Stuff of Nightmares #1

Preorder. Expected release: August 19, 2026. Item ships when released.

• Publisher: Boom Entertainment
• Writer: R.L. Stine
• Artist: Matthew Dunn
• Cover Artist: Francesco Francavilla
• Rating: Rated T+
• Pages: 40
• Dimensions: 6.625" x 10.1875"
• Release Date: August 19, 2026
• Format: Comic Book
• Series: Stuff of Nightmares
• Issue Number: 1

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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.