You can smell it in the air, right? That crispness. That edge of autumn chasing away summer. It means that spooky season is right around the corner. And in the world of books, comics have a special place. I love a good horror book. Horror comics, on the other hand, elevate the frights with those incredible visuals. There’s a long tradition of horror in comics, after all, dating back well before the superhero landscape.
No matter the format, there’s something particularly chilling about horror set in a small town. Maybe it’s the closeness of the characters, the everybody-knows-everybody connectedness. Maybe it’s how it feels like nobody is coming to save you. More than anything, I think it’s about how it makes it feel like the horrific events could happen to anybody, anywhere, at any time.
So, let’s visit some small towns as the horrors descend upon them, shall we? Here are seven spooky horror comics about small towns.
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