Celebrate The Holidays This Year With Tales Of Festive Fright In ‘Dread The Halls’ One-Shot From Image Comics

by Olly MacNamee

Image Comics and Syzygy Publishing are celebrating this year’s festive season with the one-shot Dread The Halls, co-created and written by Jordan Hart (Ripple Effects, The Cabinet) and Chris Ryall (Zombies vs. Robots) with art by Lee Ferguson (“Gone Fishing”), Jimmy Kucaj (“Krampus Hunters”), Walter Pax (“Northerners”), and Fabio Veras (“Dead Notes”).

Tales of seasonal supernatural suspense are nothing new, with Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol being of the most favourite examples of this macabre festive literary tradition. And so Dread The Halls honours this 19th century Yuletide tradition.

Hart said this about the new one-shot::

“The Victorians showed us horror pairs quite well with the holidays through their fireside ghost stories. Dread the Halls honors this tradition with four festive tales of terror, each with individual narrative and visual styles. Chris and I wanted to make a stocking stuffer for any comic or horror fan. And thanks to mind-blowing covers, the issue doubles as a dreadful piece of holiday décor too.”

Ryall added:

“Dread the Halls is our gift to everyone who might expect to see their name on Santa’s Naughty List, although anyone on the ‘Nice List’ who like their holiday season to have some added spice is invited to partake, too. As a comic reader, I’ve always loved comic-book stories that fuse elements of Halloween and Christmas together in sweet and scary ways, and that’s what we set out to do here as well.”