From HALLOWEEN to MonsterVision: November and December Horror Comics Coming Soon

This five-issue miniseries from Panick Entertainment, written by Hans Rodinoff and Adam F. Goldberg (Aliens: What If . . .?) and illustrated by Eamon Winkle (The Principles of Necromancy), is a story rooted in the continuity of both the John Carpenter film Halloween and the recent IllFonic video game based on the classic slasher film.

The story chronicles Michael Myers' brutal journey back to Haddonfield and Dr. Loomis’ desperate realization that the evil he had been looking after was heading home.

The hit Image Comics horror series Exquisite Corpses, by James Tynion IV, Michael Walsh, and their team of collaborators, wrapped up its “first season” in May. Since then, we’ve gotten two miniseries that delved into the masked killers' backstories.

This five-issue miniseries from writer Pornsak Pichetshote (Exquisite Corpses, Absolute Green Arrow) and artist Alberto Ponticelli (Terror Bytes) also explores the history of its titular killer, but it includes present-day sequences featuring some survivors of Exquisite Corpses’ first season.

Movie fans probably know Marvel Comics' Ghost Rider best as Johnny Blaze, a former motorcycle stunt rider with a fiery, skeletal alter ego, portrayed by Nicholas Cage in two feature films. However, the comics have featured multiple hosts of the Ghost Rider entity throughout history.

The titular character of this one-shot, released in honor of Indigenous Heritage Month, is an Apache Woman who became Ghost Rider in the 1800s and also served as Earth’s chief mystical defender, the Sorcerer Supreme. The book collects all of the digital Infinity Comics written by Taboo of the Black Eyed Peas and frequent collaborator B. Earl (Deadly Neighborhood Spider-Man), with art by Guillermo Sanna (Dead X-Men) and Vanesa R. Del Rey (The Voice Said Kill) in one volume. It follows Kushala’s quest to stop a mysterious force that has targeted her ancestral line for elimination.

Over the years, multiple comics have featured horror takes on classic Archie Comics characters, like Afterlife With Archie and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (which inspired the later Netflix show). FANGORIA readers got a sneak peek at this new series from writer Patrick Horvath (Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees), artist Tyler Crook (Harrow County), and publisher Oni Press, which continues that tradition of scary tales set in Riverdale. In this series, Archie Andrews gets caught up in the infernal and cosmic machinations of a clandestine cult and a coven of witches.

The solicitation for this one-shot from Image Comics promises that it’s a disturbing, psychedelic tale of lust, greed, power, and possession featuring a Mephistophelean, talking snail. All of those elements will be delivered, especially the disturbing ones, because it’s being written by Garth Ennis (the creator of Preacher, The Boys, and Crossed) and features artwork by his collaborator on the twisted, fan-favorite DC Comics series, Hitman, John McCrea.

Marvel Comics continues the storied tradition of placing other pop culture characters in the crosshairs of the alien hunters known as the Predators (AKA the Yautja) with this four-issue miniseries from writer Frank Tieri (Godzilla: Here There Be Dragons) and artist Jesús Saíz (Eddie Brock: Carnage). In the story, both Frank Castle and some of Marvel’s most infamous mobsters, like the Kingpin and Jigsaw, must contend with a cunning Yautja who’s come to New York to claim their skulls.

This is the first in a series of one-shots celebrating the artists who’ve worked on the EC Comics titles from Oni Press. This book collects the work Walking Dead co-creator Charlie Adlard has done on Oni’s EC books, and it also features a new tale by him, written by Chris Condon (Adlard’s collaborator on Of the Earth).

This four-issue miniseries from Titan Comics, writer John Lees (The Nasty), and artist Tom Mandrake (The Spectre) is set in the world of the titular tabletop roleplaying game and takes place in the year 2020 in the city of Portland. It follows the enigmatic owner of a bar who has been tapped by the city’s vampiric overlords to uncover a blood-drinking killer who’s been exploiting the chaos gripping the city to cover up their crimes.

Demons have been a major part of Marvel’s X-Men comics for decades. In this ongoing series, though, from writer Ashley Allen and artist Germán Peralta (the team behind Marvel’s Magik series), Demons and mutants collide head-on as the X-Men known as Magik and Juggernaut team with the demon queen, Madelyne Pryor, to take down an infernal entity wreaking havoc on Earth and the larger, mysterious, supernatural menace behind it.

IDW Dark continues its series of books set in the world of the titular film series with this miniseries from writer Declan Shalvey and artist Luke Sparrow (who collaborated on Dynamite’s recent Terminator comic series). The story is set in the one place the sound-sensitive alien creatures devastating Earth cannot go: the open water. It follows a woman who’s taken refuge on a houseboat in the Florida Keys with her ailing father. That doesn’t mean she’s safe, though. Her dad’s oxygen supply is running low, the creatures circling the shore are learning, and a hurricane is coming.

Comics are a visual medium that can show you things you’ve never seen and didn't know you wanted. This four-issue miniseries from Mad Cave Studios, writer Benjamin Percy (Punisher), and artist Raül Fernandez (Terror Bytes) does just that. It’s got an Amblin-style friendship between a young girl and an alien, an extraterrestrial that is more Xenomorph than E.T., and we see all the gory kills and thrills from the perspective of the homicidal creature. Plus, it’s set on Easter in a small Minnesota town!

One of the most enduring and resonant holiday tales of all time is also a ghost story: Charles Dickens’ immortal classic, A Christmas Carol. Disney produced an animated film adaptation of that story with Scrooge McDuck that was a period piece and featured many of their characters, but this Marvel Comics one-shot focuses on Scrooge, his family, and his associates.

The story by writer Louise Simonson (Power Pack) and artist Paolo Mottura (Uncle Scrooge and the Infinity Dime) finds the world’s richest duck choosing wealth over family and being haunted by three familiar-looking phantoms.

In this Ignition Press miniseries, writer Simon Spurrier (The Voice Said Kill) and artist Christopher Mittin (The Autumn Kingdom) take an old Arthurian legend, How Culwech Won Olwen, give it psychedelics, and drag it through the muck, moral grime, and gore. It’s a savage tale that reimagines King Arthur as a brutal warlord and his legendary knights as bloodthirsty marauders. The press materials describe it as being for fans of films like The Green Knight and The Northman.

This annual anthology of holiday horrors from writers Jordan Hart and Chris Ryall, published by Image Comics, returns for its third year. It features stories of elves versus werewolves, holiday ghosts, a massively oversized nutcracker battle, and more. An art team that includes Drew Rausch (Invader Zim), Chris Anderson (American Caper), Fábio Veras (Two-Face), and Well-Bee (Wastelanders: Black Widow) brings those stories to life.

IDW Dark’s initial Event Horizon comic was a prequel series that showed readers what happened to the ship’s original crew on its literally hellish maiden voyage. The recently concluded Event Horizon: Inferno was a sequel set 200 years after the film. For the final miniseries of this comics trilogy, writer Christian Ward, who penned both previous books, teams with artist Hernán González (John Carpenter’s Tales for a Halloween Night) for a story that takes Event Horizon to the one place stranger and more dangerous than hell; Heaven.

You’ve heard of Christmas in July, but this new miniseries from Dynamite Entertainment, writer Tini Howard (Marian Heretic), and artist Bill Galvan (Archie X The Army of Darkness), is a tale of summer that begins during the month of Christmas. It’s a story that sends the titular adolescent enchantress to a beachside town in search of a “normal” Estival vacation. All hope of that disappears when her housemate, the eponymous intergalactic vampire, tries to enlist her help in solving a “hellish” problem.

Mad Cave Studios joins forces with the infamous supermarket tabloid Weekly World News for a six-issue horror-comedy series that the press materials describe as a blend of The X-Files and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. The story is by the creators of Todd, the Ugliest Kid on Earth, writer Ken Kristensen and artist M.K. Perker, and their co-writers Steven Paul Judd (Marvel’s Voices: Heritage) and Tvli Jacob. The book follows the son of a legendary journalist who decides to go into the family business, but does so for a publication renowned for chasing weird, lurid, and paranormal stories, many of which end up being frighteningly real: The Weekly World News.

The title of this 64-page one-shot from Boom! Studios and DC Comics is the perfect example of comics’ ability to bring unlikely characters together for a crossover. It’s written by James Tynion IV and features art by Werther Dell’Edera, the creative team behind Something is Killing the Children. It’s a story set in the world of that book where children’s fears can create real monsters. So, when two young, fearful fans discover horror comics, monster hunter Erica Slaughter suddenly finds herself face to face with DC Comics’ Swamp Thing.

This Image Comics series by writer Curt Pires (Lost Fantasy) and artist Jok (51) is an ultraviolent, satirical look at the creature-fighting phenomenon that became popular with things like Pokémon. It’s set in a world where, in 1999, a cosmic calamity brought a multitude of strange creatures into our world. Humanity, of course, found a way to monetize them by making these monsters fight in for- profit sporting events. The book follows a former Creature Corps champion who must reassemble his old team and return to the world of monster fighting to pay his ailing mother’s mounting medical bills.

This latest installment of horror master R.L. Stine and Boom! Studios’ anthological, one-shot horror comic series is a 40-page story featuring art by Andrea Mutti (Barbarian Behind Bars). It’s a cautionary tale about taking what doesn’t belong to you, following a man who steals his date’s hoodie to wear home in the rain and gets a monstrous surprise.

When I began compiling this list, I was not surprised to see two A Christmas Carol-inspired tales, but what’s unexpected about this 40-page DC Comics one-shot is that it thrusts Batman’s archenemy, the homicidal harlequin known as the Joker, into the role of the ghost-haunted Scrooge. The creators of the story are acclaimed Batman: The Animated Series collaborators, writer Paul Dini and artist Kevin Altieri.

Writer Benito Cereno’s (Blood & Thunder) comic of anthological, holiday horror, fantasy, and adventure returns with this 80-page one-shot from Image Comics. It features the origins of Saint Nicholas and Krampus, a holiday-themed ghost story, and a tale that pits Santa Claus against Dracula. The book’s art team includes Nate Bellegarde (Stealth), Márk Lázló (Hellboy & the B.P.R.D.: Time is a River), Seake (Startling Tales of Santa Claus 2025), and Eoin Barclay.

This Oni Press miniseries by writer George Northy (Yuletide) and artist Caitlin Yarsky (Black Hammer) blends an Agatha Christie-style whodunnit with a creature feature. The titular character is Frankenstein’s creation who has reinvented himself as a gentleman detective. In this story, Graft is summoned to a remote Romanian castle, where a series of brutal slayings threatens to turn a peace conference between rival clans of vampires, werewolves, and witches into an all-out paranormal war.

The young-at-heart who remember Disney’s animated Gargoyles show and those looking for some gateway holiday horror will want to pick up this 32-page one-shot from Dynamite Entertainment, co-written by Nate Cosby and the co-creator of the Gargoyles animated show, Greg Weisman. George Kambadais (Gargoyles X Fantastic Four) did the art.

It’s a tale set on the Winter Solstice, starring the canine-like gargoyle known as Bronx and his bull terrier friend. They’ve vowed to stay up all night and protect their loved ones from the dangers lurking in the snowy dark.

Tony Fleecs and Tim Seeley, creators of books like Feral, Hack/Slash, and Local Man, reunite for this Image Comics miniseries that puts a slasher-and-giallo twist on classic fairy tales. It’s the story of a princess who comes to a kingdom to compete with other princesses for the hand of a handsome prince, but the castle hosting the competition is also the hunting ground of a black-gloved killer.

The acclaimed sci-fi/horror series, The X-Files, isn’t just returning to TV screens. It’s also coming back to comics. This series, from Dynamite Entertainment, writer Joseph Harris (writer of IDW’s X-Files comic), and artist R.D. Brown, reinstates FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully in the eponymous division. Their case in the inaugural issue? Uncovering the truth behind an outbreak of young people manifesting strange, telekinetic powers; a phenomenon that might have extraterrestrial origins.

Oni Press invites you to celebrate the holidays EC Comics-style with this 56-page one-shot anthology of holiday horror. It features brand new tales from creators like John Acurdi (B.P.R.D.), Sarah Gailey (Hellraiser: Resurrections – The Return of the Priest), Ryan Kelly (Stranger Things), David Lapham (Stray Bullets) and Jay Stephens. The book will also include a restored and remastered classic EC Comics tale.

In this one-shot from Dynamite Entertainment, writer Erik Burnham (Archie X The Army of Darkness) and artist Wagner Reis (Warlord of Mars), the planet Drakulon’s favorite blood-drinking daughter, Vampirella, needs a break from her endless battles with monsters, vampires, and aliens. So, she decides to vacation in Barcelona, Spain, where she runs afoul of a group of hostile, bloodthirsty beings.

Mike Mignola continues chronicling untold tales from Hellboy's time in the infernal realm in this two-issue miniseries from Dark Horse Comics, with art by Márk Lázló (Hellboy Free Comic Book Day 2024 Special). The story begins with the title character stumbling across a cemetery holding a funeral. From there, things get awkward and violent because the ceremony is for Satan, whom Hellboy killed, and many of the demon mourners are not happy about that.

The impossible dream becomes a waking nightmare in this six-issue miniseries from Mad Cave Studios, writer Christopher Sebela and artist Ibrahim Moustafa (the creative team behind High Crimes), which reimagines Miguel de Cervantes' classic novel, Don Quixote, as a tale of brutal, bloody psychological horror.  It’s the story of a delusional man on a rampage who claims he’s a knight and his acts of terror are noble ones done in the name of a woman he’s obsessed with, Dulcinea del Toboso. So, it’s up to Dulcinea to reclaim her name by ending this wannabe knight’s reign of terror.

This four-issue miniseries by writer Chris Condon (Of the Earth), Filipe Andrade (The Many Deaths of Laila Starr), and Dark Horse Comics is the first original comic series based on Hideyuki Kikuchi’s Vampire Hunter D, known in the United States for its 1985 anime adaptation. In this story, the titular hunter runs afoul of a vampire lord laying siege to a fortress.

Boom! Studios horror anthology, Hello Darkness, celebrates the holidays with this 40-page one-shot. In the story “What Child is This?”, Writer Benito Cereno (Capes) and artist Miklós Felvidéki (Action Journalism) tell the tale of a simple carpenter who witnesses a virgin girl give birth to an occurrence “beyond all reason.”

Writer Joni Hägg (Our Soot Stained Heart) and artist Sami Kivela (The Forever Home) tell “Nuutipukki,” a Nordic folk tradition gone horribly wrong because an annual visitor isn’t the cheery old elf everyone expects. Instead, it’s his twisted counterpart. Rounding out the issue is Ellie Lichtschein’s “Each Light Brings More Shayd,” a tale of Hanukkah horror and shapeshifting, chicken-footed demons.

John Carpenter’s Escape From New York isn’t a horror film, but its anti-hero protagonist, Snake Plissken, is one whom many horror fans love. Those fans will want to pick up this 40-page one-shot by writer Fred Kennedy (Florida Hippopotamus Cocaine Massacre) and artist Danilo Beyruth (Black Diamond) where Snake is given a choice: rescue a Soviet geneticist from a Siberian bioweapons facility overrun by mutant abominations or become a longterm resident of an, arctic, Canadian, maximum security prison.

Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl, the beloved hosts of The Last Drive In, which will end its run on Shudder in December, make the leap to comics with this new series from Dynamite Entertainment by writer David Avallone (Elvira in Monsterland) and artist Edu Menna (Vampirella: Armageddon). Named after the TNT show Joe Bob hosted in the '90s, the book follows the duo on a road trip through Texas, where they’ll run afoul of monsters inspired by the horror and sci-fi films Joe Bob introduces along the way.

This three-issue Image Comics miniseries from co-writers Joe Whiteford (of the horror, folk punk band Harley Poe) and Zoe Thorogood (Hack/Slash: Back to School), which also features art by Thorogood, is the tale of a man who believes he’s becoming a vampire. After making his first kill, he’s trapped in a mascot-themed superstore, and he has 10 hours until sunset. Whiteford is also working on new Harley Poe music that will reveal insight into this story and its characters.

The second installment on this list, showcasing past and present tales from artists working on Oni Press’ EC Comics line, is a 32-page one-shot spotlighting the art of David Lapham (Young Liars). The issue includes past tales written by J. Holtham (Night Thrasher) and legendary Texas scribe Joe R. Lansdale. The brand new story is co-written by Lapham and his wife, Maria (The Detective).