— an ill-fated experiment to harness the psychic energy of cats resulted in local cats becoming enraged and attacking people in a small town. This too was written by Simon Furman. Editor Scream! was edited by Barrie Tomlinson, Ian Rimmer and Simon Furman, but in the tradition of counterparts such as 2000 AD and Tornado it was claimed to be edited by its fictional host, Ghastly McNasty. Rimmer claims to have taken inspiration for the name Ghastly McNasty from a Liverpool band called Filthy McNasty. Ghastly's face was concealed by a hood, and a regular feature of the comic involved readers sending in drawings of what they believed he looked like. Cancellation Despite fan speculation that Scream! was cancelled due to complaints from the public the reason it, along with five other IPC titles, ceased publication was in response to an industrial dispute. It subsequently merged with Eagle (#128, 1 September 1984) to form Eagle and Scream!, in which the series Monster and The Thirteenth Floor were continued. There were also five seasonal halloween specials released from 1985 to 1989, mostly consisting of reprints of horror-themed stories from IPC's back catalogue. Collected editions Monster, The Dracula File, and The Thirteenth Floor have been collected in the following omnibuses by Rebellion Publishing: 2017 specials revival After Rebellion Developments acquired the rights to the stories, a Scream! & Misty Halloween Special was published in October 2017. This included all-new stories based on characters from both comics. Following the success of this one-off a second special was produced in 2018. This one, however, had a choice of covers where readers could opt for either Scream! & Misty or Misty & Scream! This followed some debate online about how the Misty logo was much smaller than the Scream! logo on the 2017 special with Pat Mills (creator of Misty) feeling that it made Misty seem like a "poor relation" and that Rebellion perhaps didn't understand the female market. The 2017 special eventually had a Misty & Scream! variant made available, but only through specialist stores. In 2019 a further Scream! special was produced but without the Scream! branding - an entire collection devoted to The Thirteenth Floor with new stories. Scream! and Misty did return in 2020 and this time there would only be one version of the cover with the title given as Misty and Scream! (with a separate Misty Winter Special 2020