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Oh, the Horror: 8 Comics for Halloween
Otherworldly creatures, apocalyptic environments, serial killers, zombies and more haunt these suspenseful comic books and graphic novels.
For Halloween season, here is a selection of new spooky tales that include end-of-the-world scenarios, evil puppets and an ax-wielding Santa Claus.
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Credit…Abrams ComicArts
In this graphic novel based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy, disaster has stricken the world and a father and son fight to stay alive. (McCarthy approved the adaptation before his death in 2023.) The story is bleak, and the artist Manu Larcenet conveys it with spare dialogue and swaths of blacks and grays. When color bursts in, it is usually to signify new danger. (Abrams ComicArts. Available now.)
Dying Inside
This is an oddly uplifting story given that it is about a depressed 16-year-old, Ash. Oct. 21 is the day that Ash’s idol, the songwriter Elliott Smith, died, and she has tragic plans for its anniversary. Thanks to a mystical knife, disaster is averted. Written by Pete Wentz and Hannah Klein; drawn by Lisa Sterle. (Vault Comics. Available now.)
Hyde Street, Issue No. 1
