Creepy and Eerie
When the Comics Code killed off EC's horror titles in 1954, it did so by regulating comic books.
Start with Creepy Archives Volume 1
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Horror and dark fantasy
Horror comics have been banned, burned and investigated, which is the sort of CV most horror films would kill for. This section runs from the magazines that sidestepped the Comics Code in the 1960s, through the British writers who made DC's horror line grown-up, to the current boom in small-town terrors. Nearly everything here is for adults, and the content notes say so plainly.
The Tomb of Dracula
Once the Comics Code relaxed its ban on vampires in 1971, Marvel wasted no time in signing up the most famous one of all.
Start with Tomb of Dracula: The Complete Collection Vol. 1
Saga of the Swamp Thing
Swamp Thing was a moderately successful monster comic about a scientist turned into a plant creature, until Alan Moore took it over in 1984 and, in his second issue, revealed that there…
Start with Saga of the Swamp Thing, Book One
Hellblazer
John Constantine is a working-class occultist from Liverpool, a chain-smoker in a trench coat who knows more about magic than almost anybody alive and is careful to use as little of it as…
Start with John Constantine, Hellblazer Vol. 1: Original Sins
From Hell
Alan Moore takes one of the popular theories of the Jack the Ripper murders, in which the killer is the royal physician Sir William Gull, and uses it not to solve the crimes (he is quite…
Start with From Hell
Hellboy
Hellboy was summoned to Earth by Nazi occultists in 1944, rescued by the Allies, raised by a kindly professor and grew up to become a paranormal investigator with a huge stone right hand…
Start with Hellboy Omnibus Vol. 1: Seed of Destruction
B.P.R.D.
The Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense carries on without Hellboy, and quickly discovers that the end of the world is going to happen with or without him.
Start with B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs Volume 1
Preacher
Jesse Custer is a small-town Texas preacher who is possessed by Genesis, the child of an angel and a demon, which gives him the power to make anyone do anything he says.
Start with Preacher, Book One
30 Days of Night
In Barrow, Alaska, the sun sets in winter and does not rise again for about a month.
Start with 30 Days of Night
The Walking Dead
Small-town policeman Rick Grimes wakes from a coma to find the world overrun by zombies, and spends most of the next 193 issues trying to keep his son and a shifting group of survivors…
Start with The Walking Dead Compendium One
Locke & Key
After their father is murdered, the three Locke children move with their mother to Keyhouse, the family mansion in the town of Lovecraft, Massachusetts.
Start with Locke & Key Volume 1: Welcome to Lovecraft
American Vampire
Skinner Sweet is a Wild West outlaw who becomes the first of a new breed of vampire: stronger, nastier and immune to sunlight.
Start with American Vampire, Volume 1
Beasts of Burden
In the small town of Burden Hill, a group of dogs and a cat investigate the supernatural: haunted doghouses, witches, zombies, frogs raining from the sky.
Start with Beasts of Burden: Animal Rites
Baltimore
On a First World War battlefield, a soldier named Lord Henry Baltimore wounds a vampire, and in return the creature destroys his family and unleashes a plague that brings the undead across…
Start with Baltimore, Volume 1: The Plague Ships
Through the Woods
Five short horror stories, each one a fairy tale gone wrong: a girl whose sisters vanish one by one, a bride in a house with something in the walls, a brother who comes home from the woods…
Start with Through the Woods
Wytches
Forget broomsticks and pointy hats. In Wytches, the wytches are ancient creatures that live in the trees and grant wishes to anyone who offers them a person to eat.
Start with Wytches, Volume 1
Harrow County
Emmy has always lived on a farm in rural Harrow County, where the woods are full of haints and things with too many teeth.
Start with Harrow County Volume 1: Countless Haints
Providence
In 1919, a New York journalist named Robert Black sets out across New England to research a book about America's hidden occult history, and begins to meet people and places who will one…
Start with Providence Compendium
Gideon Falls
In the city, a young recluse picks through rubbish, certain that there is a pattern hidden in it.
Start with Gideon Falls Volume 1: The Black Barn
Something Is Killing the Children
Children are vanishing in the small town of Archer's Peak, and the adults cannot see what is taking them.
Start with Something Is Killing the Children Volume One
The Department of Truth
FBI agent Cole Turner is recruited to a secret government department with an alarming job description: if enough people believe something, it becomes true, so the department has to stop…
Start with The Department of Truth Volume 1: The End of the World
The Nice House on the Lake
Walter has invited a group of old friends to a luxurious house on a lake for a holiday.
Start with The Nice House on the Lake Volume One