15 Must Read Horror Titles On INKR Comics
Horror comics have made a comeback in recent years, with great publishers such as Image Comics, Kodansha, Kuaikan embracing the genre. Fans have also discovered the thrills they seek from further afield, with manga production in Japan creating some truly terrifying storylines.
We agree that what constitutes scary varies by person, as ghosts can frighten some but not all readers, but there’s no denying that each of these entries contains enough nightmare fuel to terrify you all night long.
Here are 15 Must Read Horror Titles On INKR Comics:
1. Starving Anonymous
Publisher: Kodansha
Art, Story:: Kazu Inabe, Yuu Kuraishi, Kengo Mizutani
Style Origin: Manga
- It’s a day like any other, and high school students I’e and Kazu are on the bus home from school when, suddenly, it floods with a mysterious gas.
- The pair pass out and wake up to find themselves aboard a truck packed full of human bodies.
- They’re surrounded by rows of frozen corpses …and staff of living human beings sawing them into pieces. Where are they … and how can they escape from this nightmare?
2. Nomen Omen
Publisher: Image Comics
Art, Story: Jacopo Camagni, Marco B. Bucci
Style Origin: Western Comics
- No matter how fast you run, sooner or later your past will catch up with you.
- Becky Kumar is a daughter of three mothers and a geeky twenty-year-old from New York City who is about to cross the veil between our reality and an ancient realm of otherworldly truths.
3. Algeria’s Radio — Horror on Air
Publisher: King Productions
- Algeria Rei is a woman who works as a radio announcer for a program called Horror on Air
- She reads and narrates mysterious and supernatural stories, but she doesn’t believe in them
- But deep down, she knows that the death of her husband was something unexplainable
4. Statue
Publisher: Kuaikan Comics
Style, Origin: Chinese Comics (Manhua)
- Ye Limei is a student of the sculpture department who gets haunted by a spirit after an incident
- She discovers the secrets behind this and uses this power to kill those who wronged her
- This gives her satisfaction, but slowly her mind starts to get consumed by the spirit of enmity
5. Coffin Bound
Publisher: Image Comics
Art, Story: DANI, Dan Watters
Style Origin: Western Comics
- Cars! Guns! Entropy! Chased by an unstoppable killer, Izzy Tyburn has decided that if the world won’t have her in it, it can have nothing of her at all.
- She’s re-treading her life, leaving nothing but burned rubber, ash, and the sun-scorched bones of those who get in her way.
6. Shivers: Prelude
Publisher: Re:On
Art, Story: Andik Prayogo, Various Artists
Style Origin: Korean Comics (Manhwa)
- Mysterious and horrifying creatures are lurking in our world, lingering beyond human perception
- With each new person that encounters the paranormal, a tale of terror emerges
- A compilation of horror stories focused on ghosts, the unknown, and beyond!
7. Shivers: Symphony
Publisher: Re:On
Art, Story: Ban Zarbo
Style Origin: Korean Comics (Manhwa)
- Mysterious and horrifying creatures are lurking in our world, lingering beyond human perception
- With each new person that encounters the paranormal, a tale of terror emerges
- The 2nd season of Shivers’ horror anthology focused on ghosts, the unknown, and beyond!
8. Fort of Apocalypse
Publisher: Kodansha
Art, Story: Kazu Inabe, Yuu Kuraishi
Style Origin: Manga
- Yoshiaki Maeda has been falsely accused and detained, along with delinquents from all over the Kanto region, in the juvenile correctional facility, Shouran Institute.
- Yoshiaki is as typical as a boy can get, so when he finds himself living in this violence-ridden prison, he can’t think of anything worse. His cellmates, Iwakura, Yamanoi, and Yoshioka, are a cunning crew and soon Yoshiaki finds himself pulled into a feud going on in the prison.
- Then suddenly, a prison van crashes into the facility and what shambles out of the wreckage are flesh-eating zombies … and so the curtain is raised on this bone-chilling story of panic and horror …
9. Fatal Possession
Publisher: Weibo Comics
Style Origin: Chinese Comics (Manhua)
- Fan Shen is the daughter of Bufan Shen, and she secretly solves her father’s deeds in the underworld
- For three years, she has searched for a woman who may or may not be involved in a series of murders
- A deliciously dark series about a girl’s desperate search for a love that might end up killing her
10. Mode II
Publisher: FanFan Comic
Story, Art: YOU.LING
Style Origin: Chinese Comics (Manhua)
- Ye Qiu gains the power to hear inner thoughts after he accidentally tested an app called “Mode II”
- As he finds the culprit who attacked his sister with his power, he meets others who are like him
- A story that revolves around a weak teenage boy who wants to be strong by using a mysterious app
11. Hospital Of Hell
Publisher: Weibo Comics
Style Origin: Chinese Comics (Manhua)
- A group of friends wanders into an abandoned hospital unaware of the horrors awaiting them inside
- The hospital harbors terrifying creatures, and the group can only do so much to survive
- A horrific suspense story following a group of friends in a fight to survive the Hospital of Hell
12. Undead Messiah
Publisher: Tokyopop
Art, Story: Gin Zarbo
Style Origin: Manga
- Tim Muley, a teen who loves zombie games, gets himself involved in a real-life zombie apocalypse
- As he searches for a cure for his infected father, he meets a man and a girl who can control zombies
- Tim must stop the spread of the infected and save humanity with his wit and video game knowledge
13. Evil Museum
Publisher: Kuaikan Comics
Art, Story: Bing
Style Origin: Chinese Comics (Manhua)
- A building known as The Evil Museum is home to artifacts that have strange stories behind them
- Qian Xi, a college student in need of money, applies to work at this mysterious museum
- There he meets the museum curator, who always has a new bizarre story to tell him about an object
14. Devils’ Line
Publisher: Kodansha
Art, Story: Ryo Hanada
Style Origin: Manga
- Tsukasa, a college student, is rescued from an attack by a devil, one of many vampires that can blend in among the human population.
- Anzai, her savior, is a half-devil who exploits his supernatural gifts as a member of a shadowy police task force that specializes in devil-related crime in Tokyo.
- As Anzai continues to keep guard over Tsukasa, the two quickly forge a tentative bond — one that Anzai fears will test his iron-clad rule of never drinking human blood …
15. Happiness
Publisher: Kodansha
Art, Story: Shuzo Oshimi
Style Origin: Manga
- Nothing interesting in happening in Makoto Ozaki’s first year of high school. His life is a series of quiet humiliations: low-grade bullies, unreliable friends, and the constant frustration of his adolescent lust.
- But one night, a pale, thin girl knocks him to the ground in an alley and offers him a choice. Now everything is different. The daylight is searingly bright. Food tastes awful. And worse than anything is the terrible, consuming thirst.
- The tiny shames of his old life has been replaced by two towering horrors: the truth of what will slake his awful craving and high school itself.
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