Welcome welcome welcome to this spooky list of comics.
I’m your host, Amanda McKnight and boy was I spooked after reading the titles listed
here.
I’m gonna need a lot of nightlights around me in order sleep tonight, so please if you
have any spares, send them my way.
There are so many different topics when it comes to horror and for me the most meaningful
scary monsters are those that embody real life horrors that exist within us.
In this list I’ll also be letting you know a little bit about the things that creep me
out so I think it’s only fair you tell me about what scares you when it comes to the
horror genre in the comments below.
What are you most afraid of?
Alright.
Deep breath.
Safety pals and blankets at the ready.
Time to face those fears:
10 Colder.
Written by Paul Tobin and illustraton Juan Ferreyra.
You don’t even have to read these comics to be creeped out, you just have to look at
the covers of this series.
Check them out.
Seriously, I’ll wait.
Okay?
How are you?
Feeling good?
Feeling sick?
If you’re okay to continue, let me tell you more about what’s inside the comic.
This series follows the Declan Thomas, a man who has the ability to cure others’ madness
at the expense of his own body temperature.
Although Declan does not get ill or feel any physical pain, he does struggle with the state
of his own mental health.
As his body temperature continues to drop, it seems Declan is fighting in a race against
time.
The best thing about this series though is not even the ingenious story but the villian,
Nimble Jack, who feeds on others madness.
He is just maybe the creepiest guy I have seen in comics.
Or in anything.
Ever.
9 Fatale.
Written by Ed Brubaker.
Art by Sean Phillips.
Colours by David Stewart.
If you love Lovecraft, this horror is for you.
The story follows Jo, a woman who is constantly running from a cult that worships gods similar
to the Great Old Ones, those of the Cthulhu mythos.
This cult appears to be obsessed with hunting down Jo and will stop at no means necessary.
Jo is a femme fatale right out of the 1930s, but literally.
The story we follow shows Jo in different time periods, though mysteriously she always
appears unaged, untouched by time.
Jo also struggles with having a bewitching effect on the male sex, as men fall irresistibly
and helplessly in love with her, only for them to meet some untimely end.
We follow Jo on the run as she tries to find a safe place and unravel the mysteries around
her.
8 Wytches by Scott Snyder.
Beautiful, spooky art by Jock.
And amazing amazing amazing colour by Matt Hollingsworth.
Seriously.
This story is brilliant, the look of the comic is fantastic but the colours.
You could just read this comic for just the colours.
So, okay.
What’s it about?
As the title aptly implies, this is a witch story.
A young girl named, Sailor and her family are forced to move after Sailor’s bully,
Annie mysteriously disappears and Sailor is suspected of Annie’s murder by the town's
residents.
Harsh.
The family moves to the small town of Litchfield, New Hampshire and mayhem ensues.
You see this town is steeped in the supernatural and has close ties to a group of wytches.
I don’t want to give anything away but I will say this is story has a very unique take
on this specific type of monster.
Seriously.
Read it.
7 Outcast.
Written by Robert Kirkman.
Art by Paul Azaceta.
With colours by Elizabeth Breitweiser.
Alright YouTube, as I host and we get to know each other better, there is something I want
you to know about me.
I’m terrified of possession.
To me it is the scariest thing.
Films like Exorcist, Babadook, Hereditary…
they just give me the capital c creeps.
Needless to say, I could not create this list without touching on the very disturbing subject
of possession.
And so I give you Outcast.
Not to be confused with the music group, Outkast.
This series follows Kyle Barnes, a guy who has a history with demonic possession, abilities
surrounding it and as a result, pretty much runs into it at every turn.
This series involves a lot of people getting possessed and lot of creepy grins.
Especially from children.
Creeeeeeeepy.
Probably due to the success of Kirkman’s series Walking Dead and it’s show, Outcast
has also been given a television series.
So feel free to check that out as well if my type of spooky is also your type of spooky.
6 Torso.
By Michael Brian Bendis and Mark Andreyko.
Torso is more than a horror comic, it is also a true crime series, which in my opinion makes
it even scarier especially because the criminal it is about was never apprehended.
This tale focuses on the investigation of a string of serial murders committed in Cleveland
in the 1930s.
The killings shared a link, they all involved dismemberment.
With many of the deaths of the victims being believed to have been directly caused by said
dismemberment.
Ergo the killer was dubbed the Cleveland Torso Murderer.
Torso is interesting because it doesn’t just tell a story, it also uses direct images,
documents and reports from the case which are then interlaced with the story.
If you are a fan of this comic series, you might be excited to know a film series is
in the works which would revolve around Eliot Ness, famed law man, leader of the Untouchables
and one of the lead investiagators on the Cleveland Torso Murderer case.
5 Fuan No Tane.
Written by Masaaki Nakayama.
This comic series is an anthology of short scary stories based around urban legends.
If stories like this used to keep you up at night just wondering about them, prepare to
get spooked.
A lot of these stories are short and involve a lot of jump scares and scary faces staring
at you.
These are the stories that will leave you looking over your shoulder for the rest of
the night and possibly day.
Approach with caution if you have an active imagination.
And be warned I find the stories get scarier as you read on.
4 Severed.
Written by Scott Snyder and Scott Tuft with art by Attila Futaki.
In this series we follow Jack, a young boy who runs away from home after receiving a
letter from his absent-father, asking Jack to join him on the road.
Jack of course has always dreamed of traveling cross country with his estranged father and
eagerly leaves home to set off on an adventure.
And that’s where this story gets dark.
Jack runs into a traveling salesman who is far more than he seems.
The artwork is graphic and the story revolves around cannibalism.
The two go hand in hand to make Severed an unforgettable series.
In the best and worst way possible.
This series also features a villain who seriously freaks me out and who will assuredly keep
you awake at night.
3 Uzumaki by Junji Ito.
So here’s the thing all comics by Ito are terrifying.
So know that now and don’t look back.
This manga series revolves around spirals.
Get it?
Revolves?
[crickets] It’s about a town where people are obsessed and paranoid about spirals.
The comic centres on a young highschool couple, Kirie Goshima and Shu-chi Sy-to.
Kirie becomes affected by the town’s curse when her hair starts to curl.
Her hair drains Kirie’s energy and attempts to strangle her any time she tries to cut
it.
Shuichi manages to cut her hair off and save Kirie from the curse but the two remain unable
to escape the town.
Even when they leave, they end up returning.
This story is an interesting and disturbing exploration of the power of tradition, time,
and the meaning and feeling of infinity.
2 Harrow County.
Written by Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook.
With art and colours also by Crook.
Emmy is a young teenage girl living a small town where 18 years ago a witch was burned.
When Emmy begins to have strange visions of heints.
Heints are basically ghosts, spirits, spooks, otherworldly beings.
Emmy soon discovers she too may become a witch and also discovers that her father plans to
kill her.
If you don’t yet believe this comic is worth a read, let me tell you my favourite part.
At one point, Emmy goes into the woods and finds and befriends, the Skinless boy, half
of which is a boys flayed skin.
Also there is the other half of the boy running around the woods, skinless.
So yeah, it’s a pretty freaky kind of spooky.
That being said this is a comic that is worth a read, simply for the art in it.
Crooks use of watercolours and his ability to paint emotion on characters faces in the
imagery is hypnotizing.
You could get lost in just the art of the comics.
1 The Enigma of Amigara Fault by Junji Ito.
Another story by Ito, this one is more of a short story, which explores the idea of
loneliness as isolation and the compulsive influence of curiosity.
Also it creeps me out.
A lot.
This comic is an extra story that was included at the end of the feature length horror series
by Ito entitled, Gyo.
Owaki and Yoshida are hiking up in the mountains, hoping to get a look at the fault in a mountainside
which a recent earthquake has exposed.
The fault is comprised of an amazing amount of human shaped holes in the side of the mountain
that appear to be bottomless.
Disturbingly people start hearing these holes call to them and disappear in what they describe
as their perfect outline etched into the mountain, their hole.
I won’t spoil the ending but I will say be prepared to get spooked by this one.
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