Exclusive Preview: Five Brand-New Yuletide Nightmares In ‘Dread The Halls 2025’
by Brendan M. Allen
Image Comics and Syzygy Publishing have graced Comicon with an exclusive first look at Dread The Halls 2025. The third chapter in their fan-favorite holiday horror series follows last winter’s breakout debut 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. Luana Vecchio illustrates her first holiday tale, 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 makes his Image Comics debut with visuals for a Mars-red holiday frightmare.
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The giftwrap is just as sharp with 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.
“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 full trilogy for the holidays. Dread the Halls 2025 hits shelves December 3rd and is available to preorder now with Lunar code 1025IM0283.
