Horror Master Joe R. Lansdale Enters EC Comics History in Catacomb Of Torment #9 – Coming in March!

December 18, 2025December 18, 2025 4 Evil Eyes

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The Blood-Spattered Winner of the American Horror Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Edgar Award, and 11 Bram Stoker Awards Spins a Sinister Yarn for the Tormenter

From The Press Release:

PORTLAND, OR (December 17, 2025) – This March, EC Comics’ Catacomb Of Torment proudly ushers a horror icon into its hallowed halls! 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 announce that award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and comics legend Joe R. Lansdale (Jonah Hex: Two-Gun Mojo, Bubba Ho-Tep) is joining the ranks of EC Comics’ blood-spattered luminaries with an all-new story, “Picture Perfect,” debuting in March’s Catacomb Of Torment #9 alongside Eisner Award-winning artist David Lapham (Stray Bullets).

The winner of 11 prestigious Bram Stoker Awards, the American Horror Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the Edgar Award, Joe R. Lansdale’s career has spanned more than four decades across 50 novels, multiple feature films and television series, and countless short stories and comic books. Known as one of the formative pioneers of the “weird western” genre – wryly colliding classic American gunslinging with mutants, monsters, and Lovecraftian horror – Lansdale is perhaps most frequently recognized for his instant-classic reimagining of the DC Comics anti-hero Jonah Hex (alongside artist Timothy Truman) for the Vertigo imprint in the mid-1990s, as well as his creations Bubba Ho-Tep and the long-running Hap & Leonard series.

“I’m honored to work in the EC tradition, and Oni’s interpretation is fantastic and beautiful,” said Lansdale. “It rings the bells of the original comics while managing to stretch the tradition of EC into the 21st century.”

*Cover B by Yanick Paquette with Dave McCaig*

*Ec Homage Variant (1:10) by Shawn McManus*

*B&w Artist Edition Variant (1:20) by Yanick Paquette*

*Archive Edition (1:50) by Patricia Martín*

“Working with Joe R. Lansdale under the immortal EC Comics banner is two life-long dreams come together,” said Oni Press President & Publisher Hunter Gorinson. “Joe has been one of the most prominent apostles of EC’s profound influence across the past half-century of comics, fiction, and film, so it’s little surprise that his work was in turn also an inspiration to us during our development process on what would become Oni’s Eisner and Ringo Award-nominated line of resurrected EC Comics. It’s an honor to have him in our ranks!”

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE CORPSES! On March 18th, welcome back to the endless maze of the Tormentor’s catacombs . . . where the flesh is freshly flayed and the worst is always yet to come! In the malevolent EC Comics manner, prepare for three ribcage-thrumming tales of trepidation from contributors Celeste Bronfman (Star Trek, My Little Pony), Jude Ellison S. Doyle (Dead Teenagers, Be Not Afraid), Joe R. Lansdale (Conan And The Song Of The Dead), David Lapham (Stray Bullets), Malachi Ward (Black Hammer Reborn), and more — only in Catacomb Of Torment #9, featuring a murder of calamitous covers from Ariel Olivetti (Punisher: War Journal), Yanick Paquette (Wonder Woman: Earth One), Shawn McManus (Fables), and Patricia Martín (Murder Drones)!

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Ec Catacomb Of Torment #9

Written by: Celeste Bronfman, Jude Ellison S. Doyle & Joe R. Lansdale
Art by: Felipe Cunha, David Lapham & Malachi Ward
Cover A By: Ariel Olivetti
Cover B By: Yanick Paquette
Ec Homage Variant (1:10) By: Shawn McManus
B&w Artist Edition Variant (1:20) By: Yanick Paquette
Archive Edition (1:50) By: Patricia Martín
On Sale: March 18, 2026 | $4.99 | 32 pgs. | Fc
Iod: 1/31/2026
Foc: 2/23/2026

About Oni Press

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 Scott Pilgrim, Gender Queer, The Sixth Gun, Sheets, Dwellings, Upgrade Soul, Covenant, and many more. In 2019, Oni Press merged with Lion Forge Comics to create one of the largest independent libraries of comics content anywhere in media.

The Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group releases more than 60 original and licensed graphic novels annually, alongside 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.

About Ec Comics

As the birthplace of Tales From The Crypt, MAD Magazine, Weird Science, and more of the most influential comic series ever published, EC Comics has shaped American pop culture for more than seven decades. From 1944 to 1956, EC led a creative renaissance that elevated comics into literature and high art, producing groundbreaking tales of horror, science fiction, satire, and war that challenged America’s darkest impulses. Though shuttered by the Comics Code Authority in 1956, EC’s legacy endured through MAD Magazine and countless adaptations, including HBO’s Tales From The Crypt. In 2024, EC partnered with Oni Press to produce the first all-new EC Comics titles in nearly seventy years.

Catacomb of Torment #7 Available January 14

December 15, 2025 4 Evil Eyes

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Happy Ghoul Year! Any resolutions? HOW ABOUT READING MORE EC COMICS?! You’re in luck—the Tormentor has been saving a blood-drenched new issue of CATACOMB OF TORMENT just for you! The centerpiece of this month’s joyously depraved New Year’s revelry: Join writers Meghan Fitzmartin (Tim Drake: Robin), Sarah Gailey (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and Greg Pak (World War Hulk) as they raise—and drop!—the guillotine on their terrifyingly talented artistic collaborators, including Eric Battle (Hardware), Tom Fowler (The Books of Magic), and Sami Kivelä (Abbott)! Heads will roll! (That’s what we were hoping for, heh heh!)

Catacomb of Torment #6 Available December 17

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Feeling a chill up your spine? Nay, friend, that’s no gust of winter air . . . it’s merely the Tormentor’s rusty testing needle probing for a warm vertebrae to call home! So sit back, relax, and scream relentlessly into the void as we welcome you back to our horrific hostess’s Catacomb of Torment—where every new story will leave you in stitches!

On this month’s menu: A frantic feast of fatal delights, as prepared with loving care by the toxic talents of writers Dave Baker (Mary Tyler MooreHawk), Matt Bors (The Toxic Avenger), and Rachel Werner (The Glam World Tour), and artists Justin Greenwood (Immortal Thor), Shawn McManus (Fables), and Claire Roe (Batgirl)! Once you’re done, remember to save room for another helping—poison always spoils on the second day, so we need to use it while it’s still good!

Catacomb of Torment #5 Available November 26

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Feeling the rusty shears of eager anticipation as they coarsely cut away your tendons of dread? You’ve come to the right place . . . because EC Comics is serving another tortuous session of frightful delights with the CATACOMB OF TORMENT! Prepare to be mortified—literally—as manacled writers Christopher Cantwell (Out of Alcatraz), Evan Dorkin (Beasts of Burden), and Paul Tobin (The Witcher) are forced to turn the crank and twist the tension-wracked fingertips of artists PJ Holden (2000 AD), Lukas Ketner (Count Crowley), and Dan McDaid (Epitaphs from the Abyss) into blood-spattered spectacle! Sound like fun? Our beloved host, the Tormentor, sure thinks so!

Catacomb of Torment #4 Available October 15

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“TERROR! TORTURE! FEAR! MAYHEM! After all, this comic is called CATACOMB OF TORMENT—what did you expect, kittens?! Yes, yes, bite down hard and await the inevitable, because there is no escape and it’s too late—MUCH, MUCH TOO LATE—as our host, the Tormentor, carefully positions the scalpels of acutely accurate writers John Arcudi (B.P.R.D), Patricia A. Jackson (Star Wars: Tales from the Empire), and Amy Roy (EC’s Epitaphs from the Abyss) above your splayed ribcage with the assistance of mangle-minded artists Shawn Martinbrough (Thief of Thieves), Fabiana Mascolo (Catwoman), and Shawn McManus (Fables)! A murder mystery with extra-added murder, a seamstress seeking sartorial revenge, and a gardener taking the pruning shears to an extra-bloody bloom . . . Despair ye not, because EC Comic’s brutally entertaining monthly horror anthology is just getting warmed up!”

Catacomb of Torment #2 Available August 20

August 16, 2025 4 Evil Eyes

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EC’S BLOODY NEW ONGOING SERIES TWISTS THE KNIFE AS THE SUMMER OF FEAR CONTINUES!

Welcome back to the Tormentor’s lair . . . Where each crank of the rack tightens your shackled limbs and brings even more taut tales of mayhem and murder spilling forth like so much viscera! This month: Full-blooded writers Matt Bors (Toxic Avenger), Evan Dorkin (Beasts of Burden), and Jeremy Lambert (Doom Patrol) join steel-nerved artists Kano (Action Comics), Lukas Ketner (Count Crowley), and Fabiana Mascolo (Catwoman) to navigate the catacombs by torchlight. . . . We hope they can find their way back out, hehehe!

Catacomb of Torment #1 Available July 16

June 30, 2025 4 Evil Eyes

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BEHOLD: A BLOODY NEW ONGOING SERIES! Out of the ashes of EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS, we usher THE TORMENTOR—a new horror host with an unhealthy interest in human anatomy—into the shadow-strewn halls of EC Comics history for our next monthly horror anthology! Hold onto your head (if it’s still attached) . . . because no one escapes THE CATACOMB OF TORMENT!

For Her Royal Travesty of Pain’s first request: Master storytellers John Arcudi (B.P.R.D.) & Patrick Piazzalungo (Those Not Afraid), Matt Kindt (BRZRKR) & David Lapham (Stray Bullets), and Marguerite Bennett (Batwoman) & Dan McDaid (Shazam!) each take turns manning the rack and turning the red-hot irons for three all-new and blisteringly brutal tales of mayhem and malice in the undying EC tradition!

Plus, as an added bonus: A surprise classic from the EC vaults, painstakingly remastered and newly restored to its original coloring.

The critics are already saying, “This is literal torture” and “Please make it stop!” Pick up this fearful 40-PAGE FIRST ISSUE—and the Tormentor might just consider letting them go!