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 [...]
February 6th, 2009
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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. [...]
November 27th, 2008
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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 [...]
November 26th, 2008
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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 [...]
November 19th, 2008
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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 [...]
November 17th, 2008
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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. [...]
October 31st, 2008
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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 [...]
October 27th, 2008
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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 [...]
October 27th, 2008
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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 [...]
September 8th, 2008
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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 [...]
August 8th, 2008
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