SECOND STORIES to arrive in 2025

Oni Press has announced a special DWELLINGS: ALL HALLOWS’ EVE SPECIAL #1 to come this October 9th. Returning to artist Jay Stephens‘ tranquil streets of Elwich, this 40-page special will be told through the perspective of visitor Wolfgang LeGant, a self-professed vampire hunter who one day, meets a self-professed vampire, Emmaline Momenta. The comic is also Dwellings’ last before the relaunch as a limited series with DWELLINGS: SECOND STORIES #1, in 2025.

“The ‘Saturday Morning’ meets ‘Stroke Of Midnight’ retro cute horror is back just in time for tricks and treats! The DWELLINGS: ALL HALLOWS’ EVE SPECIAL arrives this October, with all the old-school fake ads and blood-stained vintage kids’ comics stylings you’ve come to squeamishly love,” said cartoonist Jay Stephens. “This standalone story brings us back to the haunted streets of Elwich for a tale about a tall, dark, and handsome visitor Hell-bent on hunting down the monsters who hide in the town’s shadows. Set in the tight-knit underground ‘Sangunarian’ Elwich goth scene, “Come Hither” flips the classic bloodsucker tale in it’s grave, as a delusional, self-proclaimed ‘vampire hunter’ seduces the black-clad youth one by one in order to lay them to rest for eternity. Happy Halloween, Dwellers!”

That’s not all. At SDCC 2024, Jay Stephens himself will join Oni Press creators on the ONI PRESS: GROUNDBREAKING COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS panel on Thursday, July 25th at 11 am PT in Room 28DE. Stephens plans to reveal what awaits in the pages of the DWELLINGS: ALL HALLOWS’ EVE SPECIAL and DWELLINGS: SECOND STORIES, then will later, be signing daily and exclusive DWELLINGS merch at the Oni Press Booth #1829.

You can read more about it below:

DWELLINGS: ALL HALLOW’S EVE SPECIAL | Cover A by Jay Stephens

DWELLINGS: ALL HALLOW’S EVE SPECIAL #1

Written by JAY STEPHENS

Art by JAY STEPHENS

In advance of San Diego Comic Con 2024, Oni Press – the multiple Harvey and Eisner award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997, is proud to announce the best-selling horror phenomenon, DWELLINGS – from Emmy Award-winning, Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist Jay Stephens (EC’s Epitaphs from the Abyss) – is set for a bloodcurdling return this October in the DWELLINGS: ALL HALLOWS’ EVE SPECIAL #1 … before the series mounts its full-scale resurrection with the first issue of an all-new limited series, DWELLINGS: SECOND STORIES #1, in 2025.

First: On October 9th, return to the terrifyingly tranquil streets of Elwich in the DWELLINGS: ALL HALLOWS’ EVE SPECIAL #1 – a self-contained, 40-page introduction to the terrifyingly tranquil streets that DWELLINGS calls home—as seen through the eyes of visitor Wolfgang LeGant! But Wolfgang is no ordinary tourist: He’s convinced he’s actually a seasoned vampire hunter, and this delusion has drawn him to Elwich to drive a stake through the once-unassuming town’s thriving “Saguinarian” goth subculture. But when Wolfgang meets Emmaline Momenta, a young woman similarly possessed by the idea that she’s a real vampire, irrational faith may be the only thing capable of stopping a mass murder in the making . . .

“The ‘Saturday Morning’ meets ‘Stroke Of Midnight’ retro cute horror is back just in time for tricks and treats! The DWELLINGS: ALL HALLOWS’ EVE SPECIAL arrives this October, with all the old-school fake ads and blood-stained vintage kids’ comics stylings you’ve come to squeamishly love,” said Stephens. “This standalone story brings us back to the haunted streets of Elwich for a tale about a tall, dark, and handsome visitor Hell-bent on hunting down the monsters who hide in the town’s shadows. Set in the tight-knit underground ‘Sangunarian’ Elwich goth scene, “Come Hither” flips the classic bloodsucker tale in it’s grave, as a delusional, self-proclaimed ‘vampire hunter’ seduces the black-clad youth one by one in order to lay them to rest for eternity. Happy Halloween, Dwellers!”

Trick or treat! Live or die! This fall, comics master Jay Stephens captures the Halloween spirit in all of its bloodspattered, candy-colored glory in the first-ever standalone, double-sized Dwellings special – featuring standard and “skeletonized” covers by Stephens himself, alongside a variant cover from Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist Katie Skelly (Twisted Romance, Nurse Nurse) – before the series makes its much-demanded return with DWELLINGS: SECOND STORIES in 2025!

DWELLINGS: SECOND STORIES | Promo Art by Jay Stephens

Heralded as “quite possibly the best horror comic of the last 20 years” by The Comics Journal, Jay Stephens’ DWELLINGS arrived to universal critical acclaim and multiple sold-out issues upon its debut at Oni Press in 2023. Now, BECAUSE EVERY HAUNTED HOUSE DESERVES A SECOND STORY, Stephens’ master class in horror hijinks will soon continue with DWELLINGS: SECOND STORIES #1 – the first of four, all-new 40-page issues revisiting Elwich’s darkest corners … and revealing even more adorably aggravated residents plagued by hauntings, possessions, psychic threats, and demonic psychosis.

“And, wait— what’s this?” added Stephens. “The Elwich Society of Psychical Research is receiving a message from the other side— yes, it’s clear now. The spirits want you to know that Dwellings will return in late 2025 with an all new, four issue mini series. That’s right, more gory stand-alone tales of adorable terror set in the town of Elwich! DWELLINGS: SECOND STORIES builds atop the bones of the original series with four new harrowing stories of psychological arthouse horror drawn like old Casper the Friendly Ghost comics. Come get possessed once again by the creeping ghosts of Elwich. Come home to stay.”

Find out more about DWELLINGS’ upcoming return to comic shops everywhere next week at San Diego Comic Con 2024 with the ONI PRESS: GROUNDBREAKING COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS panel on Thursday, July 25th at 11 am PT in Room 28DE as Jay Stephens himself joins an all-star cast of Oni Press creators to reveal what awaits in the pages of the DWELLINGS: ALL HALLOWS’ EVE SPECIAL and DWELLINGS: SECOND STORIES! Plus: Look for Jay Stephens signing daily and exclusive DWELLINGS merch – only at the Oni Press booth (#1829)!