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Preview: Headless Horseman Halloween Annual 2024

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Headless Horseman Halloween Annual 2024

(W) David Dastmalchian, Lukas Ketner (A) Matt Smith (A/CA) Lukas Ketner
In Shops: Oct 23, 2024
SRP: $7.99

Like the urban legends and folklore frights of yore, the Headless Horseman is coming back to haunt you once more! Ignore the creaking footsteps, don’t mind the whistling wind, pull your eyes away from the shifting shadows, and tiptoe through these spine-tingling stories. The Headless Horseman returns… and this year, he’s coming for you!

Headless Horseman Halloween Annual 2024

Exclusive: Kolchak Challenge Coin from Monstrous Books revealed!

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Throughout the course of the fan-favorite 1970s TV show, legendary reporter Carl Kolchak went toe-to-toe with all manner of otherworldly fiends. Now, he will take on his most fearsome foes yet — Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Werewolf! Monstrous Books presents a three-issue series of stand-alone comics as well as a deluxe hardcover collection from an all-star lineup of creators coming to Kickstarter this October. 

Actor and Writer David Dastmalchian will team-up with Count Crowley artist Lukas Ketner, and colorist Zac Atkinson, for a Kolchak – Count Crowley 22-page comic book crossover in “Kolchak Meets the Werewolf and Count Crowley,” featuring a cover by Ketner and a variant from superstar artist Matt Wagner. Rodney Barnes will be writing a 22-page comic book thriller titled “Kolchak Meets Dracula,” with art by Eisner-award nominated artist Alex Lins with a cover by Colton Worley. And Steve Niles will be collaborating with artist George Quadros, and colorist Zac Atkinson on a 22-page comic book called “Kolchak Meets Frankenstein” with a cover from Russ Braun. Monstrous Book will publish a deluxe, hardcover edition of Kolchak Meets the Classic Monsters, featuring all three stories and an all-new cover by Dave Acosta. 

The Kickstarter campaign for Kolchak: The Night Stalker Meets the Classic Monsters features comics, graphic novels, and for the first-ever officially licensed Kolchak trading cards and a limited-edition challenge coin.

We have an exclusive first look at the challenge coin! Check it out and then the Kickstarter!

The Silent Knight Returns to Sleigh the Holiday Season

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DC Comics has announced Santa is back in a new comic book series, Batman – Santa Claus: Silent Knight Returns by Jeff Parker and Lukas Ketner, coming to local comic book shops this winter, publishing Wednesdays in the five weeks leading up to Christmas! But this is comics, so there’s always a twist when DC’s Santa Claus and Batman are involved!

In the five issues of Batman – Santa Claus: Silent Knight Returns, horrors haunt the Christmas season as life-drained bodies litter the countryside, each marked with a strange symbol. The Justice League responds—but it’s a trap! The heroes are pulled from our world, but not before Batman helps Robin escape. Now Damian Wayne must seek out Zatanna and the one and only Santa Claus if there’s any hope of saving their friends and family.

DC’s wildest characters arrive this time to face a powerful foe…the Silent Knight!

Batman – Santa Claus: Silent Knight Returns by Jeff Parker, Lukas Ketner, Marcelo Maiolo, and Pat Brosseau will publish Wednesdays between November 27 and December 25. Batman – Santa Claus: Silent Knight Returns #1 will have a main cover by Bernard Chang and variant covers by Dan Mora, Kevin Wada, and Erica Henderson. Collectors can also kickstart the holidays with a special gift-wrapped (polybagged), evergreen-scented variant cover by Dan Hipp!

The Headless Horseman returns for a Halloween Extravaganza

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Like the urban legends and folklore frights of yore, the Headless Horseman is returning to haunt you once more! Dark Horse Comics presents an all-new 2024 edition of The Headless Horseman Halloween Annual.

Similar to the first Headless Horseman horror anthology, published in 2023, the 2024 one-shot collects five stories from some of the best horror writers and artists around. David Dastmalchian, Leah Kilpatrick, and Lukas Ketner all return with new stories this year. Ben Stenbeck and James Asmus will join the team for the first time with their fright-filled stories with Matt Smith and Chris Panda contributing their haunting illustrations to the anthology as well. 

Don’t miss out on the Headless Horseman Halloween Annual 2024, a 56-page horror extravaganza.It’s set to hit comic shops on October 23, 2024, but you can preorder your copy now from your local comic shop for $7.99.

Preview: Count Crowley: Mediocre Midnight Monster Hunter #4

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Count Crowley: Mediocre Midnight Monster Hunter #4

(W) David Dastmalchian (A/CA) Lukas Ketner
In Shops: May 29, 2024
SRP: $4.99

The vengeful spirit of a Halloween tragedy terrorizes the children of Beloit but before Jerri can learn how to bust this ghost, she’ll have to face off with a vampire more powerful than anything she’s faced. As the stakes increase, all nefarious roads seem to lead to Kansas City, where a provocative lab of re-animated corpses have been used for some unsavory business. The body count rises, the spirits are conjured and something unspeakable will befall one of Jerri’s most important allies.

Count Crowley: Mediocre Midnight Monster Hunter #4

Preview: Count Crowley: Mediocre Midnight Monster Hunter #3

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Count Crowley: Mediocre Midnight Monster Hunter #3

(W) David Dastmalchian (A/CA) Lukas Ketner
In Shops: Apr 10, 2024
SRP: $4.99

The bodies are piling up… and some are just wandering off the slab! A bizarre escort service in Kansas City is giving a whole new meaning to “women of the night” as they build their staff with reanimated, volatile corpses. Meanwhile the creepy Boonville Spook is picking off kids one by one while Jerri struggles to get answers from Vincent Freights. Problem is… Vincent is losing his mind. No wonder she’s in such a good mood.

Count Crowley: Mediocre Midnight Monster Hunter #3

Clay McLeod Chapman and Andrea Mutti conjure a Séance in the Asylum

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We’re receiving a message from the beyond! Dark Horse Comics presents Séance in the Asylum, a new historical horror series from renowned writer Clay McLeod Chapman and artist Andrea Mutti that will have you questioning what’s real and what’s not. Chapman will write the series and Mutti will illustrate, with Trevor Henderson, Francesco Francavilla, Lukas Ketner, and Jenna Cha rounding out the circle and providing variant cover art on issues #1-4.

1865. Defrauded spiritual medium Alicia Wilkinson is brought to The Ashcroft Hospital at the behest of Dr. John James Templeton. He offers Alicia a second chance to revive her once-thriving career: perform a séance amongst the patients in order to draw out their mental maladies. Alicia performs her first series of séances with the patients—including traumatized soldiers returning from the Civil War and women whose sanity has slipped through their fingers—only to realize their sessions might work all too well. What no one knows is Alicia is a fake. A liar. A cheat… So why are the patients suddenly acting possessed?

It takes some time to summon the spirits, so Séance in the Asylum #1 (of 4) will relay its message in all comic shops on July 24, 2024. It is now available to pre-order from your local comic shop for $3.99.

Dark Horse Presents: A frightfully fun double feature of comics and film on November 2

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In celebration of the recent release of The Headless Horseman Halloween Annual 2023 one-shot, the launch of Count Crowley: Mediocre Midnight Monster Hunter, and the stunning and bloody conclusion of The Lonesome Hunters: The Wolf Child, Dark Horse presents a special event at the historic Hollywood Theatre in Portland, Oregon.

On Thursday, November 2, Dark Horse continues the Halloween and spooky season celebrations with a screening of Frankenhooker—chosen especially for this event by actor and writer David Dastmalchian—followed by a discussion of horror comics with Tyler Crook and Lukas Ketner, hosted by Eric Li. While David Dastmalchian is not able to make it to the event in person, he will be introducing the film via a special video just for the audience.

A special limited-edition variant of The Headless Horseman Halloween Annual 2023, illustrated by Phillip Sevy, will also be available at the event for purchase from Dark Horse and Things From Another World along with other horror comics from both Tyler Crook and Lukas Ketner. The limited-edition (only 500 copies!) variant of The Headless Horseman Halloween Annual 2023 is priced at $20. For those who cannot make it to the event, the special variant is also available for sale at darkhorsedirect.com, while supplies last.

Event details: On Thursday, November 2, doors at the Hollywood Theatre (4122 NE Sandy Blvd. Portland, OR 97212) will open at 6:30 pm, followed by the film at 7:30 pm. Seating is first-come, first-served. Following the showing of Frankenhooker, comic creators Tyler Crook and Lukas Ketner will be joined by Eric Li on stage for a live Q&A session about the comics. Audience questions will also be encouraged, and if there is time, the creators will sign comics at the Dark Horse and TFAW tables in the lobby.

Tickets can be purchased online from the Hollywood Theatre’s website, hollywoodtheatre.org.

The Headless Horseman Halloween Annual 2023 variant cover

NYCC 2023: Get in the spooky spirit with a limited edition The Headless Horseman Annual variant

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Grab all your goblins, ghouls, and ghosts, and get ready for a horrifically eventful Halloween! This year, Dark Horse Comics is celebrating with a limited-edition variant of The Headless Horseman Halloween Annual 2023 one-shot with brand new cover art by Phillip Sevy. This special variant is limited to just 500 copies, which will be available at select events.

This special variant is available at New York Comic Con at Phillip Sevy’s table in Artists Alley #B10. Each venue will have the comic for sale for $20. Limit two copies per person, per day.

There will be later events and opportunities to snag this special variant, including online sales through Dark Horse Direct, but with quantities this limited, fans won’t want to sleep on this special spooky variant cover!

The Headless Horseman Halloween Annual 2023 is a new 56-page Halloween anthology from Dark Horse Comics with stories by a terrifyingly terrific slate of creators: Angela Slatter (Castle Full of Blackbirds), Lukas Ketner (Count Crowley: Reluctant Midnight Monster Hunter), Olivia Stephens (Darlin’ and Her Other Names), Phillip Sevy (Tomb Raider, The House), Christie Porter, Leah Kilpatrick, David Dastmalchian (Count Crowley), Valeria Burzo (Castle Full of Blackbirds), Tyler Crook (Harrow County), and Frank Cvetkovic (The House). This new anthology comic can be ordered or purchased from your local comic shop with three covers that are widely available: main cover A by Ketner, variant B by Mike Mignola, and variant C by Mark Spears. The anthology issue with these covers will be out October 18, 2023 wherever comics are sold, and the standard cover versions will retail for $7.99. 

The Headless Horseman Halloween Annual 2023 variant

Don’t touch that dial! Count Crowley returns with more tricks than treats!

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Eager fright fans won’t have to wait much longer for a new chapter starring their favorite horror host, for the incredible team of David Dastmalchian, Lukas Ketner, Lauren Affe, and Frank Cvetkovic returns with Count Crowley: Mediocre Midnight Monster Hunter! Lukas Ketner provides the main cover art, and the frightfully talented artist Francesco Francavilla presents a thrilling variant cover for issue #1, with chilling variants planned for each issue. Dark Horse Comics brings the campy crowds a third volume of the hit horror story in a four-part miniseries that is sure to cure that Count Crowley creature feature itch… for now.

A dead werewolf would have made Jerri Bartman feel victorious just a few days ago. But this deceased beast was her friend, and our beloved monster hunter is shocked and depressed. The return of her predecessor brings no consolation, and now there’s a ghoulish child-snatcher on the loose in Beloit… Holy Halloween, Count Crowley! Things are really getting batty!

Don’t take any chances: pre-order Count Crowley: Mediocre Midnight Monster Hunter #1 (of 4) today. This 32 page, full-color comic will be available in comic shops on November 8, 2023 for $4.99. 

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