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Stuff of Nightmares: The Cat in the Coffin #1

Boom! Studios · Series began 2026 · August 2026

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Dates

Cover date
August 2026
On sale
August 26, 2026
In stores
August 26, 2026
Final order cutoff
July 13, 2026

Editions and covers (9)

Copies of #1 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Creators

pencils: Francesco Francavillainks: Francesco Francavillacolors: Francesco Francavillaletters: Becca Carey

Publisher’s description

From horror legend R.L. Stine (Goosebumps, Fear Street) comes a fresh, one-and-done nightmare framed by the Nightmare Keeper, with chilling visuals by comics artist Matthew Dunn. A broke dad steals a “valuable” stuffed black cat from his mother’s coffin, dumps her three real black cats at the pound, and gets hunted by the kind of bad luck you can’t outrun. Harvey Goodwin is unemployed, desperate, and convinced his late mother’s antique stuffed cat, Lucy, is his ticket back to stability. Hazel asked for two promises: care for her three black cats and bury her with Lucy. Harvey breaks both. Pocketing Lucy during the funeral, caging the cats, and leaving them at the pound, the haunting starts. Cat cries flood his car stereo, his ears bleed, and reality begins to “swap” out from under him. A darkly funny morality tale about what people do when they feel cornered by money, responsibility, and loss, it taps into the evergreen horror pleasure of “the curse that fits the crime,” with black-cat folklore turned into a relentless, escalating punishment.

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