36 Best Horror Comics You Should Read This Fall

Post-apocalyptic zombie stories are usually about surviving and eliminating the undead hordes out to devour and/or make you part of their collective, even if they used to be people you loved. But what if there were a way to coexist with the zombies and hold on to the family members touched by the undead plague? And what would you do to protect your undead family and community?

That's the question that fuels this new five issue Image Comics and Tiny Onion miniseries from writer Tate Brombal (House of Slaughter) and artist Jacob Phillips (That Texas Blood) that finds the fragile existence of a farmer, his undead husband, and adopted daughter threatened by outsiders. FANGORIA has a preview of the first issue.

In this eight issue miniseries from writer Jermey Haun (Haunthology), artist Mike Tisserand (The Dragon Prince), and published by Ignition Press, a mysterious podcast begins to pop up in the feed of true crime fans. When they listen, they're infected with an insatiable hunger; not for new episodes, but to murder everyone around them.

The solicitation info for the first issue of this four issue miniseries from writer/artist Maria Llovet (Violent Flowers) describes it as The Terminator meets 9 1/2 Weeks. It chronicles the nightmare of a fashion stylist disillusioned with love who turns to a dating service offering lifelike android partners. Unfortunately for her, the companion she's chosen has glitched into a possessive stalker.

This four issue, snowy, folk horror miniseries from writer Brendan Columbus (Savage Circus), artist Danilo Beyruth (Venom), and publisher Panick Entertainment turns a family's ski vacation into a horrific ordeal. A mysterious cult has kidnapped Victoria and Owen Welch's son, and the only way to get them released is for Victoria and Owen to find another child for the cult to sacrifice.

In his Tales From Vader's Castle comics, writer Cavan Scott (Night of the Slashers) and his collaborators brought a plethora of short, horror tales to the Star Wars universe, including a chilling take on The Wicker Man involving Ewoks. So, fans of Star Wars and horror are especially excited for this new three issue miniseries from Scott, three different artists, and Dark Horse Comics, where each issue brings heroes from the film's three big trilogies in contact with the Nightlander, a sinister boogieman-style entity in search of a host to possess.

FANGORIA got a first look at this five issue Mad Cave Studios published miniseries from writer Ryan Parrott (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) and artist Letizia Cadonici (House of Slaughter), which features a former final girl who's now a successful therapist. When her hometown is plagued by a new series of murders she's forced to return and confront the horrible truth about the massacre she survived as a teenager.

With his Nocturnals series, writer/artist Dan Brereton has been mixing horror and pulp crime for 31 years.  This new four issue miniseries from Brereton and published by Dark Horse Comics is designed to introduce new readers to the book, which stars a team of humans and monsters that battle the eldritch underworld of Pacific City.

This original graphic novel from writer/artist Dawn Brown (Star Wars: Skeleton Crew) and published by Image Comics is for tweens and readers of any age who like to root for underdogs and their ethereal friends. It follows a selfish ghost who's forced to make amends by helping a young girl build her confidence and navigate things like bullies, scary teachers, and a demanding younger brother.

This five issue Marvel Comics miniseries (first announced by FANGORIA) from writers Ethan S. Parker and Griffin Sheridan (Kill Your Darlings), and artist Jan Bazaldua (The Immortal Thor) takes readers back to the birth of a very different Marvel Universe. In this reality, four astronauts return to Earth with “fantastic” abilities like their counterparts in the main Marvel Universe, but this fearsome foursome also returns with a ravenous hunger for human flesh.

In a press release, writer Paula Sevenbergen (the Stargirl television series) described this five issue miniseries from Mad Cave Studios, featuring art by Claudia Balboni (Killer Queens), as Carrie meets Yellowjackets. It's a dual narrative tale. 

One of the stories follows a sheltered girl experiencing her period for the first time at a nature camp and the bullies who exploit her lack of knowledge about what's happening to her. They tell her she's been “cursed.” The other narrative happens 10 years later, and those bullies, now adults, find themselves cursed. So, they reunite to track down what they believe is the source of their predicament: the girl they tormented a decade ago.

This series is another example of the comic medium's ability to offer high-concept, exciting ideas that would be difficult to execute on screen—Vikings versus werewolves! It's a five issue miniseries from writer Joe Pruett (Voices in My Head), artist Marcelo Frusin (Hellblazer), and Image Comics that chronicles the monstrous reason why the Vikings fled North America.

Rod Serling's classic, creepy, sci-fi anthology returns to comics with this all-new black and white anthology series published by IDW. Each issue features a different creative team spinning a new tale that seeks to honor the legacy of Serling's creation with contemporary stories. The debut issue is by writer Dan Watters (Home Sick Pilots) and artist Morgan Beem (You Belong Here). It's a story titled “Blanks” that examines the rich and powerful's attempt to use science to eliminate the limits of mortality.

The press materials for this original graphic novel from Image Comics, written by Giovanni Barbieri and illustrated by Gianluca Pagliarani, describe it as a unique take on retro futurism and deep space Lovecraftian horror. It follows the crew of a spaceship who land on a barren planet in search of a lost patrol and discover something that could destroy humanity.

This new series, part of IDW's shared universe of Kai-Sei era comics, follows the crew of Mechagodzilla on a kaiju-battling journey across the stars. The book is written by Chris Gooch (In Utero) and features art by Oliver Ono (Godzilla: Monster Island Summer Camp). Line editor Jake Williams told FANGORIA, “Makes you feel like you found a VHS tape of a cult favorite '80s space anime you've never heard of.”

Writer Justin Jordan (Harrower) and artist Patrick Piazzalunga (Monsters are My Business) had a blast combining their love of '70s grindhouse horror and road movies with '80s buddy action films in this new five issue miniseries from Mad Cave Studios. It features a pair of violent protagonists with experience confronting the supernatural and embroils them in a case involving zombie bikers, cultists, and a pair of sorcerers with the surname Argento.

Cosmic horror tales tend to be about a looming apocalypse, but this four issue miniseries from Panic Entertainment, screenwriter Dirk Blackman (Underworld: Rise of the Lycans), Monster Forge Productions' Shannon Eric Denton, and artist Kewber Baal (Elvira in Monsterland) is set in a world where tentacled, cosmic parasites have already decimated humanity. Its titular character is an infected, wasteland-wandering warrior who's given a sense of purpose when he stumbles across the last living humans on Earth.

For 15 seasons, Sam and Dean Winchester, the stars of the television series Supernatural, engaged in the “family business” of “saving people and hunting things.” In this new series from Dynamite Entertainment, writer Greg Park (Star Wars: Darth Vader) and artist Eder Messias (Sam Wilson: Captain America), set in between the first and second season of the hit show, the brothers are once again back on the road in their signature Impala, in search of murderous monsters and insidious entities.

Alternate history and horror combine in this new Ignition Press published series from writer Stephanie Williams (Nubia: Queen of the Amazons) and artist Letizia Cadonici (Department of Truth). It follows the exploits of a young black woman who continues the tradition of her late mother in creating special medicines using natural ingredients. When her mother leaves her a recipe book full of dark musings and strange symbols, she's plunged into a world of dark forces, secret societies, and mysterious natural wonders.

This Halloween horror themed anthology features work by creators like Daniel Warren Johnson (Murder Falcon), Cavan Scott (Night of the Slashers), Callie C Miller (DC’s Lex and the City), Riley Rossmo (Proof), John McCrea (Dead Eyes-The Empty Frame) and Rowan MacColl (Nightmare in Savannah) and stars characters like the Demon, Batman, Swamp Thing, and the titular mistress of magic, Zatanna.

In this original graphic novel from writer Daniel Kraus (The Autumnal), artist Dani (Coffin Bound), and publisher Vault Comics, a cemetery groundskeeper discovers a sinister secret that offers power and corruption. Her workplace is the burial ground for the city's superheroes, and every night, the soil bleeds with an ooze created from its rotting residents. It's a substance the groundskeeper becomes addicted to, one that offers her the power to punish her city's evildoers and threatens to make her the city's greatest villain.

This graphic novel adaptation of the titular Weird Western novella by Rhett C. Bruno and Jaime Castle is published by Vault Comics, written by Cullen Bunn (The Sixth Gun), and features art by Riley Brown. It's the tale of a shot-down Old West outlaw who's given a chance to avoid hell by going back into the mortal world and hunting demons that have infiltrated it.

This five issue, anthology miniseries sprang from SpectreVision founder Daniel Noah's interest in the paranormal after an encounter at the Stanley Hotel (The hotel that inspired the Shining). He researched a whole host of seemingly unrelated paranormal phenomena and came to believe that they're all connected. Oni Press is giving him an opportunity to present his findings with this five issue, prestige format, anthology miniseries informed by documented cases of paranormal occurrences.

In Book One, Noah teams with writer Chris Condon (News From the Fall Out) and Dave Chisolm (Spectrum) for a tale that takes readers back to 1967. It's a story that sends a Chicago based magazine writer to rural Indiana and plunges him headfirst into the world of UFOs and the enigmatic men in black.

A hard rain falls on a women's prison in this new series from Ignition Press, writer Cullen Bunn and artist Marika Cresta (Star Wars: The High Republic). That rain does not stop, and soon water begins to fill the penitentiary. Compounding the prisoners' and guards' problems is the fact that lurking within that water is something monstrous and deadly.

This four issue miniseries from Dark Horse is a new reader friendly follow up to James Tynion IV and Michael Avon Oeming's Blue Book series, which chronicled real life UFO encounters within the United States. In Red Book, the creators take things international by focusing on extraterrestrial stories from Russia and China.

The press release for this six issue anthology miniseries from Mad Cave Studios, co-writers Mark Russell (Vanishing Point) and Mark London (Battlecats), and a rotating team of artists describes it as “Black Mirror meets classic horror comics.” Each issue examines the dark aspects of our digital, hyper-connected world.

The first issue is from Russell and artist Felix Ruiz (Wolverine MAX) and centers on a device that allows the user to relive their happiest moments at the moment of their death and the price they must pay for it.

This thee issue gateway, holiday horror comic from Oni Press, writer George Northy (EC's Shiver SuspenStories) and artist Rachele Aragno is also now a feature film optioned for development by Gale Anne Hurd's Valhalla Entertainment. It tells the story of Christmas, Pennsylvania, a burg obsessed with holiday cheer, and the three teens who unwittingly release creatures of ancient legend upon their town.

If you're a reader of Rodney Barnes' Killadelphia series, the announcement that he's working on a new vampire comic is cause for excitement (And if you have yet to check the book out, you can read the first issue for free courtesy of FANGORIA). The fact that he's getting a chance to play in the world of Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith's 30 Days of Night comic (which was later adapted into a 2007 movie) is especially exciting.

Joining Barnes for this new book from the IDW Dark line is artist Chris Shehan (House of Slaughter). They'll take readers back to the Alaskan town of Barrow, which will once again be ravaged by marauding nosferatu when the sun sets for a month. This tale will be new reader friendly though, thanks to a new protagonist named Jalen James, who heads to Barrow after fleeing a life of violence in Los Angeles.

This body horror series from Ignition Press is set in a world where a mysterious, lethal, sexually transmitted disease makes the infected more attractive. It's a new reader friendly revival of an Image Comics series that follows a new cast of characters. Original series creators Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley return as writers, and they're joined by artist Emanuela Lupacchino (Blood Hunters). Producer Ryan Murphy is currently developing a television adaptation of the series.

This series from IDW Dark, writer Casey Gilly (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and artist Savanna Mayer continues the story of director Tim Burton's 1999 film Sleepy Hollow. It picks up 15 years after the events of the film. Johnny Depp's Ichabod Crane, now a world-famous debunker of the occult, receives a frantic letter pleading for him to return to the titular town. There, he'll reunite with his now estranged love, Christina Ricci's Katrina Van Tassel. Together, they'll explore the history of the haunted village and the roots that connect everything.

Writer Helen Mullane (Nicnevin and the Bloody Queen) and Tula Lotay's (Somna) formerly digitally exclusive tale of terror, sleaze, and glam rock is collected for the first time in print in this graphic novel from Mad Cave Studios. It's a 1970s-set tale that follows a group of women who head out on tour with an up-and-coming band and become embroiled in a hallucinogenic, possibly supernatural nightmare. The press materials describe the story as being for fans of Almost Famous, Boogie Nights, and Suspiria.

The recent Aliens Vs Avengers series from Marvel Comics took fans of Earth's Mightiest Heroes and the Xenomorphs to a dark and dangerous future. In Aliens Vs. Captain America, writer Frank Tieri (Godzilla: Here There Be Aliens), and artist Stefano Raffaele (Star Wars: Legacy of Vader) take readers back to World War II. It's a four issue limited series that finds the titular Sentinel of Liberty and his wartime allies, Bucky and the Howling Commandos, battling Hydra's terrifying new bio-weapons, the Xenomorphs.

In their creator-owned series, Die, from Image Comics, writer Kieron Gillen and artist Stephanie Hans blended elements of Jumanji, Stephen King's It, and tabletop roleplaying games into a heady and unsettling story cocktail. This November, they're returning to their tale of a mysterious and nightmarish game world and the people trapped within it with a new series designed as both a continuation and a jumping on point for brand new readers.

A  real life hospital infamous for the horrors perpetrated there is the titular backdrop for this five issue, supernatural series from writer Rodney Barnes, artist Elia Bonetti (Star Wars: Darth Vader), and published by Oni Press. The story begins with a death that is ruled a suicide, inside the shuttered and abandoned hospital. That person's passing causes a journalist and a detective to dig deeper into the terrors that took place at the hospital and the connection they share to the tormented spirits of the dead still trapped in the decaying facility.

IDW publishes the comic adventures of both Godzilla and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, so it makes sense that these two reptilian forces would collide. That collision happens in the pages of this new miniseries from Godzilla: Kai-Sei Era writer Tim Seeley and artist Fero Pe (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles X Stranger Things) that sends the TMNT to Japan to battle both Godzilla and their arch-nemesis, Shredder, who has sinister plans for the kaiju attacking the country.

Luke Piotrowski, one of the screenwriters of The Night House and the 2022 Hellraiser film, makes his comic writing debut with this five issue miniseries from Mad Cave Studios. He teams with artist Emanuele Ercolani (Kitsune) for a horror fantasy tale about a young boy whose entire town is slaughtered by a monstrous woman. He swears an oath of vengeance against her, but later discovers the only way to fulfill it is to be trained by the woman he seeks to kill.

Writer Kyle Starks has crafted some pretty funny horror-comedy comics, but this four issue miniseries from Dark Horse and featuring art by Piotr Kowalski (Let This One Be a Devil) is in no way a humorous tale. It's a pitch black, nasty story of revenge about a woman consorting with ex-hitmen, sadistic art enthusiasts, and literal devils to wreak a bloody, supernatural vengeance on the five men who tortured her and left her for dead.