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Mar 2019

As someone who has been doing horror comics for the past 2-3 years, it has been sad to see how the genre has been overlooked in the illustrated format and so proportionately, fewer people attempt to create stories of this nature. I believe horror provides such a goldmine into exploring the human psyche, something I think can be lost on other genres if you're not careful. It is important to explore the darkness, in order to appreciate the light, or on the contrary, revel in the darkness, to better understand yourself.
These are just a few of my thoughts on horror as a whole but I'd love to hear what your ideas about the genre are as there are no right or wrong ideas. Also feel free to promote your horror comic or any horror comic which you think is great.
Here's my comic:

And a horror comic I really enjoy:

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I definitely agree! I personally also like horror because of how either super shallow and eerie or super complex the stories are- either there's no explanation at all or there are 500 different plot threads revolving around the story. I especially like psychological horror because the idea of battling some aspect of your own mind is realistic enough to have a meaningful impact on me rather than an exaggerated monster under a bed.

If anyone is running low on horror to read, my personal favorites as far as full fledged comics are Alice Matheson (sociopath in a zombie apocalypse), Farmhand (growing body parts), Green Wake (people stuck in an eerie forgotten town), House Amok (girl in psychopathic family), I Feel Sick (inner demon battle via a painting), Infidel (evil spirit uses racism), Jughead the Horror (archie + werewolves), Lazaretto (lord of the flies but college), Sink (short superrr creepy and gory stories), and Teether (demon possess little girl)

For webcomics (on tapas) I would recommend Living While Dead1 (man is accidentally a zombie), The Murderers1 (murdering for a career), Ghost Eyes (duh)2 (boy battles sort-of inner demon/family issues), Wolves&Sheep2 (revenge on murderers), The Flipside1 (creepy too perfect town), Die Wonder1 (eerie/cute little girl and her eerie/cute friend), Evil Witch Allie1 (witch mischief), Mirror Mirror1 (short story- be careful what you wish for), Nene's Bedtime Stories1 (cute little girl is friends with monsters), Phobiana1 (nurse battles inner fears), Colors of Horror2 (short stories with color emhasis), The Pinewood Curse2 (werewolf), Llucid1 (mental health/inner demon battle), Hwaja (spooky spirit girl), and The Dummy's Dummy1 (evil toys).

Horror is one of my fav genres, and I also think it's the hardest to pull off. Movies have the advantage of eerie sound and movement, novels fuel the reader's own imagination, but comics can depend on drawings alone.

A lot of comics that I've read weren't that scary, only two REALLY got to me to sleep at night with lights on XD Most of them depend on the gross factor of body horror/gore to disturb the reader, which I don't like. I'm more interested in haunted places and psychological horror.

I think horrors need some extra skill in paneling, pacing and character design. Whenever I draw something eerie, there's people who tend to ridicule it, simply because the style I use doesn't scare them at all. It boils down to "hahah sorry but this looks so funny!". (Needless to say it pisses me off because it's not the reaction I expected.)

Still I try to make the best of it with what I have. Here's my two horrors:


It's not a webcomic, but I am currently writing a bit of a horror-inspired novel (with paranormal, historical and fantasy elements). It has been so much fun to write it, but the funny thing is that I really dislike movie or visual horror normally.
So I write about spooky things, but I have to watch other people play horror games xD

I don't think, I can call myself a fan per se, but I do like a good horror story. Don't like visceral horror though. Prefer more spooky and atmospheric ones.
We are also working on a horror comic called Hexameron

I'm a horror fan; and here I'm talking supernatural horror to be specific. In a country that mystic and supernatural beliefs are still held strongly it is like a goldmine to look for horror story :smile:

Personally, I think the "real" urban legend and horror stories told mouth-to-mouth left more impact to me compared to established art forms (novel, comic, movies). The rawness in presentation and scarceness in information, the image of horror that is wholly left to your imagination, plus the relatability and proximity of the subject which is being told; all the uniqueness that hard to be found.

Rawness is what make horror story scary, like I can prefer reading r/nosleep than a real horror established work because of the polished writing of novel or the clear graphic of comic throw out the mysterious vibe and imagination to viewers. It's just like some metalhead who prefers the unclean demo record over studio one because it sounds more brutal.

Just a little note, I'm not easily scared.

I'm not really a fan of horror. I don't watch horror movies, I don't play horror games. Somehow the idea of going into something for the sole purpose of getting scared and creeped out just kinda turns me off.

However, I can appreciate horror elements in a larger work. I write creepy things all the time; I even enjoy it. But somehow the stories themselves don't feel like "horror". I think it's because they lack the mystery and fear elements that really seal the deal.

Like this:

I classed it as Slice of Life|Horror because those are the two tags that seemed to fit it the best. But I honestly don't know if the Horror tag actually fits. The comic has a pretty creepy premise (that hasn't been fully revealed yet), but it isn't designed to scare you. Unless the pumpkins creep you out...although I think they're more nasty than scary. I don't really present them as threats, either.

I adore the horror genre. It's really one of the biggest reasons I got into comic making and story-telling. I've watched all of the horror franchises and have loved too many 1980s horror films. My all-time favorite is tied between to John Carpenter movies: The Thing and The Prince of Darkness.

I've also been working with horror as my first genre for a long time. As a kid, I tried my hands at making the same scary stories and movies I saw. Most of them ended up being overly melodramatic, but they were fun! I especially loved reading over them. :blush:

Currently, I do not have a horror comic published. Our Universe does have cosmic horror elements to it (at least for its 2nd and 3rd seasons), but it's a sci-fi romance first and foremost.

While I post for Our Universe and My Demon Valentine, I'm developing a horror series titled Beneath Our Feet (Above Our Heads). It's strictly cosmic horror with body horror elements, and has nine overall story-lines connected together.

i love horror! :grin:

movies, anime or comics o love them! :grinning:

or maybe i just love the gorey stuff in them :grin:

i dont have a horror comic but ill check out yours :grin:

I really like horror, breaks my heart that most of the times, in movies or TV, it just goes to screamers and gore, and in creepypastas a lot is Jeff the Killer or Ben drowned wannabes but i really appreciate a good horror story, actually in my comic, there will be some horror moments from time to time.
if you wanna see good horror, then i recommend you to read Junji Ito's mangas, especially Uzumaki, that's how good horror should be done

I forgot to add the link, but if you want a horror/mystery story set in Victorian England, there's always mine. It's more of a mood, than the entire focus of the story, but I'm sure people here will appreciate it ^^

I don't do comics yet, since I lack at least I think I do skills to create one in the artistic direction, But I love horror and I am presenting to you my novel that is in fact based on my project for a visual novel series. Hope you give it a try.

Horror's great! I tend to read @375's horror novels the most. I think my first experience with horror books was one I read in middle school―It might've been called nightmares―and since then I've been enamored by the concept of words becoming terrifying when written a certain way. There's a series on wattpad that I absolutely adore as well, written by Claudia Witter.4 (I know wattpad's kinda taboo here, but I've found plenty of jewels to read tbh.)

As for comics, I mainly go to Lezhin for horror. One of the most terrifying manhwa I've read has to be a tug-of-war between G'day and Uncomfortable Truth. Both had me on the edge of my seat without relying on gore to send chills down my spine. If you're into mature themes, I also wholeheartedly recommend Vanishing Twin. It's more of a thriller, but has horrid moments as well.

That being said, I do browse Tapas comics for horror on rare occasions. Sometimes I read short stories like Patchwork, but most of my library related to horror is ongoing such as Dummy's Dummy and Die Wonder. Though one horror in particular has been a frightening experience in a different sense―A.L.I.C.E., an experimental anthology of roughly drawn stories.

I think I'm a horror fan?? I loved movies like "The ring" or "The grudge". Wish there's something out there way scarier than those 2 classics though...

Deff not a horror fan unfortunately :frowning: i get scared pretty easily and i have problems with blood (i faint at the sight of it) though i have drawn some bloody scenes as well once.

I am not convinced that horror is overlooked in comic format. Look at the career of Junji Ito (mentioned already in Mr_Estella's comment) one of the most popular comic creators on the planet. He works exclusively in the horror genre. Even locally on Tapas, the creator circle called Darkbox consistently appears in the community spotlight.

To throw out the names of a couple of Tapas comic series, I am first thinking of Silent Screams a comic with a cute Matsuda-sort-of-look but set in Victorian times with a lot of psychological and body horror. The next is a series that I talk up all the time both for its fun concept and gorgeous artwork. Children of the Moon is a story about a small pack of alley cats who end up haunted by blood cults, mythical monsters, and cosmic terrors.

I'm not a big fan of horror, but I especially don't like this genre in visual media, because the vast majority of the time, if I have visual images, I lose my concentration. Anything even slightly over-the-top makes me go "Seriously? That's ridiculous!" even if reading the exact same scene could work and make me uneasy or even panicky. Visual images almost always makes me incredulous and blase. And I'm not only speaking about grotesquely over-the-top stuff. Just a slight too-much and I'm distracted. Psychological horror is less an issue, but again it should stay reasonable for me to enjoy.