Okay it’s not a comics, but nothing has influenced the imagery of Halloween more than James Whale’s classic, so let’s give it up for the king.

And with that, we’re off to Trick or Treat

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The Invisible Man

Aw, come on, did you think iI was gonna leave out Bruce Campbell?

Does anything signify contemporary terror in comics more than this series? Cover by Charles Adlard.

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The great Jim Woodring is always available for some chills. Wish this one was larger. Here’s a bonus image.

Much more here.

The OG

…and a slightly more horrifying version

Via Sean.

Rush over to Hark! A Vagrant to enjoy the rest of Beaton’s “Teen Hallowe’en.”

IDW EIC Chris Ryall shared some covers: Angel vs. Frankenstein by John Byrne

and Frankenstein Mobster, Vol. 1 by Mark Wheatley and friends.

via Nicole Dabbs.

Cartoonist/teacher Nick Bertozzi illustrates an article about a haunted house.

John Rozum, writer of such spooky things as MIDNIGHT, MASS., SCOOBY DOO and XOMBI, has been doing his OWN 31 Days of Halloween. Here’s one of his collage illustrations.

Abby Denson’s DOLLTOPIA tour continues on the west coast, with CUPCAKES! Starting tonight in Vancouver. BOO!

October 31, 12pm Halloween event @ Elfsar Comics, 1007 Hamilton St., Vancouver BC
November 1, 2pm ECUAD, Emily Carr Theatre (SB 301), 1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island, Vancouver BC
November 4, 6pm In Other Words, 8 B NE Killingsworth St, Portland, OR
November 5, 5pm Floating World Comics, 20 NW 5th Ave, Portland, OR
November 6, 7PM Dolltopia reading and signing at Modern Times, 888 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA
November 7, 1PM Dolltopia signing @ A Different Light, 489 Castro Street, San Francisco, CA
November 7, 6-8PM Dolltopia signing @ GRSF, 618 Shrader St, San Francisco, CA
November 8, 1pm Cartoon Art Museum, 655 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA

BONUS! The great underground/alternative artist is interviewed by Bill Baker about his Haunt of Horror project for Marvel, which adapts Poe and Lovecraft.

I feel that much of Poe’s works deals directly with that most basic of all human feelings, fear, and its more extreme state, horror. He speaks directly to me because I am a very fearful guy. And he expresses these feelings in an artful way, which to me makes them more palatable. Lovecraft also deals with fear and horror but in a very different way. Poe gets close to his characters, even inside them. The fears that Lovecraft deals with are usually strange, alien, even cosmic, definitely from the outside.