Hello Darkness Series

Take your seat and enjoy the freakiest show on shelves. An ensemble of the finest minds in horror comics have created something special just for you… if you’re brave enough to stay for the encore. Welcome to another gruesome installment of BOOM!’s ongoing horror anthology series, featuring fifteen of the most unsettling stories from the very best in adult horror comics.

Hello Darkness Vol. 7 brings together another buffet of detestable delights showcasing the darker side of human nature. Shudder at the miracle of creation with “The Arrangement” from Mark Bouchard and Val Halvorson, a grisly tale of a trans man who agrees to be a surrogate and finds the experience to be much more than he bargained for. Marvel at the devotion of man’s best friend in “Umnitsa” by Liam Johnson and Keith Browning. And delve into the depths with Robert Menegus and Jonathan Marks Barravecchia’s “The Hole” to see if you can find the bottom to a pit of despair. 

Featuring unsettling, upsetting, and unnerving comics from all corners of horror by Robert Hack, Jeffrey Brown, Christof Bogacs, Marie Enger, Rye Hickman, Jordan Alsaqa, Sally Cantirino, Alejandro Arbona, Giorgio Pontrelli, Lauren Assour, Morgan Beem, Len Gog, Joey Esposito, Lily Lu, Dimitrios Pantazis, Andrew Loder, and more!

Collects stories from Hello Darkness #25-28, Hello Body Horror #1, and Hello Halloween #2.

New stories means new scares in this hauntingly good collection!

Step back into the shadows as the newest installment of the acclaimed horror anthology series delivers a brand-new round of chilling tales from some of comics’ most exciting voices, each offering their own twist on horror, suspense, and the uncanny!

From creeping supernatural dread to the horrors that lurk inside the human psyche, these tales span the full spectrum of terror sure to delight even the darkest of hearts!

Collects Hello Darkness #21-24.

It’s time to feed your fears.

Prepare for a full spread of all-new horrors from the darkest hearts in comics! 

In the fifth volume of the acclaimed horror anthology Hello Darkness, an unspeakable hunger awakens in “The Pothole” by Tyler Crook, while Zack Kaplan and Dennis Menheere explore a crime that memory itself refuses to bury in “Recollect.” Horror takes the field as Sam Humphries and Eleonora Carlini unleash the demonic baseball epic “Cassie,” while reality fractures in Rocky OBK’s haunting, liminal tale “Sauna 24.” 

With stories to satisfy even the most nightmarish of appetites by today’s top creators, including Dennis Menheere, Tate Brombal, Piotr Kowalski, Jorge Corona, Lauren Knight, and more.

Collects Hello Darkness #17-20.

Creepy is back. And it brought friends.

The celebrated horror anthology Hello Darkness returns with another chilling curation of original tales from the genre’s most devious minds!

In this fourth volume, R.L. Stine and Francesco Francavilla team for a haunting old west tale “The Life and Death of Lucas Dreamwalker,” Gigi Murakami warns against all work and no play in “When I’m Dead,”  and a new horrific phenomenon is unleashed in “Collywobbles” from Pat McHale, Brandon Melvin, and Gavin Fullerton.

Whether you fear what’s under the bed or what’s buried in the past, these stories promise just one thing: You’ll never sleep the same again.

Featuring stories by a who’s who of top creators including R.L. Stine, Francesco Francavilla, Anwita Citriya, Gigi Murakami, Pat McHale, Brandon Melvin, Gavin Fullerton, Steve Orlando, Federico Sorressa, and many more.

Collects Hello Darkness #13–16.

Turn out the lights…if you dare!
The darkness grows in more of the most frightening tales by today’s top horror storytellers.
Gangsters, grannies, and ghouls, oh my! Master of horror R.L. Stine and beloved artist Francesco Francavilla spin a yarn of the gripping Life and Death of Lucas Dreamwalker! The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula’s titular brothers and artist Max Fuchs bring their unique sense of humor to horror with Granny Hags from Hell! No matter the fear: isolation, invisible monsters, soul-sucking demons, dating apps, teachers, tech, and more, you’ll find something that sends shivers up your spine!
Featuring stories by R.L. Stine & Francesco Francavilla, Sarah Andersen, The Boulet Brothers & Max Fuchs, Chuck Tingle & Chris Shehan, Genevieve Valentine & Ming Doyle, Cullen Bunn & Daniel Bayliss, Jordan Thomas & Shaky Kane, David Hazan & Stefano Nesi, Sarah Andersen, Robert Hack, and more.
Collects Hello Darkness #9-12.

Descend deeper into the darkness… but WATCH OUT! It’s even more of the most frightening stories by today’s top horror storytellers!


The hot sun beats down on the desert, but when night falls, what lies waiting in the dust for an unsuspecting cowpoke?

In a cabin after the end of the world, is the promise of company a comfort or a curse?

When Something is Killing the Children, Erica Slaughter must piece together the events of many a story to tell what is real.

From the past to the future to the uncomfortably now, Hello Darkness taps into our fears both primal and present!

Featuring “The War” parts 5-7 by Garth Ennis (Preacher, The Boys) and Becky Cloonan (Wonder Woman, Somna); “SIKTC: A Monster Hunter Walks into a Bar” parts 3 and 4 from the Eisner Award-winning team of James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera (Something is Killing the Children); “The Search” by Sarah Andersen (Fangs), “The Christmas Log” by Steve Orlando and Adam Gorham, and many more!

Collects Hello Darkness #5-8.

Today’s top horror storytellers invite you deep into the gloomiest recesses of your nightmares, never letting you forget that… the darkness will always define us! From the trenches and tunnels of World War I to cushy Brooklyn apartments to lonely lighthouses, the darkness comes for us all. Modern fears of a collapsing society come for privileged Millennial yuppies in “The War” by Garth Ennis (Preacher, The Boys) and Becky Cloonan (Wonder Woman, Somna), while Erica Slaughter stars in an exclusive brand-new adventure of the Eisner award-winning Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera. Be very afraid as even more new horror tales are unveiled by Wes Craig (Deadly Class), Sarah Andersen (Fangs), Andy Lanning (Guardians of the Galaxy), Trevor Hairsine (DCeased), and more! Collects Hello Darkness #1-4.