Despite cancellation, 1899 creators aren't done with Netflix quite yet

Just like Dark, Odar and Friese’s new show centers on a small town and more than a few dead kids. In conjunction with Boom! Studios!, the duo is adapting Something Is Killing The Children, an eerie 2019 comic series by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera.

The show’s official logline reads as follows:

When the children of Archer’s Peak begin to go missing, everything seems hopeless. Most children never return, but the ones that do have terrible stories—impossible stories of terrifying creatures that live in the shadows. Their only hope of finding and eliminating the threat is the arrival of a mysterious stranger, one who believes the children and claims to see what they can see. Her name is Erica Slaughter. She kills monsters

Hmm, where have we seen a mysterious monster-killing stranger before? It’s not ringing any bells!

Just kidding. But while Something Is Killing The Children may initially sound like a cheap Stranger Things knockoff, hardcore Dark fans will remember when their beloved, PhD-level show was widely touted as “Stranger Things for grownups” before blossoming into a very, very different beast. You truly never know with these two, but as always we’re excited to see where—and when—they go next.