The horror! The horror! You know how you can tell Halloween is this week? All the comic sites trot out the "horror" creators.

Because readers are only interested in horror during October.

Comic Book Resources gave us "Steve Niles Week" on Monday and Tuesday, yet somehow got scooped by Newsarama on the "30 Days of Night Annual 2004" announcement (see next entry).

The Pulse has, thankfully, spaced out its Halloween coverage, giving us stories on Insight Studios, and Jon Morris' "Boo!"

But today, CBR gives us a good interview with legendary "Swamp Thing" artist Stephen Bissette, who discusses the horror genre, his '90s anthology "Taboo" and his work with Alan Moore.

"To me, the keystones [of horror] are not the artifacts and the archetypes that people tend to associate with horror, but the unconscious well springs that are touched by horror," Bissette says. "There are the obvious negative ones: fear, dread, the feeling of being profoundly disturbed, frightened. But I think there's also an expansive and very positive side to horror, which is usually ignored. There's a very real feeling of awe and wonder that is tapped in some of the best exercises in horror."