While Star Wars has a focus on heroes, rebellions, and hope, it also has its fair share of scary stories, characters, and creatures that call the galaxy home. From the Nightsisters, who can be found on Dathomir, to giant spiders that make your skin crawl, the various Star Wars animated series have a host of downright frightening episodes to dive into. 

In honor of Halloween and International Animation Day 2022, StarWars.com has assembled nine of the scariest Star Wars animated episodes out there. If you’re looking for some ghoulactic frights this Halloween, these’ll do the trick.

1. Star Wars: The Clone Wars — “Massacre” (Season 4, Episode 19)

This episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars delivers an entire zombie army of Nightsisters! Asajj Ventress returns to Dathomir to join

Of all the people Cassian Andor has met in Andor, the new Star Wars live-action series now streaming on Disney+,  there’s one person Diego Luna believes has the greatest impact on his character’s journey: his mother, Maarva, played by Fiona Shaw.

The Irish-born actor has played Harry Potter’s dour aunt in the Harry Potter films and a stone-cold MI6 agent in Killing Eve, but her turn as Cassian’s adopted mother is strikingly different. A warm yet unflinching presence in young Cassian’s life, and a buoy in the storm of his chaotic adulthood, by the time we meet her in her later years, her patience with the Empire has just about worn out.

“I can tell you everything I know about Maarva, but I’m not sure I should,” Fiona Shaw tells StarWars.com. “It’s

Star Wars Inside Intel is a StarWars.com feature where Lucasfilm’s Emily Shkoukani, whose job is to know as much about a galaxy far, far away as possible, explores obscure facts about Star Wars lore and continuity. In this creepy installment for Halloween season, Emily takes a look at a mysterious cult of Force worshippers… 

First mentioned in Marvel’s Star Wars: Doctor Aphra #15 in the story “War of the Bounty Hunters: Party Favors,” the Ascendant was a Force cult existing long before the Skywalker Saga, sometime during the Sith’s reign. Known for their wicked technology, the Ascendant were eventually eliminated by Sith and Jedi alike, who feared the devices conjured by the cult.

Tech Cult

There are two things that define the Ascendant: technology and the occult. The

Din Djarin is back and he’s teaming up with opportunistic Toro Calican.

In StarWars.com’s exclusive first look at The Mandalorian #5, an adaptation of “Chapter 5: The Gunslinger,” now streaming on Disney+, the titular bounty hunter has limped his ship to Tatooine, where he’ll have to team up with Calican to track down the elite assassin Fennec Shand if he hopes to have enough credits to repair his ship.

The Mandalorian #5, written by Rodney Barnes and illustrated by Georges Jeanty, with a cover by Stephanie Hans, arrives November 2 and is available for pre-order now on ComiXology and at your local comic shop.

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The Nihil storm has found a new home inside a sleek antiquities auction on Spira.

In StarWars.com’s exclusive preview of Star Wars #29, Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, and Amilyn Holdo don disguises to infiltrate a high-stakes auction in the hopes of winning a Nihil strikeship, a relic of the era of The High Republic.

Meanwhile, in Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #28, Beilert Valance and his team of mercenaries arrive on the Executor for an audience with the Empire’s most feared Sith Lord…

Star Wars #29, written by Charles Soule and illustrated by Ramon Rosanas, with a cover by E.M. Gist, arrives November 2 and is available for pre-order now on ComiXology. Bounty Hunters #28, written by Ethan Sacks and illustrated by Paolo Villanelli, with a cover by Giuseppe Camuncoli, also arrives November 2 and is available

Two paths and two choices.

Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi, a new six-part animated anthology of shorts, has arrived on Disney+. Helmed by supervising director Dave Filoni, the series devotes three episodes each to fan favorites Ahsoka Tano and Count Dooku, revealing key moments in their lives and journeys.

The stories range from the birth of Ahsoka and an early experience with her mother, Pav-ti (played by Janina Gavankar, who brough Iden Versio to life in Star Wars Battlefront II), to a mission featuring Dooku — still a Jedi — and his Padawan, Qui-Gon Jinn (voiced by Liam Neeson himself).

At Star Wars Celebration Anaheim 2022, Filoni described Tales of the Jedi as “Two paths and two choices” — a juxtaposition of Ahsoka and

Next spring, the Rebellion is landing in London.

Today Lucasfilm and Reedpop unveiled the key art for Star Wars Celebration Europe 2023, featuring a fleet of rebel ships, led by the Millennium Falcon, on course for the London skyline in a nod to Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, which marks its 40th anniversary next year. Amid the colorful backdrop the ominous silhouette of the second Death Star looms.

A limited number of tickets are still available for the four-day fan event, which will be fully operational next April at the ExCeL London. And keep your eyes on StarWars.com as we get closer to the main event and begin announcing exclusive merchandise, panels, and special guests! Official Pix will once again manage all autograph guests at the show. Stay tuned for mail-in

One of the great things about Star Wars is that it inspires endless debates and opinions on a wide array of topics. Best bounty hunter? Most powerful Jedi? Does Salacious Crumb have the best haircut in the saga? In that spirit, StarWars.com presents From a Certain Point of View: a series of point-counterpoints on some of the biggest — and most fun — Star Wars issues. In this installment, two StarWars.com writers celebrate the Halloween season by pledging themselves to the most terrifying dark side apprentice.

There’s no contest. It’s Maul, says Dan.

We love our Star Wars villains, particularly those loyal to the dark side. It goes all the way back to the opening sequence of Star Wars: A New Hope, when Darth Vader casually strutted onto the Tantive IV and into our baddie-worshipping hearts. The dark-hued outfits,

Every Tuesday, Bring Home the Galaxy will reveal new products inspired by the Star Wars saga and showcase the best galactic gifts this year for the whole family. Check StarWars.com each week for a highlight of five select products, including some of the biggest reveals. Plus, in collaboration with UPS this holiday season, special Star Wars Bring Home the Galaxy-themed wrapped UPS trucks will appear along regular delivery routes in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Orlando, and Atlanta.

This week, Bring Home the Galaxy delivers a Sithmas surprise and much more! Set your scanners below for some of our favorite items of the week.

A Star Wars Sithmas Apparel Collection by Reyn Spooner

Your holiday attire will be most impressive with this clever matching apparel from Reyn Spooner, hand-painted in

The rebellion has begun! Andor is now streaming on Disney+, following the fan-favorite rebel in a tale set five years before the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and we’re watching. Join StarWars.com every week for Andor Analyzed, in which we list the best moments from each episode.

Spoiler warning: This article contains story details and plot points from the seventh episode of Andor, “Announcement.”

So begins the fallout.

“Announcement,” the seventh installment of Andor, chronicles the aftermath of the Aldhani heist. It ain’t all good. The Empire takes the opportunity to tighten its grip, and Supervisor Meero of the ISB sees the robbery for what it really is — hence, the title of the episode. Cassian, for his part, pays a shocking price that sets a whole