Just perfect for your Yuletide festivities, Oni Press and EC Comics bring you SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES #1—the inaugural issue of a thrilling new series packed with horror, sci-fi, and edge-of-your-seat suspense.

The press release follows:

Media Release -- THIS HOLIDAY SEASON, TERROR COMES CALLING WITH 56 PAGES OF SHOCKING CHILLS FROM AN ALL-STAR CAST OF EC'S FINEST FIENDS! Just in time for Christmas, Oni Press and EC Comics are proud to present SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES #1—the FIRST in an ALL-NEW series of extra-sized EC 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 . . .



Featuring brand-new tales of merry dismemberment and yuletide destruction from writers Jason Aaron (Thor), Ben H. Winters (CBS' Tracker), artists Kano (Gotham Central), Peter Krause (Irredeemable), and many more surprises YET TO BE REVEALED —plus a newly remastered and authentically restored holiday classic from the EC vaults! Get ready to hear those SLAY BELLS RING—AIN'T IT SICKENING?!

Featuring a cold front of covers from abominable artists Darick Robertson (The Boys), Adam Hughes (Wonder Woman), Jay Stephens (Dwellings), and Rian Hughes (Batman: Black and White), this is the only blood-soaked holiday offering that's guaranteed to add something shocking to your stocking!

But there are still more profane presents to come . . . and even more notorious names to be added to our naughty list of creative talents, so keep checking that list as December draws near! Ring in the new FEAR with Oni Press' next and most shocking EC Comics' release – when SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES #1 arrives with a blood-red bow in comic shops everywhere on December 11th!

SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES #1
WRITTEN BY JASON AARON, BEN H. WINTERS and More!
ART BY KANO, PETER KRAUSE and More!
COVER A BY DARICK ROBERTSON
COVER B BY ADAM HUGHES
EC HOMAGE VARIANT JAY STEPHENS
B&W ARTIST EDITION (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.