This is a new column, for the horror comics fans, as often heard on the Baron’s Crypt podcast shows, which are changing formats for our eighth season, and we do more comic reviews on this site hence the best place to have them presented.
Phantasmagoria #3
By: El Torres, Joe Bocardo
Publisher: N/A
Summary: In the sewers of London, Drodd and his companions are hunting the Intruder from the Other Side and the Ghost Lens it is building. In the wet darkness below the city, the Intruder is waiting for them, surrounded by ghosts and even worse things. Meanwhile, Professor Hawke returns to Bedlam in search of Drodd… only to find a deadly trap!
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Young Hellboy: Assault on Castle Death #3
By: Craig Rousseau, Chris O’Halloran, Thomas Sniegoski, Matt Smith, Mike Mignola
Type: Craig Rousseau Variant Cover
Publisher: Dark Horse
Publisher Link: https://www.darkhorse.com/
Summary: The feverish Hellboy, aka the Scarlet Crab, breaks into the ghoulish Castle Death accompanied by his dog Mac and a surprising but familiar face. But the castle holds strange and dangerous occult items that do not mix well with Hellboy’s hallucinations–especially when the shadowy Brotherhoods assassin makes his move!
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Die!namite Never Dies #1
By: Fred Van Lente, Vincenzo Carratu, Tony Fleecs, Trish Forstner
Type: Cover N – Metal Premium
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
Publisher Link: https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/
Summary: ‘Dynamite’s cross-company zombie crossover returns with even more undead mayhem! Evil Sonja and the Drakulonian sisters Vampirella and Pantha may have turned back the plague on Earth, but what happens when zombies from MARS start to invade?! Hear that cry in the jungle–that’s right, TARZAN has joined the insanity, and the Ape-Man has hands full with ZOMBIE DINOSAURS in a lost valley! How does this incursion connect to Barsoom?!’
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The Grunch Welcome to the Brudderhood #2
By: S.A. Check, Claudio Avella, Puis Calzada, James Kuhoric, Ev Cantada
Type: Cover A – Calzada, Cover B – Cantada
Publisher: American Mythology Productions
Publisher Link: https://www.americanmythology.net/
Summary: It’s Grunch Time! Johnny Detour and his internet vlogging friends went looking for real life terror in the murky bayous of New Orleans, and the Grunch were waiting with open arms, and claws, and fangs! Half animal – half man – all monster! There’s a reason no one travels down Grunch Road, and Johnny and his friends are getting a crash course in cryptid 101 as they fight for their lives to escape! But the Grunch haven’t survived all these years without keeping a few dark family secrets tucked away. And you thought your family tree had some odd branches! Wait until you meet Jah’pa! The exciting, bloody conclusion to the Grunch Saga is here. It’s time to get your Grunch on, Brudder! The Grunch ‘Brudders-in-Arms’ coming soon to a comic store near you! The Grunch #2 comes with two covers – Main by horror maestro Puis Calzada and variant by EV Cantada!
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She Bites #2
By: Hedwig Hale, Alberto Hernandez R.
Publisher: Scout Comics
Publisher Link: https://www.scoutcomics.com/
Summary: Desperate to make enough money to go to Scotland and kill herself after not getting into her dream college, Brenda Zelinski has just agreed to take a babysitting job for Elsie Baker, a 134-year-old vampire in the body of a 9-year-old girl. Sick of being unable to go out and about without being hassled by adults, Elsie pays her babysitter to take her to the local mall so she can get some shopping done without being reported lost by security. What begins as a light-hearted night shopping for CDs and Chia Pets, turns into a night neither will ever forget. Will Elsie be able to convince Brenda she shouldn’t end her life? Will Brenda’s bully have the last laugh? What outfits will they buy in the obligatory friendship shopping montage? Find out in She Bites #2!
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Hellfate #1 (of 3)
By: Philip Osbourne, Max Avo
Publisher: N/A
Summary: Jenna lives undercover in Tokyo, hoping to live a regular life. But she’s being tracked by a religious order. When she is forced to morph and kill to protect herself, she decides to go back to New York, where she kills a priest in a church. She is fulfilling the role of the Antichrist!
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Vampire Macabre Nosferatu
By: Frank Forte
Type: One Shot Sp (Cover B – Forte)
Publisher: N/A
Summary: Asylum Press brings you a horrific blood thirsty collection of all-new Vampire tales. Featuring an international cast of artistic talent. Frank Forte delivers another installment of our favorite vampire queen NOSFERAZIXX! Frank Forte and Edu menna revive ZEPHIRA: THE NIGHT KILLER for another round of post-apocalyptic vampiric action. And lastly, Tim Vigil (Faust, Gothic Nights) gives us ‘Feline Fatale’ A seductive female Vampire wakes up from her coffin and prepares to walk the night, she is interrupted by a prowling black cat. A must for all vampire fans!
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Vampires Blood Shot
By: Steve Banes, Harry Lazarus, Drazen Kozjan
Type: One Shot (Cover B – Kozjan)
Publisher: N/A
Summary: Hot on the bloodied heels of Asylum Press’s horrific hit, VAMPIRES #1, comes this second round of vicious vampiric insanity, as The Horrors of it All’s, Mr. Karswell cracks open another coffin-loaded collection of foul fanged, bat winged terrors from the Golden Age of pre-code comics! Six sinister tales to assault your salivating senses as you’re transported back in time to face a rather bloodthirsty ancestor in ‘Blood for the Vampire!’ Legendary artist, Mel Keefer asks you if there’s anything worse than a ‘Special on Beet Soup?’ And then Harry Lazarus unleashes one of the most insidiously mad monster mashups ever in, ‘The Wolpire!’ Plus, a ‘True Vampires of History’ lesson, a shivery superb cover by Syd Check, additional crypt classics from Harvey, Stanley Morse, and lots more!
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The Closet #1
Type: Cgc Graded
Publisher: Dynamic Forces
Publisher Link: https://www.dynamicforces.com/htmlfiles/
Summary: FIRST APPEARANCE ALERT!!! GET IN ON THE GROUND FLOOR!!! A tale of existential familial horror by JAMES TYNION IV (THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH, RAZORBLADES) and GAVIN FULLERTON (BOG BODIES, Bags). Thom is moving cross-country with his family and dragging the past along with them. His son, Jamie, is seeing monsters in the bedroom closet and will not let them go. CGC GRADED 9.6 OR HIGHER!
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Sulfur Wells #4
By: Otis Crane, Deivid Deon, Daniel Page, Sara Stella Scalia
Type: Cover A – Daniel Page, Cover B – Scalia
Publisher: N/A
Summary: Regroup and assess. Talmage, Conrad, and Ophelia have just stumbled upon a perplexing structure with a typid catacomb beneath. The rattled group retreat to figure out what they have seen and what move to make next. Their discovery and subsequent decisions will prove to be a catalyst that further alters their small community.
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The Vineyard #3
By: Brian Hawkins, Sami Kivela
Publisher: Aftershock Comics
Publisher Link: https://aftershockcomics.com/
Summary: Maranatha is caught off guard by the second sacrifice’s identity, which causes her to lash out and question just how much more she can take of her family’s murderous obedience to Dionysus. Meanwhile, siblings Sophia and Adonis face off about the extremism of their father’s belief, and Calum gets in between.
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Frankenstein: New World #3
By: Michelle Madsen, Peter Bergting, Christopher Golden, Thomas Sniegoski, Mike Mignola
Type: CVR A
Publisher: Dark Horse
Publisher Link: https://www.darkhorse.com/
Summary: Having made contact with some of the new worlds mysterious inhabitants, Frank and Lilja continue their search for the “Star Lady”. But the danger they’re trying to prevent has already caught their scent literally and now it’s a race for what could be the fate of the reborn world.
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Door to Door Night by Night #1
By: Cullen Bunn, Sally Cantirino, Brian Hurtt
Type: Cover A – Cantirino, Cover B – Hurtt, Cover D – 10 Copy Variant, Cover E – 25 Copy Variant, Cover F -50 Copy Variant, Cover H – 100 Copy Variant
Publisher: Vault Comics
Publisher Link: https://www.vaultcomics.com/
Summary: From all-star creators Cullen Bunn (Harrow County, The Last Book You’ll Ever Read) and Sally Cantirino (I Walk With Monsters, Human Remains) comes the story of a motley crew going to battle against supernatural evil throughout the American South. Perfect for fans of ‘The Boys,’ ‘B.P.R.D.’ and ‘Proctor Valley Road.’ The Heritage Mills sales team travels from town to town, knocking on doors. They’re the best at what they do… which also means they’re the worst. They’re broken, each and every one of them, haunted by closets so full of skeletons, they’re bursting. When they discover a terrible secret behind one fateful door, it opens their eyes to a world full of real monsters hidden in every small town.
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Bone Orchard Black Feathers #3 (of 5)
By: Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino, Dustin Nguyen, Dave Stewart, Martin Simmonds
Type: Cover A – Sorrentino, Cover B – Nguyen, Cover C – Simmonds
Publisher: Image Comics
Publisher Link: https://imagecomics.com/
Summary: Trish and Jackie’s epic adventures between the two worlds continue as events from their childhood echo in the present. As Trish asks questions about one terrible night in their past, the darkness of the present threatens to engulf everything.
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Broken Souls Ballad: Hell Is for Kids #4
By: Massimo Rosi, Ludovica Ceregatti
Publisher: N/A
Summary: The final episode of the body horror series is here! The siblings are conjoined, desperate, but together. They are powerful, but at the same time so fragile. St. Abigail’s Institution, like a mausoleum commemorating their pain, is ready to fall and their lives are ready to take shape and begin
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Something Is Killing the Children #26
By: James Tynion Iv, Werther Dell’Edera, Jonboy Meyers, Jakub Rebelka, Jenny Frison
Type: Cover A – Dell Edera, Cover B – Frison, Cover C – 25 Copy Variant, Cover G – Bg Variant
Publisher: Boom! Studios
Publisher Link: https://www.boom-studios.com/
Summary: With the last person in her corner gone and the Order of St. George closing in, Erica finds herself totally alone and without a prayer. Can she take on the terrifying Doppelganger Duplicitype by herself, or is this the end of her story?
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Vampirella Mindwarp #3
By: Jeff Parker, Ben Dewey, Jonathan Case, Joseph Michael Linsner, Jung-Geun Yoon, Leirix, Cosplay
Type: Cover A – Linsner, Cover B – Yoon, Cover C – Leirix, Cover D – Case, Cover E – Cosplay
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
Publisher Link: https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/
Summary: ‘ACCEPT ME AS YOUR GOD OR DIE!’ Vampirella has to stab her way out of chaos before a surging demon destroys her and then assumes control over mankind!
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Legacy of Violence #2 (of 12)
By: Cullen Bunn, Andrea Mutti
Publisher: Mad Cave Studios
Publisher Link: https://madcavestudios.com/
Summary: As Nick continues to search for clarity on the meaning of Unit 731, the doctors do their best to forget the shock from the night before by letting loose at a local bar. Meanwhile, there is an even more gruesome surprise waiting for them courtesy of the mysterious masked serial killer terrorizing the small town of Disante.
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Ice Canyon Monster #6 (of 7)
By: Keith Rommel, Wolfgang Schwandt
Publisher: N/A
Summary: The tupilaq octopus has been challenged and this is a clash of underwater titans!
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