Dan Brereton’s Nocturnals: The Sinister Path #1 is this year’s Dark Horse Trick-Or-Read comic!

Dan Brereton‘s Nocturnals: The Sinister Path #1 is this year’s Dark Horse Trick-Or-Read comic! Trick-Or-Read is a yearly event hosted by Penguin Random House where they provide comic shops with free comics to hand out to customers every October. With content ranging from All Ages, Ages 13+, and Mature Readers, comic fans of any age can visit participating comic shops to pick up free comics and support their local stores.

While the town sleeps, evil rises. A war is fought for soul of Pacific City by monsters, human and supernatural. But some of the monsters are on our side. The Nocturnals, led by Doc Horror, his daughter Evening, and their band of misfit vigilantes, are all that stand against an eldritch criminal underworld.

The death of the mysterious Judge Hemlock opens a macabre power vacuum in the eldritch underworld of Pacific City. When The Nocturnals—Doc Horror, Evening, and armed revenant, the Gunwitch—investigate the occult-enshrouded Hemlock house, what they find will lead them down a twisted and deadly sinister path.

Celebrate Halloween early this year when Nocturnals: The Sinister Path #1 (of 4) releases in stores on September 3, 2025. It is now available to preorder from your local comic shop for $4.99. Or pick up Nocturnals: The Sinister Path #1 (Trick-Or-Read) from participating comic shops for free this October.

Source: Graphic Policy