Estuary: A Ghost Story Is a Gorgeous New Horror Comic to Watch in 2026

Oni Press has agelong been 1 of the champion outlets for comic fans bare for caller fearfulness series, and that inclination continues successful 2026 with the debut of a caller four-issue miniseries called Estuary: A Ghost Story. Set connected the Pacific coast, this visually stunning bid deals with a marine archaeologist uncovering a panic hidden successful an aged shipwreck.

IGN tin exclusively debut the archetypal preview for Estuary: A Ghost Story #1. Check it retired successful the slideshow assemblage below:

Estuary: A Ghost Story is written by Tim Daniel & David “D.B.” Andry (Crush Depth, Morning Star) and illustrated by Maan House (Mine is simply a Long Lonesome Grave). The archetypal contented features covers by Maan House, Vanesa Del Rey, and Tim Daniel. Here's Oni's authoritative logline for the caller series:

Atop a rocky cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean sits the Mission astatine Arbués Point, a 400-year-old Spanish ngo made infamous arsenic 1 of California’s oldest and astir haunted humanities sites. But beneath its crumbling, tourist-trap facade, a reclusive nun has spent decades wrong the Mission’s walls, honing her prayers and signifier successful pursuit of a concealed long-buried beneath the majesty of the chapel, and nether the acheronian waves of the tidal estuary below. When marine archaeologist Maris Cristobal accepts the nun’s connection to statesman excavating a fabled shipwreck lying successful hold beneath the Mission’s turbulent waters, she’ll soon observe that the sins of past and contiguous are astir to lavation unneurotic into a harrowing surge of a vengeance that tin nary longer beryllium contained...

“Estuary: A Ghost Story is simply a beauteous cleanable illustration of Tim and I penning what we know,” said Andry successful a property release. “Both of america hailing from Northern California and increasing up successful and astir San Francisco, Bodega Bay and Monterey, this publication captures the haunted vibes, the mystery, the romance and the consciousness of past of these areas. Myself being raised Catholic, tying the other-worldly elements of Estuary to the precise existent past of the Missions I grew up making dioramas of, was some earthy and cathartic. This was a communicative that poured retired of Tim and I, much similar thing waiting to beryllium discovered alternatively than thing created.”

“With Estuary: A Ghost Story, we were invited by exertion Bess Pallares to beryllium a portion of Oni Press' storied past with a modern gothic communicative shrouded successful fog, acceptable aflame, and driven implicit the cliffs of Monterey Bay,” said Daniel. “Artist Maan House and colorist Steve Canon person combined their talents to conjure a publication awash with a dreadfully heavy ambiance drenched successful Maan's heavy blacks and alight with Steve's brazen Hammer Horror-esque colors. The premix of the spiritual and the supernatural is heavy and contiguous connected each page, but a gothic communicative is not implicit without a interaction of romance, and successful Maris Cristobal and Hunt Willis readers tin expect our unwitting sleuths to observe not lone their tendency for 1 another, but a heavy acheronian malevolence lurking beneath the grounds of the aged Mission astatine Point Arbués—an age-old vengeance enrobed successful utmost piousness. Estuary: A Ghost Story is simply a modern gothic communicative for the smartphone age.”

Estuary: A Ghost Story #1 volition beryllium released connected April 8, 2026. You tin preorder a transcript astatine your section comic shop.

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