Memoir #5

Nikki Cook's cover for Memoir #5 is quietly unsettling — a barefoot young woman in a torn green dress stands with her back to us, gazing toward a darkened silhouette of a small town against a rust-red sky. The image captures exactly the kind of dread that makes Ben McCool's series so compelling: something is deeply wrong in this place, and she either knows too much or remembers nothing at all. Image's indie horror catalog doesn't get more atmospherically charged than this.