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Dust off your coconuts and polish your spellbooks. The long-awaited trailer for Practical Magic 2 is finally here, and the new trailer is ready to cast a spell on you. Nearly three decades after the 1998 cult classic, the witchy duo is back to bring a brand-new generation some moonlit mischief, reuniting Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as the iconic Owens sisters. The Curse Continues According to the official synopsis, the Owens sisters must confront a dark ancestral curse threatening to unravel their family once and for all. The trailer kicks off with Aunt Fran delivering some classic wisdom: “No magic is stronger than sisterhood.” Set to a haunting cover of “Season of the Witch” by Lana Del Rey, the footage reveals that Sally is still single. Meanwhile, Gillian is desperately trying to jumpstart her sister’s love life. The real trouble begins with Sally’s daughters. The family fears the generational curse has claimed a new victim. Kylie (Joey King) is
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To celebrate Archie’s 85th anniversary, a star-studded lineup of creators is bringing you a magical teenage crisis. It’s a localized temporal paradox, and a literal trip to Hell. Comics titan Oni Press and Archie Comic Publications have officially pulled back the curtain on a massive new publishing line. Launching this September, this crossover event is bringing top-tier indie prestige to comic shops everywhere. First up is a gorgeous, spellbinding look at the variant covers for October’s Sabrina the Teenage Witch #1. Incredible Artists Series editor Megan Brown notes that the team is incredibly excited to highlight a host of incredible artists. She promises these bewitching covers offer just a small glimpse into a world that is never boring, never ordinary, and always spellbinding. The magic officially kicks off with Sabrina the Teenage Witch #1 in October. Who actually wants to be ordinary when you could be casting hexes? Still reeling from discovering her magical birthright just before Halloween, Sabrina is
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Storm King Comics Hits Book #50 with a Superpowered Retelling of ‘Red Riding’ If you’ve been following indie comic royalty, you know that Storm King Comics doesn’t do subtle. The powerhouse publishing house—founded by legendary producer Sandy King—has officially hit a massive milestone. The imprint is dropping its 50th full-length graphic novel, Red Riding: Rise of the Alpha Huntress. The landmark book is available for pre-order right now and is locked and loaded for a release on June 9, 2026. Grandma’s House Just Got a Whole Lot Deadlier Written by LGBTQ+ author Neo Edmund and brought to life by legendary illustrator Jan Duursema, the graphic novel marks the studio’s first novel adaptation. It takes the classic Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale; however, it strips away the innocence and injects it with pure, unadulterated cosmic horror. The story follows 17-year-old Red Riding, who rushes back home to Wayward Woods after receiving an ominous letter. Instead of just baking cookies, Red
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If you thought John Carpenter was content with just letting his legendary filmography do the talking, the Master of Horror is here to prove that retirement is for mortals. Midsummer Scream, the world’s largest Halloween and horror convention, has announced that Carpenter is returning to the Long Beach Convention Center from August 7–9, 2026. He isn’t just coming to sign old Halloween posters, either. He’s unleashing CATHEDRAL—his very first original graphic novel alongside a companion album of the same name. It marks the first time in his five-decade career that he has tackled an original comic. It is his most ambitious cross-media project to date. The Blueprint: What Lies Beneath Downtown L.A. Co-authored with Sandy King, producer, editor, and CEO of Storm King Comics (Carpenter’s creative partner and wife), the graphic novel officially hits shelves on August 4. The story is a propulsive, claustrophobic nightmare centered on an abandoned cathedral in downtown Los Angeles. The holy ground conceals a centuries-old
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He’s back, he’s still wearing the eyepatch, and no—he’s not dead. Mad Cave Studios is bringing John Carpenter’s ultimate antihero back to the printed page this fall with Escape From New York: Escape From Chicago. Launching this September, the new continuation series officially expands the dystopian, synth-scored world of the 1981 cult-classic film. Steering the escape pod for this adventure is writer Kyle Higgins (Radiant Black, No One), with artist Val Rodrigues (The Pale Knight). Together, they’re throwing Snake Plissken right back into the kind of high-stakes, maximum-violence chaos that defined ’80s sci-fi. Sweet Home, Dystopian Chicago You know the rules: once you go in, you don’t come out. Unless, of course, your name is Snake Plissken. This time around, Snake is scraping by as a “coyote.” He’s smuggling desperate people and highly illegal contraband across the heavily armed dead zones between fractured prison territories. It’s a miserable, brutal gig. But when a high-paying client hires him to extract a
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Just when you thought Hollywood had run out of Stephen King properties to adapt, the industry digs a little deeper into the master of horror’s bibliography. According to Deadline, Ben Young—the filmmaker who leaves audiences thoroughly unsettled with the psychological horror Hounds of Love—has officially signed on to direct Mister Yummy. The film is an adaptation of a short story tucked inside King’s 2015 collection, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. Nostalgia, Regret, and Assisted Living Horrors Forget haunted hotels and cursed cars; this time, the nightmare is checking into a retirement home. The story follows Ollie Franklin. He’s a charismatic resident of an assisted living facility whose quiet life goes off the rails after a fellow resident passes away. Soon after the funeral, Ollie begins experiencing deeply disturbing visions. As the fragile boundaries between his fading memories, decades of unresolved regret, and the supernatural begin to dissolve, Ollie is forced to confront long-buried secrets from his past before his own
Continue reading →
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It’s officially happening. Blumhouse, Atomic Monster, and Behaviour Interactive have officially chosen their champion to direct the upcoming live-action adaptation of the mega-hit asymmetrical horror game, Dead by Daylight. The man holding the flashlight? Thordur Palsson. The Icelandic director is best known for creating and directing “The Valhalla Murders” (Netflix’s first-ever Icelandic original series) and his atmospheric 2025 psychological horror debut, The Damned. He’s currently wrapping up a disaster miniseries called Avalanche, but his next job will involve navigating a much more intentional kind of catastrophe. “There is no better moment than the tenth anniversary to share this news,” said Jason Blum, founder and CEO of Blumhouse. “Thordur is the filmmaker we trust to carry Dead by Daylight from the screen you play on to the big screen you watch in theaters.” For the Uninitiated: What is Dead by Daylight? If you’ve spent the last decade avoiding the gaming world, Dead by Daylight is a chaotic, stress-inducing multiplayer survival game.
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If you’ve spent the last six years harboring deep-seated trust issues and shouting “SUS!” at your friends across a digital spaceship, your time has finally come. Paramount+ completely blindsided the entertainment world at Summer Game Fest in Los Angeles. The series stars Yvette Nicole Brown and Liv Hewson walked out on stage, dropped a brand-new trailer, and casually announced that the entire 10-episode first season of Among Us is available to stream right now. No marketing campaign. No countdown. Just pure, unadulterated social deception dropped straight onto your TV screen. The Ultimate Office Drama (In Space) Created by Owen Dennis (Infinity Train) and animated by the absolute legends at Titmouse (Big Mouth, The Venture Bros.). The series takes the baseline mechanics of the wildly addictive Innersloth game and turns it into a full-blown animated space comedy. The plot is a direct translation of the multiplayer phenomenon. A group of eccentric, brightly colored crewmates are tasked with hauling literal garbage across
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Father’s Day 2026 is mere days away — Sunday, June 21, if you haven’t yet marked it on your calendar — and Quirk Books has a quartet of creepiness for fear-fare loving dads. Following is the official press information for these terror-ific tomes. Wake Up and Open Your Eyes By Clay McLeod Chapman From master of horror Clay McLeod Chapman, a relentless social horror novel about a family on the run from a demonic possession epidemic that spreads through media. Noah has been losing his polite Southern parents to far-right cable news for years, so when his mother leaves him a voicemail warning him that the “Great Reawakening” is here, he assumes it’s related to one of her many conspiracy theories. But when his phone calls go unanswered, Noah makes the drive from Brooklyn to Richmond, Virginia. There, he discovers his childhood home in shambles and his parents locked in a terrifying trancelike state in front of the TV. Panicked,
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American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis is officially bringing his latest dark, bloody teenage nightmare to the small screen with “The Shards.” The acclaimed 2023 prep school thriller novel is getting a high-profile television adaptation from creator Ryan Murphy. You know Murphy, he’s the twisted mind behind “American Horror Story.” Bloody Buckley High Set in 1981 Los Angeles, the semi-autobiographical tale follows 17-year-old Bret Easton Ellis during his final year of prep school. His golden, privileged world shatters with the arrival of a mysterious, handsome new transfer student named Robert Mallory. Robert’s unsettling presence perfectly coincides with a wave of gruesome local murders committed by a serial killer called The Trawler. An Elite Ensemble Cast The series features an incredible mix of seasoned genre veterans and striking new Hollywood breakouts. That includes Igby Rigney (The Fall of the House of Usher) as teenage Bret. Homer Gere—son of screen legend Richard Gere—will portray the deeply unsettling Robert Mallory. Kaia Gerber (Shell),
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Dust off your coconuts and polish your spellbooks. The long-awaited trailer for Practical Magic 2 is finally here, and the new trailer is ready to cast a spell on you. Nearly three decades after the 1998 cult classic, the witchy duo is back to bring a brand-new generation some moonlit mischief, reuniting Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as the iconic Owens sisters. The Curse Continues According to the official synopsis, the Owens sisters must confront a dark ancestral curse threatening to unravel their family once and for all. The trailer kicks off with Aunt Fran delivering some classic wisdom: “No magic is stronger than sisterhood.” Set to a haunting cover of “Season of the Witch” by Lana Del Rey, the footage reveals that Sally is still single. Meanwhile, Gillian is desperately trying to jumpstart her sister’s love life. The real trouble begins with Sally’s daughters. The family fears the generational curse has claimed a new victim. Kylie (Joey King) is
Continue reading →
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To celebrate Archie’s 85th anniversary, a star-studded lineup of creators is bringing you a magical teenage crisis. It’s a localized temporal paradox, and a literal trip to Hell. Comics titan Oni Press and Archie Comic Publications have officially pulled back the curtain on a massive new publishing line. Launching this September, this crossover event is bringing top-tier indie prestige to comic shops everywhere. First up is a gorgeous, spellbinding look at the variant covers for October’s Sabrina the Teenage Witch #1. Incredible Artists Series editor Megan Brown notes that the team is incredibly excited to highlight a host of incredible artists. She promises these bewitching covers offer just a small glimpse into a world that is never boring, never ordinary, and always spellbinding. The magic officially kicks off with Sabrina the Teenage Witch #1 in October. Who actually wants to be ordinary when you could be casting hexes? Still reeling from discovering her magical birthright just before Halloween, Sabrina is
Continue reading →
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Storm King Comics Hits Book #50 with a Superpowered Retelling of ‘Red Riding’ If you’ve been following indie comic royalty, you know that Storm King Comics doesn’t do subtle. The powerhouse publishing house—founded by legendary producer Sandy King—has officially hit a massive milestone. The imprint is dropping its 50th full-length graphic novel, Red Riding: Rise of the Alpha Huntress. The landmark book is available for pre-order right now and is locked and loaded for a release on June 9, 2026. Grandma’s House Just Got a Whole Lot Deadlier Written by LGBTQ+ author Neo Edmund and brought to life by legendary illustrator Jan Duursema, the graphic novel marks the studio’s first novel adaptation. It takes the classic Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale; however, it strips away the innocence and injects it with pure, unadulterated cosmic horror. The story follows 17-year-old Red Riding, who rushes back home to Wayward Woods after receiving an ominous letter. Instead of just baking cookies, Red
Continue reading →
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If you thought John Carpenter was content with just letting his legendary filmography do the talking, the Master of Horror is here to prove that retirement is for mortals. Midsummer Scream, the world’s largest Halloween and horror convention, has announced that Carpenter is returning to the Long Beach Convention Center from August 7–9, 2026. He isn’t just coming to sign old Halloween posters, either. He’s unleashing CATHEDRAL—his very first original graphic novel alongside a companion album of the same name. It marks the first time in his five-decade career that he has tackled an original comic. It is his most ambitious cross-media project to date. The Blueprint: What Lies Beneath Downtown L.A. Co-authored with Sandy King, producer, editor, and CEO of Storm King Comics (Carpenter’s creative partner and wife), the graphic novel officially hits shelves on August 4. The story is a propulsive, claustrophobic nightmare centered on an abandoned cathedral in downtown Los Angeles. The holy ground conceals a centuries-old
Continue reading →
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He’s back, he’s still wearing the eyepatch, and no—he’s not dead. Mad Cave Studios is bringing John Carpenter’s ultimate antihero back to the printed page this fall with Escape From New York: Escape From Chicago. Launching this September, the new continuation series officially expands the dystopian, synth-scored world of the 1981 cult-classic film. Steering the escape pod for this adventure is writer Kyle Higgins (Radiant Black, No One), with artist Val Rodrigues (The Pale Knight). Together, they’re throwing Snake Plissken right back into the kind of high-stakes, maximum-violence chaos that defined ’80s sci-fi. Sweet Home, Dystopian Chicago You know the rules: once you go in, you don’t come out. Unless, of course, your name is Snake Plissken. This time around, Snake is scraping by as a “coyote.” He’s smuggling desperate people and highly illegal contraband across the heavily armed dead zones between fractured prison territories. It’s a miserable, brutal gig. But when a high-paying client hires him to extract a
Continue reading →
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Just when you thought Hollywood had run out of Stephen King properties to adapt, the industry digs a little deeper into the master of horror’s bibliography. According to Deadline, Ben Young—the filmmaker who leaves audiences thoroughly unsettled with the psychological horror Hounds of Love—has officially signed on to direct Mister Yummy. The film is an adaptation of a short story tucked inside King’s 2015 collection, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. Nostalgia, Regret, and Assisted Living Horrors Forget haunted hotels and cursed cars; this time, the nightmare is checking into a retirement home. The story follows Ollie Franklin. He’s a charismatic resident of an assisted living facility whose quiet life goes off the rails after a fellow resident passes away. Soon after the funeral, Ollie begins experiencing deeply disturbing visions. As the fragile boundaries between his fading memories, decades of unresolved regret, and the supernatural begin to dissolve, Ollie is forced to confront long-buried secrets from his past before his own
Continue reading →
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It’s officially happening. Blumhouse, Atomic Monster, and Behaviour Interactive have officially chosen their champion to direct the upcoming live-action adaptation of the mega-hit asymmetrical horror game, Dead by Daylight. The man holding the flashlight? Thordur Palsson. The Icelandic director is best known for creating and directing “The Valhalla Murders” (Netflix’s first-ever Icelandic original series) and his atmospheric 2025 psychological horror debut, The Damned. He’s currently wrapping up a disaster miniseries called Avalanche, but his next job will involve navigating a much more intentional kind of catastrophe. “There is no better moment than the tenth anniversary to share this news,” said Jason Blum, founder and CEO of Blumhouse. “Thordur is the filmmaker we trust to carry Dead by Daylight from the screen you play on to the big screen you watch in theaters.” For the Uninitiated: What is Dead by Daylight? If you’ve spent the last decade avoiding the gaming world, Dead by Daylight is a chaotic, stress-inducing multiplayer survival game.
Continue reading →
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If you’ve spent the last six years harboring deep-seated trust issues and shouting “SUS!” at your friends across a digital spaceship, your time has finally come. Paramount+ completely blindsided the entertainment world at Summer Game Fest in Los Angeles. The series stars Yvette Nicole Brown and Liv Hewson walked out on stage, dropped a brand-new trailer, and casually announced that the entire 10-episode first season of Among Us is available to stream right now. No marketing campaign. No countdown. Just pure, unadulterated social deception dropped straight onto your TV screen. The Ultimate Office Drama (In Space) Created by Owen Dennis (Infinity Train) and animated by the absolute legends at Titmouse (Big Mouth, The Venture Bros.). The series takes the baseline mechanics of the wildly addictive Innersloth game and turns it into a full-blown animated space comedy. The plot is a direct translation of the multiplayer phenomenon. A group of eccentric, brightly colored crewmates are tasked with hauling literal garbage across
Continue reading →
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Father’s Day 2026 is mere days away — Sunday, June 21, if you haven’t yet marked it on your calendar — and Quirk Books has a quartet of creepiness for fear-fare loving dads. Following is the official press information for these terror-ific tomes. Wake Up and Open Your Eyes By Clay McLeod Chapman From master of horror Clay McLeod Chapman, a relentless social horror novel about a family on the run from a demonic possession epidemic that spreads through media. Noah has been losing his polite Southern parents to far-right cable news for years, so when his mother leaves him a voicemail warning him that the “Great Reawakening” is here, he assumes it’s related to one of her many conspiracy theories. But when his phone calls go unanswered, Noah makes the drive from Brooklyn to Richmond, Virginia. There, he discovers his childhood home in shambles and his parents locked in a terrifying trancelike state in front of the TV. Panicked,
Continue reading →
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American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis is officially bringing his latest dark, bloody teenage nightmare to the small screen with “The Shards.” The acclaimed 2023 prep school thriller novel is getting a high-profile television adaptation from creator Ryan Murphy. You know Murphy, he’s the twisted mind behind “American Horror Story.” Bloody Buckley High Set in 1981 Los Angeles, the semi-autobiographical tale follows 17-year-old Bret Easton Ellis during his final year of prep school. His golden, privileged world shatters with the arrival of a mysterious, handsome new transfer student named Robert Mallory. Robert’s unsettling presence perfectly coincides with a wave of gruesome local murders committed by a serial killer called The Trawler. An Elite Ensemble Cast The series features an incredible mix of seasoned genre veterans and striking new Hollywood breakouts. That includes Igby Rigney (The Fall of the House of Usher) as teenage Bret. Homer Gere—son of screen legend Richard Gere—will portray the deeply unsettling Robert Mallory. Kaia Gerber (Shell),
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