Five Brand-New Yuletide Nightmares — Image Announces ‘Dread The Halls’ 2025
by Brendan M. Allen
Image Comics and Syzygy Publishing return with Dread The Halls 2025, the third chapter in their fan-favorite holiday horror series. Following last winter’s breakout debut and this summer’s Dread the Hall H sell-out at San Diego Comic-Con, the team is back with a super-sized 72-page stocking stuffer of pure terror.
Co-created and written by Jordan Hart and Chris Ryall, Dread the Halls 2025 unwraps five wildly different tales that run the spectrum from suspense to splatter. Art drops by Luana Vecchio, who is illustrating her first holiday tale with a 12-page yuletide riff that begins like a Hallmark Christmas movie and ends as a razor-sharp revenge story. Fábio Veras returns to render a chilling haunted-Advent-calendar yarn, while Lee Ferguson brings a pitch-black carol to life. Rounding out the lineup, Keithan Jones, co-founder of Black Comix Day, makes his Image Comics debut with visuals for a Mars-red holiday frightmare.
The gift wrap is just as sharp. There are five festive covers, including two by Maria Wolf, plus a new Luana Vecchio variant, a Toby Willsmer piece, and a wrap-around “gift-tag” variant by Hart and Ryall. built to tuck perfectly into the “horrorday” stockings.
“This year’s Dread the Halls unites some of the top artists in the industry, giving all five stories their own distinct style and tone,” said Hart. “Even though the ideas and executions vary, they all weave together to deliver a supersized issue that’s just plain fun from start to finish.”
“In the same way that people all over the world look forward to various year-end holidays,” added Ryall, “I have that same level of excitement for our now-annual Dread dive into the darker corner of the season. And this year, we’ve expanded the page count from 48 to 72 in an effort to give readers even more of a gift than we did last year.”
Retailers can “re-spread the dread” with Dread the Halls 2024 and Dread the Hall H 2025 re-offered alongside the new issue, giving shops the ability to offer the full trilogy for the 2025 holidays. Dread the Halls 2025 hits spinner racks December 3, 2025, available to preorder now with Lunar code 1025IM0283.
Creators Jordan Hart and Chris Ryall will also be in attendance at New York Comic Con 2025 (October 9th-12th) at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center to celebrate the launch and meet fans ahead of the release.
