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Review: “Haunted Horror” #10
“Haunted Horror” #10 takes readers on a nostalgic blast to the past. The ‘House of Horrors’ series presents spine-chilling short stories of moral descent with a supernatural twist. Though this is a reprint, the scares still hold up and the colors are wonderfully eye-popping.
WRITTEN BY: Various
ART BY: Various
PUBLISHER: IDW Publishing
PRICE: $3.99
RELEASE: April 16th, 2014
The “Haunted Horror” anthology contains six tales that mix black humor and scares. Though the short tales are drawn differently, the illustrations share a similar ’50s style. Each panel is drawn using primary colors, focusing on bright blues and sunny yellows. Rather than tell a dark mortality tale with dreary colors, the old-school color scheme has a way of making the scares seem clear and apparent.
Sal Trapani’s “Epitaph” represents the moral message and style of the 50’s horror comics at its best. The story revolves around a distraught husband searching for his missing wife. He suddenly finds himself lost in a cemetery, surrounded by open graves. Each tombstone is carved with all the sins committed by the guilt-ridden person. The hilarious twist at the end is that the married couple were both unfaithful to each other.
Lou Cameron’s “Prey For The Vampire Horde” takes a step further with the common fear of heights and airplanes. Imagine being stuck on a flight where vampires are chasing after the passengers. In an impressive wide shot, Cameron illustrates these monstrous flying bats circling around the airplane. Because the flying bats are crashing into the engines, the plane is forced to go down and land into a trap.
Joe Certa’s “Midnight Unlimited” is my favorite piece amongst the collection. A passenger without a ticket is about to take a train ride to Hell. The only customers that get on this train are walking skeletons. Certa illustrates men with suits, who all have skulls on top of their collars. The only human passenger has fight his way through, punching and kicking at the skeletons. This short tale was a lot of fun to read and has a nice little twist at the end.
Take a fun and scary trip to the 1950s with “Haunted House” #10. Though time has passed, the “Haunted House” series proves that good storytelling never grows old.
Reviewed by Jorge Solis
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‘You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive’ – IDW Dark’s Next Horror Comic Will Make You Question Reality
Five friends. Four houses. One perfect life. Bloody Disgusting is excited to exclusively announce You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive, a brand new horror comic from IDW Dark.
From Eisner-Nominated writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly, and rising horror artist Heather Vaughan, You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive is described as a “paranoia-laced, socially-conscious, horror mystery that will leave you questioning reality, and reveal that this crafted world is more of a nightmare than the idealistic dream they were expecting.”
Phoebe Joplin has never questioned the world her parents built: a secluded community where she and her friends were raised to be smarter, stronger, and better than anyone else. No distractions. No dangers. No secrets. Until the night of their graduation.
When one of them dies under impossible circumstances, Phee starts to pull at the edges of her perfect life—and what she finds is something far more terrifying than she ever imagined.
Because this place isn’t a sanctuary. It’s a cage. And no one who discovers the truth ever leaves it alive.
Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing (Batman – One Bad Day: Clayface, Star Trek: The Last Starship) co-write the upcoming IDW Dark horror comic, featuring art by Heather Vaughan.
Jackson Lanzing said in a statement to Bloody Disgusting, “You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive is in many ways a spiritual successor to our last creator-owned horror, The Principles of Necromancy – a dive into the promise and consequence of playing god with the blood of innocents. But the Hivemind book this reminds me of most is Clayface: One Bad Day. This is a deeply human story with intensely raw emotions – five best friends and their five mysterious parents, tearing one another apart for the promise of some impossible glory that’s waiting just beyond their darkest actions. We’re thrilled to be bringing this story to life with our long-time partner in crime, editor Heather Antos, at IDW Dark – and we’re particularly excited to give our Clayface fans a new, brutal and emotional horror made just for them.”
Adds Collin Kelly, “We’re deconstructing a feeling that seems universal these days; our elders have a death grip on their power, without any intention of giving it up to the generations that come next. YNLTPA is about growing up with the limitless potential of the future… and realizing how much it’s a lie we’ve been fed to keep us under the yoke of the past. Bringing this brutal experience to life is our artist and co-creator, Heather Vaughan, who brings an incredible amount of humanity to our cast. But it’s in our youthful leads that Heather’s art really shines – you are going to fall in love with these young people, even as they go through the worst experience of their lives. What we’ve all crafted together is going to be tragic, painful, but above all else, sincere – with a future so uncertain, there’s only one thing we can trust: you’ll never leave this place alive.”
“Some horror stories are about monsters in the dark. YNLTPA is about realizing the monsters raised you,” previews Senior Group Editor Heather Antos. “Working with Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly on this series has been a dream in the darkest possible way. They’ve built a story that’s layered, brutal, and deeply emotional, and every issue gives artist Heather Vaughan opportunities to push the art into places that feel both haunting and deeply personal. Some horror comics will keep you up at night…this is one that will stick with you for years to come.”
The first issue of You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive goes on sale October 14, 2026! Make sure to pre-order at your local comic shop by September to guarantee a copy.
Exclusively check out the various covers for Issue #1 down below.
IDW Publishing’s horror imprint IDW DARK features comics like A Quiet Place: Storm Warning, Smile: For the Camera, The Exorcism at 1600 Penn, Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees, The Twilight Zone, Event Horizon: Dark Descent & Event Horizon: Inferno, and more.
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