich This October, writer Jacob Semahn and artist Jorge Corona will launch Goners, an all-new ongoing series from Image Comics. Goners tells the tale of Zoe and Josiah Latimer, two children from a long line of defenders against the paranormal. I spoke with Jacob Semahn about Goners and how his new series will […]

New Devil's Due series Tales of Mr. Rhee debuted last week, and Devil's Due and author Dirk Manning (he of Bleeding Cool writing fame) are kindly offering us a free issue to get us acquainted with the series. They say: As if launching the first issue Tales of Mr. Rhee: "Karmageddon" at $1.99 for 22-pages […]

The first arc of Colder pitted especially unusual mental patient Declan (his body temperature is below liveable conditions) against a nightmarish hunter Nimble Jack, but this arc clarifies that more baddies are to come, starting with the horrendously creepy Swivel.Juan Ferreyra's designs for Swivel, a creature with hundreds of fingers for a face, are below,[...]

Simon "Si" Spurrier, novelist and comics writer, has worked for Marvel, DC, 2000AD and Avatar Press, developing an increasingly carnivalesque slate of publications that tend toward the bizarre and thought-provoking. For Avatar Press, he wrote over 1,000 pages on the Crossed: Wish You Were Here storyline that appeared as a long-running web series, and now […]

Titan Comics brings us the 56 page hardcover graphic novel Chronicles of Legion Volume 1: Rise of the Vampires in early November, written by Fabien Nury, with artwork by Mathieu Lauffray, Mario Alberti, Zhang Xiaoyu, and Tirso. There are many great incarnations of vampire stories in comics, past and current, but when a comic takes […]

The Italian horror tradition influenced creator-owned project Nightworld went to Kickstarter less than a year ago, succeeded, and now has been picked up by Image Comics in a dream come true for writer Adam McGovern and artist Paolo Leandri. They began tossing around ideas and sketches for the comic in 2005, and it was a […]

Something that sets it apart from all the other horror comics out there And the rain will help us do that.HMS: Now, you’ve worked with Mike Henderson before Did you all team up on the concept? In what ways has Mike been involved in influencing the development of the book?JW: After Mike and I had[...]