Hello Darkness #14
By: R.L. Stine, Francesco Francavilla, Miguel Mercado, Jenny Frison, Jonathan Wayshak, Rebeca Puebla
Type: Cover A – Mercado, Cover B – Frison Variant, Cover C – Wayshak Full Art Variant, Cover D – Boom 20th Anniversary Puebla Variant, Cover E – Boom 20th Anniversary Variant Full Art Variant, Cover F – Mercado Full Art Variant
Publisher: Boom! Studios
Publisher Link: https://www.boom-studios.com/
Summary: Toot toot! Do you hear that whistle blowing? It’s the sound of the witchy “Train Veins” approaching the station from Casey Gilly and Rye Hickman! Pat McHale (Over the Garden Wall), Brandon Melvin and Gavin Fullerton tell a horrifying story about a phenomenon we could only call, “Collywobbles”! Plus more horrible humor from Robert Hack and spine-chilling stories by today’s greatest creators!
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EC: Blood Type #4
By: Corinna Bechko, Andrea Sorrentino, Miguel Mercado
Type: Cover A – Mercado, Cover B – Sorrentino
Publisher: Oni Press
Publisher Link: https://www.onipress.com/
Summary: Sooner or later, the past always comes back to BITE YOU!
What started as a seemingly random escape to an island paradise has proven to be anything but a vacation as the sun slowly sets (or rises, rather) possibly for good on vampire Ada’s island adventure. Thinking she was at the top of the local food chain, she suddenly finds herself in captivity, held by a mysterious cabal with an unholy agenda! But you know what they say about cornering a dangerous animal… What fun we’ve had!
Here it comes-the shocking final chapter of EC Comics’ first-ever standalone horror splatter-thon… from the die-namic team of Hugo Award-nominated author Corinna Bechko (Green Lantern: Earth One) and Eisner Award-winning artist Andrea Sorrentino (Gideon Falls)!
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Black Demon Tales: Descent #1
By: Veronique Medrano, Armando M Zanker
Publisher: AMP Comics
Publisher Link: https://www.ampcomics.com/
Summary: When the international corporation Nixon-Ivo comes into the small fishing town of San Felipe to create a ‘shrimp farm,’ they snatch up workers and slowly shut other boats out of business. Juan and Xavier de los angeles go on one last desperate trip and stumble upon a new kind of shrimp that they believe will give them an edge. But even as they are caught in the crosshairs of a hurricane, they witness a massacre on the seas. The company isn’t just running other shrimpers out of business but also murdering their competition. As if summoned by this spilled blood and corporate greed, the Black Demon emerges. Can a family survive a hurricane of mythical proportions that seems bent on altering the landscape of a small coastal town?
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It Killed Everyone But Me #1
By: Ryan Parrott, Jorge Corona, Letizia Cadonici, Trevor Henderson
Type: Cover A – Corona, Cover B – Henderson Varian
Publisher: Mad Cave Studios
Publisher Link: https://madcavestudios.com/
Summary: In the summer of 1996, Sutton Reed had it all. A popular teenage girl with amazing friends, a loving family and a bright future. But it all came crashing down over one mysterious weekend that saw her friends brutally murdered and left Sutton as the sole survivor of the legendary Riverton Massacre. Now, three decades later, the death and disappearance of two local teens strike the Riverton community again, forcing Sutton, now a divorced single mother, to face the truth she tried so desperately to hide. Because to catch one killer, she’ll have to dig up the real monster she buried away all those years ago.
Written by New York Times best-selling author RYAN PARROTT (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Rogue Sun) and drawn by acclaimed artist LETIZIA CADONICI (House of Slaughter, The Neighbors) comes a chilling, supernatural slasher for the next generation.
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Feral #16
By: Tony Fleecs, Tone Rodriguez, Trish Forstner
Type: Cover A –Fleecs, Forstner, (Cover B -Forstner & Fleecs Movie Poster Homage Variant
Publisher: Image Comics
Publisher Link: https://imagecomics.com/
Summary: NEW STORY ARC.
Lord has been found guilty of crimes against Pet City, and the punishment is DEATH! Only Elsie and Gigi can save him, but they’re too busy at each other’s throats! It’s a full-on CAT FIGHT at the strip mall and not everyone will make it out alive.
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Farmhand #25
By: Rob Guillory
Publisher: Image Comics
Publisher Link: https://imagecomics.com/
Summary: Thorne collides with the remnant of the Jenkins Family. And not everyone will make it out alive.
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Cul De Sac #2 of 4
By: Mike Carey, Jonathan Wayshak, Tony Fleecs
Type: Cover A – Wayshak, Cover B – Fleecs Cursed Mirror Variant
Publisher: Bad Idea
Summary: New York Times bestselling writer, Mike Carey (LUCIFER, X-MEN) and groundbreaking fine art illustrator Jonathan Wayshak (SPAWN: VIOLATOR) up the stakes in the second chapter of the smash-hit modern horror masterpiece in the making.
Rocked by the shocking revelation that their murdered parents were vampires, and on the run, the kids are trying to get over 2,000 miles cross-country to find the one man who can help them unlock the secrets to their newfound powers. But both the paramilitary group of vampire hunters who slaughtered their parents and Jagger, the deadly vampire assassin who’s vowed to go scorched earth until she can put them all into early graves, catch up with the kids at the bus station. The result is a stunning action set piece and staggering discoveries about just who or what these kids are.
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Vampire Ninja Ono: Curse Of The Hakken: One-Shot
By: Ben Dunn, David Furr, Forbi Komik
Type: Cover C – Dunn Lunar Exclusive Variant, Cover D – Dunn Foil Virgin Lunar Exclusive Variant
Publisher: Antarctic Press
Publisher Link: https://antarctic-press.myshopify.com/
Summary: Artist Forbi Komik delivers this captivating composition of lethal beast and lithe (and also lethal) beauty for an action-packed variant that will take your breath away!
ONO! OH, YES! BEN DUNN’S NINJA VAMPIRE RISES AGAIN!
After returning to the United States, Alex Powell believes the nightmare he faced in Japan is over, but he soon realizes the nightmare has followed him. Demonic oni roam through the streets of Los Angeles, clashing with vampires and werewolves, all in a race to hunt him down. But why? What do the undead want with him? Only Ono, the vampire ninja, holds the answers, and only she stands between him and a fate worse than death.
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Nocturnals: The Sinister Path #1 of 4
By: Dan Brereton, Sean Gordon Murphy
Type: Cover A – Brereton, Cover B – Murphy
Publisher: Dark Horse
Publisher Link: https://www.darkhorse.com/
Summary: While the town sleeps, evil rises. A war is fought for soul of Pacific City by monsters, human and supernatural. But some of the monsters are on our side. The Nocturnals, led by Doc Horror, his daughter Evening, and their band of misfit vigilantes, are all that stand against an eldritch criminal underworld. The death of the mysterious Judge Hemlock opens a macabre power vacuum in the eldritch underworld of Pacific City. When The Nocturnals — Doc Horror, Evening, and armed revenant, the Gunwitch — investigate the occult-enshrouded Hemlock house, what they find will lead them down a twisted and deadly sinister path.
31st Anniversary of Dan Brereton’s Masterpiece, the Nocturnals. The All Hallows Eve Anniversary!; New covers by Dan Brereton; First issue features a 2 pages character introduction, plus every issue has pin-up on the back; Four issue series.
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Hellboy In Love: The Art Of Fire #2 of 2
By: Mike Mignola, Alex Nieto
Type: Cover A – Nieto
Publisher: Dark Horse
Publisher Link: https://www.darkhorse.com/
Summary: A supernatural entity in an Icelandic cave gives Hellboy and Anastasia the answers they seek, but has other ideas when the two of them try to leave with their newfound knowledge. Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden join artist Alex Nieto in a return to Hellboy’s adventures of both the supernatural and the heart.
Continues Hellboy in Love with a new, two-issue story arc.
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DC Finest: Horror: The Devil’s Doorway
By: Gerry Conway, Marv Wolfman, Len Wein, Neal Adams, Jerry Grandenetti, Bernie Wrightson, Alex Troth
Publisher: DC Comics
Publisher Link: https://www.dc.com/comics
Summary: SPINE-CHILLING TALES OF TERROR FROM THE MASTERS OF HORROR! Written by Gerry Conway, Marv Wolfman, Len Wein and More Art by Jerry Grandenetti, Bernie Wrightson, Alex Toth and More Just in time for Halloween, DC Finest proudly presents the first horror genre anthology collection filled with creepy tales from May 1969 to April 1970. This volume boasts a who’s who of writers and artists, including Len Wein, Marv Wolfman, Gerry Conway, Bernie Wrightson, and Alex Toth, to name few, penning stories such as Diary of a Madman, The Siren of Satan, and The Devil’s Doorway, and is the perfect entry point for classic DC horror. Collects HOUSE OF SECRETS #81-85, HOUSE OF MYSTERY #180-185, THE PHANTOM STRANGER #5, THE WITCHING HOUR #3-7, and THE UNEXPECTED #113-117.
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Blade: Red Band: Prodigal Son
By: Bryan Hill, C.F. Villa
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Publisher Link: https://www.marvel.com/comics
Summary: In the wake of blockbuster event BLOOD HUNT, Blade the vampire-slaying vampire finds his life forever changed, in this all-new series under Marvel’s mature-rated, grindhouse-inspired RED BAND line!
NOTE: This special edition is intended for mature audiences only.
For years, Blade has been the deadliest vampire hunter in the Marvel Universe! With an arsenal of wooden stakes, silver bullets and razor bats at his command, few have known the taste of vengeance and blood like him! But after the harrowing events of BLOOD HUNT, what’s left of the Daywalker? Did any of the vampire within Blade survive? Did any of the man? He may want more than ever to be left alone, but the world, and danger, won’t let him go, and he soon finds himself embroiled in conflict with his bloodlust reignited! Can Blade escape the crosshairs of the latest in the famous lineage of Van Helsing?! Perhaps with help from his new partner!
COLLECTING: Blade: Red Band (2024) 1-5
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Vampirella #5
By: Christopher Priest, Ergun Gunduz, Lucio Parrillo, Greg Land, Joseph Michael Linsner, Elias Chatzoudis, Cosplay
Type: Cover A – Parrillo, Cover B – Land, Cover C – Linsner, Cover D – Chatzoudis, Cover E – Cosplay
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
Publisher Link: https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/
Summary: DARKNESS CLOSES IN! In an all-too-possible future following a global apocalypse, a vengeful Vampirella seizes power and imposes a crushing totalitarian order over the entire Earth – leaving her son Cicero with no other choice but to turn to evil to stop her.
Meanwhile, in the foreboding present, a cyberpunk Baron Von Kreist arrives from the future, hell-bent on preventing Cicero from disrupting the coming dark future – by any means necessary!
Sage prognosticators CHRISTOPHER PRIEST and ERGN GNDZ proffer eerily accurate extrapolations in Vampirella #5 – enhanced by enticing covers from LUCIO PARRILLO, GREG LAND, JOSEPH MICHAEL LINSNER, ELIAS CHATZOUDIS, and cosplay by RACHEL HOLLON!
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