‘Dwellings’: Charmingly Terrifying Comic Series Returns This Halloween [Exclusive]
TRICK OR TREAT! LIVE OR DIE! Emmy Award-winning, Eisner Award-nominated comics master Jay Stephens (EC’s Epitaphs from the Abyss) captures the Halloween spirit in all of its blood-spattered, candy-colored glory in the first-ever standalone, double-sized Dwellings: All Hallows’ Eve Special before the series mounts its full-scale resurrection with the first issue of an all-new limited series, Dwellings: Second Stories #1, in 2025.
Read the new one-shot’s synopsis below:
This Halloween, return 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 “Sanguinarian” 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 its 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!”
Get an exclusive look at the cover, and spooky variant covers, below!
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, Stephens’ 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.
Check out an exclusive look at Dwellings: Second Stories #1 cover art, by Stephens himself:
“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.”
Previously, we published an excerpt from Stephens’ original Dwellings series. Check it out here to get a taste of not only Stephens’ art style but his writing style, as well.
Dwellings: All Hallow’s Eve Special comes to your local comic book store on October 9, 2024.
If you’re attending San Diego Comic-Con, you can learn more about Dwellings‘ upcoming return at the Oni Press: Groundbreaking Comics & Graphic Novels panel on Thursday, July 25th at 11 am PT. Jay Stephens 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 at the Oni Press booth (#1829)!
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