Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. are proud to unveil the giant-sized Shiver Suspenstories 3 #1 – an all-new, all-unhinged 56-page giant featuring EC Comics’ most terrifying assembly of sickenin’ stocking stuffers yet! That’s right, Shiver Suspenstories is back . . . and we’re bringing three times the chills, three times the spills, and three times the murderous intent with us for our most vengeful celebration of X-mas anarchy and New Year’s nightmares ever attempted on December 9th!
For the third year running, gather ʼround our flaming hearth and join tortured (literally!) creators John Arcudi, Sarah Gailey, Ryan Kelly, David Lapham, Jay Stephens, and more surprise guests as we begin a frightening festival of merciless merriment and holiday horror, all tinseled up in the mangled EC Comics manner!
Plus: For your reading displeasure, feast upon another restored and remastered EC classic straight from the Vault-Keeper’s lair! Heh heh, ho ho, this Christmas season, someone’s gotta go! Just remember, kids: Some stains don’t come out . . . especially under Luminol!
Get into the spirit with killer covers from Dustin Weaver, Steve Lieber, Shawn McManus, and Rian Hughes! Tell Santa to make with the comic – or else!!!– when Shiver Suspenstories 3 #1 comes calling on December 9th!
In advance of Comic-Con International 2026 in San Diego, CA, Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. have announced a new series of one-shot celebrations spotlighting the boldest and bloodiest talents from EC’s new class of caustic cartoonists! The first victim? Comics legend and Eisner Award-winning artist Charlie Adlard, who takes center stage this November with Artists From the Abyss: Charlie Adlard #1! For the first time between two covers, survey Adlard’s punishing portfolio of uninvited resurrections, souls sold cheap, and spectacularly sadistic horrors as illustrated in the immortal EC Comics manner (with lots and lots of red, naturally). Plus: A brand-new, never-before-told tale reuniting Adlard with acclaimed writer and fellow survivor of the Tormentor’s rack: Chris Condon (Ultimate Wolverine, That Texas Blood)!
Each ad-free Artists From the Abyss special will recollect the artists’ greatest and goriest contributions to the EC Comics canon, alongside a brand-new, pulse-pounding EC shocker specifically scripted for each one-shot special by a cavalcade of “all-slaughter” writing talents, includingCondon, David and Maria Lapham (Underheist), Greg Pak (Planet Hulk), and Ben H. Winters (Archie).
Released monthly through the winter, subsequent installments will include:
ARTISTS FROM THE ABYSS: DAVID LAPHAM #1 Art & Cover by David Lapham (Stray Bullets, The Hero Trade) Written by David & Maria Lapham (Underheist), J. Holtham (EC Epitaphs of the Abyss), Matt Kindt (Mind MGMT: New & Improved) & Joe R. Lansdale (EC Catacomb of Torment, Jonah Hex: Two-Gun Mojo) December 2026
ARTISTS FROM THE ABYSS: SAMI KIVELÄ #1 Art & Cover by Sami Kivelä (The Forever Home, Abbott) Written by Greg Pak (Planet Hulk), Chris Condon (Ultimate Wolverine, That Texas Blood), & Ben H. Winters (Benjamin, Archie) January 2027
ARTISTS FROM THE ABYSS: LEOMACS #1 Art & Cover by Leomacs (Benjamin, DC Black Label’s Rogues) Written by Ben H. Winters (Benjamin, Archie), Matt Kindt (Mind MGMT: New & Improved), Corinna Bechko (Blood Type), & J. Holtham (EC Epitaphs of the Abyss) February 2028
Buckle up, ghoulatics, because EC’s Artists From the Abyss are sure to be the most murderous mags you’ll read all winter! Shovel and lyme not included.
For more on the next traumatizing year of EC Comics’ thrills and chills, join Oni Press at San Diego Comic Con on Thursday, July 24th at 11 am PT in Room 28DE for the “Oni Press: The Loudest Thing in Color” panel presentation! The groundbreaking independent publisher behind the most notorious name in terror’s blockbuster resurrection is about to begin countdown to its 30th anniversary … and to celebrate, we’re unveiling a stunning slate of new releases for 2026 and beyond with creators Tyler Crook (Out of Alcatraz, Archie Goes to Hell), Bryan Lee O’Malley (Scott Pilgrim), Tradd Moore (Touch Me Someplace Nowhere), Curt Pires & Juan Gedeon (Super Mondo Mega Mutts), and Christian Ward (The Forever Home), alongside President & Publisher Hunter Gorinson, Editor-in-Chief Sierra Hahn, and more!
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.
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!
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 #11features 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 featuringcadaverous covers from Dustin Weaver, Jorge Fornés, Shawn McManus, and Patricia Martín!
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 Editionand 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.
CollectingEpitaphs 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 Onefeature 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 Onestalks into comic shops and book stores everywhere in two masterfully designed editions that no true fan – or blood-drinking fiend – will want to miss.
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 BlakeHoward, 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!
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!
THIS VALENTINE’S DAY, BETTER SHAKE OFF THE BLUES…BEFORE THEY TURN BLACK AND START TO SMELL BAD! Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. have announced their newest romantic obsession in Tortured Hearts #1 – a 56-page, coffin-shaped bouquet of brutality forged in the unrelenting tradition of EC Comics!
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?! Because Tortured Hearts #1 knows the feeling!
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 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, 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!
THIS DECEMBER, EC COMICS KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANT FOR CHRISTMAS: VENGEANCE!Oni Press and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. have revealed a look into Shiver Suspenstories 2 #1 – the next ghoulishly gangantuan, 56-page installment of EC’s newest holiday tradition!
Before this year’s giant-sized tome of gruesomely gift-wrapped delights arrives in stores on December 10th, we’re aching to share a tiny appetizer of the agonies that await within … with an early advance look at the story “Mistletoe” by George Northy and Dan McDaid.
Welcome back to SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES! On December 10th, We’re tying perpetual naughty-listers David M. Booher, Melissa Flores, George Northy, and Ben H. Winters to the dried-out Christmas tree in the family parlor . . . and gathering ‘round as artistic Tormentors-in-training Lukas Ketner, Sami Kivelä, Leomacs, and Dan McDaid throw a few lit matches their way to get this old-fashioned solstice sacrifice started in style!
Yes, we know: It smells like dinner might be getting a little overdone! Never fear, because EC’s latest installment of this time-honored holiday tradition also comes complete with an extra-added EC Comics classic—newly restored back to its authentic original coloring! As you sift through the charred remains, just remember: SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES is here to bring the horror back to the holidays . . . and we wouldn’t want it any other way!
Celebrate the horrors of the holidays with a cornucopia of frosty covers by Dustin Weaver, Adam Hughes, Shawn McManus, and Rian Hughes, EC Comics is chilled to the bone to deliver this winter’s most frostbitten journey yet on December 10th – only in Shiver Suspenstories 2 #1!
