Syzygy Publishing Announces Christmas Horror One-Shot ‘Dread The Halls’

Syzygy Publishing has announced a new holiday one-shot co-created and written by Jordan Hart and Chris Ryall. Extra-length one-shot collection Dread The Halls contains four not-so-merry tales of terror, featuring mesmerizing interior art by Lee Ferguson, Jimmy Kucaj, Walter Pax, and Fabio Veras. It’s perfect for ‘curdling’ up next to a burning Yule log.

“Be of Good Fear!” Long before Americans celebrated horror on Halloween, the Victorians did it gathered around a fireplace on Christmas Eve. Dread the Halls honors this macabre tradition by wishing you and yours Happy Holidays with stories of ghosts, ghastly abominations, and vile creatures.

“The Victorians showed us horror pairs quite well with the holidays through their fireside ghost stories,” said Hart. “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.”

“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,” added Ryall. “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.”

The perfect stocking-stuffer, Dread the Halls includes visually-stunning cardstock covers by artists Maria The Wolf and Marguerite Sauvage, with a wrapping-paper variant by Jordan Hart and holiday homage cover by Lee Ferguson.

Perfect for fans of Creepshow, The Deviant, Hello Darkness, and Epitaphs from the Abyss, this creepy holiday crossover title is sure to spike your cup of cocoa.  

Pre-orders are open now from Diamond Distribution (OCT240413), Lunar (1024IM300), or Syzygy Publishing/Image Comics direct. Final orders are due November 4th for release on December 4th.