The Horror! The Horror!: Ash, The Walking Dead, & Hookjaw

Finally! An ongoing monthly article that makes you face the monsters in the closet. You can run, but you can't hide from our selected ghoulish items in PREVIEWS that will make you flee and scream bloody murder. Horror fiends: let the madness begin! This is the run-down on what ghastly items can be found in this month's PREVIEWS catalog, and if you can't take the chills, TOO BAD! This is where the children of the night gather, and howl at the moon without apology.

The Dark Horse Book Of Horror HC

Well, not every book is for every reader. That goes without saying. Case in point: The Dark Horse Book Of Horror (APR170077)is not something you give to a book market reader who's into social issues or "diversity." The only thing diverse about this material is how many different ways you could chop up a body! This tome of terror looks around the dark corners of the horror genre in thirty-five stories of witchcraft, ghosts, and the risen dead. Don't expect happy endings. No one cares if this gives you nightmares, as this book Collects The Dark Horse Book of Monsters, The Dark Horse Book of Witchcraft, The Dark Horse Book of Hauntings, and The Dark Horse Book of the Dead. Nightmares are a'coming! Writers like Mike Mignola, Kelley Jones, Kurt Busiek, Jill Thompson, Evan Dorkin, and others go all-out to give you lead poisoning and pain in the pages of this hardcover which you'll find in the Premier Comics section of the April PREVIEWS catalog!

Ash Vs. The Army of Darkness #0

You can't keep a good man down. And you can't keep a good demon locked in the basement. If you saw the Evil Dead 2 movie, you get the reference. The mother locked in cellar? Yeah, that's where the Deadites showed how tricky they could be to people who didn't expect the worse. Such is not the case for the guy with only one hand. See, for 25 years, Ash Williams has been waging a war across time against the Army of Darkness. For those of you not familiar with the terminology, the Army of Darkness is for Deadites who graduated to being a real pain-in-the-neck for the Chosen One. And that would be Ash. So writers Chad Bowers and Chris Sims and artist Mauro Vargas got together to show what happens when it's homecoming for the two warring parties. The whole thing plays out in a grand dance that Dynamite Entertainment likes to call Ash Vs. The Army of Darkness #0 (APR171529). It's a special 16-page prelude that only costs you 99 cents! You can find it in the Comics and Graphic Novels section of the April PREVIEWS catalog!

Tales From The Crypt: Horrorcide #1

If you were charged with going on a game show to debate which horror comics would stand the test of time, you would undoubtedly refer to titles like Black Cat or Unexpected. But then you would ultimately be trumped when someone dropped the name Tales From The Crypt. Hey, not only did it have it's own TV show, but the legendary EC comic refuses to be buried! Want to see the exhumed remains for proof beyond doubt? Look no further than how Super Genius brought the coffin out of the earth with the launch of a 3-issue mini-series that launches with Tales From The Crypt: Homicide #1 (APR171912) from writer Larry Hama and various artists that include the one and only Mike Mayhew! Yes, the Crypt Keeper is back to introduce us to stories that include "The Ghost in the Closet," "Baku the Reaver," and "Etienne the Strangler." Nostalgia with all the mold you can eat! Look for this throwback that might make you throw-up in the the Comics and Graphic Novels section of the April PREVIEWS catalog!

Hookjaw Archive HC

If you're a child of the 70s, then you remember a tag line being bounced around that went something like this: "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water." Cue the screaming people running out of the surf, scrambling for the safety of sand castles. Cue the mother running up and down the beach looking for her surfboarding son. Cue the surfboard washing up on the beach with a huge bite mark that says the woman's son is not coming home for dinner tonight. It was the Jaws phenomenon, and people couldn't get enough of the finned terror that made you think twice before you stepped into the bathtub. That same terror was transferred into a comic so controversial that it was banned in the UK. But now that book is back in the Hookjaw Archive HC by Peter Mills, and you get a piece of publishing history courtesy of our friends at Titan Comics! Look for it in the the Comics and Graphic Novels section of the April PREVIEWS catalog!

The Walking Dead AMC 2018 16-Month Wall Calendar

Who would have thought that a TV show based on a black-and-white comic book would go on to become one of the most successful TV shows in television history? One that featured a gore factor that was over-the-top, and a cast that kept changing because zombies had a habit of eating them when they got too cocky or careless. And here we are. You know the show we're talking about. How could you not? Especially since the new villain that was introduced brandishes a baseball bat that has a habit of damaging skulls as much as the roaming zombies! So what say you build a shrine to this historic horror show with The Walking Dead AMC 2018 16 Month Wall Calendar (APR172298)? Favorite characters big and small, past and present, are featured thorughout, and ready to keep you company, month-to-month, reminding you to tune into AMC every Sunday for the latest episode of The Walking Dead. You can find this gem in the Calendars section of the April PREVIEWS catalog.

See you here next month for the next installment of PREVIEWS' ongoing editorial feature, The Horror! The Horror!