Everyone thinks they know the story of Dracula. They usually forget to include the cowboy, though. Re: Dracula is a new fiction podcast telling an old story, an adaptation of the original vampire novel by Bram Stoker. This close adaptation will use immersive sound design and some of the best-loved names in fiction podcasting to […]
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Halloween Ends has come and gone, taking with it the hopes and dreams of multiple generations of The Shape’s fans. You can like it, hate it, but you better learn to love the fact we are living in a legitimate Michael Myers moment. What better way to soak it all in than with a new […]
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The Point Horror line made every day feel like Halloween, but the Scholastic series had only a few books specifically set around the October holiday. The first of these seasonal offerings, Richie Tankersley Cusick’s 1989 book Trick or Treat, centers around a teenager who’s deathly afraid of her own home. As everyone else around her […]
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Hellraiser (1987) casts a long shadow over the horror world. The original film, directed by Clive Barker, is a remarkably faithful adaptation of his own novella “The Hellbound Heart,” a twisted love story of forbidden passion and pain. The hotly anticipated reboot from director David Bruckner (The Ritual, The Night House) stars Jaime Clayton as […]
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To most people, October 31 means Halloween. To Samantha Genetti, it’s her birthday. The protagonist of Halloween Party is turning seventeen soon, and her friends are throwing a masquerade to celebrate the occasion. In the meantime, Samantha quietly lives in fear after receiving a series of threatening notes from an unknown sender. Something dangerous awaits […]
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If you’re looking for a little spooky fun this Halloween season that the whole family can enjoy, Jace Bandalin‘s The Halloween Compendium is now available just in time for the big day. The Halloween Compendium: A Collection of Halloween Short Stories and Poems has been independently published by Bandalin on Amazon, and it’s packed with […]
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From the authors behind the Halloween franchise book Taking Shape comes Reign of Chucky: The True Hollywood Story of a Not So Good Guy, NOW AVAILABLE from Harker Press! The book is presently available in Hardcover, Paperback, and Kindle eBook formats. An audio adaptation by Encyclopocalypse Publications for Audible is forthcoming. Written by Dustin McNeill and […]
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Horror journalist Heather Wixson is back with Monsters, Makeup and Effects: Volume 2, the sequel to Monsters, Makeup & Effects: Conversations with Cinema’s Greatest Artists! The second in the four-volume series from Heather Wixson celebrates both the makeup effects industry as well as the artists who have thrilled millions of movie lovers around the world. […]
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Because Buffy the Vampire Slayer debuted in the Spring of 1997, there was no Halloween episode in the first season. However, Simon and Schuster’s series of tie-in novels fixed that oversight by including an original story that expands on Buffy Summers’ first year at Sunnydale High. Here the Chosen One is still getting used to […]
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It’s been a fun tradition with these new Halloween movies to read the novelizations after watching them, and we’re happy to report that Halloween Ends is getting a novelization! Written by Paul Brad Logan, Halloween Ends: The Official Movie Novelization will release on October 18, just four days after the movie arrives in theaters and […]
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Hope you’re hungry because this episode is all about hearty meals and tasty treats. For decades now, Stephen King has been whetting the appetites of Constant Readers around the world with all kinds of cuisines from King’s Dominion. Whether it’s a stack of flapjacks at the Tozier’s in Derry or Matt Burke’s bolognese in ‘Salem’s […]
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Christopher Pike knows his way around death, but how the author approaches the act of mortality in The Midnight Club is unique, even for him. In spite of the foreboding blurb and Brian Kotzky‘s creepy artwork, this 1994 book isn’t about young people dying at the hands of an external threat. Here death comes from […]
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As you may recall, we had learned several years back that writer/director Tom Holland was working on a sequel to his 1985 vampire movie Fright Night, which was taking the form of a novel rather than a feature film. What’s the latest on that? Well, Holland’s sequel tale hasn’t yet been told, but this week we’re hearing […]
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The Werewolf of Fever Swamp was originally published in December 1993 (Spine #14). The series adaptation aired on Friday, May 17, 1996 (runtime: 22 minutes and 26 minutes). As a kid I was always taught not to judge a book by its cover, but when it came to Goosebumps I did it all the time. […]
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Few short stories in horror fiction are as terrifying as The Raft. The 9th entry in Stephen King’s second collection, Skeleton Crew, is a simple but bone chilling tale about a floating wooden raft in the middle of a deserted lake and the horrors that befall a group of college friends who swim out to […]
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