Monsters, myth, and magic combine in this melting pot of American terror!
Dark Horse Comics presents TexArcanum, a new horror in the heartland comic adventure from television writer and producer Christopher Monfette (Star Trek: Picard, Marvel’s Vision, 12 Monkeys) and Miguel Martos. Written by Monfette, illustrated by Martos, colored by Patricio Delpeche (The Witcher: Wild Animals, The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos), and lettered by Michael Heisler (Avatar: Adapt or Die, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: The Hidden Codex), this four-issue horror miniseries mashes unfamiliar mythologies and American identities into one new story. Issue #1 kicks off the series in Summer 2025.
About TexArcanum:
America is a melting pot for the unknown. Ghosts and gods, angels and demons, horror stories and tall-tales, they’ve traveled from across the globe to collide here in the rural Heartland… and cowboy arcanist Avery Belle has spent a very long lifetime among them. When a centuries-old land feud escalates into the supernatural, when two warring families threaten a low-country apocalypse, only Belle can unearth the truth. TexArcanum is Yellowstone meets X-Files, Elmore Leonard meets Stephen King, horror-noir in the mystic Mid-West.
“Avery might wear a cowboy hat, drive a pick-up and talk with the dry wit of a Middle-American noir-PI, but he travels through pockets of culture and folklore that are seldom explored and yet the very definition of this country,” said Monfette. “American horror is too often defined by Western European scares – vampires, werewolves, Victorian-style ghosts – and the truth is that this country is made-up of communities who’ve brought their own unique folklore along with them. I created TexArcanum as a way to mash-together unfamiliar mythologies in the sandbox of the American heartland. A midnight drive through the middle of nowhere. The vast, empty plains – the oil derricks and wind turbines – the small towns and tourist stops – these are places with secrets and magics and wonders to hide. My hope is that TexArcanum offers a platform and a character that myself or future writers with far more diverse backgrounds than me could use to tell the kinds of genre stories I’ve really never seen but desperately search for…”
TexArcanum #1 (of 4) arrives in comic shops on July 23, 2025 and is now available to pre-order from your local comic shop for $4.99.
About Chris Monfette
Writer Chris Monfette began his career as an entertainment journalist for mainstay geek institutions IGN and G4 and first transitioned into comic writing by re-imagining the Hellraiser franchise for legendary horror icon Clive Barker. As a TV writer, he wrote and produced on all four seasons of the critically acclaimed series 12 Monkeys, two seasons of Fox’s 9-1-1 and was Co-Executive Producer on the last two seasons of Star Trek: Picard for Paramount+. His latest work includes Netflix’s Magic the Gathering animated adaptation and Marvel’s upcoming Vision series.