42 horror comics & graphic novels coming for your blood this Halloween – Comics Beat

Halloween has always been a time where comics creators flex their horror muscles. By Halloween, I mean the whole month of October, not just the 31st. Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore debuted The Walking Dead #1 in October 2003. Eleven years later, it was Scott Snyders and Jocks Wytches, a series that has figured into most Best horror comics lists since its debut.

This years Halloween season has the potential to be one for the history books, with acclaimed horror writer Joe Hill getting his own POP UP horror imprint under DC Comics with Mike Carey, Peter Gross, Joe Kelly, and Laura Marks among its contributing creators.

Storm King Comics will be celebrating the fifth anniversary of its horror anthology Tales for a HalloweeNight while Charlie Adlards post-Walking Dead horror comic Vampire State Building will be hitting shelves in the hopes of becoming the next big thing in horror. And this is just the beginning.

Here are 42 horror comics and graphic novels that will be haunting comic stores this Halloween season.

Writers: John Carpenter & Sandy KingArtists: VariousCover Artist: Tim BradstreetPublisher: Storm King ComicsRelease Date: Sept. 25List Price: $24.99

Fromthe mind of John Carpenter, the man who brought you the cult classic horror film Halloween and all of the scares beyond, and the heart of writer, editor, producer Sandy King comes 12 more twisted tales of terror, tricks, and treats. In volume 5 of the award-winning graphic novel series, they bring together another stellar ensemble of storytellers from the worlds of movies, novels, and comics for another spine-tingling collection of stories that will haunt you. Each story is a standalone surprise that captures the essence of fright night. We dare you to read it all the way to the end. If you get too scared, remember, its only a comic. Its only a comic or is it? Happy Halloween.

Writer: Don AvenellArtist: Carlos CruzPublisher: Rebellion Graphic NovelsRelease Date: Oct. 2List Price: $15.91

Hammer Horror meetsDoomlordin this 1970s supernatural comics gem! After several artefacts are stolen from his home, the mysterious Egyptologist Dr. Mesmer resurrects a five-thousand-year-old mummy called Angor, a Pharaoh possessed with great mystical power. Together they set out to retrieve the missing items, bringing terror and destruction in their wake! Featuring the work of legends of British comics Donne Avenell (The Spider,The Phantom) and illustrated by Carlos Cruz(M.A.S.K,The Phantom).

Writers: Tom Peyer, Mark Russell, VariousArtists: Peter Snejbjerg, Hunt Emerson, VariousCover Artist: Richard WilliamsPublisher: Ahoy! ComicsRelease Date: Oct. 2List Price: $19.99

A comedic collection of classic tales and brand new stories, adapted by comics snarkiest talents, in this cross betweenDrunk HistoryandTales from the Crypt, all introduced by Edgar Allan Poe at his drunkest. Collecting all of the comics from the 6-issue AHOY Comics series, plus terrifying prose and poetry features.

Writer: Jeff LovenessArtist: Lisandro EstherrenCover Artist: Evan CaglePublisher: BOOM! StudiosRelease Date: Oct. 2List Price: $3.99

MANKIND MADE IT TO SPACE. AND NOW SPACE HAS FOLLOWED THEM BACK.Herring is a disillusioned American spy stationed on the eastern side of the Berlin Wall, struggling with his role in a Cold War that seems to have no end. But when hes sent on a mission behind enemy lines to infiltrate East German intelligence, he soon learns the Soviets have a secret weapon that could change the tides of the conflict: an alien monster that they dont understand, and cant control.

The Soviets are about to learn that they re not in charge of the monster its already in their minds and has twisted them to their will. Now Herring must find a way to understand the impossible before it transforms him into a monster unlike any other.

Writer Jeff Loveness (Judas) and Lisandro Estherren (Redneck) team up for a story in the spirit of Cold War classics, for fans of period piece science fiction as well as alien action such as Barrier.

Writer: Cullen BunnArtist: Juan DoePublisher: AftershockRelease Date: Oct. 2List Price: $3.99

THE EPIC SERIES RETURNS!

Two arks were built to survive the Flood. One was filled with the creatures of the natural world. The other was populated byeverything else.

Now that the denizens of the DARK ARK have beaten Noahs Ark to land, a new so-cietal order must be created one based on the rule of monsters. Khalee, a new sorceress, ventures to maintain order amidst the chaos, but her otherworldly mas-ters have a different task in mind. She must devise a way to bring Noahs Ark to the monstersbecause the beasts must feed.

From writer Cullen Bunn (UNHOLY GRAIL, BROTHERS DRACUL, WITCH HAMMER, Deadpool, Venom) and artist Juan Doe (ANIMOSITY: THE RISE, AMERICAN MONSTER, WORLD READER) comes an even more sinister tale of biblical proportions!

Writers: More, Marv Wolfman, Gerry ConwayArtist :Gil Kane, Ross Andru, MoreCover artist: John Romita Sr.Publisher:MarvelRelease date:Oct. 2List price:$39.99

When J. Jonah Jamesons astronaut son, John Jameson, brings a strange red gemstone back from the moon, he finds himself transformed into the macabre Man-Wolf! Becoming a lycanthropic creature on the loose, the Man-Wolf battles Spider-Man, Morbius, Kraven the Hunter and more while investigator Simon Stroud comes ever closer to the Man-Wolfs true identity! Jameson soon discovers the truth behind the gem but does his destiny lie in Other Realm wielding the sword of the Stargod? Or will the parasitic stone mean his destruction? Man-Wolf takes on Frankensteins monster, She-Hulk and more but can Spider-Man save him from a fate worse than death? Collecting AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1963) #124-125 and #189-190; GIANT-SIZE SUPER-HEROES #1; CREATURES ON THE LOOSE #30-37; MARVEL PREMIERE #45-46; MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) #36-37; SAVAGE SHE-HULK #13-14 and material from PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #3.

Vengeance of Vampirella #1

Writer: TomSniegoskiArtist: Michael Sta. MariaCover artist:Lucio ParrilloPublisher:Dynamite ComicsRelease date: Oct. 2List price:$3.99

Originally debuting in 1994, Vengeance of Vampirella portrayed a more savage and feral look at the Daughter of Drakulon. Now, for the 50th Anniversary of Vampirella, original series writer Tom Sniegoski (joined by the incredible art of Michael Sta. Maria) is back and issue #1 features a host of incredible cover artists.

Set 25 years after the initial series, Vampirella is Dead!? Long Live Vampirella!Humanity holds on, but barely, the playthings and slaves of a multitude of supernatural monstrosities that have made the earth their own.Mistress Nyx continues to rule the planet, her Chaos Lords reigning over the various regions of the world, but she is getting bored Theres no one to challenge her! That is, until a small, but determined rebellion finds what could be their savior or seal their doom!

This new series and anniversary event is not to be missed!THOMAS E. SNIEGOSKI is the author of more than two dozen novels for adults, teens, and children. His teen fantasy YA series Fallen was adapted into a trilogy of monstrously successful TV movies by ABC Family Channel. His other books for teens include Sleeper Code, Sleeper Agenda, Legacy, and Force Majeure, as well as the series The Brimstone Network. The authors first adult novel, A Kiss Before the Apocalypse, developed into a series of novels about the character Remy Chandler.

Writer: David Avallone, Erica SchultzArtists:Roy Allen Martinez, Fernando RuizCover artist: John RoylePublisher: Dynamite ComicsRelease date: Oct. 2List price: $4.99

Something evil is lurking in the dark woods of Upstate New York, and hunting the student bodies at exclusive and isolated Annandale College. Model Agent Bettie Page investigates the Annandale Horrorand finds herself enrolled in Werewolf 101, for extra creditplus, Bettie and Lyssa go to the drive-in with a bunch of intergalactic gate crashers!

Writer: Ange, Patrick RenaultArtist: Charlie AdlardCover artist: InHyuk LeePublisher:AblazeRelease date: Oct. 2List price: $3.99

The newest horror series from the artist of The Walking Dead, Charlie Adlard! Just in time for Halloween, get ready to be bitten from the first full color page. Terry Fisher is a young soldier on the verge of being sent away for active military duty, and is going to meet his friends at the top of the Empire State Building for a farewell party. But suddenly a legion of vampires attacks the skyscraper and massacres its occupants. Hounded in the 102 floors that have become a deadly trap, Terry must take decisive action to save himself and his friends and the city of New York before the army of abominations, and the terrible vampire god within, walled in the building since its construction, spill into the city!

Writer: Tom TaylorArtist: Trevor Hairsine, Stefano GaudianoCover artist: Yasmin PutriPublisher: DC ComicsRelease date:Oct. 2List price: $3.99

The world is dying at the hands of the infected, and the very survival of humanity is at stake. Facing extinction, Superman and the heroes will make a decision that will fundamentally alter Earths presentand future!

Writer: Chris DingessArtist: Matthew Roberts, Owen GieniPublisher:Image ComicsRelease date:Oct. 2List price: $3.99

NEW STORY ARC

Spring has sprung and the Corps of Discovery is closing in on the Pacific! But new beginnings mean new horrors for Lewis and Clark, and out on the American plains a sleeping beast has awoken!

Writer: Al EwingArtist: Joe BennettCover artist: Alex RossPublisher:MarvelRelease date: Oct. 2List price:$3.99

As the war with Shadow Base comes to a brutal, bloody end, Bruce Banner has a choice to make. And the repercussions of that choice will have an effect on every single life on this planetincluding the IMMORTAL HULK.

Writers:Jordie Bellaire, Jeremy LambertArtist: Eleonora CarliniCover artist:Kyle LambertPublisher:Boom StudiosRelease date: Oct. 9List price:$3.99

THE FIRST EVENT OF THE ALL-NEW BUFFY UNIVERSE STARTS HERE!* Buffy Summers, the Slayer, has one job keep the forces of hell from coming to Earth through, uh, Hellmouth. Heres the bad news.she might have failed.* The Mistress Drusilla and her ally, Spike, have found a weapon to open the Hellmouth and unleash unspeakable evil across the town and the world.* With time running out, Buffy must team up with a new ally that she doesn t fully trust.the vampire.vigilante known as Angel! Can these two find a way to work together before the Hellmouth opens or these two decide they might be each others greatest enemy?* From Eisner Award-nominated writer Jordie Bellaire and rising star Jeremy Lambert ( Doom Patrol ) and Eleonora Carlini ( Saban s Go Go Power Rangers ) comes the first massive event of the Buffyverse.one that threatens to shake the entire fabric of reality. This is an absolute must read from the mind of creator Joss Whedon!

Writer:Steven T. SeagleArtist/Cover artist:Jason Adam KatzensteinPublisher:Image ComicsRelease Date: Oct. 9List price:$16.99

After a long year among normals, Skye is eager to return to Camp Midnight as an older, more seasoned camper. But her parents have other ideas. Theyre putting her on a bus to the camp she was supposed to go to last summer-Camp Daybright! With a sinking feeling of dj vu, Skye sets out for a summer of new friends in a new camp, complete with a creepily familiar new arch-frenemy. It all adds up to big adventures and even bigger scares at the camp with a happy name-and a monstrous secret just beyond its fences!

Writer: Dean R. Motter, Hunt EmersonArtists: Dean R. Motter, Alex Ogle, Hunt EmersonCover artist: Richard WilliamsPublisher:Ahoy! ComicsRelease date:Oct. 9List price:$3.99

AHOY Comics snarky anthology/desecration of Edgar Allan Poe returns for a new season-beginning with the ultimate Poe mashup! In Dean Motters The Tell-Tale Black Cask of Usher, the drink-addled writer falls prey to his own horrific imagination. Hunt Emerson offers another slapstick Poe and the Black Cat. A selection of horrific prose and pictures rounds out the issue. Painted cover by Richard Williams (MAD).

Artists:Alex Toth, Jon Blummer, Sid Check, Lin Streeter, Ross Andru, Lou Cameron, King WardCover Artist: Al AvisonPublisher:IDW PublishingRelease date:Oct. 9List price:$24.99

From the horror team that curdled your blood with Haunted Horror, Zombies, Return of the Zombies, Haunted Love, Swamp Monsters, and Mummies, Ghosts is the latest and ghastly greatest in the Classic Monsters of Pre-Code Horror comics collections. Over 128 pages of appalling apparitions, formidable phantoms, shuddery seances, shivery spooks n specters, and evil wraiths with much more than just revenge on their murdered minds!

Writer:Tim SeeleyArtist: Rapha Lobosco, CelorCover artist: Tim SelleyPublisher:Dynamite ComicsRelease date:Oct. 9List price:$19.99

Cassie Hack, Slasher Hunter Supreme, thought shed gotten rid of those teenager-perforating undead menaces. But now theyre suddenly springing back to life! Cassie and Vlad are going to have to team up with megadeath dispenser Evil Ernie to stop the slaughter, putting them on a path that appears to lead through Chastity, the Chosen, and Purgatori!

Tim Seeley returns to his beloved creations to pit them against the worlds greatest horror universe and brings back some of the series most beloved slashers!

Writer: John Carpenter, AnthonyBurchArtist/Cover artist: Philip Tan, Marc DeeringPublisher:DC ComicsRelease date:Oct. 9List price:$4.99

In the Year of the Villain, whats a Clown Prince of Crime to do when the world has started to accept doing bad as the only way to live? Out-bad everyone else, of course! The Joker is on a mission to get his mojo back and prove to the world that there is no greater villainy than the kind that leaves you laughing.

This special one-shot is co-written by legendary film auteur John Carpenter (The Thing, Halloween) and Anthony Burch (the Borderlands video games), making for a Joker comic thats twisted in ways you never imagined!

Writers:Paul Dini, Rafael Albuquerque, Rafael Scavone, Bryan Hill, Dan Watters, OthersArtists:Rafael Albuquerque, Cian Tormey, Jorge Fornes, OthersCover artists:John RomitaJr, Bill SienkiewiczPublisher:DC ComicsRelease date:Oct. 9List price:$9.99

Witness what hides within the Sinister House-the DCUs most horrific secrets and mysteries! Travel alongside Harley Quinn, John Constantine, Detective Chimp, Zatanna, the Atom and others as they face this macabre devastation firsthand! And in the bowels of this dark mansionwe return to the world of the legendary Red Rain to meet once again with the dreaded vampire Batman. Dont miss this years DC Halloween special-because if you do, itll haunt you!

Writer:Kek-WArtist/Cover artist:Dave KendallPublisher:RebellionRelease date: Oct. 16List price:$24.99

Deadworld was once a planet similar to Earth, until Judge Death and his brothers Fear, Fire and Mortis deemed that as only the living could break the law, life itself should be a crime. As the Dark Judges set out to bring extinction to this parallel world, Judge Fairfax and a family of farmers attempt to escape the chaos. Is it possible for the living to evade to cold, icy grasp of Death? This chilling collection also features theDreams of Deadworldstrips, giving an extraordinary insight into the undead psyches of the internationally famous super-fiends. Includes the untold origins of The Dark Judges, including Judge Dredd arch-nemesis Judge Death.

Writers:Al Feldstein, Bill GainesArtists:Jack Kamen, Graham Ingels, Al Williamson, Joe Orlando, George EvansCover artist:Jack DavisPublisher:EC ComicsRelease date:Oct. 16List price:$49.95

Originally published in 1952 and 1953, this volume of Gemstones EC Archives series reprints issues #13-18 of Tales from the Crypt! Creators include writers Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein, and artists Jack Davis, Jack Kamen, Graham Ingels, Al Williamson, Joe Orlando, and George Evans.

Writer: Jeff LemireArtists:Andrea Sorrentino, Dave StewartCover artist:Andrea SorrentinoPublisher:Image ComicsRelease date:Oct. 16List price:$16.99

The hot horror series that WIRED magazine named one of the best books of 2018 returns from the creative team that BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS said will go down as one of the greatest comic teams of all time!

After the mind-blowing events of the second arc, our story heads right through the looking glass. Father Burke tracks a vicious killer named Norton Sinclair? And when that killer can travel through time (and space!), readers are in for a wild ride.

Collects GIDEON FALLS #12-16

Publisher: Dark HorseRelease date:Oct. 16List price: $24.99

Two of cinemas greatest monsters clash in a battle that spans the galaxy and extends across one womans lifetime!Collected in one volume for the first time is the complete Machiko Noguchi/Aliens Versus Predator trilogy-over 400 pages of extraterrestrial action! Collects the original AvP series, AvP: War, and AvP: Three World War.

Writer: Cynthia von BuhlerArtist: Cynthia von BuhlerPublisher:Titan ComicsRelease Date:Oct. 16List price:$29.99

Acclaimed author and visual artist Cynthia von Buhler (Minky Woodcock: TheGirl Who Handcuffed Houdini) brings her hit immersive theater production TheIlluminati Ball to the page in an all-new graphic novel! A secret organization ofthe rich and powerful control the world, yet on the eve of a fabulous party for itsmembers, the human-animal hybrids trapped in its experimental lab stage abreak-out! The Illuminati Ball merges myth and mystery to tell an unforgettablestory about power, cruelty, deceit, betrayal, and insatiable hunger for freedom.

Writer: James TynionIVArtist/Cover artist: Werther DellEderaPublisher: Boom StudiosRelease date:Oct. 16List price:$3.99

Children are dying in the town of Archers Peak and the ones who survive bring back terrible stories. A strange woman named Erica Slaughter has appeared and says she fights these monsters behind the murders, but that cant possibly be true. Monsters arent real are they?

Writers:Mike Mignola, Chris RobersonArtist:Ben StenbeckCover artist:Julian Totino TedescoPublisher:Dark Horse ComicsRelease date:Oct. 16List price:$3.99

Flesheating corpses and an ancient temple discovered beneath London lead authorities to call upon Edward Grey, Queen Victorias official occult investigator. But the sinister Heliopic Brotherhood of Ra also has interests in the underground ruins. When they ask for Greys help, he has to wonder if the threat is great enough to team up with a secret society hes sworn to destroy. CollectsWitchfinder: City of the Dead#1-#5.

Writer:David DastmalchainArtist/Cover artist:Lukas KetnerPublisher:Dark Horse ComicsRelease Date:Oct. 23List price:$3.99

Aspiring reporter Jerri Bartman is furious when shes demoted to hosting the nightly Creature Feature at her small-town TV station. But Jerri quickly learns that there is more to horror hosting than just introducing bad B-movies. Her first night in the costume of her missing predecessor, Count Crowley, finds her face to face with a living, breathing . . . werewolf. Or was she just that drunk?

Featuring the dynamic creative team of David Dastmalchian and Lukas Ketner!The perfect comic for the Halloween season!

Elvira: Mistress of Dark, Vol. 2

Writer:David AvalloneArtist:Dave AcostaCover artist:John RoylePublisher:Dynamite ComicsRelease date:Oct. 23List price:$17.99

Elviras temporal adventures land her in hot water so hot one more time, and it may be the last. Her new nemesis sends her to the worst place in the universe, and were not talking about Encino! See it all go to Hell in the fifth exciting chapter of ELVIRA: TIMESCREAM, brought to you in Elvirascope (no special glasses required) by artist Dave Acosta (TWELVE DEVILS DANCING) and written in Elviravision by David Avallone (BETTIE PAGE), the team who brought you DOC SAVAGE: RING OF FIRE and TWILIGHT ZONE: THE SHADOW.

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