Back From The Depths Presents : Hallowscream! Hallowe'en Special 2025

It has returned once again! Hallowscream is back with a spooky seventeenth issue!

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

Hallowscream 2025 (file size = 47.4 mb) :  MEDIAFIRE   DROPBOX   GOOGLE DRIVE

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

Page 3 : Sister Boneyface  Story & Art by Gordon Innes

    

Page 4 : Witch Hunters  Story by Paul Bradford, Art & Letters by Allen Byrns

      

Page 9 : Bizarre Beasties : Elemental  by Malcolm Kirk

    

Page 10 : Bizarre Beasties : Hot Air Baboon  by Malcolm Kirk

    

Page 11 : Nuclear Fishin'  Story & Art by Gordon Innes

   

Page 15 : Bizarre Beasties : Mongolian Deaf Worm  by Malcolm Kirk 

   

Page 16 : Pyramid Scream  Story & Art by Gordon Innes

    

Page 21 : Bizarre Beasties : Creature From The Murky Bog  by Malcolm Kirk

      

Page 22 : Clown Court  Story & Art by Gordon Innes

    

Page 23 : Shed  Story by Stu Perrins, Art by Joe Covas

    

Page 24 : Jokey Loki  Story & Artwork by Carol Kewley

    

Page 32 : Lepre-Con  Story & Artwork by Gordon Innes

    

Page 35 : Terror of The Sheep 2 : Chapter 12  Story & Art by Malcolm Kirk

   

Page 38 : Bizarre Beasties : Moatsucker  by Malcolm Kirk

   

Page 39 : Grim Gallery  Artwork by Tony Rothwell

       

Page 44 : Back Cover Skull  by Malcolm Kirk

 

You can also download all previous issues of Hallowscream at www.hallowscream.net

Hallowscream! Shadowy Seventeenth Issue Submission Guidelines

Yes, yes, I know... We really need to start sorting out these submission guidelines a bit sooner, but as the bloke who blew the whistle in a certain M.R. James story would no doubt tell you, "sheet happens".

Anyway... 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.

Anything generated using AI will not 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, tiff 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 :  Sunday 3rd August 2025

Artwork : Saturday 18th October 2025

Completed strips : Monday 27th October 2025.

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.