From John Carpenter, the man who brought you the cult classic horror film Halloween and all of the scares beyond comes the ultimate graphic novel anthology of tales to warm your toes by on a dark and stormy October night! Carpenter brings together storytellers from the worlds of movies, novels and comics for a collection of tales featuring graveyards, sunken ships, creepy crawlers and ghosts to haunt your dreams at night!
Carpenter, John: - John Carpenter's films are legendary: from the breakthrough Halloween (1978) to classics like Escape From New York, The Thing, Big Trouble In Little China and They Live. His sci-fi love story, Starman, earned Jeff Bridges a Best Actor Oscar nomination.
For the small screen, Carpenter directed the thriller Someone's Watching Me, the acclaimed biographical mini-series, Elvis, and the Showtime horror trilogy John Carpenter Presents Body Bags. He also directed two episodes of Showtime's Masters Of Horror series.
He won the Cable Ace Award for writing the HBO movie, El Diablo.
In the gaming world, he co-wrote the video game Fear 3 for Warner Bros. Interactive.
In the world of comics, Carpenter co-wrote the BOOM! books Big Trouble in Little China with Eric Powell and the Old Man Jack series with Anthony Burch. At Storm King Comics he is the co-creator of the award-winning bi-monthly series, John Carpenter's Asylum and the acclaimed annual anthology collections, John Carpenter's Tales for a HalloweeNight and the monthly series, John Carpenter's Tales of Science Fiction.
Staggs, Cat: - Cat Staggs is an artist best known for her work on the New York Times Bestselling title Smallville Season 11 from DC Comics. She is the co-creator of Crosswind, with Gail Simone (Image Comics). Recently she completed a cover run on Darkwing Duck (Disney). She was also an artist on Death Of Superman with Louise Simonson (DC Comics) and Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity (DC Comics). She has also worked on popular titles like Adventures Of Supergirl (DC Comics), Wonder Woman '77 (DC Comics), X-Files and Orphan Black (IDW), Sensation Comics Featuring Wonder Woman (DC), The Vampire Diaries (DC), Phantom Lady And Doll Man (DC), Star Trek (IDW), Tales For A HalloweeNight Vol. 1-10 (Storm King Comics), John Carpenter's Tales Of Science Fiction: Surviving Nuclear Attack with Joe Harris (Storm King Comics), and almost 20 years in the Star Wars universe with Lucasfilm. In 2017 one of a kind original Wonder Woman piece was inducted to the Library of Congress by Lynda Carter along with Wonder Woman '77 Vol. 1.
Swierczynski, Duane: - Duane Swierczynski is the Edgar-nominated author of ten novels including Revolver, Canary, and the Shamus Award-winning Fun & Games, many of which are in development for film/TV. He has written various bestselling comics for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Archie and Valiant, including Cable, Deadpool, The Immortal Iron Fist, Punisher Max, Birds Of Prey, Godzilla, The Black Hood, Bloodshot as well as his creator-owned crime comic, Breakneck. Duane is proud to have had a story in every installment of John Carpenter's Tales For A HalloweeNight (so far). A native Philadelphian, he now lives in Los Angeles with his family.
