Skip the Deals, Embrace the Doom: DREAD THE HALLS 2025 hits Shelves Next Week

The Fan-favorite Dark Seasonal Thriller Arrives Just in Time for the Black Friday Rush

Deck the halls with yuletide FEAR!

Image Comics and Syzygy Publishing return with DREAD THE HALLS 2025, the third chapter in their fan-favorite holiday horror series! Following last winter’s breakout debut and this summer’s Dread the Hall H sell-out at San Diego Comic-Con, the team is back with a super-sized 72-page stocking stuffer of pure terror.

Co-created and written by Jordan Hart (Ripple Effects, The Cabinet) and Chris Ryall (Zombies vs. Robots, Megalopolis), Dread the Halls 2025 unwraps five wildly different tales that run the spectrum from suspense to splatter. Art drops by Luana Vecchio (Lovesick, Bolero), illustrating her first holiday tale—a 12-page yuletide riff that begins like a Hallmark Christmas movie and ends as a razor-sharp revenge story. Fábio Veras (DC’s Two-Face, Batman: Urban Legends) returns to render a chilling haunted-Advent-calendar yarn, while 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 Image Comics debut with visuals for a Mars-red holiday frightmare.

The giftwrap is just as sharp: five festive covers, including two by Maria Wolf (Crypt of Shadows, Harley Quinn), plus a new Luana Vecchio (Lovesick, Bolero) variant, a Toby Willsmer (Vampirella, Red Sonja) piece, and a wrap-around “gift-tag” variant by Hart and Ryall. built to tuck perfectly into the “horrorday” stockings.

Dread the Halls returns to haunt another Christmas season with a 72-page gift of all-new tales of holiday horrors for only $6.99! This time out, Jordan Hart and Luana Vecchio deliver a seasonal blend of Hallmark movie and brutal revenge flick; Chris Ryall and Keithan Jones turn Mars red when “The Martians Conquer Santa Claus!”; Walter Pax and Fábio Veras return to the series rendering festive terror; and Ryall and Lee Ferguson present a pitch-black Christmas carol in “Chains Forged From Life.”

For fans of Silent Night, Deadly Night, Black Christmas, and many other acclaimed cold-blooded holiday slashers, this anthology delivers the ultimate holiday fright!

Retailers can “re-spread the dread” with Dread the Halls (2024) and Dread the Hall H (2025) re-offered alongside the new issue, giving shops the full trilogy for the holidays. Dread the Halls 2025 hits shelves December 3, 2025.

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