Thursday, 31 October 2024

Back From The Depths Presents : Hallowscream! Hallowe'en Special 2024

Don't fear The Reaper, dude...





It has returned once again! Hallowscream is back with a spine-tingling sixteenth issue!

Here's the Download Link (for Dropbox right click and 'save as') :

Hallowscream 2024 (file size = 75.7 mb) :  MEDIAFIRE   DROPBOX   GOOGLE DRIVE


These are the full contents beyond the cover by Malcolm Kirk...

Page 3 : Are You Down To Suck?  Story & Art by Hydigen 
    
Page 7 : Grim Gallery  Models by Malcolm Kirk
    
Page 8 : Mutant On The Bounty  Story & Art by Gordon Innes
          
Page 11 : Communication Meltdown (Close Encounters of The Glowing Kind)
Story by Paul Bradford, Art by Randy Valiente
     
Page 21 : Terrorvision Guide  by Malcolm Kirk
           
Page 22 : Meanie In A Bottle  Story & Art by Gordon Innes
    
Page 27 : There Was A Man Dwelt By A Churchyard  Story by M.R. James,
Art by Carol Kewley
      
Page 29 : Sister BoneyFace  Story & Art by Gordon Innes
    
Page 30 : Grim Gallery  Art by Ciaran Duke
    
Page 32 : Portal Loo  Story & Art by Gordon Innes
   
Page 37 : Bizarre Beasties : Kraken Toast  by Malcolm Kirk
   
Page 38 : Bizarre Beasties : Not Yeti  by Malcolm Kirk 
   
Page 39 : Salem Slots  Story & Art by Gordon Innes
   
Page 43 : Water of Life  Story by Tim West, Art by Pictsy, Letters by Jim Campbell
    
Page 47 : Funerail  Story & Art by Gordon Innes
    
Page 48 : Bizarre Beasties : Dinotaur  by Malcolm Kirk
    
Page 49 : Bizarre Beasties : Vanshee  by Malcolm Kirk
    
Page 50 : Grim Gallery  Artwork by Andrew Milne
    
Page 52 : Digital Wasteland  Story & Artwork by Gordon Innes
      
Page 57 : Grim Gallery  Artwork by Carol Kewley & John Owens
    
Page 59 : Terror of The Sheep 2 : Chapter 11  Story & Art by Malcolm Kirk
    
Page 63 : At Death's Door  Story & Art by Gordon Innes
       
Page 64 : Back Cover Skull  by Malcolm Kirk
 
You can also download all previous issues of Hallowscream at www.hallowscream.net

Wednesday, 10 July 2024

Hallowscream! Spinetingling Sixteenth Issue Submission Guidelines



Well, this year's guidelines have shown up a bit later than usual.  As many of the eldritch squelchy things lurking in the dank corners of our dungeons will tell you, "life can get in the way sometimes", but as that scientist chap with the laboratory on the top floor said the other day about something unrelated, "I'm sure we can still get something horrible assembled by the end of October", so we at Back From The Depths are once again looking for contributors for our freaky free annual pdf horror comic, HALLOWSCREAM.  Here are the submission guidelines...

Submissions should be horror orientated and must be weird or spooky to make the final cut.

We are mainly looking for completed comic strips between 1-7 pages in length. Anything already completed is far more likely to make it into the comic.

Script submissions should also preferably be around 1-7 pages in length.

Eerie illustrations and artwork along with interesting horror/comic articles, scary short stories, petrifying poems or anything just plain creepy will also be considered.

To get an idea of the sort of stuff we're after, you can download previous issues of Hallowscream here.

If you're looking to illustrate something, get in contact and we'll give you details of available scripts to see if anything suits your fancy.

We'll also consider material previously published elsewhere, as long as the contributors own the copyright.

Completed artwork can be either colour or black and white, and should preferably be A4 (21cm x 29.7cm) 300 dpi jpeg or png.

Submissions can be sent to merjeagles@yahoo.co.uk or ghastlymcnasty@backfromthedepths.co.uk

As this is a non-profit, small press publication, contributors will not be paid but they will retain copyright on any material submitted.



DEADLINES :

Scripts, articles and text submissions :  Saturday 3rd August 2024

Artwork : Friday 18th October 2024

Completed strips : Sunday 27th October 2024.

The finished issue will be available online as a free pdf by October 31st, with a physical copy becoming available via Lulu.com, at a later date. You can also keep up to date with Hallowscream news via the Facebook Page.