Welcome welcome welcome to this spooky list
of comics.
I’m your host, Amanda McKnight and boy was
I spooked after reading the titles listed
here.
I’m gonna need a lot of nightlights around
me in order sleep tonight, so please if you
have any spares, send them my way.
There are so many different topics when it
comes to horror and for me the most meaningful
scary monsters are those that embody real
life horrors that exist within us.
In this list I’ll also be letting you know
a little bit about the things that creep me
out so I think it’s only fair you tell me
about what scares you when it comes to the
horror genre in the comments below.
What are you most afraid of?
Alright.
Deep breath.
Safety pals and blankets at the ready.
Time to face those fears:
10
Colder.
Written by Paul Tobin and illustraton Juan
Ferreyra.
You don’t even have to read these comics
to be creeped out, you just have to look at
the covers of this series.
Check them out.
Seriously, I’ll wait.
Okay?
How are you?
Feeling good?
Feeling sick?
If you’re okay to continue, let me tell
you more about what’s inside the comic.
This series follows the Declan Thomas, a man
who has the ability to cure others’ madness
at the expense of his own body temperature.
Although Declan does not get ill or feel any
physical pain, he does struggle with the state
of his own mental health.
As his body temperature continues to drop,
it seems Declan is fighting in a race against
time.
The best thing about this series though is
not even the ingenious story but the villian,
Nimble Jack, who feeds on others madness.
He is just maybe the creepiest guy I have
seen in comics.
Or in anything.
Ever.
9
Fatale.
Written by Ed Brubaker.
Art by Sean Phillips.
Colours by David Stewart.
If you love Lovecraft, this horror is for
you.
The story follows Jo, a woman who is constantly
running from a cult that worships gods similar
to the Great Old Ones, those of the Cthulhu
mythos.
This cult appears to be obsessed with hunting
down Jo and will stop at no means necessary.
Jo is a femme fatale right out of the 1930s,
but literally.
The story we follow shows Jo in different
time periods, though mysteriously she always
appears unaged, untouched by time.
Jo also struggles with having a bewitching
effect on the male sex, as men fall irresistibly
and helplessly in love with her, only for
them to meet some untimely end.
We follow Jo on the run as she tries to find
a safe place and unravel the mysteries around
her.
8
Wytches by Scott Snyder.
Beautiful, spooky art by Jock.
And amazing amazing amazing colour by Matt
Hollingsworth.
Seriously.
This story is brilliant, the look of the comic
is fantastic but the colours.
You could just read this comic for just the
colours.
So, okay.
What’s it about?
As the title aptly implies, this is a witch
story.
A young girl named, Sailor and her family
are forced to move after Sailor’s bully,
Annie mysteriously disappears and Sailor is
suspected of Annie’s murder by the town's
residents.
Harsh.
The family moves to the small town of Litchfield,
New Hampshire and mayhem ensues.
You see this town is steeped in the supernatural
and has close ties to a group of wytches.
I don’t want to give anything away but I
will say this is story has a very unique take
on this specific type of monster.
Seriously.
Read it.
7
Outcast.
Written by Robert Kirkman.
Art by Paul Azaceta.
With colours by Elizabeth Breitweiser.
Alright YouTube, as I host and we get to know
each other better, there is something I want
you to know about me.
I’m terrified of possession.
To me it is the scariest thing.
Films like Exorcist, Babadook, Hereditary…
they just give me the capital c creeps.
Needless to say, I could not create this list
without touching on the very disturbing subject
of possession.
And so I give you Outcast.
Not to be confused with the music group, Outkast.
This series follows Kyle Barnes, a guy who
has a history with demonic possession, abilities
surrounding it and as a result, pretty much
runs into it at every turn.
This series involves a lot of people getting
possessed and lot of creepy grins.
Especially from children.
Creeeeeeeepy.
Probably due to the success of Kirkman’s
series Walking Dead and it’s show, Outcast
has also been given a television series.
So feel free to check that out as well if
my type of spooky is also your type of spooky.
6
Torso.
By Michael Brian Bendis and Mark Andreyko.
Torso is more than a horror comic, it is also
a true crime series, which in my opinion makes
it even scarier especially because the criminal
it is about was never apprehended.
This tale focuses on the investigation of
a string of serial murders committed in Cleveland
in the 1930s.
The killings shared a link, they all involved
dismemberment.
With many of the deaths of the victims being
believed to have been directly caused by said
dismemberment.
Ergo the killer was dubbed the Cleveland Torso
Murderer.
Torso is interesting because it doesn’t
just tell a story, it also uses direct images,
documents and reports from the case which
are then interlaced with the story.
If you are a fan of this comic series, you
might be excited to know a film series is
in the works which would revolve around Eliot
Ness, famed law man, leader of the Untouchables
and one of the lead investiagators on the
Cleveland Torso Murderer case.
5
Fuan No Tane.
Written by Masaaki Nakayama.
This comic series is an anthology of short
scary stories based around urban legends.
If stories like this used to keep you up at
night just wondering about them, prepare to
get spooked.
A lot of these stories are short and involve
a lot of jump scares and scary faces staring
at you.
These are the stories that will leave you
looking over your shoulder for the rest of
the night and possibly day.
Approach with caution if you have an active
imagination.
And be warned I find the stories get scarier
as you read on.
4
Severed.
Written by Scott Snyder and Scott Tuft with
art by Attila Futaki.
In this series we follow Jack, a young boy
who runs away from home after receiving a
letter from his absent-father, asking Jack
to join him on the road.
Jack of course has always dreamed of traveling
cross country with his estranged father and
eagerly leaves home to set off on an adventure.
And that’s where this story gets dark.
Jack runs into a traveling salesman who is
far more than he seems.
The artwork is graphic and the story revolves
around cannibalism.
The two go hand in hand to make Severed an
unforgettable series.
In the best and worst way possible.
This series also features a villain who seriously
freaks me out and who will assuredly keep
you awake at night.
3
Uzumaki by Junji Ito.
So here’s the thing all comics by Ito are
terrifying.
So know that now and don’t look back.
This manga series revolves around spirals.
Get it?
Revolves?
[crickets] It’s about a town where people
are obsessed and paranoid about spirals.
The comic centres on a young highschool couple,
Kirie Goshima and Shu-chi Sy-to.
Kirie becomes affected by the town’s curse
when her hair starts to curl.
Her hair drains Kirie’s energy and attempts
to strangle her any time she tries to cut
it.
Shuichi manages to cut her hair off and save
Kirie from the curse but the two remain unable
to escape the town.
Even when they leave, they end up returning.
This story is an interesting and disturbing
exploration of the power of tradition, time,
and the meaning and feeling of infinity.
2
Harrow County.
Written by Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook.
With art and colours also by Crook.
Emmy is a young teenage girl living a small
town where 18 years ago a witch was burned.
When Emmy begins to have strange visions of
heints.
Heints are basically ghosts, spirits, spooks,
otherworldly beings.
Emmy soon discovers she too may become a witch
and also discovers that her father plans to
kill her.
If you don’t yet believe this comic is worth
a read, let me tell you my favourite part.
At one point, Emmy goes into the woods and
finds and befriends, the Skinless boy, half
of which is a boys flayed skin.
Also there is the other half of the boy running
around the woods, skinless.
So yeah, it’s a pretty freaky kind of spooky.
That being said this is a comic that is worth
a read, simply for the art in it.
Crooks use of watercolours and his ability
to paint emotion on characters faces in the
imagery is hypnotizing.
You could get lost in just the art of the
comics.
1
The Enigma of Amigara Fault by Junji Ito.
Another story by Ito, this one is more of
a short story, which explores the idea of
loneliness as isolation and the compulsive
influence of curiosity.
Also it creeps me out.
A lot.
This comic is an extra story that was included
at the end of the feature length horror series
by Ito entitled, Gyo.
Owaki and Yoshida are hiking up in the mountains,
hoping to get a look at the fault in a mountainside
which a recent earthquake has exposed.
The fault is comprised of an amazing amount
of human shaped holes in the side of the mountain
that appear to be bottomless.
Disturbingly people start hearing these holes
call to them and disappear in what they describe
as their perfect outline etched into the mountain,
their hole.
I won’t spoil the ending but I will say
be prepared to get spooked by this one.
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I hope you enjoyed my countdown of the top
10 scariest horror comics and I hope you can
sleep tonight.
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