Hello Darkness Series

Snuggle up with a hot mug of cocoa because this collection of horror shorts is ICE COLD!

Witness the final act of Mark Bouchard and Val Halvorson’s “The Arrangement” as another kind of miracle child is born on Christmas, ushering in a new age of horror.

Tini Howard and Savanna Mayer bring “Marian Heretic” home for the holidays in the final installment of this fan-favorite dark fantasy!

Your favorite horror anthology is back with another issue of tantalizingly gruesome original stories!

Brock’s unsettling journey continues in “The Arrangement Part Two,” where he’s become overwhelmed by the physical changes from his pregnancy. But Dr. Alan reassures him everything’s completely normal, stabbing pains and all! You won’t believe what happens next in this gut-wrenching body horror tale from writer Mark Bouchard and artist Val Halvorson.

A contractor dredges up the hidden past of a historic building and gets more than he bargained for in “Good Bones” written by Steve Orlando with art by Dillon Snook!

And finally, prepare to meet “The Carvers,” a family that stays together and SLAYS together with newcomer creators and burgeoning superstars writer Breyden Boyd and artist Nathan Wells.

Body horror is back on the menu!

A man in the middle of transition finds himself in a sticky situation when an opportunity for some fast cash comes his way… it’s part one of Mark Bouchard and Val Halvorson’s new gruesome tale, “The Arrangement”!

Meanwhile, Tini Howard’s breakout series Marian Heretic with art by Savanna Mayer continues to expand with Part II, after Marian’s journey for a spell leads her into a run-in with some mysterious maenads!

And in “Umnitsa,” Leim Johnson and Keith Browning tell the story of a very good boy who returns to Earth from a spacewalk with a dire warning for all mankind…

Brace yourself for the 25th issue of the acclaimed horror anthology series Hello Darkness!

Fans of the divine nunsploitation series Marian Heretic from writer Tini Howard are in for a treat as Marian herself makes her first return to the pages of Hello Darkness since the breakout series’ debut! This Marian Heretic four-parter revisits our favorite heathen as she doles out judgment to a whole new host of supernatural opponents.

Then, following the mysterious loss of his son, a father’s attempt to cope takes him on a twisted journey, raising questions for him and his grieving family in “The Hole” written by Robert Menegus with art by Jonathan Marks!

In “The Forensic Reliquologist” by Alejandro Arbona and Giorgio Pontrelli, a forensic relicologist is called to a sleepy Italian hamlet to inspect the remnants of a 5th Century Saint whose earthly remains number far too many to be considered…human?

Go for a soak in a hot tub of sanguine thrills with the newest issue of Hello Darkness!

First up, Chloe Brailsford serves up a hot and heavy demonic possession in “Thousand Eyes,” where for one young woman eternal damnation might just be worth the price of entry…

Then, a detention center prison warden gets more than a taste of his own medicine in “Crocodile Slammer” by Julio Anta and Germán Erramouspe.

Then, a real man provides for his family at all costs, in “Be a Man” by Derick Jones.

And finally, fall to your knees and pray for salvation as Ryan North and Giada Belviso bring the never-ending torment of Sister Amanda to a shocking end in the final chapter of “Sunday”!

Slash into summer with a tall drink of terror, all from your favorite chillers and killers!

In “Sunday Pt. II,” Ryan North and Giada Belviso send a Bride of Christ over the deep end into madness.

Then, Rich Douek and Stevan Subic lead you down a bloody path to the old west, where a brash young gunfighter seeks a showdown with “The Man Who Outdrew Death.”

Sink into the cool, briny depths of Kelly Williams’s “Old Wounds” when a grizzled light housekeeper hears the call of the sea one final time.

And finally, serve up a preview platter of erotic thriller Gastronomique, as a royal spy, Lady Charlotte, embarks on a cat-and-mouse hunt for the deadly cannibal Tarrare, from Marguerite Bennett and Helena Masellis.

Beat the heat with an all-new pool of fresh nightmares and dive right into horror’s deep end!

The temperature rises and so does the body count, as Hello Darkness returns for another summer slashing!

A bride’s devoted faith is tested when she’s caught in an endless time loop–will murder be the only way to achieve salvation? Repent, reader, with “Sunday Pt. I” from Eisner and Harvey Award–winning writer Ryan North and artist Giada Belviso!

A lone cowboy looking for a payday finds instead a book filled with endless waking nightmares in “The Written Word” by John Arcudi and superstar artist Ryan Sook.

Saddle up your hog and roar into “The Boils” by Aaron Losty and Lauren Knight as a revenge killing by a leather daddy and his biker gang comes back to haunt them in every way possible!

And finally, sink your fangs into a preview of Vampyrates!, a swashbuckling bloody rags to bloody riches tale, coming soon from Fred Van Lente and Luca Pizzari.

Hello Darkness plummets into the blackest depths of the human heart in this special mystery/thriller-themed anthology issue!

In “Leading the Witness” by Ed Brisson and Damian Couceiro, a chance encounter with a stranger sends an innocent man down a never-ending spiral of self-fulling murder.

And in “A Chase of Chianti, Heavily Discounted,” New York Times–bestselling crime writer Duane Swierczynski and George Romero Foundation’s artist-in-residence Ryan Carr get gruesome when a tough-as-nails mobster’s affair with his boss’s wife winds him up in a spot even his legendary pain threshold won’t withstand.

All this and more for a bountiful bouquet of blood and bullets from BOOM!’s smash-hit horror series.

No rest for the wicked!

Hello Darkness is back for another collection of mind-bending horror. If you were still thinking of getting a good night’s rest this month, kiss those ZZZ’s goodbye!

It’s the bottom of the ninth level of hell in “Cassie, Part III,” the final inning of Sam Humphries and Eleonora Carlini’s all-satanic-girl baseball smash hit.

In “Away Message,” Jorge Corona (Transformers) takes a man who just wanted to get away from it all to the edge of his own private apocalypse.

And “The Thread” by Lauren Knight, in which a simple act of personal grooming takes a turn so gruesome you’ll skip lunch for the next week.

Stop and smell the corpses!

The horrors of winter are behind us, but a sinister new season awaits… HELLO DARKNESS returns this spring with a fresh bouquet of horror!

In “Freshly Maid,” a mousy young housekeeper comes face to face with a deathless evil. Vibrant visionary Paulina Ganucheau (Lemon Bird: Can Help!, She-Ra: Legend of the Fire Princess) delivers a chilling tale of innocence undone where the mess lurking in the shadows isn’t something you can simply sweep away.

In “Imposter Syndrome,” a hapless suburbanite cascading into paranoia and mutilation. Innovative creators Tate Brombal (Black Hammer, The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos) and Piotr Kowalski (Deadbox) team up for a 9-panel grid of terror!

In “Cassie, Part II,” an all-girls softball team heads to the second inning with the forces of hell…and the bases are loaded! From the minds of Sam Humphries (The Legendary Star-Lord, Our Love Is Real) and Eleonora Carlini, every pitch turns into a plot twist.

Join today’s top horror storytellers as they dive into the darkest corners of humanity!

Hey, batter batter! Get ready for bloodsport meets baseball as horror takes the field once more in the hit anthology series!

It’s “splatter up” in part one of Sam Humphries and Eleonora Carlini’s macabre “Cassie” as a friendly game of baseball takes a turn to the demonic.

Then, delve into the dark spaces in between reality in Rocky OBK’s haunting, liminal horror masterpiece “Sauna 24.”

‘Tis the season…for fearsome frights!

Get ready for a gruesome stocking stuffer of Ho-Ho-Horror with these tooth-gnashing tales!

Witness a dark hunger that can never be sated in “The Pothole” by award-winning cartoonist Tyler Crook.

Then, take a walk down memory lane with “Recollect” by Zack Kaplan and Dennis Menheree as they unfurl a crime that cannot be forgotten and cannot be forgiven.

Your favorite monthly horror showcase continues with a new wave of (spectral) nightmares!

In this issue of the acclaimed anthology, horror legends R.L. Stine and Francesco Francavilla bring their haunting tale “The Life and Death of Lucas Dreamwalker” to a gripping conclusion!

Then, Gigi Murakami warns against all work and no play in “When I’m Dead,” and Robert Hack returns with more of his wickedly offbeat “I Can’t Take You Anywhere.”

Fall into an all-new season of horror!

In a chilling story by Jude Ellison S. Doyle and Rocky OBK, the once-idyllic town of “Abadon” becomes a home to an unknown terror. A long-dormant protector rises in “Reconquista” by RAD to vengefully interrupt a celebration built on stolen land.

Sink your teeth into this next batch of gruesome stories along with even more terrifying tales from the boldest voices in horror today!

Read Hello Darkness #14, your next favorite read from BOOM! Studios!