Twelve killers walked into Oak Valley on Halloween night. Only one survived. Now the rest get their moment.

Image Comics and Tiny Onion are releasing Exquisite Corpses: Book of the Dead this January, an 80-page anthology that digs into the backstories of the assassins, mercenaries, and maniacs who died brutal deaths in the first season. Readers will also get a sneak peek at one of the new killers coming in Season 2.

The lineup is stacked. James Tynion IV and Michael Walsh, the series co-creators, are writing alongside Jordie Bellaire, Marguerite Bennett, Patrick Horvath, Alyssa Wong, Steve Orlando, Josh Trujillo, Soo Lee, Victor Lavalle, and Losty. Art comes from David Lafuente, Piotr Kowalski, Lauren Knight, Claire Roe, Alexandre Tefenkgi, Lisandro Estherren, Brian Level, Francesca Ciregia, and Ryan Quackenbush.

“The fun part was coming up with all these gruesome killers and then murdering them in terrible, terrible ways,” Tynion says. “But the hard part was saying goodbye to them so quickly.”

Steve Foxe, Senior Story Editor at Tiny Onion, says every killer built a fanbase, even the ones who died early. This anthology finally gives them their stories.

Exquisite Corpses was the biggest original IP comic of 2025, moving over 700,000 issues. A film adaptation is in development with Lyrical Media, and the tie-in card game crushed its Kickstarter goal by 400%.

The one-shot drops January 13 with multiple covers, including a polybagged variant with a collectible game card. For horror fans who want more blood and backstory, this is it.