HELLO DARKNESS (2024)

Horror fans rejoice in cadaverous delight, because Hello Darkness is a brand new monthly anthology series featuring what BOOM! Studios is known for - the best in modern Horror, Fantasy, and Mystery, not to mention the darkest stories yet from an all-star cast of creators! With a spine-tingling lineup of industry legends including Garth Ennis, Becky Cloonan, James Tynion IV, Werther Dell'Edera, Brian Azzarello, Vanesa R. Del Rey, John Arcudi, Ryan Sook, and more, everything from primal fears to modern political horrors will be awakened, in the classic style of Creepy and Eerie and the contemporary chills of Black Mirror. Fans can also expect stunning main covers by Paolo Rivera, variant covers by Jenny Frison on every issue, and a guest artist variant on every issue! In addition, a deadly new Something is Killing the Children story unfolds in the first 6 issues, along with a bone-rattling new serialized tale by Garth Ennis and Becky Cloonan for the first 7!

The groundbreaking modern horror anthology continues with an unrivaled lineup of creative minds. Garth Ennis and Becky Cloonan are joined by Wes Craig, Robert Hack, Azam Raharjo, and Frederik Hornung. Rahajo and Hornung both make their comics debut in this special "all cartoonists" issue. Ennis and Cloonan continue "The War" with a second installment that ratchets up the nervous tension surrounding a world on the brink of nuclear war... Wes Craig puts capitalist pigs in their place with "Apocalypse in Slow Motion", Frederik Hornung explores the unexpected horrors of blind dates in "Stargazers", and Azam Raharjo supplies straight nightmare fuel with "The Clown".

Try and prepare yourself for another unsettling issue of the nightmarish modern horror anthology everyone is talking about. James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera return for Part 2 of "A Monster Hunter Walks Into a Bar"! And it gets gnarly gross with gruesome gluttony in "Mukbang" from Michael Conrad (Wonder Woman) and Mart n Morazzo (Ice Cream Man). The horror of war shows its disturbing face in "Kampfgeist" from Andy Lanning (Guardians of the Galaxy) and Trevor Hairsine (DCeased), while Robert Hack brings more laughs that are just plain wrong with "I Can't Take You Anywhere". And the world will never look the same after you read Part 3 of "The War" from the celebrated team of Garth Ennis and Becky Cloonan.

In the next issue of this groundbreaking horror anthology featuring the top creators in the industry at their absolute darkest, Garth Ennis and Becky Cloonan unveil part 4 of The War, where two couples fight for survival in New York, but it's not just the world around them crumbling, as the long night stretches on. In addition, it's a feast for the senses with All Eyes on Me by Chloe Brailsford and Dying for Quiet by Shawn Patrick Boyd and Elijah Henry, and more madcap madness in I Can't Take You Anywhere by Robert Hack!

The fresh face of modern horror continues with more terror from the industry's best! In "The War,  Part 5," by Garth Ennis and Becky Cloonan, David and Nikki take refuge, but quickly learn that there's more to survival than isolation from the outside world. Meanwhile, Erica Slaughter's investigation continues in a newSomething is Killing the Children adventure, plus hilarious horror from Robert Hack (Elvira Meets H.P. Lovecraft), and much more!

Ho-Ho-Horror for the holidays! Better hope your candles and bulbs all hold to keep the darkness at bay...  because you won't like what goes bump in the cold winter's night! In this holiday season issue, we're celebrating by "The Christmas Log" with Steve Orlando and Adam Gorham in a stomach-churning twist on the Ti de Nadal tradition. Then "The War" continues with part six of Garth Ennis and Becky Cloonan's nuclear winter saga. Plus, horrible holiday humor "I Can't Take You Anywhere" by Robert Hack, a trip "Into the Mines" with Justina Ireland and Valentine De Landro, and Sas Milledge brings slow-burn terror to the table with "Aisling, Drowned"!

Ahh, the sweet scent of love! Does your beloved prefer the putrid stench of corpse flowers or the warm, metallic aroma of flowers made of corpses? Either way, Hello Darkness is the perfect compliment to a bouquet and a heart-shaped box full of still-beating hearts with special stories of romance! It all starts with "L-O-V-E" by Griffin Sheridan, Ethan Parker, and Edison Neo, a heart-wrenching-out-of-chests twist of a slasher tale! Plus more-sickly-than-sweet tales of loves lost, changed, and downright strange in "Words in the Smoke" by Maria Llovet, "Evermore" by David Hazan and Stefano Nesi, "The Booth" by Anirudh J, and "Excision" by Chris Gooch and Eli Powell! All this and more romantic rejection and rollicks in another of Robert Hack's "I Can't Take You Anywhere" and more!

"The War" is finally over as Garth Ennis and Becky Cloonan's dark look at the world concludes, and James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera's Something is Killing the Children returns with "A Monster Hunter Walks into a Bar" Part 4. Meanwhile, Robert Hack's I Can't Take You Anywhere contains more madcap madness! Marguerite Bennett and Luana Vecchio team up for a twisted story about a woman's revenge, and Jordan Thomas and Shaky Kane prove there are no shortcuts to perfection!

Cover your mirrors, your TV screens, and your chalkboards! There's a new issue of Hello Darkness trying to get in! Prepare for a monstrous new method of disciplining misbehaving students in "Teacher's Pet" by Cullen Bunn and Daniel Bayliss! Don't change that channel as a superfan finds himself on his favorite cult TV show where the dangers are real in "Cemetery Cove" by Sina Grace! Be sure to respect the dead as you're invited to join a special shiva in Joanne Starer and Khary Randolph's "A Time for Reflection" Plus it's a madcap March in Robert Hack's I Can't Take You Anywhere and even more stories in the newest installment of the genre-defining horror anthology series!

Beware of letting your eyes linger on the wrong thing too long–you might see “The Devil in the Corner of Your Eye” by Genevieve Valentine and Ming Doyle! Plus more madcap mayhem from Robert Hack’s “I Can’t Take You Anywhere”! James Tynion and Werther Dell'Edera's Something is Killing the Children returns for Part 5 of "A Monster Hunter Walks into a Bar"

The bestselling, critically acclaimed horror anthology continues with new hair-raising, eye-popping, stomach-churning tales drawn from the deepest well of nightmares.In You Can’t Make a Silk Purse From a Sow’s Ear by Jenna Cha, a sickly man tries to reconcile his awful condition with his past as a perfect, prize-winning baby.Beware of letting your eyes linger on the wrong thing too long–you might see “The Devil in the Corner of Your Eye” by Genevieve Valentine and Ming Doyle!A witch must use every trick in her book to save her coven from a crew of vicious witch hunters in Train Veins. And more!

The summer sun may be bright, but it only makes the darkness that much deeper!The final chapter of Something is Killing the Children “A Monster Hunter Walks into a Bar”!In "You Can't Make a Silk Purse From a Sow's Ear" by Jenna Cha, a sickly man tries to reconcile his awful condition with his past as a perfect, prize-winning baby.Plus another installment of “I Can’t Take You Anywhere” by Robert Hack and more summertime scares!

Celebrating 20 years of BOOM! Studios, fear the Zombie Tales tribute issue!The classic horror anthology that carved a bloody trail for Hello Darkness returns from the dead!Hair- (and corpse-)raising stories from Steve Orlando, Federico Sorressa, Chris Roberson, Shane Oakley, Dave Cook, David Cousens, Michael W. Conrad, Matthew Dunn, Robert Hack, and more!

R.L. Stine and Francesco Francavilla team for a haunting old west tale "The Life and Death of Lucas Dreamwalker". 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!

Fall into an all-new season of horror!In a chilling story by Jude Ellison S. Doyle and Rocky OBK, the once-idyllic town of “Abadon” becomes a home to an unknown terror. A long-dormant protector rises in “Reconquista” by RAD to vengefully interrupt a celebration built on stolen land.Sink your teeth into this next batch of gruesome stories along with even more terrifying tales from the boldest voices in horror today!

Your favorite monthly horror showcase continues with a new wave of (spectral) nightmares!In this issue of the acclaimed anthology, horror legends R.L. Stine and Francesco Francavilla bring their haunting tale “The Life and Death of Lucas Dreamwalker” to a gripping conclusion!Then, Gigi Murakami warns against all work and no play in “When I’m Dead,” and Robert Hack returns with more of his wickedly offbeat “I Can’t Take You Anywhere.”

‘Tis the season…for fearsome frights!Get ready for a gruesome stocking stuffer of Ho-Ho-Horror with these tooth-gnashing tales!Witness a dark hunger that can never be sated in “The Pothole” by award-winning cartoonist Tyler Crook.Then, take a walk down memory lane with “Recollect” by Zack Kaplan and Dennis Menheree as they unfurl a crime that cannot be forgotten and cannot be forgiven.

Hey, batter batter! Get ready for bloodsport meets baseball as horror takes the field once more in the hit anthology series! It’s “splatter up” in part one of Sam Humphries and Eleonora Carlini’s macabre “Cassie” as a friendly game of baseball takes a turn to the demonic. Then, delve into the dark spaces in between reality in Rocky OBK’s haunting, liminal horror masterpiece “Sauna 24.”

Stop and smell the corpses! The horrors of winter are behind us, but a sinister new season awaits… HELLO DARKNESS returns this spring with a fresh bouquet of horror! In “Freshly Maid,” a mousy young housekeeper comes face to face with a deathless evil. Vibrant visionary Paulina Ganucheau (Lemon Bird: Can Help!, She-Ra: Legend of the Fire Princess) delivers a chilling tale of innocence undone where the mess lurking in the shadows isn’t something you can simply sweep away. In “Imposter Syndrome,” a hapless suburbanite cascading into paranoia and mutilation. Innovative creators Tate Brombal (Black Hammer, The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos) and Piotr Kowalski (Deadbox) team up for a 9-panel grid of terror! In “Cassie, Part II,” an all-girls softball team heads to the second inning with the forces of hell...and the bases are loaded! From the minds of Sam Humphries (The Legendary Star-Lord, Our Love Is Real) and Eleonora Carlini, every pitch turns into a plot twist. Join today’s top horror storytellers as they dive into the darkest corners of humanity!

No rest for the wicked!Hello Darkness is back for another collection of mind-bending horror. If you were still thinking of getting a good night’s rest this month, kiss those ZZZ's goodbye!It’s the bottom of the ninth level of hell in "Cassie, Part III," the final inning of Sam Humphries and Eleonora Carlini’s all-satanic-girl baseball smash hit.In "Away Message," Jorge Corona (Transformers) takes a man who just wanted to get away from it all to the edge of his own private apocalypse. And "The Thread" by Lauren Knight, in which a simple act of personal grooming takes a turn so gruesome you’ll skip lunch for the next week.

Hello Darkness plummets into the blackest depths of the human heart in this special mystery/thriller-themed anthology issue!In “Leading the Witness” by Ed Brisson and Damian Couceiro, a chance encounter with a stranger sends an innocent man down a never-ending spiral of self-fulling murder.And in “A Chase of Chianti, Heavily Discounted,” New York Times–bestselling crime writer Duane Swierczynski and George Romero Foundation’s artist-in-residence Ryan Carr get gruesome when a tough-as-nails mobster’s affair with his boss’s wife winds him up in a spot even his legendary pain threshold won’t withstand.All this and more for a bountiful bouquet of blood and bullets from BOOM!’s smash-hit horror series.

The temperature rises and so does the body count, as Hello Darkness returns for another summer slashing!A bride’s devoted faith is tested when she’s caught in an endless time loop–will murder be the only way to achieve salvation? Repent, reader, with “Sunday Pt. I” from Eisner and Harvey Award–winning writer Ryan North and artist Giada Belviso!A lone cowboy looking for a payday finds instead a book filled with endless waking nightmares in "The Written Word" by John Arcudi and superstar artist Ryan Sook.Saddle up your hog and roar into “The Boils” by Aaron Losty and Lauren Knight as a revenge killing by a leather daddy and his biker gang comes back to haunt them in every way possible!Finally, try to hold onto your lunch for “Be A Man” by Derick Jones, as a father/son hunting trip becomes a lesson in manhood that’s sure to turn your stomach…

Slash into summer with a tall drink of terror, all from your favorite chillers and killers! In "Sunday Pt. II," Ryan North and Giada Belviso send a Bride of Christ over the deep end into madness.Then, Rich Douek and Stevan Subic lead you down a bloody path to the old west, where a brash young gunfighter seeks a showdown with "The Man Who Outdrew Death."And finally, sink into the cool, briny depths of Kelly Williams’s “Old Wounds” when a grizzled light housekeeper hears the call of the sea one final time. Beat the heat with an all-new pool of fresh nightmares and dive right into horror’s deep end!