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Ghouls and boos are heading back to Monster High for a new scaremester in the first volume of this new comic series!While they’ll certainly be serving lurks in the hallway and haunting study howl, rumor has it that trouble is brewing. Draculaura, Clawdeen Wolf, Cleo de Nile, and Frankie Stein have never met a bad scare day or monstrous problem they couldn’t fix together…but Drac’s in over her fangs with new responsibilities, Clawdeen and Cleo aren’t speaking, and Frankie’s life may be in danger. The beasties need a fresh start, and what better time than the new scaremester? Surely a reconciliation is lurking just around the dark and foreboding coroner.Volume 1 collects the 2024 Free Comic Book Day issue, Monster High Pride, and issues #1–4 of Monster High: New Scaremester writers Jacque Aye, Hannah Templer, and Megan Brown and artists Caroline Shuda, Siobhan Keenan, and Bowen McCurdy.

Ethel is hard at work on her journalistic venture in Riverdale, writing a history of her beloved hometown. She's learning so much about the place she once called home—and not just about its landmarks!Ethel learns some heart-wrenching truths about Ms. Grundy’s personal life, and in doing so is tasked with special request on behalf of her favorite teacher. She’s determined to give Ms. Grundy the fairytale ending she deserved—but what about her own love life? It’s clear that Moose is interested, but is Ethel ready to settle down or see what options are out there for her? Before she can truly make up her mind, she must confront a part of her past she’d rather leave behind: her relationship with Jughead.

She used to be the laughingstock of Riverdale. Now she’s a successful New York journalist with a DGAF attitude.After graduating from Riverdale High, Ethel Muggs couldn’t get away from her hometown—and onto her chosen career path—fast enough. When the Mayor of Riverdale pays her handsomely to write a history of the city, she can’t wait to return to take down Archie, Jughead, Betty, Veronica, and all the other Riverdale natives who made her life hell all those years ago. The only thing she forgets to consider is... maybe they’ve all changed, too.

The new scaremester is well underway as a mystery fills the halls and the students prepare for the Howlidays!Students have gone missing, and un-life at Monster High gets more complicated with each passing day. Everyone is on edge, causing cat fights between even the beast of fiends. But none feel the burden as heavily as the school’s new protector. Only Wydowna Spider and all six of her hands could count Draculaura’s obligations. Between her new position as director of the school board, fearleading practice, ghoulwork, student disembody council, and Ra knows what else, she’s found herself at D’Eath’s door…literally. Plus, questions swirl when the school board dusts off the Monster Claws and begins to enforce them after centuries of being lax about monster-normie relations. Who created the Claws? Why reinstate them now? What is their true purpose?Then, Halloween is coming! Headmaster Frankenstein and Draculaura are throwing a carnival for the real monsters guaranteed to genuinely send chills down their spines, and Monster High is packed with booths: whack-a-molar, pin the wing on the dragon, spiderweb candy, and even a maze of frightmares. Plus, blankets of snow have settled over Monster High, which can only mean that the Howliday Ball is around the coroner. There’s nothing quite like a school dance to scare up some defrightful drama.Volume 2 collects issues #5–7 and the Halloween Special and Howliday Haunt one-shots.

Frankie Stein and Draculaura are stitching together a plan to take the World’s Scare by storm in this monstrously funny and heartfelt graphic novel about grief, owning up to your mistakes, and the power of fiendship.The brightest minds are gathering in New Salem to exhibit their latest breakthroughs that could change monsterkind furever at the World’s Scare! And Monster High’s very own Frankie Stein is dreaming up something monstrous to honor her late father, Headmaster Frankenstein. In order to do so, she’ll have to face down imps, traverse abandoned graveyards, and confront her past. But with a little help from her fiends, Frankie is sure to shock the judges.Meanwhile, the gossipmonger CryptCrier is under scrutiny from Monster High’s greatest journalist: Spectra Vondergeist for the Gory Gazette. And the school’s fiercest activist, Lagoona Blue, is gearing up for the protest of the century to stop animal testing.Frankie Stein, Draculaura, Clawdeen Wolf, Cleo de Nile, and Lagoona Blue are starting a new scaremester at Monster High, so this is a creeperific jumping-on point for new fangs. How eekciting.