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Oni Press and EC Comics Conjure a Hateful Hex in Cruel Kingdom 2 #1 – Coming in September!

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HEAVY IS THE HEAD THAT WEARS THE CROWN  . . . UNTIL THE KING GETS IT  LOPPED OFF! Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. have announced Cruel Kingdom 2 #1 (of 6)! Welcome, traveler . . . back to the blood-drenched ramparts of ye olde EC Comics that yearn for MORE tales of sadistic sorcery and malevolent magic! Yes, draw your sword and start swinging, because CRUEL KINGDOM lives again this September with an ALL-NEW volume of fatal fantasy, told in the immortal EC Comics manner by a magnificently malicious cast of all-star storytellers!

In this Cruel Kingdom, there is no “happily ever after” . . . and sometimes the witch hunter becomes the hunted in the end, heh heh! Come, warm yourself by the pyre as vengeance-fueled writers David M. Booher, Matt Bors, and Jude Ellison S. Doyle turn the screws in tandem with axe-wielding artists Ryan Kelly, Lukas Ketner, and David Lapham to extract answers the burning question of every knight and squire: Must every wizard’s tower also have an executioner’s dungeon buried down below?

Plus: Cower in fear as upcoming issues of EC Comics’ latest six-issue exercise in “black magic gone good” prepares to feature even more writers and artists with ogre’s taste for blood and bone, including John Arcudi, Ramón F. Bachs, Sarah Gailey, Sami Kivelä, Curt Pires, SOM, Alison Sampson, and more!

If you thought the Dark Ages were scary, just wait for the return of EC Comics’ carnage-strewn ode to high fantasy and low blows in Cruel Kingdom 2 #1 (of 6) – storming the ramparts of your local comic shop on September 2nd with covers from legendary artists Mark Buckingham, Yanick Paquette, Shawn McManus, and Rian Hughes.

Cover of the comic book 'Cruel Kingdom', featuring a black and white illustration of four figures in a bleak landscape. Two figures are depicted from behind, while a third figure stands with a concerned expression. In the foreground, a fourth figure, appearing distressed and bound, sits on the ground. The backdrop includes a person in a canoe and a forested area.
Comic book cover titled 'Cruel Kingdom', featuring a robotic unicorn surrounded by fantastical creatures in a dark forest setting.
Cover art for the comic book 'Cruel Kingdom', featuring three figures in a stylized, dark setting. Two figures, a male and a female, are shown in the foreground with intense expressions, while a boat with a lone figure is visible in the background. The overall color palette includes dark greens and reds, enhancing the eerie mood.
Cover of the comic book 'Cruel Kingdom' featuring a monstrous creature with large teeth and glowing eyes, attacking two human space explorers in yellow suits, one holding a weapon, set in a rocky alien landscape.
Cover of the Archive Edition comic 'Cruel Kingdom', featuring an orange background, the title in bold white lettering, and various illustrated icons including a skull, goblet, axe, and more, alongside contributor names.
Cover of the comic book 'Cruel Kingdom,' featuring bold green lettering and decorative elements, with 'Sorcery' and 'Vol. II No. 1 SEP' mentioned.

Exclusive: EC’s Catacomb of Torment #14’s Covers Revealed!

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Feel the rank air of the humid summer swelter? The year is crumbling away like a desiccated corpse but, never fear, you would have wasted it anyway . . . Do something with a purpose: Become a blank canvas for the Tormentor’s palette of pain inside the Catacomb of Torment! 

Catacomb of Torment #14 features three brash and brutal tales of danger and depravity splashed onto the page in the immortal EC Comics manner, courtesy of writers David M. Booher, Jordan Clark, Jude Ellison S. Doyle, and art by N. Steven Harris, Lukas Ketner, and Oliver Dominguez! This one is a macabre masterpiece in the making—and we’re dying to share it with you, one page and pinprick at a time! 

We have an exclusive covers reveal! Check out the covers by Oliver Dominguez (Cover A), Danny Luckert (Cover B), Shawn McManus (EC Homage Variant 1:10), Danny Luckert (B&W Artist Edition Variant 1:20), and Patricia Martín (Archive Edition 1:50).

Catacomb of Torment #14 comes so shelves August 26.

Shellshock #1 from Oni and EC features a Cataclysmic Collection of Comic Book Superstars

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This August, Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. are rotating back into combat for a powerful dose of two-fisted fury with staggering new tales of war and fighting men in EC Comics’ next giant-sized, 56-page special: Presenting … Shellshock #1! You’ve warmed yourselves by the pyres of SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES . . . You’ve grabbed OUTLAW SHOWDOWN by both red-hot barrels . . . And you’ve felt the poison touch of TORTURED HEARTS. But nothing can prepare you for what awaits—or who you will become—when you finally reach the front line. Here, there can be no peace—only SHELLSHOCK, on sale August 19th!! 

Meet mankind’s greatest enemy of all—himself—as commanding writers Julio Anta, John Arcudi, Benito Cereno, and Michael W. Conrad lead a joint campaign alongside artistic bombardiers Tom Fowler, David Lapham, Albert Monteys, and Shawn Martinbrough that will always bring enemy and ally, private and general, to the same reward in the end: a flag-draped casket and glory posthumously conferred. 

Plus: This 56-page testament to fortitude also features another all-time EC classic, painstakingly remastered and restored!

We’ve got incoming, so kiss your rifle and swallow your fear when Shellshock #1 lays siege to comic shops on August 19th – featuring shrapnel-laden covers by modern masters Lee Bermejo, Tyler Crook, Tom Fowler, Jay Stephens, and Rian Hughes!

Superstar Creator Dustin Weaver Reveals the Tormentor’s Twisted Origin in Catacomb of Torment #11

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DISCOVER THE TANTALIZING, TERRIFYING TRUTH ABOUT THE TORMENTOR! Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. are proud to announce that the strange and sordid secret origin of the horror host known as The Tormentor will finally be revealed in all-new story by acclaimed writer/artist Dustin Weaver in EC Comics’ Catacomb of Torment #11 – on sale May 20th!

EC’s very own Mistress of Malice, the Tormentor, finally takes center stage to reveal her hopes (“to see your bone marrow!”), dreams (“slathering you in scalding oil!”), and aspirations (“finding excruciating new ways of using the ball peen hammer!”) in this VERY SPECIAL and EXTRA BLOODY tale of who she is and how she came to be! The issue “marks” the first time that EC Comics and Oni Press have divulged the bloody backstory of one of the three new EC horror hosts – The Grave-Digger, The Tormentor, and The Grim Inquisitor – with a tale both written and drawn by modern EC Comics master Dustin Weaver, who designed and co-created EC’s all-new masters of menace. The revelation of the Tormentor’s untold origin continues a frightening EC Comics tradition; the Crypt-Keeper’s origin was revealed in EC publisher and co-editor Bill Gaines, Al Feldstein and Jack Davis’s “Lower Berth” in Tales from the Crypt #33, and the Old Witch’s origin was revealed in “A Little Stranger” in The Haunt of Fear #14, written by Al Feldstein with art by Graham Ingels. 

In addition to this “all-scar” celebration of Her Royal Majesty of Pain, EC Catacomb of Torment #11 features more new tortuous tales from the depths of the Tormentor’s catacomb including “Type M for Murder,” written by Matt Bors and drawn by Fabiana Mascolo, and “Every Cut a Lie,” from writer Liam Johnson and artist Arjuna Susini. 

Don’t miss our most devilish ish yet—or The Tormentor will leave you for last! Catch the bizarre birth of the Catacomb’s very own hostess of horror in Catacomb of Torment #11, on sale May 20th and featuring cadaverous covers from Dustin Weaver, Jorge Fornés, Shawn McManus, and Patricia Martín!

Catacomb of Torment #11

Dive into the world of EC Comics with the EC Comics Resurrection Bundle from Oni Press to benefit the CBLDF

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The name EC Comics strikes fear into the hearts of its fans for one simple reason: these tales of the undead, unexplained, and altogether unholy are unlike anything even the gnarliest horror aficionado has ever witnessed. That’s why Humble Bundle and Oni Press have collected the very best into one convenient bundle to amuse and horrify! Enjoy (if you dare) the terrors and trials of Catacomb of Torment! Travel (if you can muster up the courage) to the distant worlds and blood-soaked shores of Cruel Universe! Peruse (if you can stomach the thought) the chronicles of monsters and madness in Epitaphs from the Abyss! All of these series and more are included in this bundle of frights and phantoms, so add these horror stories to your necronomicon while you can, and support the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund with your purchase. It may be your laaaaaast!

The EC Comics Resurrection Bundle has a retail value of $205 and you can get all 39 items for $18.

EC Comics Resurrection Bundle

Preview: EC Comics’ Totured Hearts # 1

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EC Comics’ Tortured Hearts #1

(W)  Jordie Bellaire, Tini Howard and Blake Howard, Ann Nocenti, Amy Roy (A) Sebastián Cabrol, Fabiana Mascolo, Dan McDaid, Arjuna Susini

LOVE HURTS! Oni Press are wrenching romance comics out of the grave in Tortured Hearts #1 – a 56-page tome of terror forged in the unrelenting tradition of EC Comics! In advance of the giant-sized special’s February 11th release date, take a lovelorn first look at “A Pocket Full of Nails” by legendary comic writer and editor Ann Nocenti and ardent artist Dan McDaid with colors from the mighty Michelle Madsen.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, here’s one for all of you lovesick lunatics, rancid romantics, and forlorn fatalities as Oni Press proudly presents a giant-sized Valentine’s bouquet full of soft whispers and death rattles from hot-blooded writers Jordie Bellaire, Tini Howard and Blake Howard, Ann Nocenti, and Amy Roy, alongside candy-coated artists Sebastián Cabrol, Fabiana Mascolo, Dan McDaid, Arjuna Susini, and many more!

Plus, as an extra-added bonus: Another newly restored and authentically remastered classic from the EC vaults by legendary fiends William M. Gaines, Al Feldstein, and Reed Crandall!

Eat your heart out – but make sure to save some for the rest of us! This Valentine’s Day, EC Comics is gifting you a box of poison chocolates and cyanide-laced champagne in Tortured Hearts #1 – featuring a slate of salacious covers that will make your eyes linger a second too long from Dustin Weaver, Miguel Mercado, Tom Fowler, Shawn McManus, and Patricia Martín! Warm your heart to the boiling point – only in comic shops on February 11th! 

Tortured Hearts #1

Collect every story ever dug up from the Crypt in the Monstrous EC Archives: The Complete Tales From the Crypt

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Dark Horse Books presents EC Archives: The Complete Tales from the Crypt, a new hardcover collecting every classic Tales from the Crypt story into one book for the first time. Along with all forty-six issues of the series, EC Archives: The Complete Tales from the Crypt will include every cover, text piece, and ghoulish illustration along with past forewords from horror luminaries John Carpenter, Bruce Campbell, and more!

Shiver from fright at the terrifying talents of Johnny Craig, Graham “Ghastly” Ingels, Jack Davis, Wally Wood, Reed Crandall, and many more in over nine hundred pages of terror. From fiendish beginning to the frightening end, join us as we dig deep and delve into the history of the crypt!

EC Archives: The Complete Tales from the Crypt Omnibus (hardcover, 1032 pages, 8.1875 x 10.9375”) will be available in bookstores and comic shops on October 13, 2026. It is now available for preorder at Bookshop, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and your local comic shop and bookstore for $149.99.

EC Archives: The Complete Tales from the Crypt Omnibus

Oni and EC Comics’ Epitaphs From the Abyss gets a Library Edition and Limited Slipcase

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Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc., are celebrating EC Comics’ history-making, headline-grabbing return Epitaphs From the Abyss Library Edition: Book One – the first in a new line of enhanced hardcovers collecting the entirety of the new EC library at Oni Press and debuting in two eye-popping editions, Oversized, unapologetic, and uncontrollably outrageous, both the standard Epitaphs From the Abyss Library Edition and the sublime Epitaphs From the Abyss Library Edition – Limited Slipcase & Portfolio Edition (limited to 1,000 units) will be on sale on July 14th, 2026—just as the new and nightmarish EC Comics horror host the Grave-Digger foretold.

Collecting Epitaphs From the Abyss #1–12 for the first time in a staggeringly deluxe, oversized (7.5″ x 11.5″) hardcover, both editions of Epitaphs From the Abyss Library Edition: Book One feature tales of depraved intention and traumatic tension in the undying EC tradition by relentless writers including Jason Aaron, Brian Azzarello, Corinna Bechko, Chris Condon, J. Holtham, and Matt Kindt, all realized into bloody reality by “all-slaughter” artists like Charlie Adlard, Tyler Crook, Kano, Klaus Janson, Leomacs, Alison Sampson, and many more. Both editions also feature more than 50 pages of “behind-the-screams” material, including process art, character designs for EC’s newest horror hosts, and a cover gallery for readers to gouge their eye, as well as all-new commentary from cartoonist Jay Stephens and series designer Rian Hughes. 

But that’s not all! Enter: the Epitaphs From the Abyss Library Edition – Limited Slipcase & Portfolio HC! – will feature an ultra-deluxe, limited-edition version of the Epitaphs From the Abyss hardcover comes packaged with a specially designed portfolio set featuring high-quality, 11” x 7″ cardstock prints featuring gallery-ready reproductions of all 12 covers by comics master Lee Bermejo, and packaged in a masterfully designed, foil-stamped slipcase featuring the work of artist Dustin Weaver and Eisner Award–nominated designer Rian Hughes.

In the history of comics, no one publishes a horror comics cover like EC Comics! Iconic, scandalous, and unforgettable, EC Comics’ historic horror covers are seared into the collective memory of generations. Epitaphs From the Abyss Library Edition – Limited Slipcase & Portfolio HC is the first-ever portfolio for the new EC Comics titles from Oni Press, featuring Lee Bermejo’s meticulously macabre covers spanning all 12 issues of the first hit series to immortalize EC’s long-awaited return. Having reaped international renown for his collaborations with writer Brian Azzarello on Joker and Batman: Damned, and with writer/screenwriter Mattson Tomlin on the Eisner Award-nominated A Vicious Circle, and countless unforgettable comics series, Bermejo has earned a reputation as one of the industry’s most iconic and formidable artists across a nearly three decade career. 

In 1955, the Comics Code Authority drove a stake through the depraved heart of EC Comics—the iconic publisher behind Tales from the Crypt, Vault of Horror, Haunt of Fear, and more instantly influential titles that redefined American horror for generations to come. Now, groundbreaking comics publisher Oni Press has done the unthinkable: resurrected the immortal spirit of EC Comics for the 21st century with a brand-new slate of wildly bestselling, critically acclaimed, and award-nominated new series . . . beginning with its flagship horror title Epitaphs From the Abyss! 

On July 14th, find out what brought the most notorious name in terror roaring back from the crypt as the Epitaphs From the Abyss Library Edition: Book One stalks into comic shops and book stores everywhere in two masterfully designed editions that no true fan – or blood-drinking fiend – will want to miss. 

Tini and Blake Howard Unveil a Twisted Valentine’s Treat in EC’s Tortured Hearts #1

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ROSES ARE RED, CORPSES ARE BLUE, AND SOON YOU’LL BE TOO! Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. present an eye-piercingly perilous preview of Tortured Hearts #1 – EC Comics’ newest giant-sized special presenting 56 pages of rage-fueled romance – with a first look at “The Spark” by real-life husband and wife Tini Howard and Blake Howard, alongside astounding artist Arjuna Susini!

Did your heart ever break so hard that it felt like Cupid himself had plunged his sharp little arrow into your ribcage, only to leave a sucking chest wound for all the world to see? No?! Well, are you free on the second Wednesday in February?! In the unrelenting tradition of EC Comics, here’s one for all of you lovesick lunatics, rancid romantics, and forlorn fatalities as Oni Press proudly presents our next giant-sized special full of soft whispers and death rattles from hot-blooded writers Jordie Bellaire, Tini Howard and Blake Howard, Ann Nocenti, and Amy Roy, alongside candy-coated artists Sebastián Cabrol, Fabiana Mascolo, Dan McDaid, and Arjuna Susini!

Plus, as an extra-added bonus: Another newly restored and authentically remastered classic from the EC vaults by legendary fiends William M. Gaines, Al Feldstein, and Reed Crandall!

Eat your heart out – but make sure to save some for the rest of us! This Valentine’s Day, Oni Press and EC Comics is gifting you a box of poison chocolates and cyanide-laced champagne in Tortured Hearts #1 – featuring a slate of salacious covers that will make your eyes linger a second too long from Dustin Weaver, Miguel Mercado, Tom Fowler, Shawn McManus, and Patricia Martín! Warm your heart to the boiling point – only in comic shops on February 11th! 

Tortured Hearts #1

Horror Master Joe R. Lansdale Enters EC Comics History in Catacomb of Torment #9 – Coming in March!

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THIS MARCH, EC COMICS’ CATACOMB OF TORMENT PROUDLY USHERS A HORROR ICON INTO ITS HALLOWED HALLS! Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. have announced that award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and comics legend Joe R. Lansdale is joining the ranks of EC Comics’ blood-spattered luminaries with an all-new story, “Picture Perfect,” debuting in March’s Catacomb of Torment #9 alongside Eisner Award-winning artist David Lapham. 

The winner of 11 prestigious Bram Stoker Awards, the American Horror Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Edgar Award, Joe R. Lansdale’s career has spanned more than four decades across 50 novels, multiple feature films and television series, and countless short stories and comic books. Known as one of the formative pioneers of the “weird western” genre – wryly colliding classic American gunslinging with mutants, monsters, and Lovecraftian horror – Lansdale is perhaps most frequently recognized for his instant-classic reimagining of the DC Comics anti-hero Jonah Hex (alongside artist Timothy Truman) for the Vertigo imprint in the mid-1990s, as well as his creations Bubba Ho-Tep (subsequently adapted into the cult-hit feature film starring Evil Dead’s Bruce Campbell) and his long-running Hap & Leonard series that now spans more than a dozen novels, novellas, and multiple anthologies. 

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE CORPSES! On March 18th, welcome back to the endless maze of the Tormentor’s catacombs . . . where the flesh is freshly flayed and the worst is always yet to come! In the malevolent EC Comics manner, breathe in that acrid stench and prepare for three ribcage-thrumming tales of trepidation wrought from the gaping maws of its latest victims . . . ahem, contributors: Celeste Bronfman, Jude Ellison S. Doyle, Joe R. Lansdale, David Lapham, Malachi Ward, and more, only in Catacomb of Torment #9 – featuring a murder of calamitous covers from artists Ariel Olivetti, Yanick Paquette, Shawn McManus, and Patricia Martín!

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