Celebrate Valentine’s Day With These 13 Killer Horror Comics Couples

In this 10-issue Image Comics series by Kyle Starks and Artyom Toplin (collected in two volumes), Gabby and her wife Trudy set out to forge a new life on a ranch they’ve inherited. That life becomes a nightmare thanks to the horde of ghosts that come out at night, the monsters that live in the nearby woods, and a mysterious horned figure that the ranch’s previous occupants warned them they should run from.
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Gabby and Trudy aren’t going to run, though. Part of the fun of this imaginative and often very funny horror comic is seeing how they use their love for one another, and the skills Trudy learned in her previous life as a doomsday prepper, to overcome all manner of otherworldly and human menaces.

Horror stories with close-knit families that you can root for are especially potent because of how easy it is for audiences to invest in them. This four-issue miniseries by Hannah Rose May and Vanesa Del Rey from IDW (available in a single collected graphic novel and currently being developed into a feature film by Blumhouse and Atomic Monster) follows a devoted family as they become the most famous clan in America.
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The matriarch of that family, Kelly Doyle, is the first female President of the United States, and in this story, she’ll contend with both a global crisis that threatens to ignite a war and a supernatural one out to claim the soul of one of her children.

Fortunately for her, she’ll have the help of her closest advisor, the First Husband, Eric  Doyle. Watching Kelly and Eric support each other while they try to keep their family and the country together makes this unsettling and compelling mix of political drama and possession horror even more captivating.

This five-issue Image Comics series by Skottie Young and Jorge Corona (collected in one graphic novel) tells the tale of an artist in search of inspiration who moves into a house that’s reputedly haunted. She soon discovers a strange entity lurking in her new home that communicates with her from the shadows.

That communication blossoms into something more, but is this entity’s dark, shadowy nature literal? Or does it possess a stygian, metaphorical heart as well?

This four-issue Image Comics miniseries by Maria Llovet (collected in one volume) is a bloody, sexy tale of extreme violence and passion. It follows Carnelia, a stubborn, centuries old vampire, who tries to deny her kind’s addiction to blood and will soon find herself lusting for two different types of it; the ichor that pumps through the undead heart of a former flame that murdered her brother and the plasma of a young and attractive mortal girl who’s helping her hunt her brother’s killer.

In this ongoing Image Comics series by Gerry Duggan and Garry Brown, readers are introduced to an unlikely couple whose path to romance starts on the days that they die: McRaith, an Old West gunslinger, and Asami, a female samurai.

After they pass out from their seemingly mortal wounds, they awaken on the shores of a mysterious island that’s home to damned warriors from throughout history, undead ghouls, and strange monsters. In order to survive and uncover the mysteries of the island, Asami and McRaith join forces.
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The book makes the most of the comics medium by building a strange and fascinating world full of intriguing mysteries, monsters, and gory, hyperkinetic violence. What makes it truly compelling is the two leads who, after a lifetime of violence and killing, start to find something meaningful in each other.
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10 issues of Falling In Love On The Path To Hell have been released so far, and they’re available in two collected editions. The series is set to return later this year with issue #11

The wildly imaginative nature of comics means it can provide you with story combinations you never knew you needed. This five-issue, ultra violent, ultra dark comedy by Doug Wagner and Daniel Hilyard plays like John Wick meets Psycho meets Lars and the Real Girl. It’s about the love a polite, retired serial killer named Edwyn has for a sex doll named Virginia.
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Edwyn is content to travel the roads of America with Virginia, but a violent altercation puts them on the radar of a Louisiana billionaire who kidnaps Virginia and demands that Edwyn kill for him in exchange for her freedom. What follows is a gory, disturbing, funny, and strangely charming tale.

Plastic is collected in one volume. It was followed by a prequel titled Plastic: Death and Dolls that chronicles how Edwyn and Virginia first met.

One of the joys of Mike Mignola’s long-running Hellboy series is seeing its titular, demonic character live like a human. Part of life as a human is falling in love, and when Hellboy met globetrotting archeologist Anastasia Bramfield, he fell hard, and the feeling was reciprocated.
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They were in a relationship from 1979-1981, and much of their time together was spent doing what Hellboy does best: traveling the globe and battling supernatural evil. Their initial adventures together are collected in Hellboy in Love by Mignola, his frequent collaborators Christopher Golden, and artist Matt Smith.

There was also a two issue follow up in 2025 titled Hellboy in Love: The Art of Fire by Mignola, Golden, and artist Alex Nieto (Locust) that has not been collected yet. That same creative team is also doing the one-shot Hellboy in Love: Black Eyes, which is available in April from Dark Horse Comics.

Alan Moore might be best known as the writer of Watchmen or From Hell, but it was his work on DC Comics’ Swamp Thing where the British author really started to make his mark on comics. Moore’s run on Saga of the Swamp Thing ran from 1984-87, and the stories he and his collaborators told used monsters, ghosts, and demons to explore contemporary issues in imaginative, compelling, and disturbing ways.
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Swamp Thing is a massively powerful sentient plant entity. So, pardon (or appreciate) the pun, how do you root his adventures? By tying him to the human woman he loves and eventually marries, Abigail Holland née Arcane, who figures prominently in a multitude of Swamp Thing’s exploits.
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Moore’s groundbreaking run on Saga of the Swamp Thing has been collected in two different formats. It’s available in six trade paperbacks that can be bought individually or as a set. It’s also available in three massive Absolute Swamp Thing by Alan Moore hardcovers.

This long running IDW vampire franchise by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmithhas a reputation for being cold because of its initial wintry, Alaskan setting. It also burns with passion, though, thanks to two of the leads in the book’s initial stories, married couple Stella and Eben Olemaun.
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In the initial story, Stella and Eben’s love for each other empowers them to make a stand against the vampires laying siege to their Alaskan town, where the sun won’t rise for a month. In the second story, though, that love becomes a motivation for something darker and more dangerous.
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Both of those stories are collected in the 30 Days of Night Deluxe Edition: Book One hardcover, along with a one-shot annual and a third mini-series that brings the action back to its original setting, Barrow, Alaska.

​Most of the pairings featured in this piece are the protagonists of their books, but Rodney Barnes and Jason Shawn Alexander's Killadelphia earns its place in this article because of its antagonists: a married couple of cunning vampires who’ve put together an army of like minded nosferatu to incite a revolution in Philadelphia.

They know a little something about American revolutions, too, because they’re John and Abigail Adams. The Adams’ vampiric villainy ignites a supernatural conflagration that builds and eventually brings in other historical figures, werewolves, witches, demons, and characters from movies and comics like Spawn, the Savage Dragon, and Blacula.
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Killadelphia is an ongoing series from Image Comics, 35 issues have been released so far, and the series is set to return this year after a long hiatus. It’s been collected in six softcover trade paperbacks, and two deluxe hardcovers collect the first 24 issues. You can read the first issue of the series for free courtesy of FANGORIA.

The beating heart of this story is the love between a comic creator named Michael and his boyfriend Derek. Their love is put to the test when a comic Michael is working on puts him in touch with a man convicted of two brutal murders 50 years ago, a crime which he claims to be innocent of.

Shortly after Michael begins talking to this prisoner, a shockingly similar killing occurs, and he and Derek are drawn into the masked murderer’s monstrous machinations.
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James Tynion IV and Joshua Hixson's The Deviant was a nine-issue mini-series collected in two trade paperbacks by Image Comics.

Brendan Columbus and Danilo Beyruth's Black Diamond follows the harrowing exploits of Owen and Victoria Welch, an estranged couple who can barely abide being coparents that are forced to work together at a Scandinavian ski resort when their child is kidnapped by a sinister cult.

The cult offers to return him to his parents if they do the unthinkable — kidnap a child to be sacrificed in their son’s place. Can Owen and Victoria work together for the sake of their son? And who are they willing to kidnap and kill to get him back?
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Those questions and more are answered in this four-issue, wintry, folk horror miniseries from Panick Entertainment. Individual issues are available directly from Panick or your local comic book shop.

Platonic love is just as potent a force in horror as romantic love, and one of the purest and powerful examples of that is the bond between final girl turned slasher slayer, Cassie Hack and her hulking partner, Vlad. Cassie and Vlad are the protagonists of the long running series, Hack/Slash.  by  Tim Seeley and Stefano Caselli.

The latter's immense strength and endurance are assets in helping Cassie dispatch supernaturally enhanced serial killers, but it’s his kind heart that’s most invaluable because it helps the angry, traumatized Cassie hold onto her humanity.
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Hack/Slash has been running for over 20 years, and there are multiple ways to get started reading the series. If you want a small sample of Cassie and Vlad’s early adventures, there’s the trade paperback Hack/Slash Volume 1: First Cut. If you want a bigger chunk, try the first volume of the trade paperback omnibus collections, and if you’d prefer a beautiful, massive hardcover, treat yourself to Hack/Slash Deluxe Edition Volume 1.