Filipino Horror Komiks That’ll Scare the $#!+ Out of You

You think you know horror? Wait till you dive into Filipino komiks. These stories don’t come from Hollywood jump scares. They come from the dark corners of our folklore, the ones your Lola warned you about. This is the new wave of Filipino horror: raw, original, and straight from the tropics.

Here’s your starting point.

1. Philippine Spirits: Mythica Obscura

By Karl Gaverza
Not your usual aswangs or kapres. Mythica Obscura goes way deeper, pulling out the creatures no one talks about. The kind you’ll find hiding in old research, oral traditions, and forgotten myths.
It’s the ultimate deep cut for anyone obsessed with the unseen side of Filipino folklore.
👉 Read it here

2. Josefina

By Russell Molina & Ace Enriquez
This one’s rad because it shows how humans can be the real monsters.
It’s a quiet, brutal story about transformation and humanity, written in Filipino, illustrated with grit, and guaranteed to make you think twice about what defines good and evil.
👉 Read it here

3. Trese Vol. 1: Murder on Balete Drive

By Budjette Tan & Kajo Baldisimo
A classic. This **** started it all.
Trese put Filipino urban horror on the map, a detective noir where every case ties back to ancient myth. If you’re new to Pinoy komiks, start here.
👉 Read it here

4. Cautionary Tales from a Filipino Childhood

By Bambi & Roland Amago
These stories and monsters still scare the **** out of me.
It’s childhood nostalgia with a dark twist, creepy, funny, and beautifully illustrated. Every page feels like a bedtime story gone wrong.
👉 Read it here

5. Maloles: The Reckoning Vol. 1 – Keeper of the Underworld

By Ebony Soy
Don’t mess with demon hellspawn.
That’s the energy. Maloles is a dark fantasy about vengeance, rebellion, and divine chaos, told through striking black and white art. Feminine rage meets folklore fire.
👉 Read it here

6. Death Be Damned (Patay Kung Patay)

By Mike Alcazaren, Noel Pascual, & AJ Bernardo
Peasants rise up like zombies and literally eat the rich.
It’s wild, political, and gloriously grotesque, the kind of book you read with a grin and a little bit of shock.
👉 Read it here

7. Depikto

By Ruvel Abril
The terror your mind conjures up is the scariest thing of all.
Depikto is introspective horror, part art book, part nightmare journal. It’s the one you read in silence, then stare at the wall for a minute after.
👉 Read it here

8. Kontra: Against Evil #1

Aswangs with the **** out, hunting down families.
That’s it. That’s the take. Kontra is unhinged indie horror in digest form, pulpy, chaotic, and unapologetically Pinoy.
👉 Read it here

9. 11:30 to Baguio

By Vaughn Tan
Haven’t read it yet, but it looks dope.
Sometimes that’s all you need to know. The cover alone screams “don’t open this while you’re alone at night.”
👉 Read it here

10. Libing Isa

Everyone’s talking about this one.
That’s the best kind of horror, the story that spreads by word of mouth and finds you when you least expect it.
👉 Read it here

That's a starting point... Now go!