Author: Newsroom
LOS ANGELES, CA (July 16, 2025) – The Horror2Comic Contest, the genre focused sister competition to the acclaimed Script2Comic Contest, has announced its 2025 winners, with Mike Haas’ haunting psychological thriller “Hatter” taking the coveted Grand Prize. The winning scripts will be published as comics by AMP Comics and simultaneously developed for film and television adaptation.
“Hatter,” which re-imagines the man who killed John Wilkes Booth as he descends into madness to become Lewis Carroll’s iconic Mad Hatter, stood out among hundreds of submissions for its bold fusion of historical fact and dark fantasy. The script exemplifies the kind of high-concept, mind-bending storytelling that has made the Horror2Comic Contest a launching pad for breakthrough genre creators.
“We had some incredible entries this year that pushed the boundaries of what horror can be,” said Don Handfield. “Mike’s ‘Hatter’ perfectly embodies our mission to find stories that don’t just scare audiences, but challenge them to think differently about familiar narratives.”
The Horror2Comic Contest has quickly established itself as a premier destination for genre writers since launching as a specialized offshoot of the successful Script2Comic Contest, which began in 2020. Previous Script2Comic winners have achieved remarkable success, with titles like “She Bites” becoming bestselling indie comics and attracting attention from major Hollywood production companies for film and television development.
2025 HORROR2COMIC WINNERS:
GRAND PRIZE WINNER
- “Hatter” by Mike Haas
- A psychological horror following Thomas Corbett, the man who killed John Wilkes Booth, as he descends into madness and fantasy to become “The Hatter” of Wonderland.
FIRST PRIZE WINNER
- “Methfoot” by Joseph Lint
- When a meth lab RV crashes in the Pacific Northwest, Bigfoot gets into the stash-and now a small group of men must survive the world1s first cryptid tweaker on a paranoid, homicidal rampage.
SECOND PRIZE WINNER
- “Black Hills” by JP Bradham
- A coming-of-age horror exploring the challenges of teenage girlhood-puberty, periods, sibling rivalries, and self-acceptance-during a zombie apocalypse.
THIRD PRIZE WINNER
- “Eat Me” by Jason Tostevi
- A desperate food influencer crosses the wrong restaurant and is cursed with an escalating hunger that can only be satisfied by one terrible thing.