IMAGE announces third installment to THE DREAD THE HALLS series

Syzygy Publishing and Image return with Dread The Halls 2025, the third installment in the holiday horror anthology of the Dread The Hall series. Co-creators Jordan Hart and Chris Ryall are back with a 72-page holiday horror anthology arriving Dec. 3 at comic shops everywhere.

Last year’s installment, Dread the Halls (2024), and the Comic Con themed Dread the Hall H were massive hits and sold out quickly, with The Beat lauding the SDCC Dread the Hall panel as one of the hottest tickets in town!

Dread the Halls 2025 continues the yearly tradition of holiday horror stories. Ryall and Hart unwrap five wildly different tales that run the spectrum from suspense to splatter.  Joining the Dread The Hall crew is artist, Luana Vecchio, illustrating her first holiday tale. This 12-page yuletide riff begins like a Hallmark Christmas movie and ends as a razor-sharp revenge story. Fábio Veras returns to render a chilling haunted-Advent-calendar yarn, while Lee Ferguson brings a pitch-black carol to life. As well as Keithan Jones, co-founder of Black Comix Day, makes his Image Comics debut with visuals for a Mars-red holiday frightmare.

“This year’s Dread the Halls unites some of the top artists in the industry, giving all five stories their own distinct style and tone,” said co-creator, writer, and designer Jordan Hart. “Even though the ideas and executions vary, they all weave together to deliver a supersized issue that’s just plain fun from start to finish.”

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.”

“In the same way that people all over the world look forward to various year-end holidays,“ said co-creator and writer Chris Ryall, “I have that same level of excitement for our now-annual Dread dive into the darker corner of the season. And this year, we’ve expanded the page count from 48 to 72 in an effort to give readers even more of a gift than we did last year.”

Cover art will feature artwork by Maria Wolf, Luana Vecchio, Toby Willsmer, and a wrap-around “gift-tag“ variant by Hart and Ryall.

Check them out below! 

Dread The Halls 2025 drops on Dec. 3. and creators Jordan Hart and Chris Ryall will be in attendance at New York Comic Con 2025 (October 9-12) at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center to celebrate the launch and meet fans ahead of the release!