PREVIEW: Meta-horror comes to comics in R.L. Stine's STUFF OF NIGHTMARES: RED MURDER #1

Next month, BOOM! Studios will launch Stuff of Nightmares: Red Murder #1. The one-shot is the most recent entry in legendary author R.L. Stine‘s Stuff of Nightmares series from the publisher, and is written by Stine, illustrated by Adam Gorham, colored by Francesco Sagala, and lettered by Jim Campbell. Today, ahead of the issue’s last order cutoff, The Beat is happy to supply an early preview of the one-shot.

Here’s how BOOM! Studios describes Stuff of Nightmares: Red Murder #1:

Comic creator Alex Oxaca has been out of the highlight for many years, and he’ll want he’d remained in obscurity quickly sufficient. An actual ax assassin, cosplaying because the titular hatchet-wielding killer in his early 2000’s smash hit collection, Red Murder, begins chopping down equally actual victims at a horror conference!

Along with the primary cowl by Francesco Francavilla seen above, Stuff of Nightmares: Red Murder #1 can even sport variant covers by Gorham, Miguel Mercado, A.L. Kaplan, Becca Carey, and Reiko Murakami.

In a press release again when Red Murder was introduced, artist Adam Gorham spoke about teaming with R.L. Stine for the one-shot:

“The works of R.L. Stine and illustrations of Goosebumps cover artist Tim Jacobus formed pillars of my pop culture DNA while growing up in 1990’s Canada. Their novels were staples of any school book fair or library and coveted by many fifth graders, myself especially,” stated Adam Gorham. “The Goosebumps television show (filmed in Canada) was appointment viewing for me, and I have fond memories of drawing any spooky thing I could imagine while watching that program. If you told me then that nearly 30 years later, I would be working with the legendary author on a comic book of our own… actually, that is exactly the kind of opportunity I’d have hoped for as a kid, which makes this project all the more exciting.”

Check out the unlettered preview for Stuff of Nightmares: Red Murder #1, together with the numerous variant covers for the difficulty, beneath. The one-shot is due out in shops and digitally on Wednesday, September twenty seventh. The subject has a last order cutoff date of Monday, August twenty eighth.