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Star Wars Horror Book
This Halloween, Star Wars publishing goes someplace very new and very scary, with the release of the first Star Wars horror novel, Deathtroopers, by Joe Schreiber. The text for the back cover is still to come, but this front cover art by Indika is so creepy, we just couldn’t wait to share it with you.
Deathtroopers is currently slated for an October 27, 2009 paperback release from Del Rey Books.
Artist turns horror novel into ‘hyper-serialized’ multi-media platform
A struggling artist from Sandgate has found a way to transform his unsold sci-fi horror novel into a ‘hyper-serialized’ multi-media platform. VPR’s Susan Keese talked with Hasso Wuerslin about his series, “The DeadBooks,” which spans 150 chapters, and includes 100 actors and lots of avant-garde world music set in the strange town of Landsgate, Vermont. The first 10-hour ‘season’ is now available on DVD.
Source: http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/82861/
Horror King still lurks
Before Stephen King became the franchise he is, in the early 1970s, he was a high school English teacher who supplemented his meager earnings by writing short stories for now long-dead men’s magazines: Cavalier, Dude, Adam. But as he became a successful writer, he concentrated mostly on the novels that regularly vaulted him to the top of bestseller lists.
There were still forays into short fiction – most recently “Everything’s Eventual,” a collection published six years ago. But it wasn’t until he was asked to edit the “2007 Best American Short Stories” that his enthusiasm for the genre was rekindled.
Mistress of Horror
On the warm, moonless night before Halloween, 65 people huddle around a campfire at Eureka’s Wild Canid Survival and Research Center in the middle of the woods. Deeper in the darkness, wolves prowl and a horned owl hoots overhead. It is a night for telling scary stories, and few people in America are better at it than the petite woman standing in front of the fire.
She is Laurell K. Hamilton, and for the past fifteen years she has enthralled her readers with tales of vampires, werewolves, zombies — and one very tough woman who works to keep them all in line.
“Can you give us a hint about the book you’re working on now?” one woman asks.
Hamilton laughs. Sparks from the fire illuminate her curly brown hair and glint off her reading glasses. “I’m not very good at giving hints,” she says. She pauses and her audience leans forward expectantly.
Interview with Horror Writer Joel M. Andre
Kill 4 Me, a technological thriller set in rural America, follows Casey Dwyer, a small town girl who becomes caught in a spirit’s unrelenting quest for vengeance after she receives a cryptic and seemingly harmless text message. A supernatural thriller that explores how technology can be used to torture others through the lens of a horror novel is horror writer Joel M. Andre at his best.
Top 5 Horror Comics
With Halloween just around the corner, I thought I’d follow the lead of ever other blogger out there and talk about horror comics. What I present to you below are the 5 greatest horror comic books ever produced. Although this list is based entirely on my personal opinion, I’ve never known me to be wrong. Here we go folks, grab some popcorn and hold onto your hats!
5. Haunted #20
For those of you who like a tale with a Lovecraftian feel to it, you will absolutely fall in love with Haunted #20 from Charlton. Most Charlton horror books from the 70s feature a real mishmash of 5-8 page stories, but for some reason editor George Wildman allowed Tom Sutton to run wild for 23 pages. And run wild, he did! This is heaven for Tom Sutton fans (and if you’re not one, you should be) as we’ve got a great gothic mansion, a portal to hell and a nosy estate lawyer. Sutton ensures that the ending is not 100% happy. Reprinted in Haunted #44.
Horror lists for Halloween
The people behind “The Book of Lists” series have decided to go grim and gory with the new “The Book of Lists: Horror.” With contributions from the living — and dead — they’ve packed more than 400 pages with lists both scary and amusing, like “Nancy Holder’s Thirteen Movies She Wishes She’d Never Seen Because They’re Too Scary (Yet Continues to Watch Repeatedly. What the Hell is Wrong With Her?)”
Most lists are more than just simple rosters — they’re filled in with details, summaries and recollections, and the editors have provided mini-bios of the many contributors (including Stephen King and Eli Roth). Not surprisingly, movies are the book’s star, and the classy (“The Exorcist”) rub shoulders with the cheesy (“Re-Animator”) in lists like “Stephen Volk’s Ten Movie Fates Worse Than Death,” “F.X. Feeny’s Ten Essential ‘Children of Horror’ Films,” “Richard Hartland Smith’s Ten Horror Movies That Suggest Life is Unlivable” and “C. Courtney Joyner’s Top Ten Horror Movie Surgical Blunders.”
Director David Cronenberg is writing a novel
Canadian director David Cronenberg is swapping his camera for a pen. The moviemaker, who was attending the Rome Film Festival on Thursday, said he has written 60 pages of a novel, but besides ruling out that it would be a horror or science fiction, offered few details on the project.
“Based on the pages I have written we found publishers all over the world, which is very terrifying to me,” Cronenberg told reporters. “It’s at a very delicate phase right now, so I can’t really talk about it. It’s not like Stephen King, I don’t know what it’s like but you wouldn’t call it a horror or science fiction novel at all. But what it is exactly, well, I don’t know yet.”
Book of Blood Not Bloody
John Harrison is busy in London right now putting the finishing touches on Clive Barker’s Book of Blood. With that title, the poster art, knowing Clive Barker and having read the book you would think this would be one bloody film. Well not according to Harrison who answered that question to iF Magazine.
“It has its moments, but it is not a gore-fest. It is more of a supernatural thriller a la THE OTHERS, or THE ORPHANAGE. Very moody. Very character driven. We screened a preview of the first ten minutes at the Frightfest Festival here in London last week. It’s the big U.K. horror festival, and thousands of fans come from all over the U.K., the U.S. and Europe. It went over really well. Big applause. So fingers crossed.”
Halloween: The First Death Of Laurie Strode
From Stefan the writer of the new comic we have the low down as well as your first look at the cover art for a brand new HALLOWEEN comic. It’s set in 1979, and is entitled ‘Halloween: The First Death Of Laurie Strode’.
It’s illustrated by Jeff Zornow (who is known in the horror community for his ‘Fright Rags’ t-shirt designs). The story is about what happened to Laurie Strode following the events of ‘Halloween’ and ‘Halloween II’, so it also fills in a lot of back-story for fans of the films.
Below are two covers which is a first look at them (both of which are from issue 2) as well as 2 images from the comic. The one showing Laurie stalking Michael is by Jeff Zornow, and the more radical Ikebana-style image is by Peter Fielding, who previously illustrated the comic ‘Halloween: One Good Scare’.
