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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 sleep this October as the Headless Horseman rides again with five scary stories

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Boils, ghouls, vampires, monsters, and creatures of all kinds, welcome. Take a seat, go on, fill the aisles, relax your fangs, and sit with us for a while. Follow a macabre and magical journey through all the haunts and spooks that keep you up at night. Here you’ll revel in darkness for a chilling, nay PETRIFYING experience as the Headless Horseman presents a collection of five terrifying tales to warm up your cold soul. Hurry up now, you won’t want to keep them waiting…

This Halloween the headless haunt, our Dark Equestrian, saddles up for a one-shot gathering creepy tales perfect for a night of nightmares. The Headless Horseman Halloween Annual is a new Halloween anthology from Dark Horse Comics and contains macabre merriment from a host of haunting creators, including: Angela Slatter, Lukas Ketner, Olivia Stephens, Phillip Sevy, Christie Porter, Leah Kilpatrick, David Dastmalchian, Valeria Burzo, Tyler Crook, Frank Cvetkovic, and more. These five stories are presented by creators who share a love of shudder-inducing, spine-tingling imagery and spooky tales! 

If you’ve ever gotten lost while trick-or-treating, if writer’s block gives you a disproportionate sense of dread, if you won’t walk past that certain house down the road… just in case, if you have ever wondered why the new kid came to town or what could possibly make those spooky horror games even scarier, and especially if you think nothing can frighten you, this anthology is for you.

With plenty of thrills and chills, the 56-page (6.625” x 10.1875”) Headless Horseman Halloween Annual with the main cover by Lukas Ketner will be in comic shops on October 23, 2023. Variant covers by comics icon Mike Mignola (with colorist Dave Stewart) and Mark Spears will also be available. Get “a-head” of the Halloween rush and pre-order at your local comic shop for $7.99.

Angela Slatter joins Mike Mignola for Castle Full of Blackbirds

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This September, legendary Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and acclaimed artist Valeria Burzo will be joined by award-winning novelist Angela Slatter for Castle Full of Blackbirds, an all-new miniseries from Dark Horse Comics. The four-issue miniseries will mark Slatter’s comic-book writing debut. Mignola, Slatter, and Burzo will be joined by colorist Michelle Madsen, letterer Clem Robins, and cover artist Wylie Beckert. Vanesa Del Rey will provide a variant cover for issue #1.

Castle Full of Blackbirds continues the story of Sara May Blackburn, the fan-favorite character from Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Return of Effie Kolb. When Sara May headed for New York after the events of The Return of Effie Kolb, she had one goal in mind: find the mysterious Miss Brook at the Linton School for Girls, and ask her what she knows about the mysterious powers that have plagued Sara May her whole life. But as is often the case with these things, the answers are not as simple as all that. Sara May is in for an education in more than just reading, writing, and ’rithmetic at the Linton School.

Castle Full of Blackbirds #1 will be published by Dark Horse Comics on September 14, 2022.