Dark Horse Comics has announced TexArcanum for release this summer, July 2025. Written by Monfette with art by Martos colors by Patricio Delpeche and letters by Michael Heisler, the four-issue miniseries mashes up unfamiliar mythologies and American identities.
“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.”
So what’s TexArcanum about?
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.
Monfette continued, “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…”
MILWAUKIE, Ore., (March 19, 2025)—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.
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