Are you in the mood for a little spooky fun? We’ve compiled a list of Halloween games, comics, anthologies, and stories created by well-known and indie creators. We hope this list is a fun way to find new treats for the holiday!

Titles we recommend are listed in alphabetical order.

15 Halloween Games and Adventures

1. Bats in Your Belfry: This card game has a straightforward premise to get you in the mood for Halloween. All you have to do is be the first player to get rid of all of the bats in your belfry.

2. Beautiful Monsters: Beautiful Monsters is a quick-playing 2-player card game about recruiting a team of cute monsters, dressing them up in accessories, and entering them into a beauty contest!

3. The Chuubo’s Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine RPG Halloween Special: If you love the Chuubo’s Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine RPG, and who doesn’t? Then you’ll want to pick up this marvelous introduction to its “Fairy Tales” genre designed by Jenna Katerin Moran that includes an 80-XP campaign for 2-4 players featuring: the Headmaster, a Halloween-obsessed drunk; the Ideologue, led astray by the “Blood Fang” books; the Idol, who doesn’t really want to be this story’s hero; and the Exchange Student, from the Halloween World on the other side of the mirror.

4. Coffee Shop Screenwriter: Halloween Travel Edition: Coffee Shop Screenwriter: Halloween Travel Edition is a fun, story-telling game for one or more players. It’s ideal for long car rides, train journeys, and sitting around campfires. A light version of the full game, if you’re a writer who needs ideas for stories, check it out! By the end of the game you will have told a fun, unique, spooky story!

5. Deckula: Deckula is a solo card game of decadence, death, and dreary decorating. After a century of slumber, you awaken to discover your castle in a disgraceful state. This will not do! Vampires are, after all, connoisseurs of the very best that (un)life has to offer… Renovate the most imposing rooms of your lair! Fill the halls with ghoulish servants! Drink a fine wine, pose dramatically on the highest tower, and write dreadful poetry! But beware the curious and bold locals that might wander by – perhaps you can invite them in…for a drink?

6. GM’s Maps #30: Haunted House Halloween Special: Every GM needs a good map, and this Haunted House Halloween set has just the right amount of spook for your games. Compatible with Roll20, this haunted house is a simple map that takes the guesswork out of creating a fun setting for gameplay while offering spaces to add new components.

7. I Can’t Even With These Monsters: I CAN’T EVEN is a series of card games that all share one rule: The player with the highest odd score wins! For example, if the game ended with players at 9, 16, 20, and 22 points, the player with 9 points would win! Each game is standalone or can be shuffled together. Designed by Daniel Solis and Charles Bates, this edition has 49 Monster Cards: Amalgam, Blob, Ghost, Ichthid, Mummy, Vampire, Werewolf, each appearing seven times.

8. Into the Pumpkin Patch We Go!: Into the Pumpkin Patch We Go! is a chibi-style card game for two-to-seven players. A curmudgeonly witch grows the best pumpkins, but won’t share. It’s time for a midnight raid on her pumpkin patch, to harvest them before she finds out.

9. Murder of Crows: Uncover a murder most foul by revealing six story elements that together describe the deadly deed and spell the word MURDER. But take care that your opponents can’t do the same — take their letters, counter their actions, or call on a waiting Crow to influence the murder before they do! At any moment a well-played card can shift the balance and seal someone’s fate. Murder of Crows is a fast-paced card game for 2 to 5 players that’s quick to learn and features atmopheric art by Dungeoneer illustrator Thomas Denmark. A game typically lasts 15 to 20 minutes, and is designed for ages 13 and up.

10. Punkin Fight: Punkin Fight is a quick-playing card game for two-to-four players. It’s a rainy, Halloween Night. You’re under attack. A rival gang is lobbing Punkin Bombs at your various clubhouses around town—trying to bring them down, and take over your turf. It’s time to fight back!

11. Retro Halloween Radio: In Retro Halloween Radio you will be creating your own spooky radio show with your own detective character who must solve spooky mysteries. It is based on The Micro RPG system, which is an ultra-simple roleplaying game that is designed specifically for solo play. All you need is some dice, graph paper, and your imagination. The game can also be played in the traditional fashion with a group of players and a Game Master (a RADIO HOST in this game). Simply have someone run the game rather than randomly rolling on the tables.

12. Spooks: You don’t have to outrun the monsters…if you can outrun your friends. In Spooks, you play your cards by matching numbers and suits. The first player to empty his hand wins…and the spooks get everybody else! Each suit (Spiders, Ghosts, Goblins, Skeletons, and Bats) has a special rule, and the top card in each suit has a special power…so you don’t know who will be first to escape the haunted house until the final card is played. Spooks is a great quick party game…kids will enjoy it, too!

13. Spooky Gardens Halloween Special for Pathfinder/Starfinder: Deadly Gardens is a series of short PDF documents that each feature a brand new plant monster to use in your Pathfinder Roleplaying Game or OGL campaigns. In addition to a new monster, each volume will also feature supplemental material based around the natural wilderness theme. Find the Brain Pumpkin and four Pumpkin-Headed Creatures: Pumpkin-Headed Bull, Pumpkin-Headed Goblin, Pumpkin-Headed Hound and Pumpkin-Headed Villager…and more!

14. Super Powered Bestiary: Halloween Horrors: Sometimes what a Mutants & Masterminds game needs is a dose of the devilish, a splash of the splattered, or a hint of the horrible. Just in time for Halloween-themed games, Rogue Genius Games takes care of your scary-super-adventure needs with Super Powered Bestiary: Halloween Horrors!

15. Suspense: The Card Game: Suspense: The Card Game is a frighteningly fast game of deduction and bluffing. It’s a tiny game for big brains. You’ll be shocked at how much fun you can get from thirteen little cards. Each time you play, there is a secret victory condition. Sometimes you want the lowest number in play, sometimes you want the highest number in hand… there are thirteen unique victory conditions possible. Fortunately, you have some clues in your hand to help your process of elimination. Your goal is to deduce a victory condition while also trying to meet it.

10 Horror Comics and Graphic Novels

1. Atlantis Wasn’t Built for Tourists: Don’t let the title fool you, this four-issue collection is Lovecraft meets Sergio Leone in a modern tale of corruption, family legacies, and nightmarish dread. Lucas Lewis drifts into Atlantis County, Oregon wanting nothing more than a hot meal and a soft bed for the night. What he finds instead is a small town in thrall to eldritch creatures lurking in the surrounding wilderness, possibly guided by an even more sinister force. Lucas becomes determined to eradicate all Atlantis’s demons, but these monsters are not what they seem. Unfortunately for the monsters, neither is Lucas.

2. Cutter Volume 1: What if that kid you and your friends picked on in your youth came back with a vengeance…to kill you and your friends? That dark guilt-ridden fear is at the core of CUTTER, a cautionary tale about the sins of your past coming back to haunt you. From television writer SEAMUS KEVIN FAHEY (Battlestar Galactica, The Following) and comic writer ROBERT NAPTON (SON OF MERLIN), with art by acclaimed horror artists CHRISTIAN DIBARI & MAAN HOUSE. This is a four-issue collection of terrifying comics.

3. Door to Door, Night by Night: A supernatural horror thriller splattered with dark humor in the vein of Grady Hendrix (My Best Friend’s Exorcism), Stranger Things, Welcome to Night Vale, Supernatural, and the Midnight, Texas series (Charlaine Harris), DOOR TO DOOR, NIGHT BY NIGHT Vol. 1: A World Full of Monsters tells the tale of a traveling sales team who find that once certain doors open, they are impossible to close. Knock, knock. What’s there? Open the door if you dare…

4. Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus Graphic Novel: Presenting a faithful adaptation of the classic novel from Mary Shelley. Based on the original story itself rather than the various cinematic films, this is a rendition of Frankenstein, the haunting and sophisticated tale that many have not seen before. Frankenstein is truly one of the great tragedies of literature. The monster, shunned by his creator, is forced to find acceptance in a world that is both confusing and frightening to him. The monster becomes enraged at the treatment he receives and seeks revenge against mankind which has rejected and tormented him merely because he was different. Featuring a cover from Vince Locke.

5. The H.O.R.R.O.R. Agents 100 Page Giant Super Spooktacular: The Long awaited H.O.R.R.O.R. Agents/Sgt. Frankenstein Super-Spooktacular! Featuring a collection of spooky super-hero adventures by the Da Vinci of Golden Age redesign, our own Jay Piscopo (Artist/Creator of Commander X, Thorus, Sea Ghost and much more!) Starring Sgt. Frankenstein, Captain Occult, Bulldog Denny: Monster Hunter, the Duke of Darkness, Dr. Drew Stalker of the Unknown, Fly-Man, Uncle Sam and of course Codename: Frankenstein and the H.O.R.R.O.R. Agents! With special Halloween pinups, comicbook history as well as rare golden age reprints!

6. It Eats What Feeds It: In this grimy horror romp, Francois, a stunning middle-aged woman, has developed a worsening affliction and seeks a young caretaker to upkeep her lavish creole mansion deep in the mystic bayou of Louisiana. Kenny, a teenage halfwit looking for a summer job, stumbles right to her doorstep. Free rent, free meals, high pay, easy work, and a provocative boss… what’s there for Kenny to refuse? Well, there’s the blood-covered kitchen spilling over with raw meat and the bolt-locked steel-plated attic door he’s restricted access to.

7. Judge Dredd: The Darkest Judge: The Judge Dredd epic featuring zombies infecting the whole 2000 AD multiverse. All of your favourite characters have been turned into zombies, in this fast-paced standalone horror story! What if at the end of Judge Dredd: Judgement Day a different strategy was used in order to stop the zombie invasion? Instead of Judge Dredd executing Sabbat the Necromagus this plan involves dropping dimension-bombs to shift the whole zombie horde into a different reality. This means disaster for all the other characters published in the pages of 2000 AD as the zombies infect everyone from Rogue Trooper to Sinister Dexter, from Ace Trucking to The V.C.’s.

8. Pumpernickel: Rebecca Turner is a miracle. Not expected to make it to her first birthday, Rebecca is now eleven years old. She’s a little weird but her parents love her all the same. Except they aren’t really her parents because she’s not really Rebecca Turner. She’s a changeling called Pumpernickel, swapped with the real thing ten years earlier by the Hidden People who now want her to come home and are having trouble taking no for an answer. But Pumpernickel likes living as a human and loves her adoptive parents. She therefore has no intention of leaving and will protect her stolen life by whatever means necessary, fair(y) or foul.

9. The Scourge Volume 1: The Scourge Volume 1 collects six issues of a terrifying story. The skies of New York City are no longer safe. In mere hours, the greatest metropolis on the planet is turned into an island of horrors, as a virus rapidly advances throughout the city transforming its citizens into savage, bloodthirsty gargoyles!! Amidst the outbreak, one man, NYPD SWAT officer John Griffin finds himself as the last remaining hope to prevent the cataclysmic spread of the virus from the island, locating his estranged son within the chaos, and saving the city itself from complete annihilation!

10. Shadows Over Venice: The famous Venetian carnival masks were not always the tame, solemn, apparently dead objects they are now. Follow their dramatic and grotesque evolution, intertwined with the life of the great city state of the past. Witness their monstrous introduction as Satanic tools of murder and madness, brought home by Marco Polo from his travels to the ends of the world. See the role they played in the grave events of the Great Plague of 1348, when they stood at the edge of a dispute between the city itself and a powerful magician, cursing it with the magic of the dead. And witness their final elevation to the symbol of the city, worn by the chosen few who became the magical guardians of Venice.

13 Horror Stories and Anthologies

1. 31 Days of Halloween: Eyeball lollipops? Ghost cannibals? Not quite wax museums? Fairies, witches and boiled teenagers? All of these stories and more can be found in this collection of thirty-one micro-stories. 31 Days Of Halloween contains thirty-one Halloween themed drabbles (100 word stories), one written per day in October leading up to the 31st! Not explicit, but parental guidance is suggested due to horror themes.

2. The Cainite Conspiracies: This collection of short stories inspired by the 20th Anniversary edition of Vampire: The Masquerade Dark Ages features tales by Vampire developers such as Justin Achilli, Eddy Webb, David A. Hill, Jr., and Neall Raemonn Price along with award-winning horror authors including Maurice Broaddus, Catherine Lundoff, and Richard Dansky.

3. Death Is Not The End: Death is not the end. You learned that firsthand when you died. In that darkness, you made a deal that brought you back — with something else. Now, bound inextricably to a geist — a shade, a monster, a tragic, broken soul — you stand between the world of the living and the world of the dead. This collection of eleven stories inspired by Geist: The Sin-Eaters Second Edition explores the haunted places in the Chronicles of Darkness.

4. Haunting Shadows: Remember those nice stories they told you about what’d happen after you died? They were wrong. There is no Heaven and there is no Hell. There’s only the Underworld, with the ravening maw of Oblivion at the bottom and the impossible dream of Transcendence at the top. And, somewhere in between, are scores of Restless Dead. Are you ready to join them? This collection of stories is inspired by Wraith: the Oblivion 20th Anniversary Edition. You’ll explore the Underworld, roam the streets of Stygia, the eternal city, visit a haunted museum, and walk new and exciting locales.

5. House of Fear: Editor Jonathan Oliver brings horror home with a collection of haunted house stories by some of the finest writers working in the horror genre, including Joe R. Lansdale, Sarah Pinborough, Lisa Tuttle, Christopher Priest, Adam L. G. Nevill, Nicholas Royle, Chaz Brenchley, Christopher Fowler, Gary Kilworth, Weston Ochse, Eric Brown, Tim Lebbon, Nina Allan, Stephen Volk, Paul Meloy and more.

6. King of the Bastards: Part sword and sorcery, part extreme horror, King of the Bastards is wild adventure across seas, beaches, and mountains full of horrifying monstrosities, dark magic, and demonic entities. Rogan has been many things in his life as an adventurer — a barbarian, a thief, buccaneer, a rogue, a lover, a reaver, and most recently, a king. Now, this prehistoric bane of wizards and tyrants finds himself without a kingdom, lost in a terrifying new world, and fighting for his life against pirates, zombies, and the demonic entity known as Meeble. And even if he defeats his foes, Rogan must still find a way to return home, regain his throne, save his loved ones, and remind everyone why he’s the king of the bastards.

7. The New Gothic: Don’t embrace the darkness. Fear it. The Gothic is the most enduring literary tradition in history, but in recent years friendly ghosts and vegetarian vampires threaten its foundations. The New Gothic is a collection of short stories which revisits the core archetypes of the Gothic – the rambling, secret-filled building, the stranger seeking answers, the black-hearted tyrant – and reminds us not to embrace, but to fear the darkness. A dozen tales of terror fill this anthology including an original, never-before-seen story from the godfather of modern horror, Ramsey Campbell.

8. Poe: New Tales Inspired by Edgar Allen Poe: To coincide with the 200th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, this anthology celebrates the depth and diversity of one of the most important figures in literature. Compiled by multi-award winning editor, Ellen Datlow, it presents some of the foremost talents of the genre, who have come together to reimagine tales inspired by Poe. Sharyn McCrumb, Lucius Shepard, Pat Cadigan, M. Rickert, and more, have lent their craft to this anthology, retelling such classics as “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Masque of the Red Death,” exploring the very fringes of the genre.

9. Sinophagia: A Celebration of Chinese Horror: An anthology of unsettling tales from contemporary China, Sinophagia has been translated into English for the very first time. Fourteen dazzling horror stories delve deep into the psyche of modern China in this new anthology curated by acclaimed writer and essayist Xueting C. Ni, editor and translator of the British Fantasy Award-winning Sinopticon. From the menacing vision of a red umbrella, to the ominous atmosphere of the Laughing Mountain; from the waking dream of virtual working to the sinister games of the locked room… this is a fascinating insight into the spine-chilling voices working within China today – a long way from the traditional expectations of hopping vampires and hanging ghosts. This ground-breaking collection features both well-known names and bold upcoming writers, including: Hong Niangzi, Fan Zhou, Chu Xidao, She Cong Ge, Chuan Ge, Goodnight, Xiaoqing, Zhou Dedong, Nanpai Sanshu, Yimei Tangguo, Chi Hui, Zhou Haohui, Su Min, Cai Jun, and Gu Shi.

10. Tales of the Dark Eras: Walk through the ages… As a companion to Chronicles of Darkness: Dark Eras this anthology reveals secrets of the mystics, whispers rumors of the dead, and shines a light into the darkest corners of the world. This collection includes historical stories based within the shadowed past of Vampire: the Requiem, Mage: the Awakening, Werewolf: the Forsaken, Changeling: the Lost, and other Chronicles of Darkness settings. This collection of alternate history stories is infused with horror and the supernatural–perfect for history buffs and Chronicles of Darkness fans.

11. Terrifying Halloween Tales: Want to find new horror novels? Terrifying Halloween Tales is a free Halloween Sampler of Aconyte’s most spine-chilling novels, from the cosmic terror of Arkham Horror, to the demon-haunted mountains of Legend of the Five Rings, and the monsters and necromancy of Descent: Journeys in the Dark… Enjoy the first chapters of thrilling novels by Josh Reynolds, Robbie MacNiven, David Annandale, S A Sidor and Marie Brennan.

12. What October Brings: A Lovecraftian Celebration of Halloween: Editor Doug Draa frames over a dozen Lovecraftian, Hallwoeen stories. What October Brings celebrates the dark traditions of the autumn rituals, of Halloween and Samhain, in homage to the uniquely fascinating fiction of HP Lovecraft. Masters of the short story offer you a “once in a lifetime” Trick-or-Treat experience…perhaps your last experience! Halloween, a time for laughing children in white bedsheets and superhero costumes. A time for chocolate candy, and pumpkins, and Trick-or-Treat. A time for dark things everything to slink out of the shadows and into our lives, reminding those unlucky few that our charades of Halloween cannot erase the centuries of history and pain behind the facade…

13. Written by Candlelight Volume 1: Last, but not least, we’ve selected a collection of gothic romance stories in the style of Crimson Peak. Immerse yourself in dark, haunting, and romantic short stories celebrating the beloved, enduring genre of gothic romance. Written in the style of mid-century pulp fiction, these stories embrace the genre’s familiar tropes and themes while infusing it with new perspectives. Enjoy this collection of fiction by emerging writers from around the world.


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