More Halloween Treats From 2000 AD: Get Ready To Scream! With An All New ‘Scream Halloween Special 2026’ This October

As has become traditional, 2000 AD brings the terrors this Halloween something spooky and kooky in the Scream Halloween Special …

Featuring a murderer’s row of talent including Babs Tarr, Zoe Tunnell, Alex Paknadel, Chloe Brailsford, Zac Thompson, Oliver Gerlach, Vic Malhotra and more, the all-new Scream! Halloween Special 2026 brings you 48 pages of comics to make your blood run cold.

Yes, October 2026 sees all-new tales of terror from the classic UK horror comic Scream! It may have lasted just 15 issues back in 1984, but its legacy lives large.

The all-new anthology promises all this:

Opening with The Dracula File, where Alex Paknadel and Alejandro Aragón reunite for something new, putting ‘extra venom into the modern-day exploits of the legendary blood-sucking fiend.’

Zoe Tunnell, Chloe Brailsford, JP Jordan and Jodie Troutman team for Consent Is Key, something that Tunnell describes as:

“We already live in an era of voracious capitalism and AI causing more doubt and confusion in what we are seeing and hearing than ever. How bad would it go when even your sleeping hours are monetised for labour? Your own choices made for you? All oh-so-helpfully guided by a major corporation that has Your Best Interests In Mind. They promise!”

Then we have more from the dastardly AI before it was known as AI, Max, in The Thirteenth Floor, where Zac Thompson and Mattia Monaco promise “A look at A.I. psychosis in a way that only The Thirteenth Floor can pull off.“ Maxwell Tower gets a new large language model upgrade, pushing Max to make concessions to do what he can to serve all his tenants.

Bog Body sees a PhD student uncovering the project of a lifetime that becomes his own personal obsession with death, as Oliver Gerlach and Vic Malhotra go deep into human nature. As Gerlach tells us:

“The Bog Body is about exhaustion and burnout and the horror of being consumed by your work until there’s nothing left … and also about seeing how unpleasantly damp a story I can get away with.”

And, as a finale, we have Michael Gorman and Babs Tarr, “who’d like to inform readers that the quaint sleepy town of Bishop’s End is in fact open for business, and any reports of haunts at the nearby petrol station are GREATLY exaggerated …”

Yes, five more tales of seasonal terrors are coming out this October in The Scream! Halloween Special 2026.