Rebellion announces new SCREAM! special for November to commemorate 40 YEARS OF TERROR
Rebellion has announced a new special for landmark British horror weekly Scream! as it celebrates its 40th anniversary year. The 64-page Scream! 40 Years of Terror special will feature new installments in the classic series The Thirteenth Floor and The Dracula File alongside two brand new one-shot shockers.
Scream! 40 Years of Terror will be released in the UK in physical and digital on November 4 prices £5.99, with the US edition to follow on December 11 (Previews code: SEP241987) retailing for $9.99.
A Rebellion press release said:
“Scream! will be celebrating 40 years since it first burst onto the British comics scene by publishing an all-new oversized anthology. Featuring creators including Alex Paknadel, Torunn Gronbekk, VV Glass, Anna Readman, Emily Schnall, Alejandro Aragon and more, Scream! will deliver 64 pages of terror this November!”
Adding:
“This new anthology celebrates all that made the original Scream! so shocking, with four new stories from some of the best creative talents in the industry today!”
Featuring a cover by DaNi, the four stories within Scream! 40 Years of Terror are:
- The Dracula File, by Alex Paknadel and Alejandro Aragon
“A mysterious figure breaks into the home of Piper, a journalist who has been working on a story about mysterious disappearances across London. What does this stranger know – and how does it connect to the Lord of Darkness himself…?”
- The Thirteenth Floor, by Torunn Gronbekk and Emily Schall
“Welcome to Maxwell Tower, your dream home of the future! Your every whim will be catered for by our in-house AI “Max”, who will make sure that you come to absolutely no harm during your stay. Unless you start to cause trouble, that is…”
- And His Skin Is Cold, by Anna Readman and George Pooley
“Head back to the 1970s, as a British rock n’roll band head out on their breakout American tour. But on one fateful evening, they find that while talent can bring them fame, fortune and immortality… that isn’t the only way to live forever…”
- Inverted Burial, by V. V. Glass
“Paris is the City of Love – but beyond the cosy cafes and romantic roads, what lurks deep down underneath the streets? Enter on a claustrophobic descent into the Paris catacombs…”
Scream! was a short-lived British weekly anthology comic published by IPC Magazines between March and June 1984. While a few years after the immense media and public outcry of IPC’s controversial Action, the increasing public concern for “video nasties” and pressure groups like Mary Whitehouse’s National Viewers’ and Listeners’ Association meant that the publisher quickly developed cold feet and soft-cancelled the title, merging it into their revival of the Eagle comic. Despite only running for 15 issues the comic still holds a passionate fanbase. In May 2024 Rebellion released the 40 Years of Scream!, a 464-page hardcover which collected all fifteen issues, which has already sold out on their website.
The Scream! special follows in the wake of other successful revival one-shots of British classic anthologies – with this year alone featuring a Gail Simone-headed Misty, and a successful Kickstarter campaign for a special contemporary reimagining of romance title Roxy. And that’s not forgetting the just released third series of Garth Ennis’ revival of war comic anthology Battle Action.
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