This graphic novel anthology takes us through 8 chilling tales (perfect for the spooky season). I really enjoyed the mix of sci-fi and more modern settings and seeing the different illustration and storytelling styles of the various creators. These stories are definitely on the weirder side of books I’ve read (ex. Killiamburg which was about demonic snow/snowmen). Not every story was for me but I did enjoy Seeds of Eden, Night Train, and Hand Me Down!

This book was not for me, granted I didn't properly read the synopsis so wasn't expecting a graphic novel but more short stories. The graphics were really simple and the stories weren't scary and just not that great.

Three stars from me, which translates to, "I liked it!" What's not to love about graphic novels, especially the creepy, eerie, and spooky ones? TKO Presents: Tales of Terror is the perfect nostalgic work that transported me back to my childhood, the years I could not consume enough Goosebumps, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Fear Street, etc. The artwork and colors in this graphic novel are extraordinary. I will likely read this one again!

I LOVED THIS SO MUCH!! Some titles were genuinely creepy (like Seeds of Eden), some were hilarious (Dame from the Dark), and some were downright heartwarming (Killiamsburg). It was so much fun!

"We can't possibly understand all the mysteries of this world. The things that exist, unseen, in darkness. The things that we're not meant to face."

I love the idea of a horror anthology in graphic novel format. Unfortunately, there were both hits and misses for me in this collection. I found most of the stories too vague and confusing to be enjoyable. The artwork was so-so.

One of the stories, Roofstompers, had completely illegible text so I skipped that one. As for Dame from the Dark, I skimmed it as it didn't really interest me and was hard to to follow. The rest were okay but I wish they were more fleshed out and made more sense.

Didn't manage to finish this one. It's not that its bad, The artwork is of a high-quality, the story-lines however didn't match.

Sorry, but its just not my cup of tea.

2.3/5.0

This is a collection of short horror tales told via a comic medium. The stories range from ghost trains that kidnap babies in the middle of the night to demonic snowmen who attack hipsters in Brooklyn. The stories are fun and whimsical, with varying levels of length and different art styles. I enjoyed this collection a lot, my favourite story being the final one which follows Lyra and Reuben, a troubled married couple trying to balance Reuben's exceedingly busy work schedule and their young son Gabe. At a work party, Reuben gets hurt and when he gets home from the hospital, it is soon revealed he is hosting a demon that occupied his body during a cult-like ritual. However, the fact he went back to his home has angered Magnus and Jillian, the party hosts and they then kidnap their son from the school gates in order to get the demon back.

One thing I really enjoyed about this collection was the humour. Each story, despite how sad, usually had really good light and humour to it, particularly the final few stories which I liked. This book gave me real similar vibes to those Goosebump horror story collections that were published alongside the main Goosebumps series only in a comic format. Overall, I really enjoyed this.

TKO Studios with another hit! This is a great collection of spooky, short comics. I'd definitely recommend these stories to people who love horror. My favorite out of the group was "Seeds of Eden". It was spine chilling, and in my opinion, would've been even better if it had had a more sinister ending.

Thank you to NetGalley and TKO Studios for the ARC!

This is an entertaining graphic anthology. It's modern stories in the style of the classic Weird Tales and Tales from the Crypt issues. Most of the stories are enjoyable, there was only 1 out of the 9 that really wasn't for me. My favorites are Seeds of Eden, the first story of the collection, and Hand Me Down, which closes the volume. Thank you to Netgalley and TKO Studios for the opportunity to read this e-ARC. Since this is Volume one, I am hopeful that means there will be more to come. Please read on for reviews of the individual Tales in this anthology.

Seeds of Eden 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟
A scientist is going over the final system checks for the first colony on Jupiter. Everything seems to be in perfect working order. It is paradise. The A.I. has everything in hand for the first colonists to arrive. The future is looking bright...or is it?

The Father of all Things 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟
WWI Germany. A young patriotic boy, 14yrs old, joins the army to fight for his country. When he gets sent to the fighting line things aren't what he was anticipating. Talking to fellow soldiers he begins to question what he thought he knew. Then he comes across a deep subterranean tunnel, at the bottom of which he gets the answers to things he never wanted to know. The problem is, will anyone listen to his warnings or believe his story?

Night Train 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟
Neal is a ten year old who just became an older brother. It was a difficult birth for his mother and she is taking a long time to recover her health. His father is worn down as well, with work and worry for his wife. They ask Neal to step up and help out with his new brother. The baby is very fussy. He cries all night long further fraying the health and nerves of his family. One night Neal's mother is hospitalized and his father stays over with her. Neal is alone with his crying brother. Tired and unable to concentrate at school, this has been hard on him too. That night, alone with his brother, something happens that changes the family forever. Now, as an adult with his wife and new baby, Neal is thinking about all those years ago. Will history repeat itself?

Roofstompers (rating unknown)
It may have been a good story. Unfortunately I couldn't read it. The lettering was to garbled to make out. From the artwork I could follow some of it. It appears that a surgeon makes a mistake in the O.R. Later the Dr is hiking through the woods, hunting. She is attacked by a bear and an older couple finds her and takes her in to care for her injuries. From there it becomes obvious the couple isn't what they appear to be, really wish I could have read it.

River of Sin 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟
A towns children have been going missing, some have been found dead. The towns people finally decide they've had enough and since the sheriff isn't getting anywhere, they will take justice into their own hands. You see there is a witch living in isolation nearby and all the evidence points to her as the culprit, except is she really or are the towns folk about to make a terrible mistake?

Dame from the Dark 🌟
This is the one I mentioned wasn't for me. A private detective is hired by a family to find a missing young woman (it is difficult to tell from the artwork that she is a woman). The P.I., along with his 1920's flapper ghost sidekick (I'm unsure if any one can see this ghost), track the missing person to a magicians show where she is an assistant in one of his tricks (voluntary assistant or prisoner? I don't know). The magician claims to have real magic. From here on the writer and artist seem to lose any type of storyline, or maybe it is just me. It seems to end well for the characters though.

The Walk 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟
The Earth has been ruined by mankind's neglect and a team of scientists turn to ocean research for a solution. The group is stationed in an underwater facility. Their equipment begins to malfunction and the plan is to 'walk' to a nearby facility, from a prior research mission, and retreated equipment to fix or replace their own. During their walk they become nervous and want to just return to their own base. The team leader refuses to allow it, there is a secret he has kept from them. That secret isn't their only problem in this hostile and murcky underwater environment.

Killiamsburg 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟
A record blizzard hits Brooklyn and people are encouraged to flee the city while they can and return when it is safe. A few people decide to get together for a party and wait the storm out instead of leaving. Because this is always a smart idea, right? The thing is....this is not exactly normal snow.

Hand Me Down 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟
The title of this story is perfectly fitting. It's about a family that is going through a rough patch behind the scenes. The father is career driven and very detached at home, leaving his wife and son feeling neglected. He is so anxious to do well and fit in with his elitist colleagues that he accept an invitation to a masquerade party, dragging his reluctant wife along. But this rich group isn't what they seem. So used to getting their own way, though, they are completely unprepared for when the script is flipped on them and everything goes wrong.

Tales of terror was an interesting mix of creepy illustrated stories but although there was a couple of standout stories such as the Father of all things & Night Train the rest were sadly lacking and most of them had peculiar endings that left me quite disappointed in the whole story. Not one of the greatest books I’ve read.

I received a digital copy in exchange for a honest review so a honest review is what you're gonna get.

If I had to summarize my thoughts on this anthology, I'd go with "meh". I was excited for it because I'm a Creepshow fan and this felt like something similar. Unfortunately, I was left mostly bored and only a few stories really stood out.

Seeds of Eden: Good concept, but the ending disappointed me. I would have preferred an ending like The Walk.

Roofstompers: Had to skip it, the text was illegible, no matter how much I tried to decipher it.

River of Sin: One of the two I enjoyed a bit. Like the idea, the plot twist, the ending.

Hand me down: Enjoyed this one as well. The plot twist was easy to guess but it did work, so why not.

Night Train had an interesting concept as well, and The Walk had the best ending. But overall, I thought the whole anthology was underwhelming and kind of forgettable. I won't be recommending it, in fact, I probably won't even remember it in a few days. Sorry :(

I grabbed this comic to read for a spooky readathon, however yes it was spooky and there are more then one kind of story the structure of the story telling lost me a bit. I did enjoy it to a point but i feel i am not the right person to read this.

I am kind of sad that this book will not be out in time for Halloween.
While I am a flagbearer for spooky season being all year round, but just before Christmas feels like a generally hard sell for this book. Especially since some of these genuinely spooky haunting.

This is "Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark" but make it for adults.

When I was reading this it evoked similar feelings to when I read Scary Stories as a child, and in the same way those books could be read again and again as a child.

When I read a comic I expect to find a good balance between writing and illustration, something with equal quality. The stories were a bit messy, so was the art. My favorite story was the one with the witch, which has a classic folk-tale style. Besides that, I think there’s a lot of variaty, which is good. Space horror, folk horror, botanical horror... everything sounds tempting. Maybe it's not for me.

A graphic novel that contains a selection of spooky stories perfect for Spooktober.

Seeds Of Eden - 3.5/5
A futuristic story, very science fiction themed as well as thriller which did lose me if I'm honest, as I'm not massively into sci-fi books. A good story though about a scientist Al.

The Father Of All Things - 4.5/5
A story set in World War 1, a man who is lost but finds a boy who shows the future of himself, his family and his comrades. He isn't just a boy...is he a God or the Devil? A German solider who hoped war would be fun and honorable ... instead all he found death, destruction and loss.

Night Train - 5/5
A definite story that leaves you asking questions. A story of a boy who is faced with looking after his baby brother and suffers with childhood insomnia, makes a decision that changed his life. Was it Aliens? Ghosts? A product of his mind? A story with great draws and a great plot, left me wanting more.

Roofstompers - No Rating
Unfortunately the text in the arc was illegible and I couldn't tell what was going on just by looking at the images. So I sadly had to skip this story.

River Of Sin - 4/5
An interesting story about an angry group of towns people and a Bruja. A true representation of pointing the finger before you know all the facts and don't judge someone before you know them. Great story, with a great twist at the end.

Dame From The Dark - 1/5
I really didn't like this one as much. If I'm completely honest, I thought it was stupid. A ghost, a private detective and a TickTock famous magician 🙄. I didn't really understand what was going on, and felt it wasn't one of the strong ones in the collection.

The Walk - 4/5
This story was sad, dramatic and gripping. A story of scientists who are exploring the sea floor attempting to save the planet, in order to reverse climate distasters that are ruining the planet. There is something lurking in the darkness, we don't know what it is but it is a consequence of human error.

Killiamsburg - 5/5
I really enjoyed this one, currently watching alot of horror films due to the time of year and this reminded me of a 80's style horror combined with The Day After Tomorrow. Freezing Brooklyn with something skulking in the storm. Some humor, Bon Jovi music combined which helps create this cheesy horror film vibe.

Hand Me Down - 4.5/5
A tale of possession in a neighbourhood, where your neighbours aren't your typical neighbours. A story of distance and sadness to family and hope.

I received this an advanced copy, thankyou so much for the opportunity. A great selection with a variety of ratings. Highly recommend.

This was a creepy thrilling ride for me. Even though that I did not enjoy the first story, the rest were wonderful.

Noting that some stories had amazing art, that I would love to buy myself a physical copy.

Well done to the creators.

This horror graphic novel contains some great stories, and a couple of so-so ones. EDEN and Night Train were fantastic. I am not sure if my digital download was not the greatest but some of the artwork was a bit blurry but the stories shine here.

Highly recommend this collection for horror graphic novel fans of such classics as Tales From the Crypt.

Though some of the stories were fun, although simplistic, horror, others were very lacking and the quality of the art ranged from moderate to very poor. I ultimately was underwhelmed by this collection.

TKO Presents : Tales of Terror has 9 chilling horror tales. I would say that only some of the tales are good. My favorites would be Hand Me Down, Night Train and Roofstompers. The other tales looked like they were incomplete. The book could have been far more better. The graphics is excellent. The cover is also nice and attracts attention. I would only give 4 stars to the book. Thanks to Netgalley for providing me an opportunity to review the book.

I haven't always been impressed with the output of new comics publisher TKO, so an anthology under a 'TKO Presents' banner could easily have been a trial. This collection of one-shots, though, isn't bad at all. Literally the only name I recognised on the credits* is writer Alex Paknadel, who contributes two tales; one, Roofstompers, looks like it's going to be a fairly standard Misery riff, before managing to go to several much more interesting places within a comparatively slender page-count; the other is a hipsters vs killer snowmen romp which would have worked much better on screen. But for the most part it's the art that had me impressed. Roofstompers' rural setting and seasons are gorgeously rendered by Ian MacEwan; Baldemar Rivas does justice both to the trenches, and the worse things beneath them, in the Great War nightmare The Father Of All Things. Night Train, with its horribly plausible Faustian pact for nothing more than a decent night's sleep, might have worked even without the atmosphere Estherren and Delpeche bring to its visuals, but good heavens they seal the deal. Even on a piece where the story felt too long and too obvious, such as the space-colony-gone-wrong scenario in Seeds Of Eden, Paul Azaceta makes it so easy on the eye as to salvage the reading experience.

*Upon reaching the contributor bios, I realised that I had somehow missed Michael Moreci in the contents, despite reading all of his Roche Limit. Also, while the name didn't ring a bell, I'd previously been just as impressed by Estherren on Strange Skies Over East Berlin, so that's definitely someone for whom I'll keep an eye out in future.

(Netgalley ARC)