Baronet Books is best known for its Great Illustrated Classics series, but in the ‘90s, the Waldman imprint took a walk on the scary side. Between 1995 and 1997, various authors contributed to a set of children’s horror anthologies called Fright Time. Kids who stumbled upon these books — often at local discount stores, such […]
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For over two decades, author Brian Keene has given fans stories filled with zombies (The Rising series), massive man-eating earthworms (the Earthworm Gods series), an occult detective (the Levi Stotzfus series), a well-meaning serial killer (“I Am An Exit”, The Complex and more), and numerous other tales of horror, dark fantasy and crime fiction. A […]
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The Garbage Pail Kids brand is still alive and well here in 2022, and up next we’re getting The Official Garbage Pail Kids Cookbook just in time for the start of the Halloween Season! While you wait for the book’s release, Bloody Disgusting is excited to debut an exclusive sneak-peek this afternoon, giving you your first […]
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With the success of both Fear Street and Goosebumps in the early ‘90s, it only made sense to combine them into one series. And R. L. Stine’s Ghosts of Fear Street is essentially that. Just the kiddos are now the targets of undue terror in Shadyside, though the dangers are strictly otherworldly. Everything from phantoms […]
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With copies of Fear Street flying off shelves, it only made sense for other publishers to put out their own young-adult horror series in the 1990s. And Berkley Books’ venture was Terror Academy, a fifteen-volume collection of high-school horror and thrills. C. A. Stokes, writing under the pen name of Nicholas Pine, kicked things off […]
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While you wait for Netflix and Mike Flanagan’s “The Midnight Club” series, Christopher Pike‘s original book from 1994 is getting a Netflix tie-in re-release, we’ve learned this morning. The novel follows a group of five terminally ill teenagers whose midnight stories become their reality. The new edition arrives September 20, 2022 from Simon & Schuster. […]
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The namesake of Wait Till Helen Comes is no friendly ghost. She may act protective, yet Helen is the furthest thing from a guardian angel. The fact is, the deceptive spirit of Mary Downing Hahn’s 1986 book habitually sets her sights on children, preys on their insecurities and twists the truth to her advantage. Indeed, […]
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Four decades after the release of the classic Canadian slasher My Bloody Valentine, one of the sub-genre’s very best, we’ve learned than an official novelization is soon on the way! My Bloody Valentine: The Novel, a brand new novel based on the classic film, will be released by Stop the Killer in February 2023, just […]
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Trains as a mode of travel seems old-fashioned nowadays, but in storytelling, they remain a persuasive setting for tales of unease and suspense. The endless railroad does wonders for Diane Hoh’s 1992 young-adult book aptly titled The Train. By placing her characters on a cross-country tour with no handy means of escape, the author underlines […]
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One Day at Horrorland was originally published in February 1994 (Spine #16). The series adaptation aired on Saturday October 25 & Saturday November 1, 1997 (runtime: 22 minutes). My eyes glossed over as they watched the trees thin through the car window and give way to seemingly endless stretches of farmland. We had only been driving […]
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Trapping characters in a single location makes for a compelling story. And having everyone be strangers certainly helps rack up conflict and drama as well. Sure, it’s an overworked formula at this point, but the results are undeniable. Eric Weiner, a ghostwriter for Fear Street Sagas, gave the recipe a whirl in his 1994 book […]
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Author, dream weaver, visionary, plus actor Garth Marenghi (Matthew Holness) is back! This time in novel form with the upcoming release of Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome. TerrorTome will release in hardback, e-book, and audiobook from Hopper Studio on November 10, 2022. Garth humorously describes his novel as: “Less a book, more a petrifying mind-realm, or ‘psych-zone’, […]
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According to the horror genre, summer camps are teeming with killers and other unusual dangers. These seasonal getaways designed for adventure and fun quickly turn into fights for survival. And it’s not just in the movies where a young camper’s sleeping bag doubles as their body bag; books also present camps as hotbeds of death, […]
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Guillermo del Toro is a fan and soon you will be too. Just wait until you see the art of Chet Zar, a former creature designer/makeup effects artist that worked on everything from The Blob to Darkman, Hellboy, and even TOOL’s music videos. Since, he’s become a fine artist in the genre of Dark Art. Bloody […]
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If you enjoyed Prey (now streaming on Hulu) and you’re hungry for more Predator franchise fun, the brand new official book Predator: Eyes of the Demon has just been unleashed! From Titan Books, Predator: Eyes of the Demon is a “brand-new anthology with fifteen exclusive short stories offering taut and dramatic tales set on Earth […]
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