Fear Case

Some Safaris are built around adventure.

Others are built around survival.

And then there are the paths most Scouts should probably avoid altogether.

Fear Case by Matt Kindt, with haunting artwork by Tyler Jenkins, falls firmly into that final category.

If you're a Scout drawn toward:

• X-Files-style investigations
• Lovecraftian horror
• Slow-burn psychological tension
• Philosophical horror about the nature of evil itself

…this may be the right Safari for you.

The story follows a pair of agents assigned to investigate what's known only as The Fear Case — an unsolvable mystery quietly passed down from investigator to investigator.

Every new agent receives the case when they come onboard.

But there's one rule:

No one stays assigned to it for more than one year.

Why?

Because anyone who digs too deeply into the mystery eventually goes insane.

As their final days on the case approach, the two investigators find themselves closer than anyone before them to uncovering the truth — always one step behind the location of a strange black case whispered about in:

• Cults
• Tragedies
• Disappearances
• Mass death

Whoever possesses the case has three days to pass it to someone else.

If they don't?

Something terrible happens.

And eventually, the horror reaches the person they love most.

What makes Fear Case work so well isn't just the mystery — it's the creeping dread.

The realization that solving the case may be just as dangerous as failing to solve it.

The investigators aren't simply chasing answers.

They're trying to decide what kind of people they are.

Part police procedural.

Part cosmic horror.

Part philosophical exploration of unmitigated evil.

This isn't Law & Order.

This is a descent into something ancient, intelligent, and deeply wrong.

And for the right Scout?

It's a Safari worth taking.