Forty Coffins

A taut horror one-shot from Space Goat Productions, Forty Coffins (2015) spins a grim, self-contained mystery in a single issue. The story follows a man who inherits a remote, decaying hotel, only to discover the titular coffins hidden in the basement—each one a locked secret tied to the building's violent past. Writer and artist team up to deliver a claustrophobic, atmospheric chiller that stands as a focused, standalone fright in the publisher's catalog. It matters as a tight, effective example of the kind of lean, unsettling horror comics that thrive outside the Big Two.