Top 13 Spooky Comic Books for the Halloween Reading Season

This year, comic book publishers have a nice collection of series being released from now unti November, marking the All Hallows Eve reading season. And there are a lot more in the trade paperback front, which includes reprints like a manga style take on Nightmare Before Christmas to salivate over!

I could list them all, but it would be tough to say which works I want to read over others as that pile of shame just keeps growing, as I should at least must read the first issues, or that collection when that trade paperback comes out. This list considers two titles released not for this season, as I feel they make up what trick or treating is about.

Amazon links are provided for the graphic novel/collected trade releases listed here. Also, it seems for some releases, the dates vary depending on where you’re buying the book from.

ALICE COOPER: CROSSROADS TP
DYNAMITE COMICS
Nov 26, 2024 (Oct at select outlets)

The legendary Alice Cooper has noticed a disturbing trend cropping up in his audiences-more and more of them seem to have become undead! What’s more, the Archangel Gabriel is visiting his dreams and delivering disturbing news. It seems that the Devil has been honing his chops in the hottest rock club in Hell, and he’s getting ready to take his show on the road!

ELVIRA MEETS H.P. LOVECRAFT TP
DYNAMITE COMICS
Oct 30, 2024

Some crossovers are meant to happen. After meeting Vincent Price, Elvira isn’t resting at all. If you love camp and being haunted by the ghost of H.P. Lovecraft, then this meeting of two legends is sure to deliver laughs galore! To spoil the story would be too much.

DWELLINGS: ALL HALLOW’S EVE SPECIAL
ONI PRESS
Oct 23, 2024

This Halloween, return to the terrifyingly tranquil streets that Dwellings calls home-as seen through the eyes of visitor Wolfgang LeGant! But Wolfgang is no ordinary tourist: He’s convinced he’s actually a seasoned vampire hunter, and this delusion has drawn him to Elwich to drive a stake through the once unassuming town’s thriving “Saguinarian” goth subculture. But when Wolfgang meets Emmaline Momenta, a young woman similarly possessed by the idea that she’s a real vampire, irrational faith may be the only thing capable of stopping a mass murder in the making…

NIGHT OF THE SLASHERS
MAGMA COMICS
Oct 16, 2024

Hill Creek is a lovely place to visit… except the one night of the year its citizens transform into bloodthirsty maniacs! Of course, that’s the very night Lara’s bus breaks down, stranding the disillusioned teen and her classmates in the secluded town. Secrets uncovered, terror at every turn—will anyone survive the night?

LOVECRAFT: UNKNOWN KADATH VARIANT EDITION
ABLAZE COMICS
Oct 23, 2024

This re-release has something new for fans of this modern retelling of the Dream Quest. All the variant covers are included! It’s perfect for those readers who missed out in collecting the series. Here, everything you want to behold and have concerning the story of Randolph Carter as he ventures forth to the home of mysterious gods, and fantasies not known to mortal imagination is well covered here.

MINKY WOODCOCK:
THE GIRL CALLED CTHULHU #1
TITAN COMICS
Oct 16, 2024

Inspired by a true WWII maritime operation, shocking satanic events, monstrous men, and one salacious sea creature, this third series tells the tale of Minky’s encounter with legendary horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, creator of Cthulhu. Just where this tale goes may be too deep into aquatic life!

PARLIAMENT OF ROOKS #1
ABLAZE
Oct 30, 2024

After waking from a strange dream, architect Darius Ravenscar makes plans to head to the city of Eborvik to show the princess the designs she had commissioned. However, at the masquerade ball, something goes terribly wrong.

THE CREEPING BELOW #1
BOOM STUDIOS
OCT 2, 2024

When Val, an American metalhead attending a music festival abroad in Oslo, falls victim and is killed by a charismatically evil local black metal band, the Old Gods of Norse Mythology raise her up and guide her along the path of brutal vengeance in the name of women everywhere. But will she walk the warriors’ path, or become something far more terrible?

THE HOUR OF THE WOLF
MAD CAVE COMICS
Oct 23, 2024

When Owen Blackwood is called across time to a normal home to destroy a haunted painting, it didn’t feel like anything out of the ordinary to this agent of Wolvenheart. Upon arrival, however, Owen finds himself trapped in the very painting he was called to destroy. With only a one-hour window of time in which to operate, will Owen be able to save the family from certain death and destroy the painting? Or will he get lost in time and become a cross-dimensional walking ghost?

THE NINE LIVES OF SALEM
ARCHIE COMICS
Oct 16, 2024

Salem was once a powerful warlock whose misuse of powers led him to live the rest of his life in servitude, acting as a cat familiar to a family of witches. But even in feline form, he can’t escape the sins of his past. And when some familiar faces return seeking revenge, he might just use up all of his nine lives trying to save himself from their wrath.

SCIENCE OF GHOSTS
LEGENDARY COMICS
May 2024

This much delayed title is finally out! Everything about the concept looks good, and I feel it should be a film rather than just a graphic novel. Plot Synopsis: While navigating the mysteries of the afterlife, Joy Ravenna – a transgender parapsychologist, must also deal with the very real challenges of her past and present. Her first post-transition relationship, a hostile ex-wife, and clues to murder long forgotten will test her at every twist and turn. For Joy, working with ghosts is way easier than dealing with the living.

SVENGOOLIE 45TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL
GEMSTONE PUBLISHING
Oct 2, 2024

TV Horror host Svengoolie celebrates his 45th on-air anniversary and Halloween in scary style with a series of stories written by Sven and all the members of the Sven Squad. Not only must he confront “The Day of the Doorbell Demons” but also other television favs like Nostalgiaferatoo, Gwengoolie, and IMP get their own solo tales!

TOM HOLLAND’S FRIGHT NIGHT VOL 1. SENIOR YEAR
AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY
Nov 5, 2024

Tom Holland changed the landscape of vampire movies in 1985 with the release of Fright Night. This landmark This movie revolutionised the way horror movies were made, and it is about time for us to see Charlie Brewster’s adventure continue! This series is based on the original screenplay and that should be enough of an incentive to get re-introduced to this world!