As soon as once more teaming as much as unfold Yuletide terror and provides readers the reward of festive frights (whether or not you’ve got been naughty or good), Picture Comics and Syzygy Publishing will launch the 72-page horror anthology Dread the Halls 2025 on December third, and we have been supplied with an unique preview of author Chris Ryall and artist Lee Ferguson’s story “Chains Cast in Life” that Day by day Useless readers can unwrap proper now!
Bringing a creepy twist to Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, you’ll be able to learn our preview of “Chains Cast in Life” beneath, and we additionally take a look on the anthology’s cowl artwork and official press launch with further particulars.
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From the Press Launch: Picture Comics and Syzygy Publishing return with DREAD THE HALLS 2025, the third chapter of their fan-favorite vacation horror sequence! Following final winter’s breakout debut and this summer season’s Dread the Corridor H sell-out at San Diego Comedian-Con, the staff is again with a super-sized 72-page stocking stuffer of pure terror.
Co-created and written by Jordan Hart (Ripple Results, The Cupboard) and Chris Ryall (Zombies vs. Robots, Megalopolis), Dread the Halls 2025 unwraps 5 wildly completely different tales that run the spectrum from suspense to splatter. Artwork drops by Luana Vecchio (Lovesick, Bolero), illustrating her first vacation story—a 12-page yuletide riff that begins like a Hallmark Christmas film and ends as a razor-sharp revenge story. Fábio Veras (DC’s Two-Face, Batman: City Legends) returns to render a chilling haunted-Introduction-calendar yarn, whereas Lee Ferguson (Predator vs. Black Panther) brings a pitch-black carol to life. Rounding out the lineup, Keithan Jones—co-founder of Black Comix Day—makes his Picture Comics debut with visuals for a Mars-red vacation frightmare.
The giftwrap is simply as sharp: 5 festive covers, together with two by Maria Wolf (Crypt of Shadows, Harley Quinn), plus a brand new Luana Vecchio (Lovesick, Bolero) variant, a Toby Willsmer (Vampirella, Crimson Sonja) piece, and a wrap-around “gift-tag” variant by Hart and Ryall. constructed to tuck completely into the “horrorday” stockings.
Dread the Halls returns to hang-out one other Christmas season with a 72-page reward of all-new tales of vacation horrors for less than $6.99! This trip, Jordan Hart and Luana Vecchio ship a seasonal mix of Hallmark film and brutal revenge flick; Chris Ryall and Keithan Jones flip Mars pink when “The Martians Conquer Santa Claus!”; Walter Pax and Fábio Veras return to the sequence rendering festive terror; and Ryall and Lee Ferguson current a pitch-black Christmas carol in “Chains Cast in Life.”
“This 12 months’s Dread the Halls unites among the high artists within the trade, giving all 5 tales their very own distinct model and tone,” mentioned sequence co-creator, author, and designer Jordan Hart. “Despite the fact that the concepts and executions fluctuate, all of them weave collectively to ship a supersized situation that’s simply plain enjoyable from begin to end.”
“In the identical method that folks everywhere in the world stay up for varied year-end holidays,” mentioned co-creator and author Chris Ryall, “I’ve that very same degree of pleasure for our now-annual Dread dive into the darker nook of the season. And this 12 months, we’ve expanded the web page rely from 48 to 72 in an effort to present readers much more of a present than we did final 12 months.”
For followers of Silent Night time, Lethal Night time, Black Christmas, and lots of different acclaimed cold-blooded vacation slashers, this anthology delivers the final word vacation fright!
Retailers can “re-spread the dread” with Dread the Halls (2024) and Dread the Corridor H (2025) re-offered alongside the brand new situation, giving retailers the total trilogy for the vacations. Dread the Halls 2025 hits cabinets December 3, 2025—obtainable to preorder now with Lunar code 1025IM0283.
Unique Preview of “Chains Cast in Life”
Cowl A by Maria Wolf
Cowl By by Luana Vecchio
Cowl C by Jordan Hart
Cowl D by Toby Willsmer
