Something Is Killing the Children is a Boom Studios horror series from James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera that opens with children being slaughtered in a small Wisconsin town by something nobody can see and escalates from there with remarkable efficiency. Erica Slaughter arrives as a monster hunter who is less interested in explaining herself than in getting the job done.
The series is smart enough to let that mystery breathe rather than rushing to answer it, building a mythology around the organisation she works for and the creatures she hunts that reveals itself slowly and earns every reveal. Dell’Edera’s artwork is the secret weapon — angular, shadowy, and deeply unsettling in the way it withholds as much as it shows — and together with Tynion’s writing it delivers one of the strongest horror comics to come out of the last decade.
Something Is Killing the Children can best be described as horror, specifically creature horror and dark fantasy — with a strong mystery undercurrent running through it.
Something Is Killing the Children was first published in 2019 by Boom Studios.