Syzygy Publishing and Image are getting horror fans into creepy, seasonal vibes with its holiday-themed horror anthology, Dread the Halls 2025 #1. Today, The Beat can reveal an exclusive first look at the story “Yule” from co-creators Jordan Hart and Luana Vecchio.
The collection will feature cover artwork by Vecchio, Maria Wolf, and Toby Willsmer, as well as a wraparound “gift-tag” variant by Hart.
Here’s the full synopsis for Dread the Halls 2025:
Dread the Halls returns to haunt another Christmas season with a 72-page gift of all-new tales of holiday horrors for only $6.99! This time out, Jordan Hart and Luana Vecchio deliver a seasonal blend of Hallmark movie and brutal revenge flick; Chris Ryall and Keithan Jones turn Mars red when “The Martians Conquer Santa Claus!”; Walter Pax and Fábio Veras return to the series rendering festive terror; and Ryall and Lee Ferguson present a pitch-black Christmas carol in “Chains Forged From Life.”
Check out pages from “Yule” below.
“I’m genuinely excited about the release of ‘Yule’! Jordan and I poured a lot of passion into this project, and I think bringing horror into the holiday season is an absolutely brilliant idea. It’s been such a joy to contribute to a special anthology like Dread the Halls, and I hope readers will love it as much as we loved creating it,” Vecchio said in a statement for The Beat.
“‘Yule’ is a story that starts as a made-for-TV Christmas movie and flips into a brutal fight for survival,” Hart said in a statement for The Beat. “To me, only one artist could pull off that shifting narrative: Luana Vecchio. She can truly render everything, whether it’s idyllic characters and settings or violent action. I kept the script loose so she had complete freedom to put her storytelling talents on display. The end result is lightyears beyond what I originally imagined and one of the best stories in Dread the Halls‘ history.”
If you are a horror anthology connoisseur like myself and enjoy the likes of Creepshow, Hello Darkness, or all the ongoing EC titles over at Oni Press, be sure to pre-order Dread the Halls 2025 #1 through your local comic shop.
Dread the Halls 2025 #1 will be available December 3.
