Sometimes horror isn’t mushroom spores sprouting from every inch of a human body. Sometimes horror is seven issues of dread, the slow disclosure of a betrayal, a secret threatening to be revealed and the consequences growing worse each time it isn’t.

Poison Ivy Vol. 6: A Death in Marshview is a fall nonpareil, a seven-issue unraveling where a variety of good decisions are one-by-one replaced with bad. Ivy issues are unnamed, and “Death in Marshview” is in some respects a poor choice for this volume’s title, as it seems to emphasize the swift conclusion of one of this book’s mysteries in the early pages over everything that comes next.