Freaks of the Heartland #5

The penultimate chapter of Steve Niles and Greg Ruth's rural horror series arrives with one of its most unsettling cover images yet. Framed from a low angle between the massive, distorted bare feet of one of the heartland's "freaks," an open doorway reveals a farmhouse engulfed in roaring flames against a night sky — while a small pair of shoes lies abandoned on the wooden floor below. Greg Ruth's painted artwork wrings every ounce of dread from this quiet, ground-level perspective, making the distant inferno feel both inevitable and deeply personal.