Dr. Orange: Halloween-themed psychological horror one-shot

If Edgar Allan Poe wrote a screenplay about the Great Pumpkin and John Carpenter directed it! A one-shot Halloween horror story.

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DR. ORANGE is a 22-page full-color self-contained Halloween-themed psychological horror comic book in which nothing is a given. 

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Suhaila, a woman with a history of hallucinations she now controls through medication, lives with her wife Chetana in suburban Mississippi.  Her wife is a neurosurgeon and rarely home, so she often finds herself alone with her thoughts and her border collie, Rusty.  She carves a pumpkin for Halloween, naming it Dr. Orange.  Soon afterward, it starts coming after her in her dreams for revenge, and when she awakens things aren’t as she left them.  Is the threat real or all in her mind?  And why does this orange menace take on the persona of a psychotherapist?

In interacting with horror fans, one thing I’ve noticed is that many want Halloween to be all year long.  Our mission is to make this happen by giving you quality self-contained tales of terror!

I wrote the original prose short story in 2011 after carving a jack o’lantern while my wife was in med school and not home.  I started thinking about what would happen if one were isolated and already unsure about the nature of reality.  Would you start imagining that objects were alive? What about something with a face, like a jack o’lantern?

Last year I completely rewrote the story, then called “The Pumpkin,” as DR. ORANGE, a comic book, greatly improving on it and giving it a stronger link to mental health issues.  After hooking up with some new and old collaborators, the book was underway at the beginning of 2018.  A practicing psychiatrist advised me on the portrayal of schizophrenia.