What's Trending: Dystopian Horror

Must-read nightmares will swallow you whole in today's What's Trending. Six solemn tales of souls fighting for their lives to bring light and hope to the worlds of these dystopian horror titles. Will you walk in the dark with them?

The Walking Dead (Compendium), 4331 pages - Published by Image Comics, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)

Just in time for the new season of The Walking Dead on AMC, the fan-favorite, New York Times bestselling series returns with its FOURTH massive paperback collection! With over 1,000 pages, this volume contains the next chapter of ROBERT KIRKMAN and CHARLIE ADLARD 's Eisner Award-winning continuing story of survival horror. From the Whisperers to the Commonwealth, Rick Grimes meets new allies and enemies on the way to reclaiming the world from the dead. Wars are started, and dear friends fal...

Story and Art by Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn, Dave Stewart, Michel Fiffe, Robert Kirkman, Stefano Gaudiano

Plague Seeker, 131 pages - Published by Bad Egg Publishing, (cc/ @RobertMeyers)

In the far future, civilization has been destroyed by an event only known as The Calamity. Humanity lives in terror, ruled over by monstrous creatures called the Great Plagues.

Story and Art by Ben Templesmith, Brett Weldele, Charlie White, Dave Sharpe, Jackson Clarke, John Bivens, Michele Abounader, Robert Meyers, Vamkire Trannel

Requiem Vampire Knight, 165 pages - Published by Millsverse Comics, (cc/ @LisaMills)

YOU HAVEN'T LIVED UNTIL YOU'VE DIED. You’re Heinrich Augsberg, an honourable German officer dying on the Eastern Front, 1944. Your last thoughts are of your true love, Rebecca… You awake in Hell. You’re now a Vampire Knight: a member of the ruling class on the Hell world of Resurrection, whose members did terrible things when alive, and who revel in their pursuit of power, pleasure, and corruption in death. Surely some mistake? Join Heinrich, renamed Requiem, as he begins a violent, sexy and savagely funny journey towards discovering his dark past and much darker future.

Story and Art by Millsverse Comics

Memetic (Volume), 132 pages - Published by BOOM! Studios, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)

WARNING: This meme will end civilization. Meme is an idea that starts with an individual, and then spreads to multiple persons and potentially entire societies. Richard Dawkins suggests a meme’s success comes from its effectiveness to the host. But history shows that destructive memes can spread just as rapidly through society. MEMETIC shows the progression of a weaponized meme that leads to the utter annihilation of the human race within 72 hours. The root of this apocalypse is a single image on the internet, a “meme” in the popular sense. A meme that changes everything.

Story and Art by Eryk Donovan and James Tynion IV

Sacrament, 227 pages - Published by AWA Studios, (cc/ @ChrisF-AWA)

The Exorcist meets Alien in this sci-fi/horror story. In the year 3000, Mankind abandoned Earth and fled into outer space. Now, a disgraced priest, called into action to perform an exorcism on a remote space colony, is about to discover that no matter how far you run, you can’t escape your demons, and the Devil is, in fact, real.

Story and Art by AWA Studios

Vampire Macabre, 80 pages - Published by Asylum Press, (cc/ @AsylumPress)

Asylum Press brings you a horrific blood-thirsty collection of all-new vampire tales featuring an international cast of artistic talent. A must for all vampire fans!

Story and Art by Asylum Press

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