Hello Darkness Vol. 5 - Softcover

Brombal, Tate; Various; Humphries, Sam

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798892158589

Publisher: BOOM! Studios, 2026

Synopsis

It’s time to feed your fears.

Prepare for a full spread of all-new horrors from the darkest hearts in comics! 

In the fifth volume of the acclaimed horror anthology Hello Darkness, an unspeakable hunger awakens in “The Pothole” by Tyler Crook, while Zack Kaplan and Dennis Menheere explore a crime that memory itself refuses to bury in “Recollect.” Horror takes the field as Sam Humphries and Eleonora Carlini unleash the demonic baseball epic “Cassie,” while reality fractures in Rocky OBK’s haunting, liminal tale “Sauna 24.” 

With stories to satisfy even the most nightmarish of appetites by today’s top creators, including Dennis Menheere, Tate Brombal, Piotr Kowalski, Jorge Corona, Lauren Knight, and more.

Collects Hello Darkness #17-20.

About this title

About the Author

Tate Brombal is a comic book writer from Toronto, Canada. Tate is best known for his work as a writer on House of Slaughter, set in the world of James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera's Something is Killing the Children, and on Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston’s Black Hammer Universe at Dark Horse Comics, most notably for writing the Eisner Award–nominated Barbalien: Red Planet. You can find Tate on Twitter and Instagram @TateBrombal.

Sam Humphries is a writer and television host. He has written over 200 comic books, including work in the Harley Quinn, Avengers, X-Men, and Guardians of the Galaxy franchises. His other work includes the critically-acclaimed original comics Blackbird, Jonesy, and Goliath Girls. For DC Entertainment, he co-hosted DC Daily, an entertainment news show which ran for 450 episodes. For Marvel Entertainment, he wrote the video game Marvel Contest of Champions, which has accumulated over 215 million downloads globally. His debut prose work, The Youngbloods with Gwenda Bond and Kami Garcia, was launched on Audible in June 2023. He lives in Los Angeles with his cat, El Niño, and can be found online at samhumphries.com.

Piotr Kowalski is a comic book artist with comics published in both the American and European markets. He has worked for the biggest publishers in comics such as Marvel, Dark Horse, BOOM! Studios, Dynamite Entertainment, Image, American Gothic Press, LeSoleil, Le Lombard, and Casterman.

Eleonara Carlini is an Italian illustrator and comic book artist from Rome. She debuted in the U.S. in 2015 with work for Zenescope and Titan Comics.

Edition details

• Publisher: BOOM! Studios
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798892158589
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Kowalski Piotr, Various
• Number of pages: 176