British comic series tend to be anthologies that span multiple genres, meaning that there are plenty of scary strips to be found, but there have also been a handful of titles devoted entirely to horror, including IPC’s 1970s/‘80s one-two punch of Misty and Scream - but we’ll get to them soon enough.
With more than a century of periodicals to draw from, there’s a particularly, enjoyably strange approach to be uncovered when it comes to the British comic industry’s approach to the horror genre - something that isn’t necessarily a surprise when you consider that it’s also the country that’s produced the iconic Hammer Horror movies, Shawn of the Dead, and Beneath The Skin, to say nothing of Roald Dahl’s deliciously off-beat approach to spooky stories. Welcome, then, to the delightfully peculiar fright delights that are British horror comics. Let’s be honest, however between the real life horrors of the everyday in just about every country on the planet right now - especially true for those of us in the U.S., thanks to the existential nightmare that is Election 2020 - and the fictional horrors currently being imbibed en masse throughout this particular month, we’re up to our eyeballs in fear! With that horrifying thought in mind, at least some of that fear should be the fun kind, right? The “winter clothes” boxes are starting to get opened, and there’s far too many remakes of 1970’s horror on most people’s Netflix queues.
October is coming to an end, which means that Halloween is, finally, just around the corner.