Small towns are a common setting for horror stories and for good reason. The smaller setting allows for a more intimate approach to characters and in the right hands offers for a story that is less about the scares and more about the people those horrors impact leading to a broader and more chilling examination of social issues and questions of humanity beyond the standard horror tropes. Redfork, written by Alex Paknadel with art by Nil Vendrell is just such a horror story, one that uses its setting in a small, impoverished mining community to not only tell a genuinely scary story, but to tell a tale of real-world horrors of exploitation and class oppression, and does both with grace.