This holiday season, prepare for a frightful surprise with 56 pages of spine-chilling stories in SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES #1. This marks the debut of a new series of oversized EC Comics one-shots.

The press release follows:

Media Release -- IT'S NOT EVEN HALLOWEEN, AND WE'RE ALREADY GETTING READY FOR CHRISTMAS – WHAT COULD BE MORE HORRIFYING THAN THAT?! This holiday season, terror comes calling with 56 pages of shocking chills from EC's finest fiends in SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES #1—the FIRST in an ALL-NEW series of extra-sized EC one-shot specials colliding tales of horror, science fiction, and powerfully potent suspense in one joyously wrapped package that may or may not be leaking something strange under the Christmas tree…

In advance of Initial Orders for the next smash-hit EC release on everyone's wish list, Oni Press and EC Comics are proud to present your first look inside this colorfully wrapped package of sinister solstice tales with an advance peek ahead at "Ghost in the Machine" by Edgar Award-winning writer Ben H. Winters (The Last Policeman) & acclaimed artist Peter Krause (Irredeemable):– ?






BUT THAT'S NOT ALL! On December 11th, warm yourself with brand-new tales of merry dismemberment from writers Jason Aaron (Thor), George Northy (The CW's Charmed), Jay Stephens (Dwellings), Ben H. Winters (CBS' Tracker), and artists Valeria Burzo (Castle Full of Blackbirds), Kano (Gotham Central), Peter Krause (Irredeemable), David Lapham (Stray Bullets), and Caitlin Yarsky (Black Hammer Reborn) as they set the holiday season alight with EC Comics' first-ever ode to yuletide destruction!

Featuring a carnal cornucopia of covers by artists Darick Robertson (The Boys), Adam Hughes (Wonder Woman), Jay Stephens (Dwellings), and Rian Hughes (Batman: Black and White), SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES #1 is the only blood-soaked holiday offering that's guaranteed to add something shocking to your stocking!

OH, AND DID WE MENTION? As an extra-added holiday bonus, this triple-sized EC melée will also feature a newly restored EC classic by comics legend Johnny Craig, direct from the Vault of Horror! Get ready to hear those SLAY BELLS RING—AIN'T IT SICKENING?!

WRITTEN BY JASON AARON, GEORGE NORTHY, JAY STEPHENS, BEN H. WINTERS AND MORE!
ART BY VALERIA BURZO, KANO, PETER KRAUSE, DAVID LAPHAM, CAITLIN YARSKY AND MORE!
COVER A BY DARICK ROBERTSON
COVER B BY ADAM HUGHES
EC HOMAGE VARIANT (1:10) BY JAY STEPHENS
B&W ARTIST EDITION VARIANT (1:20) BY DARICK ROBERTSON
ARCHIVE EDITION VARIANT (1:50) BY RIAN HUGHES
BLANK COVER ALSO AVAILABLE

ON SALE DECEMBER 11, 2024 | $7.99 | 56 PAGES | FC

IOC: 10/24/2024
FOC: 11/11/2024







About Oni Press

Founded in 1997, Oni Press has a 25-year history as one of the industry's most respected and acclaimed publishers of award-winning comic books and graphic novels with titles including Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim, K. O'Neill's Tea Dragon Society, Cullen Bunn & Brian Hurtt's The Sixth Gun, Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer, Ezra Clayton Daniels' Upgrade Soul, Brenna Thummler's Sheets trilogy, and many hundreds more. In 2019, Oni Press merged with Lion Forge Comics – the Eisner Award-winning independent comic book publisher founded by Academy Award-winning producer and entrepreneur David Steward II – to create one of the largest, independent libraries of comics content anywhere in media. The Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group now exists as a publishing subsidiary of Steward's diversified global media company, Polarity.

The Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group publishes more than 60 original and licensed graphic novels annually, in addition to an extensive list of periodical comics.

About EC Comics?

?As the birthplace of TALES FROM THE CRYPT, MAD MAGAZINE, WEIRD SCIENCE, and more of the most influential and celebrated comic series ever published, EC Comics has cemented itself as one of the central nerves of American pop culture with a legacy that spans more than seven decades. From 1944 to 1956, EC – established as "Educational Comics" by founder M.C. Gaines and later rebranded "Entertaining Comics" under the leadership of Publisher & Editor William M. Gaines – led a creative renaissance for the comics industry that, for the first time, elevated the once-derided comics medium into the echelons of English literature and high art. Heralded as "one of the great explosions of vox-pop literature" by Time Magazine and "fiercely honest, politically adversarial, [and] visually masterful" by The Comics Journal, EC's line of comics books - which collectively sold more than 10 million copies annually at their peak – entertained and informed in equal measure, using brilliantly crafted tales of horror, science fiction, satire, and battlefield conflict to critique and subvert America's dark impulses toward violence, racism, inequity, environmental destruction, and war.

Forcibly shuttered by the Comics Code Authority – a pro-censorship group specifically tasked with eradicating EC's illuminating influence from the American comic book industry – in 1956, EC's unique brand of subversive storytelling lived on through the continued success of MAD Magazine, which would fuel American counterculture through the death of Publisher William M. Gaines in 1992. EC's titles and stories have been adapted in a number of media – including the long-running HBO's long-running TALES FROM THE CRYPT franchise of television series and feature films – and continue to be celebrated by multiple generations of comic creators, filmmakers, comedians, and musicians as a seminal influence.

Today, EC Comics' canon of classic stories can continuously be found in print through new editions at Dark Horse Comics, TASCHEN, Fantagraphics, and IDW Publishing. In 2024, EC announced a new partnership with multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher Oni Press to produce the first all-new EC Comics titles in nearly 70 years.