The Scream Halloween Special 2026 Is Coming This October And It’s Bringing Vengeful Violence With Teeth! [3

Wepa, horror heads, sharpen the stakes, lock the doors, and maybe don’t trust that weird noise coming from the hallway, because Scream! is back, and this October, Rebellion is letting the monsters off the leash.

The Eisner-nominated horror anthology returns with The Scream! Halloween Special 2026, a 48-page slab of blood-soaked storytelling packed with five brand-new tales designed to rattle your bones, mess with your sleep schedule, and remind you why Halloween comics hit different when they’re done right.

This ain’t some cute little pumpkin-spice scare package, either. We’re talking a murderers’ row of comic book talent, including Alex Paknadel, Babs Tarr, Zoe Tunnell, Zac Thompson, Vic Malhotra, and more, all teaming up to drag readers through vampires, corporate nightmares, A.I. madness, bog-body dread, and small-town hauntings that absolutely do not sound safe for anybody with common sense.

For over forty years, Scream! has been serving readers chills with a nasty little grin. Since its 1984 debut, hosted by the wonderfully sinister Ghastly McNasty, the anthology has carved out its place in British comics history with the kind of horror that doesn’t just jump out from the shadows — it follows you home, sits in your kitchen, and asks why you left the lights on.

Editor Chiara Mestieri is clearly not playing around this year, calling the lineup a creative “murderers’ row” and promising pages loaded with shock, horror, blood, guts, and everything else polite society pretends it doesn’t enjoy. Yeah, okay, fam. We see you. You brought the whole haunted buffet.

First up, The Dracula File reunites Alex Paknadel and Alejandro Aragón, with Jason Wordie and Jonathan Stevenson, for another bite at the legendary bloodsucker’s modern-day exploits. But this isn’t just Dracula showing up with a cape and bad intentions. Aragón frames the story around something painfully human: the fear of facing a terrifying truth alone, and the power of having even one person believe you. That’s where good horror lives — not just in the monster, but in the loneliness before the scream.

Then comes Consent Is Key from Zoe Tunnell, Chloe Brailsford, JP Jordan, and Jodie Troutman, and this one sounds like the kind of story that looks at modern capitalism, A.I. confusion, corporate overreach, and says, “You thought being awake was bad? Wait until they monetize your sleep.” That premise is nasty in the best way. The horror here is not some creature under the bed — it’s the system standing over the bed with a contract, a smile, and a privacy policy nobody read.

Brailsford digs even deeper, pointing straight at exploitation, income inequality, and the way corporations squeeze bodies and lives in pursuit of profit. That’s the real 21st-century horror story, mi gente. Not ghosts. Not demons. A company with “your best interests in mind.” Please. That sentence alone needs holy water.

And because apparently the elevators weren’t already cursed enough, The Thirteenth Floor returns with the malevolent A.I. Max, courtesy of Zac Thompson and Mattia Monaco. This time, Maxwell Tower gets a new large language model upgrade, and Max starts making ethical compromises in the name of tenant wellbeing. Translation? The building’s caretaker A.I. is about to prove that “helpful” can become horrifying real quick when nobody is around to say no. As A.I. stories go, this one sounds disturbingly close to the bone and that’s exactly why it works.

Then Oliver Gerlach and Vic Malhotra drag us into the mud with The Bog Body, where an archaeological discovery turns a PhD student’s dream project into a death-obsessed nightmare. Gerlach describes the story as being about exhaustion, burnout, and the horror of being consumed by your work until there’s nothing left. So basically, academia meets ancient corpse energy. Malhotra’s goal? Make it ugly, damp, dreadful, and deep enough to pull readers down with it. Lovely. Horrible. Perfect.

Finally, Michael Gorman and Babs Tarr close things out with a trip to Bishop’s End, a quaint sleepy town where the nearby petrol station is absolutely, definitely, totally not haunted. Which, in horror language, means everybody should immediately leave town, sell the house, and never look back. But of course, nobody listens. That’s how we get comics, baby.

To top it all off, the special features a cover by Salvador Lavado, celebrating the ghastly legacy of Ghastly McNasty himself. For longtime fans, that’s a bloody little bow on the coffin. For new readers, this is the perfect invitation to step into one of horror comics’ creepiest corners and find out why Scream! still has teeth after all these years.

The Scream! Halloween Special 2026 arrives this October from Rebellion, bringing 48 pages of vengeance, viscera, dread, and dark imagination. So yeah, Crusaders — clear some space on that Halloween pull list.

Because this October, Scream! isn’t just coming back.

It’s coming back hungry.

It’s the horror event of the year if you’re looking for true terror this Halloween, make sure you pre-order your copy of The Scream! Halloween Special 2026 today! Available via Lunar Distribution in the US. You won’t regret it…