  Recent studies using New Horizons LORRI images have returned the most precise
measurement of the cosmic optical background to date, yielding a flux that
exceeds that expected from deep galaxy counts by roughly a factor of two. We
investigate whether this excess, detected at $\sim 4\sigma$ significance, is
due to axion-like dark matter that decays to monoenergetic photons. We compute
the spectral energy distribution from such decays and the contribution to the
flux measured by LORRI. Assuming that axion-like particles make up all of the
dark matter, the parameter space unconstrained to date that explains the
measured excess spans masses and effective axion-photon couplings of 8 - 20 eV
masses and 3 - 6 $\times 10^{-11}$ GeV$^{-1}$, respectively. If the excess
arises from dark-matter decay to a photon line, there will be a significant
signal in forthcoming line-intensity mapping measurements that will allow the
discrimination of this hypothesis from other candidates.
