The 10 Best Horror Comics You've NEVER Heard About
5. Sandman: 24 Hours
A single comic issue instead of a full run this time. While Sandman is more known for the existential, supernatural antics of later issues, this early issue demonstrates Neil Gaiman's origins in the macabre and horrific.
This takes place during the first arc of the comic, where due to someone sealing him in a box for several decades, Dream has lost all of his stuff and needs to go get it back. All that remains is his ruby, which has unfortunately fallen into the hands of DC villain Doctor Destiny, who can influence dreams.
Deciding to take his deadly new bit of jewellery out for a test drive, the good doctor stops by a 24 hour diner, waits for it to fill with the regulars, and then proceeds to drive all of them hopelessly insane.
From reducing two men down to their base animal instincts so that they tear each other apart, to getting one girl to worship him as a god and ordering her to stab out her own eyes with forks, Doctor Destiny's lust for blood and control over others isn't sated until everyone in the diner is thoroughly, brutally dead. With Destiny only stopped from going any further by Dream coming in at the very end.
While the rest of the arc is fantastic, as is the rest of Sandman as a whole, this issue is a particularly good read for Halloween night.