Back From The Depths Presents : Hallowscream! Hallowe'en Special 2026

It has returned once again! Hallowscream is back with an eerie eighteenth issue!

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

Hallowscream 2026 (file size = 38.71 mb) :  MEDIAFIRE   DROPBOX   GOOGLE DRIVE

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

Page 3 : Ouija Bored  Story & Art by Gordon Innes

    

Page 4 : Ocean of Emptiness  Story by Paul Bradford, Art & Letters by Allen Byrns

      

Page 10 : Sadie, The Sewing  Lady  Story & Art by Carol Kewley

    

Page 12 : Bizarre Beasties : Brambled Platypus  by Malcolm Kirk

   

Page 13 : Bizarre Beasties : Yobgoblin  by Malcolm Kirk 

   

Page 14 : Aaarghcade  Story & Art by Gordon Innes

    

Page 17 : Terror of The Sheep 2 : Chapter 13  Story & Art by Malcolm Kirk

      

Page 21 : Bizarre Beasties : Imp O' Light  by Malcolm Kirk

    

Page 22 : Just A Glass of Water...  Story & Art by Ramiro Caorlin

    

Page 25 : Bizarre Beasties : Slothman  by Malcolm Kirk

    

Page 26 : Zitgeist!  Story & Artwork by Gordon Innes

   

Page 31 : Grim Gallery  Artwork by Tony Rothwell

       

Page 35 : You May Leave...  by Müriad

       

Page 36 : Back Cover Skull  by Malcolm Kirk

 

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

Hallowscream! Eerie Eighteenth Issue Submission Guidelines

Quite a bit later than planned again due to various issues, but....

Once again, we at Back From The Depths are looking for contributors for our 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 :  Monday 3rd August 2026

Artwork : Sunday 18th October 2026

Completed strips : Tuesday 27th October 2026.

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, (and yes, we know there's one heck of a backlog there, but we're working on it. More news when the missing issues become available). You can also keep up to date with Hallowscream news via the Facebook Page.