With the month of October nearly here and the season of scares right around the corner, comic book fans around the world are eagerly awaiting new stories that will send shivers down their spines and scare them in the weeks to come. The world of DC Comics is no stranger to the supernatural and things that go bump in the night.
Between supernatural heroes like John Constantine and Zatanna to villains like the demon Neron who nearly destroyed the Justice League and the DC Universe, horror-based DC Comics stories are a major staple, so here are the ten best.
10 Young Monsters In Love
Starting off on a more lighthearted note, there was recently a horror based comic book anthology for DC Comics called Young Monsters In Love, in which the monsters and horror based characters of the DC Universe explored romance the only way they knew how. From Frankenstein and his bride to Kurt Langstrom, aka Man-Bat, and his wife Francine, many stories were told in this anthology.
One of the best however had to be Raven of the Teen Titans. With the other team members coupled up, she is left alone to help a restless and lonely spirit haunting a family.
9 Bloodlines
If fans are looking for an alien monster vibe in a DC Comic, then the classic crossover storyline Bloodlines is the one for them. The story involves a race of aliens who feed on the spinal fluid of people, which ends their lives in the process. Described as resembling the classic Xenomorphs aliens from Ridley Scott’s Alien franchise, the creatures nearly destroyed the Justice League.
Attaching to human hosts and draining them of their spinal fluid, the creatures would sometimes activate the metagene in some of their victims, granting them powers. This created an offshoot known as New Bloods.
8 Day Of Judgement
One of the more influential storylines in the horror genre for DC Comics has to be Day of Judgement. The story involved Etrigan the Demon seeking to destroy his enemy and fellow demon Neron, and in so doing bonded the Spectre-Force to the King-Angel Asmodel, making him all-powerful.
After freezing hell and releasing demons and magical villains like Enchantress, the staple heroes are defeated, and magical based characters like The Phantom Stranger, Deadman, Zatanna and Madame Xanadu form the Sentinels of Magic. Later Hal Jordan wrestles control of the Spectre-Force away and becomes the new Spectre.
7 Dangerous Habits
One of the most classic horror tales of the DC Comics multiverse has to be Dangerous Habits. The storyline focuses on one of the most engaging supernatural heroes of the DC Universe, John Constantine. The con man and magical hero discovers he has lung cancer and goes about trying to save his soul.
Along the way he saves another friend of his who dies from having his soul sent to hell, and upon the eve of his death tricks the lords of hell into each buying his soul and then curing his disease to prevent all-out war in hell.
6 Forever Evil: Blight
One of the biggest horror-based stories in recent years was a companion story to the Forever Evil storyline. Titled Forever Evil: Blight, the story picks up after the events of the Trinity War, which saw the three various Justice Leagues attacked by the Crime Syndicate and nearly destroyed.
Constantine wakes in the House of Mystery, and together with Swamp Thing, Pandora, The Phantom Stranger and others must fight the manifestation of evil itself, Blight. As they battle the entity, they must also find the scattered heroes of the three leagues and find a way to save them or else.
5 Freezes Over
One of the more intimate and dark horror stories in recent years of course belongs to John Constantine once more. In the story Freezes Over, John finds himself stuck in a snowstorm in the United States and forced to find shelter inside of a salon with local patrons, who are distrustful of the Englishman.
When a man is found with an icicle in his chest and his life ended, distrust amongst the patrons grows and the local legend of a monster known as the Ice Man looms overhead. John works to flush out the one responsible for the heinous crimes.
4 Underworld Unleashed
If tales of deals with the devil are what truly frightens the soul, then DC Comics very own story Underworld Unleashed is the tale for them. In this story, the heroes are faced with a powerful threat, Neron the demon lord of hell. In this story, Abra Kadabra makes a deal to serve Neron in exchange for real magical powers instead of tech-based magical powers.
He tricks five of Flash’s Rogues Gallery to sell their souls to Neron in order to be remembered, but this costs them their lives as the explosions they set off create a pentagram, unleashing Neron.
3 Justice League Dark: The Witching Hour
One recent storyline brings in one of the DC Universe’s most powerful collection of heroes to face down the supernatural threats that have the power to destroy reality, and that is the Justice League Dark. The newest iteration is led by Wonder Woman and includes teammates like Zatanna, Detective Chimp, Man-Bat, and Swamp Thing.
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This storyline saw the evil witch Hecate come to Earth to collect the power she stored within humans, turning them into the Witchmarked to battle the monsters she stole her magic from. The team fights for leader Wonder Woman’s soul when she is marked herself.
2 Dark Knights: Metal
One of the most disturbing and dark stories of the recent DC Rebirth era, and one that can technically be called a horror story, is Dark Nights: Metal. While dealing with the cosmic universe and multiverse as a whole, the story involves the Dark Multiverse, with twisted and cruel versions of heroes in the DC Multiverse.
The core of this story involves dark versions of Batman, each representing a power of a core Justice League member, as well as a demonic leader known as Barbatos, a dark god. The scariest one, however, is the Jokerized-Batman, The Batman-Who-Laughs.
1 Blackest Night
The most horror based crossover storyline in DC Comics has to be Blackest Night. The story of the villainous Black Hand gaining a Black Lantern battery, and a horde of Black Lantern rings arriving on Earth to corrupt heroes and bring back characters who lost their lives years earlier in the DC Universe.
With the almost zombie-like Black Lantern Corps descending on the DC Universe, surviving heroes and villains alike take on a power ring to battle the corrupt Black Lantern threat, and it takes the power of White Lantern rings to turn the tide against the villain Nekron.
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