You’re scrolling late into the night, ghost light glowing, earbuds in… those Korean horror webtoons don’t just scare you, they burrow into you. These stories blend body horror, psychological dread, supernatural lore, and twisted humanity in a GATA approved mix of beautiful dread and visceral thrill. Below, ten titles that demand your screams and tears.

Sweet Home (2018) - Carnby Kim

After a tragic car accident, 18-year-old Hyunsoo Cha moves into Green Home, where residents start turning into grotesque monsters, or undergo “monsterization,” born not of illness, but inner human desire twisted into flesh-eating forms. Hyunsoo witnesses his neighbor’s transformation and joins the literal and emotional struggle for survival inside the crumbling apartment block. As connections form and bodies contort, survival becomes more than escape: it becomes fighting internal monsters. Bleeding noise-detecting phones, makeshift spears, whispered alliances… This apocalypse is equal parts humanity and horror.

Melvina’s Therapy (2017) - A.Rasen

Each session in this black and white psycho horror anthology feels clinical, symbolic, and twisted. Patients arrive seeking help and end up unravelling their deepest fears through surreal symbolic nightmares. Think therapy rooms where fear bleeds into metaphor: body horror and psychological unease blend until you question which nightmares are inside your head. Often compared to Lynch style cinematic puzzles, the final arc pushes you into philosophical terror, where horror isn’t just seen… it’s understood.

Stagtown (2021-2023) - Punko

Stagtown is a slow-burn horror drenched in dread. Frankie returns to her decaying hometown, only to find cameras watching her, timelines glitching, and reality quietly breaking apart. There’s no single monster here. Just a town built like a fever dream, with each arc peeling back unsettling layers of obsession and memory. Fans call it “a masterclass in horror” for its haunting pace and dreamlike storytelling. Stagtown doesn’t scream… it stares. The scariest part? The longer you stay, the more normal it starts to feel. And once the town has you, it doesn’t plan on letting go.

Nocturne (2023-2025) - Fyyaa123

The anthology series, now in its second season, cooks up horror from Lovecraftian dread, body mutation nightmares, social satire, and uncanny resonance. Stories twist flesh, degrade identity, or parody harmful viral challenges. All in monochrome, with eyes that stare too long. Some tales unsettle; others leave you unsettled in the quiet space afterward. There’s horror for every palette: humor, grotesque, uncanny, and a signature lack of light.

Tales of the Unusual (2014) - Seongdae Oh

Oh’s noir anthology riffs on urban legends, viral curses, ancient myths, and the monstrous side of human desire. Some shorts span chapters; most are two or three pages of surreal dread. A camera that snaps ghosts, magical water that reshapes flesh, dream shrines that kill… each tale crescendos into an unsettling twist. In fact, one of the short stories, Beauty Water, was adapted into an animated movie in 2020 after gaining popularity. Stories whisper about karma, vanity, loneliness, then leave you with lingering unease.

Hell is Other People (2022) - Yongki Kim

Jongu Yun moves into a goshiwon, a grim, cramped dorm in Seoul, only to find the other tenants have surgically unsettling faces and sinister habits. No supernatural monsters, just psychologically warped neighbors. As paranoia spikes, residents become literal horrors: dragging bodies, hidden violence, creeping manipulation. Every glance feels sinister. It’s existential dread in residential form. Hell might not be fire, but people.

Unknown Caller (2016) - Various Artists

This one turns your phone into a haunted object. You read the webtoon and then it clings: ghost calls, eerie messages from the dead, interactive jumpscares. The storytelling breaks the fourth wall. It feels like the comic reads your contacts, rings at 3 a.m., and whispers. Not visual shock so much as psychological manipulation; your notifications become terror triggers. Residential horror meets digital haunting. Don’t click it at bedtime.

Witch Creek Road (2018) - Garth Matthams

High school seniors on a camping trip take a wrong turn and plunge into demon infested woods. Flesh eating demons stalk them, love triangles divert into monstrous sacrifice and revenge. The story introduces you to a demon camp stalker, and then dive deeper into shredded flesh and fractured loyalties. A demon encircles a teen girl, calling it her sanctuary, but monsters also claim lonely hearts. You get teen drama, sexy horror, and cinematic gore in manga meets campfire nightmare form. GATA level terror.

My Girlfriend (2024-2025) - Park

At first glance, My Girlfriend looks like a sugary romance, with soft colors and big eyes. But don’t get too comfortable. The sweetness rots fast. After a shocking car accident, cracks begin to show: eerie shadows, unsettling expressions, and sudden acts of violence. What unfolds is a psychological horror wrapped in the skin of a love story, where obsession replaces affection and reality becomes unreliable. It’s not a breakup you fear. It’s what happens when you can’t break up. My Girlfriend is a twisted slow-dance into madness, where love hurts, and not in the cute way.

Ghost Teller (2018) - QTT

Ghosts telling ghost stories? Not quite. In Ghost Teller, the dead don’t haunt. They vent. Each spirit shares a story of human cruelty so vile, it makes the supernatural look tame. These aren’t tales about monsters; they’re about people. Beautifully illustrated and deeply unsettling, the webtoon flips horror on its head: the ghosts are the victims, and the living are the ones to fear. Readers love its sardonic tone, poetic visuals, and emotional gut punches. At its core, Ghost Teller isn’t asking you to be afraid of death. It’s asking why you’re not more afraid of being alive.

Korean horror webtoons aren’t your ordinary comics. They’re digital hauntings that crawl into your screen, and then into your brain. From grotesque body mutations to whispers that feel too real at 3AM, these comics don't just entertain. They provoke. They possess. And sometimes, they leave behind something you can’t quite shake.

Because here’s the thing: horror is more than just monsters. It’s beauty in distortion, fear as truth, and pain as metaphor. These webtoons prove that even pixels can bleed and that dread is a language that transcends culture, platform, or time zone.

So if you're still here, scrolling, reading, replaying that one panel in your mind, congrats. You're not alone anymore. Something’s following you now.

Sweet dreams.

WORDS BY SEUNGHEE RYU

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