Spine-Tingling AR Comic Experience Puts Reader into the ‘Horror Zone’

Prepare yourself for a suspenseful read as you enter LINE Webtoon’s ‘The Horror Zone’! Just in time for Halloween, LINE Webtoon has rolled out a bone chilling selection of must-read, panic inducing comic titles that are guaranteed to get your heart racing. The Horror Zone collection is anchored by a brand new title, Unknown Caller, featuring a new augmented reality comic experience – taking scary comics to a whole new level and bringing the reader directly into the story.  Readers beware, supernatural scares await once Unknown Caller takes control of your smartphone!

Following the raging success of Pokémon Go and Snapchat, LINE Webtoon is thrilled to present a unique use of augmented reality (AR) in comics. Readers will be transported into a one-of-a-kind reader experience that will set them directly into the universe of the ominous new anthology series Unknown Caller. Unknown Caller, is a spooky interactive collection of horror stories that will make readers jump out of their seats.

Other shudder-some titles included on ‘The Horror Zone’ theme page are popular titles, The Cliff, Dead Days, Elena, Silent Horror, The Vault of Horror and the iconic Korean horror anthology Chiller, which was LINE Webtoon’s first FX Toon – blending the vertical scroll reading style with chilling music and special effects to create a truly suspenseful reading experience. Also joining ‘The Horror Zone’ and following the footsteps of Chiller is Shriek, a new FX Toon that launched in September and will run through Halloween. Shriek is a horror anthology series featuring an assortment of terrifying stories including an original episode from Dey, the creator of popular LINE Webtoon comic Dead Days.

You can find all of the titles here: http://bit.ly/2dXc9oJ

The haunting AR experience of Unknown Caller is available only on the LINE WEBTOON app and will launch next Monday, October 24. Please let me know if you are able to share LINE Webtoon’s chilling theme month titles with your readers as we approach Halloween.