The spooky season extends all the way to Christmas Eve, and Image Comics and Syzygy Publishing have announced plans to release Dread The Halls – a collection of four “not-so-merry” tales of terror.
Dread The Halls is a one-shot written by Jordan Hart and Chris Ryall, and will feature interior art by Lee Ferguson, Jimmy Kucaj, Walter Pax, and Fabio Veras.
“Be of Good Fear!” Long before Americans celebrated horror on Halloween, the Victorians did it gathered around a fireplace on Christmas Eve. Dread the Halls honors this macabre tradition by wishing you and yours “Happy Holidays” with stories of ghosts, ghastly abominations, and vile creatures.
“The Victorians showed us horror pairs quite well with the holidays through their fireside ghost stories,” said writer Jordan Hart in a press release. “Dread the Halls honors this tradition with four festive tales of terror, each with individual narrative and visual styles. Chris and I wanted to make a stocking stuffer for any comic or horror fan. And thanks to mind-blowing covers, the issue doubles as a dreadful piece of holiday décor too.”
“Dread the Halls is our gift to everyone who might expect to see their name on Santa’s Naughty List, although anyone on the ‘Nice List’ who like their holiday season to have some added spice is invited to partake, too,” said co-writer Chris Ryall. “As a comic reader, I’ve always loved comic-book stories that fuse elements of Halloween and Christmas together in sweet and scary ways, and that’s what we set out to do here as well.”
Dread The Halls is scheduled to arrive in comic book stores on December 04, 2025.
