If you ’re search to add a little horror to your free comics reading , wait no further . We profile eight webcomics boast Lovecraftian terrors , flesh zombi action , endearing monsters , and the werewolves of the Old West .
Lovecraft is Missingby Larry Latham : Latham takes the trope that HP Lovecraft was actually write rightful accounts of vile cult and ancient divinity and turns out a drive out secret . Orwin Battler , manufacturing plant actor and mildly successful writer of weird stories , has strike up a penpal friendly relationship with the famed Howard Lovecraft , and has traveled to Providence to meet his perfection in somebody . The trouble is , Lovecraft fell just before Orwin get .
But Orwin is n’t the only person desperately seek Lovecraft ; after Howard stole the plates out of a uncommon book in the John Hay Library , Nan Mercy , Brown University bibliothec and hater of all things occult , is red-hot to cut through him down . But as they team up with demon - fight back priest Father Jackey and turn over more deep into the enigma of Lovecraft ’s disappearance , they commence to realize that all of Lovecraft ’s unknown tales stop a grain of trueness . In add-on to cite Lovecraft ’s work ( we see statutes of Cthulhu , of course , but we also see Richard Pickman ’s painting and meet Thomas Malone from “ The Horror at Red Hook ” ) , Lovecraft is miss contain the occasional Easter egg for eagle - eyed fans of non - Lovecraftian horror .
parent Hellby Andy Belanger : Another gifted penis from the Transmission X corporate , Andy Belanger play the zombi Book of Revelation as vestal pulp , gage by a erotic love story that ’s a fickle as as zombies on fire . Kitty and Aries are that dyad that ’s always fighting . They ’re pretty much either clawing each other ’s eyes out , or doing it in the coat elbow room upstairs . But one Halloween night , when they ’re on the verge of breaking up , the dead begin to take the air and attack the living . It ’s the goal of the world — and it may just pull through their relationship .
Belanger has a terrible good sense of visual humor . Setting the zombie uprising on Halloween make for some images that are at once horrifying and hilarious ( face out for the dismembered kid dressed like Robin , not to note what the survivors are wearing ) . And he screw how to have merriment with his human - on - zombie violence ; the razor - edged hockey stick might just be the greatest snake god - killing weapon to date . Plus , he has an challenging color cue throughout the entire comic : tempermental Kitty is always fork over in red , while preternaturally strong Aries is always in sorry , just like the zombies he fights .
The Zombie Huntersby Jenny Romanchuk : Romanchuk takes a very different tack on zombies , with a comic that focuses less on the undead than on post - apocalyptic life . year after the zombi plague began , the last of humanity has settle on an island , where they hold up in some semblance of their former society . Meanwhile , so - name zombi hunters venture into infected territory to detect supplies to bring back to the island .
Romanchuk in the beginning wrote the comic as a goof for some of her friends , so the first few chapters are a bit of light - hearted author ( and author ’s ally ) introduction . But once the zombi hunting watch return to the island , it becomes a more complex apocalyptic tale . People infect with a dormant anatomy of the zombie computer virus are segregated from the clean population , and dwell under acute restriction , mostly at the mercy of unscrupulous military force . At the same time , scientist at the island ’s research lab are performing strange experiments on the dead . And there ’s the mystery of how such an advanced readiness end up being the last safe shoes on Earth .
High Moonby Matthew Macgregor and Steve Ellis : If you’re able to get past Zuda ’s tardily - loading interface , High Moon offers a portmanteau word of Western gunslinging , steampunk engineering science , and supernatural horror . Matthew Macgregor is a former bounteousness huntsman with a dark past who ’s come to rid a depressed Texas town of its more violent troubles . While the township contends with drought and famine , its Night are harry by werewolves and other supernatural beings .
Zuda comics are choose by a monthly competition , with God Almighty submit eight pages each and readers voting for their favorite . Thus , comics like High Moon get rolling flop off the bat , with fangs bared and guns blazing .
Family Manby Dylan Meconis : Dylan Meconis bring vampire into the French Revolution withBite Me , and with Family Man , she enclose werewolf to post - Reformation Europe . Luther Levy is a talented untested theologian of Jewish origin whose recent inquiring of his Christian faith get him expelled from his theological program . Just as he ’s considering a life as a coach , he receives an chance to chew up at a small college , where he finds a modicum of acceptance for his irregular background and manner of thinking . He ’s also struck by Ariana , the school ’s librarian and the Chancellor of the Exchequer ’s daughter . But Ariana holds a unusual secret , one that forces her to disappear for a few day each month .
sure Family Man has thus far had more emphasis on history than repulsion , but then again , it ’s just getting around to the werewolf .
Eerie Cutiesby Gisele Lagace : Eerie Cuties is not a comedian for those who bewail the defanging of vampires . alternatively , it ’s a lightly - heated look at goliath mythology , set at a homework schoolhouse for things that go bump in the nighttime . Nina is a young lamia just starting her first mean solar day of school , but she feasts only on deep brown , not on rakehell ( much to her sister Layla ’s dismay ) . But she ’s at home with the misfit monsters of Charybdis Heights . Her friend Chloe is a succubus who ’s more adorable than seductive , and werewolf Ace keep on his furred hands and feet even in his human form . Add in a teacher with a possessed sleeve and a groundkeeper who attend like Jason , and you ’ve have an interesting shoal day .
Scary Go Round just ended its seven - year streak last month , though Allison has take after up with a Modern comic , Bad Machinery .
Split Lipby Sam Costello : The webcomics answer to anthology series like The Twilight Zone and Night Gallery , Split Lip is a serial publication of ego - contain horror story , each written by Costello and instance by a different artist . The stories are sometimes supernatural , sometimes not , but , like its inspirations , out to produce a sense of unease .
Costello has just collected eleven of his stories in photographic print asSplit Lip Vol . 1 .
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