Agent of Weird: Exploring the Write Fantastic

Agent of Weird: Exploring the Write Fantastic

The Four Techniques of a Truly Scary Horror Comic

Getting under a reader’s skin is about more than just showering them with blood and showing off your favourite monsters. Discover the dark art of creating a truly disturbing horror comic

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Alec Worley
Sep 17, 2022
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John Carpenter’s Night Terrors: The Coffin Road. Art by Trevor Denham. Colours by Ryan Winn

Why are so few horror comics genuinely scary?

The genre of horror and the medium of comics have had a fruitful marriage since the 1940s, when Prize Comics’ The New Adventures of Frankenstein thought to cash in on the success of Universal’s monster movies. Eighty ye…

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