Writer: Dan Brereton Artist: Dan Brereton Letterer: Lois Buhalis Cover artist: Dan Brereton
In this series finale, the Hemlocks and the Nocturnals meet in the woods to do battle—and Halloween Girl is caught in the middle. But anyone who threatens Halloween girl or her friends may find out that they are really the ones who are in peril. The tendrils of monster mayhem tighten and expand as layer upon layer of secrets are peeled back to the very last.
Writer: Dan Brereton Artist: Dan Brereton Letterer: Lois Buhalis Cover Artist: Dan Brereton
Halloween Girl makes further discoveries about her ectoplasmic pests, while the Judge’s feral children enact revenge for the past sins of their father and his surviving cronies. The Nocturnals finally collide with the Hemlock family’s dark reckoning, but they may be too late to save an old friend from the wrath of the bestial Thorne Hemlock.
Writer: Dan Brereton Artist: Dan Brereton Colorist: Dan Brereton Letterer: Lois Buhalis Cover Artist: Dan Brereton
The curious rag doll Evening finds in the attic of Hemlock House hides a terrifying secret with a weird connection to the strange creatures haunting her own bedroom. Starfish ventures into town mixing with the local riffraff while searching for the Raccoon in his bar. The unhelpful residents have a big surprise awaiting them—in the form of the Gunwitch.
Writer: Dan Brereton Artist: Dan Brereton Letterer: Lois Buhalis Cover Artist: Dan Brereton
While the town sleeps, evil rises. A war is fought for soul of Pacific City by monsters, human and supernatural. But some of the monsters are on our side. The Nocturnals, led by Doc Horror, his daughter Evening, and their band of misfit vigilantes, are all that stand against an eldritch criminal underworld.
The death of the mysterious Judge Hemlock opens a macabre power vacuum in the eldritch underworld of Pacific City. When The Nocturnals—Doc Horror, Evening, and armed revenant, the Gunwitch—investigate the occult-enshrouded Hemlock house, what they find will lead them down a twisted and deadly sinister path.
Writer: Dan Brereton Artist: Dan Brereton Letterer: Lois Buhalis Cover Artist: Dan Brereton
While the town sleeps, evil rises. A war is fought for soul of Pacific City by monsters, human and supernatural. But some of the monsters are on our side. The Nocturnals, led by Doc Horror, his daughter Evening, and their band of misfit vigilantes, are all that stand against an eldritch criminal underworld.
The death of the mysterious Judge Hemlock opens a macabre power vacuum in the eldritch underworld of Pacific City. When The Nocturnals—Doc Horror, Evening, and armed revenant, the Gunwitch—investigate the occult-enshrouded Hemlock house, what they find will lead them down a twisted and deadly sinister path.
Dan Brereton‘s Nocturnals: The Sinister Path #1 is this year’s Dark Horse Trick-Or-Read comic! Trick-Or-Read is a yearly event hosted by Penguin Random House where they provide comic shops with free comics to hand out to customers every October. With content ranging from All Ages, Ages 13+, and Mature Readers, comic fans of any age can visit participating comic shops to pick up free comics and support their local stores.
While the town sleeps, evil rises. A war is fought for soul of Pacific City by monsters, human and supernatural. But some of the monsters are on our side. The Nocturnals, led by Doc Horror, his daughter Evening, and their band of misfit vigilantes, are all that stand against an eldritch criminal underworld.
The death of the mysterious Judge Hemlock opens a macabre power vacuum in the eldritch underworld of Pacific City. When The Nocturnals—Doc Horror, Evening, and armed revenant, the Gunwitch—investigate the occult-enshrouded Hemlock house, what they find will lead them down a twisted and deadly sinister path.
Celebrate Halloween early this year when Nocturnals: The Sinister Path #1 (of 4) releases in stores on September 3, 2025. It is now available to preorder from your local comic shop for $4.99. Or pick up Nocturnals: The Sinister Path #1(Trick-Or-Read) from participating comic shops for free this October.
Happy Halloweeniversary! Dark Horse Comics and award-winning cartoonist Dan Brereton celebrate 31 spooky years of Brereton’s hand-painted supernatural-noir comic series with Nocturnals: The Sinister Path. This miniseries is written and illustrated by Brereton and lettered by Lois Buhalis, and will be the first time Nocturnals: The Sinister Path will be available in single issues, as it was previously published in graphic novel format in 2017 by Big Wow Art. The first issue will include two pages of character introductions, a new cover by Brereton, and a variant cover by Sean Gordon Murphy, with every issue also featuring new pinups and two brand-new story pages.
A war is being fought for the soul of Pacific City. It’s a war fought by monsters, both human and supernatural. But luckily, some of the monsters are on our side. The Nocturnals—a band of misfit vigilantes led by Doc Horror, his supernaturally-gifted daughter Evening (aka Halloween Girl), and an armed revenant known as the Gunwitch—are all that stand against the eldritch criminal underworld of Pacific City.
The death of the mysterious Judge Hemlock opens a macabre power vacuum in the eldritch underworld. But when the Nocturnals investigate the occult-enshrouded Hemlock house, what they find will lead them down a twisted and deadly sinister path.
Celebrate Halloween early this year whenNocturnals: The Sinister Path #1 (of 4) releases in stores on September 3, 2025. It is now available to preorder from your local comic shop for $4.99.
It’s a new week and we’ve got lots going on. As we kick off the week, here’s some comic news from around the web in our morning roundup.