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You Better Watch Out! For the Third Year Running, EC and Oni Press Present 56 Pages of Head-Lopping Holiday Horror Courtesy of John Arcudi, Sarah Gailey, Ryan Kelly, David Lapham & More!
PORTLAND, OR (September 15, 2026) – MAKE A LIST, CHECK IT TWICE… BECAUSE WE’RE CHOPPING OFF HEADS BOTH NAUGHTY AND NICE! Oni Press, the multiple Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997, and William M. Gaines Agent, Inc. are proud to unveil the giant-sized SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES 3 #1 – an all-new, all-unhinged 56-page giant featuring EC Comics’ most terrifying assembly of sickenin’ stocking stuffers yet! That’s right, SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES is back . . . and we’re bringing three times the chills, three times the spills, and three times the murderous intent with us for our most vengeful celebration of X-mas anarchy and New Year’s nightmares ever attempted on December 9th!
For the third year running, gather ʼround our flaming hearth and join tortured (literally!) creators John Arcudi (B.P.R.D., The Mask), Sarah Gailey (Eat the Rich), Ryan Kelly (Stranger Things), David Lapham (Stray Bullets), Jay Stephens (Dwellings), and more surprise guests as we begin a frightening festival of merciless merriment and holiday horror, all tinseled up in the mangled EC Comics manner!
Plus: For your reading displeasure, feast upon another restored and remastered EC classic straight from the Vault-Keeper’s lair! Heh heh, ho ho, this Christmas season, someone’s gotta go! Just remember, kids: Some stains don’t come out . . . especially under Luminol!
“Get into the gore-infested holiday spirit with some all-new thrills and chills, courtesy of EC Comics’ bloodiest creators!” said Oni Press Editor Allyson Gronowitz. “Wintertime madness, holiday party greed, and an encounter with good ol’ Santa’s ‘Naughty List’… EC’s third installment of SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES is sure to leave readers aghast and appalled!”
Get into the spirit with killer covers from Dustin Weaver (Avengers, Infinity), Steve Lieber (Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen), Shawn McManus (Fables), and Rian Hughes (The Multiversity)! Tell Santa to make with the comic – or else!!!– when SHIVER SUSPENSTORIES 3 #1 comes calling on December 9th!
Shiver SuspenStories 3 #1
Written By: John Arcudi, Sarah Gailey, Jay Stephens, & Allen Wu
Art By: Ryan Kelly, Sami Kivelä, David Lapham, & Leomacs
Cover A By: Dustin Weaver
Cover B By: Steve Lieber
EC Homage Variant (1:10) By: Shawn McManus
B&W Artist Edition Variant (1:20) By: Steve Lieber
Archive Edition (1:50) By: Rian Hughes
On Sale: December 9, 2026
Format: One-Shot
Price: $8.99
Length: 56 pgs. | FC
FOC: 11/2/2026
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 and 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 ten 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 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 seventy years.
THE LOUDEST THING IN COLOR SINCE ’97. For nearly 30 years, Oni Press has carved a distinctive path as one of the world’s most respected and acclaimed publishers of award-winning comic books and graphic novels, including Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim, Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer, Cullen Bunn & Brian Hurtt’s The Sixth Gun, Brenna Thummler’s Sheets trilogy, Jay Stephens’ Dwellings, Ezra Clayton Daniels’ Upgrade Soul, LySandra Vuong’s Covenant, 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 roster of periodical comics for globally recognized properties including Adventure Time, Biker Mice from Mars, Choose Your Own Adventure, Cult of the Lamb, EC Comics, Murder Drones, Rick and Morty, and more.