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Witness The Twisted True Crime Series 'A Friend of the Family' Now On Peacock

Witness The Twisted True Crime Series ‘A Friend of the Family’ Now On Peacock

Back in 2019, viewers went through a gambit of emotions, mostly disgust and confusion, after watching the documentary Abducted in Plain Sight which explored the real-life story of Jan Broberg. Now, Broberg’s story has inspired the new limited Peacock series, “A Friend of the Family,” from showrunner, writer, and executive producer Nick Antosca (Brand New Cherry Flavor, The Act, Channel Zero) The series will walk us through the shocking relationship between the Broberg family and the man who kidnapped Jan not once, but twice. . “It’s easy to judge the Broberg family’s story from the outside. Sometimes when people first hear it, they get defensive: ‘How could these parents have let this happen? I’m not like them,’ Nick Antosca said in a statement. “That’s understandable. It’s a surreal story. When I first heard it, I empathized with the family’s vulnerability, and I felt like I understood their story from the outside. But it stayed with me, and I wanted to

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 7, 2022
New Comic 'Seven Years In Darkness' Debuting At NYCC

New Comic ‘Seven Years In Darkness’ Debuting At NYCC

Joseph Schmalke and CEX Publishing are launching a comic series, Seven Years in Darkness, and attendees at New York Comic-Con will get their first look thanks to an Ashcan being sold at the convention. The comic tells the story of the first group of students to enter a wizarding school in over a hundred years. 72 children are selected for the new class, but only seven will graduate, alive. Joseph Schmalke is the Co-Publisher of Black Caravan and a comics creator, writer, and illustrator residing in Westbrook, Maine. Joe is the artist and writer of several comic book titles including The Infernal Pact, Cherry Blackbird, Phantom Starkler, and more. “Seven Years In Darkness breaks with some horror taboos where children could die in a high fantasy winner-takes-all situation,” Schmalke said. “A group of kids are forced into the academy of Black Magic and while seventy-two enter only seven will leave alive. CEX took a bold move picking up this book

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 6, 2022
Netflix's Adaptation Of Stephen King's 'Mr. Harrigan's Phone' Now Playing (Trailer)

Netflix’s Adaptation Of Stephen King’s ‘Mr. Harrigan’s Phone’ Now Playing (Trailer)

The adaptation of Stephen King‘s tale Mr. Harrigan’s Phone is out today on Netflix! Acting legend Donald Sutherland stars as Mr. Harrigan and Jaeden Martell (IT) plays Craig. Kirby Howell-Baptiste (“Bary”) will play the role of Ms. Heart. Colin O’Brien (The Mothership) and Cyrus Arnold (Just Beyond) co-star. “Mr. Harrigan’s Phone is about a young boy named Craig, living in a small town, who befriends an older, reclusive billionaire, Mr. Harrigan. The two form a bond over books and an iPhone, but when the man passes away, the boy discovers that not everything dead is gone, and finds himself able to communicate with his friend from the grave through the iPhone that was buried with him.” Mr. Harrigan’s Phone was featured in King’s recently released collection “If It Bleeds.” The adaptation is from “American Horror Story” creator Ryan Murphy along with Blumhouse. John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side) is both writing and directing. Watch the ominous film now on Netflix.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 5, 2022
Horror Strategy Game ‘Terror: Endless Night’ Shows Off New Trailer

Horror Strategy Game ‘Terror: Endless Night’ Shows Off New Trailer

Feardemic and Unseen Silence today have announced their upcoming horror strategy game based on Dan Simmon’s novel The Terror titled Terror: Endless Night. Players take on the role of a captain leading a rescue expedition looking for the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus that have gone missing in the arctic north. The game will be turned based where players have to make tough decisions to ensure their crew’s survival with limited supplies as they become stuck in arctic ice. Try to keep your sanity as captain by assigning duties to crew members and be willing to make some disturbing decisions that will make you either look compassionate or tough to the crew as your choices will affect them. A demo is available now on Steam with the full release of Terror: Endless Night coming to PC and Consoles in 2023.

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Daniel S. Liuzzi
Oct 3, 2022
Movie Review: Mean Girls Meets The Exorcist In 'My Best Friend's Exorcism'

Movie Review: Mean Girls Meets The Exorcist In ‘My Best Friend’s Exorcism’

As if being a teenage girl isn’t bad enough, the loyalty of a group of friends is put to the test when one of them, Gretchen (Amiah Miller) is possessed. It’s up to her best friend Abby (Elsie Fisher) to save her in My Best Friend’s Possession, based on the novel by Best-Selling author Grady Hendrix. When we are first introduced to the movie’s characters, it’s driven home that the girls are inseparable. And after a night of playing with an Ouija Board (always a bad idea) and visiting the sight of a legendary murder, Abby begins to notice that her BFF is acting strange, leading to a battle for Gretchen’s soul. The cast did a fine job in their roles with Elsie Fisher and Amiah Miller standing out. Each character in their friends’ group obviously fits your basic stereotypes, the pretty one, the shy one, the quiet one struggling with the fact she’s a lesbian in love with her

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 2, 2022
Humble Bundle Brings The Magic With The "Witchcraft and Magick Bookshelf"

Humble Bundle Brings The Magic With The “Witchcraft and Magick Bookshelf”

Today, Humble Bundle has launched a brand new book bundle, titled, The Witchcraft and Magick Bookshelf Bundle. Available now until October 20, this bundle features more than 20 ebooks that explore the history, philosophies, paths, and practices of witchcraft & magick around the world. With a total of 22 books totaling $326, you can pay $18 or more for the books (in PDF, ePUB, and MOBI formats), paying what you want with the proceeds going towards charities of your choice! To name a few, you can get a book like Anastasia Greywolf’s Witchcraft and learn about spells, chants, rituals, spirituality, and incantations from around the globe, in Lisa Marie Basile’s Light Magic for Dark Times you can discover practices and meditations, and Lidia Pradas’s The Path of the Witch which helps guide those getting into modern witchcraft.

Continue reading →
Daniel S. Liuzzi
Sep 29, 2022
Archie Comics Announces One Shot 'Happy Horrordays' (Pre-Order Now)

Archie Comics Announces One Shot ‘Happy Horrordays’ (Pre-Order Now)

Archie Comics is wishing everyone a very scary holiday season with an all-new one-shot comic, HAPPY HORRORDAYS, hitting store shelves (and stockings) in December! The horror anthology features a return to the world of the hit Archie Horror series JUGHEAD: THE HUNGER bycreatorsFrank Tieri(Deadpool) andJoe Eisma (Morning Glories), along with two more tales of yuletide terror bound to keep you up at night hoping that sound on the roof is who you think it is. Setting up his offering, Tieri said, “In ‘‘Twasthe Night Before the Hunger,’ X-Mas turns into an X-Massacre when Jughead finds himself up against none other than a pissed-off Krampus one fine Christmas morn. It’s a nice little tale of ho-ho-horror where we may see more than just Christmas cookies and hamburgers getting eaten.” In Tieri’s JUGHEAD: THE HUNGER series, Jughead is a werewolf, and we were treated to another trip back to that fan-favorite universe in CHILLING ADVENTURESPRESENTS… WEIRDER MYSTERIES, a sci-fi horror one-shot released

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 25, 2022
Discover The Chilling New Trailer For Mike Flanagan's "The Midnight Club"

Discover The Chilling New Trailer For Mike Flanagan’s “The Midnight Club”

Mike Flanagan, the brilliant filmmaker behind Doctor Sleep, Gerald’s Game, and Netflix’s “Haunting of Hill House” is back with his Netflix series adaptation of Christopher Pike’s 1994 novel, “The Midnight Club” with co-creator Leah Fong. The series’ haunting second trailer is here teasing a dark mystery. The horror series centers on a club of terminally ill young adults who gather together at midnight to tell scary stories. They have made a pact that whichever of them dies first will contact the others from beyond the grave. The cast includes Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, William Chris Sumpter, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Shephard, Sauriyan Sapkota, Zach Gilford, Samantha Sloyan, and Matt Biedel. Scream Queen Heather Langenkamp (A Nightmare on Elm Street) will star as the series’ doctor who runs the hospice. Julia Bickell will executive produce along with Flanagan, Leah Fong, and Julia Bicknell. James Flanagan, Elan Gale, and Chinaka Hodge will also write for the series. “The Midnight Club” premieres on

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 21, 2022
Legendary Comics Plans To Keep You Up At Night With 'Sleep Terrors'

Legendary Comics Plans To Keep You Up At Night With ‘Sleep Terrors’

Legendary Comics, like its parent studio, is known for blockbuster storytelling and memorable characters who drive the action. Their latest original graphic novel is all of that with a dash of sleep-deprived, fast-paced fright that will keep you up at night. Sleep Terrors is written by Cavan Scott (Star Wars: The High Republic, Justice Society) and features art by Stephanie Son, is an all-new tale of revenge gone wrong that is destined to keep you up at night, and it’s the exact kind of menacing late-summer monster romp you need to kick off spooky season. Horror fans can score an exclusive hardcover edition (among many other rewards!) in a crowdfunding campaign that ends September 21, 2022. The book follows tortured soul Terri Shepherd as she learns, to her shock and creeping dread, that people who wrong her — even in the slightest! — are getting brutally killed by some unseen force while she sleeps. The monster is kept at bay

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 21, 2022
Mike Flanagan's Netflix Series "The Midnight Club" Premieres This October

Mike Flanagan’s Netflix Series “The Midnight Club” Premieres This October

Mike Flanagan, the brilliant filmmaker behind Doctor Sleep, Gerald’s Game, and Netflix’s “Haunting of Hill House” is back with his Netflix series adaptation of Christopher Pike’s 1994 novel The Midnight Club with co-creator Leah Fong. The horror series centers on a club of terminally ill young adults who gather together at midnight to tell scary stories. They have made a pact that whichever of them dies first will contact the others from beyond the grave. The cast includes Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, William Chris Sumpter, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Shephard, Sauriyan Sapkota, Zach Gilford, Samantha Sloyan, and Matt Biedel. Scream Queen Heather Langenkamp (A Nightmare on Elm Street) will star as the series’ doctor who runs the hospice. Julia Bickell will executive produce along with Flanagan, Leah Fong, and Julia Bicknell. James Flanagan, Elan Gale, and Chinaka Hodge will also write for the series. “The Midnight Club” premieres on Netflix on October 7, 2022.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 14, 2022

More from Books

Witness The Twisted True Crime Series 'A Friend of the Family' Now On Peacock

Witness The Twisted True Crime Series ‘A Friend of the Family’ Now On Peacock

Back in 2019, viewers went through a gambit of emotions, mostly disgust and confusion, after watching the documentary Abducted in Plain Sight which explored the real-life story of Jan Broberg. Now, Broberg’s story has inspired the new limited Peacock series, “A Friend of the Family,” from showrunner, writer, and executive producer Nick Antosca (Brand New Cherry Flavor, The Act, Channel Zero) The series will walk us through the shocking relationship between the Broberg family and the man who kidnapped Jan not once, but twice. . “It’s easy to judge the Broberg family’s story from the outside. Sometimes when people first hear it, they get defensive: ‘How could these parents have let this happen? I’m not like them,’ Nick Antosca said in a statement. “That’s understandable. It’s a surreal story. When I first heard it, I empathized with the family’s vulnerability, and I felt like I understood their story from the outside. But it stayed with me, and I wanted to

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 7, 2022
New Comic 'Seven Years In Darkness' Debuting At NYCC

New Comic ‘Seven Years In Darkness’ Debuting At NYCC

Joseph Schmalke and CEX Publishing are launching a comic series, Seven Years in Darkness, and attendees at New York Comic-Con will get their first look thanks to an Ashcan being sold at the convention. The comic tells the story of the first group of students to enter a wizarding school in over a hundred years. 72 children are selected for the new class, but only seven will graduate, alive. Joseph Schmalke is the Co-Publisher of Black Caravan and a comics creator, writer, and illustrator residing in Westbrook, Maine. Joe is the artist and writer of several comic book titles including The Infernal Pact, Cherry Blackbird, Phantom Starkler, and more. “Seven Years In Darkness breaks with some horror taboos where children could die in a high fantasy winner-takes-all situation,” Schmalke said. “A group of kids are forced into the academy of Black Magic and while seventy-two enter only seven will leave alive. CEX took a bold move picking up this book

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 6, 2022
Netflix's Adaptation Of Stephen King's 'Mr. Harrigan's Phone' Now Playing (Trailer)

Netflix’s Adaptation Of Stephen King’s ‘Mr. Harrigan’s Phone’ Now Playing (Trailer)

The adaptation of Stephen King‘s tale Mr. Harrigan’s Phone is out today on Netflix! Acting legend Donald Sutherland stars as Mr. Harrigan and Jaeden Martell (IT) plays Craig. Kirby Howell-Baptiste (“Bary”) will play the role of Ms. Heart. Colin O’Brien (The Mothership) and Cyrus Arnold (Just Beyond) co-star. “Mr. Harrigan’s Phone is about a young boy named Craig, living in a small town, who befriends an older, reclusive billionaire, Mr. Harrigan. The two form a bond over books and an iPhone, but when the man passes away, the boy discovers that not everything dead is gone, and finds himself able to communicate with his friend from the grave through the iPhone that was buried with him.” Mr. Harrigan’s Phone was featured in King’s recently released collection “If It Bleeds.” The adaptation is from “American Horror Story” creator Ryan Murphy along with Blumhouse. John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side) is both writing and directing. Watch the ominous film now on Netflix.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 5, 2022
Horror Strategy Game ‘Terror: Endless Night’ Shows Off New Trailer

Horror Strategy Game ‘Terror: Endless Night’ Shows Off New Trailer

Feardemic and Unseen Silence today have announced their upcoming horror strategy game based on Dan Simmon’s novel The Terror titled Terror: Endless Night. Players take on the role of a captain leading a rescue expedition looking for the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus that have gone missing in the arctic north. The game will be turned based where players have to make tough decisions to ensure their crew’s survival with limited supplies as they become stuck in arctic ice. Try to keep your sanity as captain by assigning duties to crew members and be willing to make some disturbing decisions that will make you either look compassionate or tough to the crew as your choices will affect them. A demo is available now on Steam with the full release of Terror: Endless Night coming to PC and Consoles in 2023.

Continue reading →
Daniel S. Liuzzi
Oct 3, 2022
Movie Review: Mean Girls Meets The Exorcist In 'My Best Friend's Exorcism'

Movie Review: Mean Girls Meets The Exorcist In ‘My Best Friend’s Exorcism’

As if being a teenage girl isn’t bad enough, the loyalty of a group of friends is put to the test when one of them, Gretchen (Amiah Miller) is possessed. It’s up to her best friend Abby (Elsie Fisher) to save her in My Best Friend’s Possession, based on the novel by Best-Selling author Grady Hendrix. When we are first introduced to the movie’s characters, it’s driven home that the girls are inseparable. And after a night of playing with an Ouija Board (always a bad idea) and visiting the sight of a legendary murder, Abby begins to notice that her BFF is acting strange, leading to a battle for Gretchen’s soul. The cast did a fine job in their roles with Elsie Fisher and Amiah Miller standing out. Each character in their friends’ group obviously fits your basic stereotypes, the pretty one, the shy one, the quiet one struggling with the fact she’s a lesbian in love with her

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 2, 2022
Humble Bundle Brings The Magic With The "Witchcraft and Magick Bookshelf"

Humble Bundle Brings The Magic With The “Witchcraft and Magick Bookshelf”

Today, Humble Bundle has launched a brand new book bundle, titled, The Witchcraft and Magick Bookshelf Bundle. Available now until October 20, this bundle features more than 20 ebooks that explore the history, philosophies, paths, and practices of witchcraft & magick around the world. With a total of 22 books totaling $326, you can pay $18 or more for the books (in PDF, ePUB, and MOBI formats), paying what you want with the proceeds going towards charities of your choice! To name a few, you can get a book like Anastasia Greywolf’s Witchcraft and learn about spells, chants, rituals, spirituality, and incantations from around the globe, in Lisa Marie Basile’s Light Magic for Dark Times you can discover practices and meditations, and Lidia Pradas’s The Path of the Witch which helps guide those getting into modern witchcraft.

Continue reading →
Daniel S. Liuzzi
Sep 29, 2022
Archie Comics Announces One Shot 'Happy Horrordays' (Pre-Order Now)

Archie Comics Announces One Shot ‘Happy Horrordays’ (Pre-Order Now)

Archie Comics is wishing everyone a very scary holiday season with an all-new one-shot comic, HAPPY HORRORDAYS, hitting store shelves (and stockings) in December! The horror anthology features a return to the world of the hit Archie Horror series JUGHEAD: THE HUNGER bycreatorsFrank Tieri(Deadpool) andJoe Eisma (Morning Glories), along with two more tales of yuletide terror bound to keep you up at night hoping that sound on the roof is who you think it is. Setting up his offering, Tieri said, “In ‘‘Twasthe Night Before the Hunger,’ X-Mas turns into an X-Massacre when Jughead finds himself up against none other than a pissed-off Krampus one fine Christmas morn. It’s a nice little tale of ho-ho-horror where we may see more than just Christmas cookies and hamburgers getting eaten.” In Tieri’s JUGHEAD: THE HUNGER series, Jughead is a werewolf, and we were treated to another trip back to that fan-favorite universe in CHILLING ADVENTURESPRESENTS… WEIRDER MYSTERIES, a sci-fi horror one-shot released

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 25, 2022
Discover The Chilling New Trailer For Mike Flanagan's "The Midnight Club"

Discover The Chilling New Trailer For Mike Flanagan’s “The Midnight Club”

Mike Flanagan, the brilliant filmmaker behind Doctor Sleep, Gerald’s Game, and Netflix’s “Haunting of Hill House” is back with his Netflix series adaptation of Christopher Pike’s 1994 novel, “The Midnight Club” with co-creator Leah Fong. The series’ haunting second trailer is here teasing a dark mystery. The horror series centers on a club of terminally ill young adults who gather together at midnight to tell scary stories. They have made a pact that whichever of them dies first will contact the others from beyond the grave. The cast includes Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, William Chris Sumpter, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Shephard, Sauriyan Sapkota, Zach Gilford, Samantha Sloyan, and Matt Biedel. Scream Queen Heather Langenkamp (A Nightmare on Elm Street) will star as the series’ doctor who runs the hospice. Julia Bickell will executive produce along with Flanagan, Leah Fong, and Julia Bicknell. James Flanagan, Elan Gale, and Chinaka Hodge will also write for the series. “The Midnight Club” premieres on

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 21, 2022
Legendary Comics Plans To Keep You Up At Night With 'Sleep Terrors'

Legendary Comics Plans To Keep You Up At Night With ‘Sleep Terrors’

Legendary Comics, like its parent studio, is known for blockbuster storytelling and memorable characters who drive the action. Their latest original graphic novel is all of that with a dash of sleep-deprived, fast-paced fright that will keep you up at night. Sleep Terrors is written by Cavan Scott (Star Wars: The High Republic, Justice Society) and features art by Stephanie Son, is an all-new tale of revenge gone wrong that is destined to keep you up at night, and it’s the exact kind of menacing late-summer monster romp you need to kick off spooky season. Horror fans can score an exclusive hardcover edition (among many other rewards!) in a crowdfunding campaign that ends September 21, 2022. The book follows tortured soul Terri Shepherd as she learns, to her shock and creeping dread, that people who wrong her — even in the slightest! — are getting brutally killed by some unseen force while she sleeps. The monster is kept at bay

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 21, 2022
Mike Flanagan's Netflix Series "The Midnight Club" Premieres This October

Mike Flanagan’s Netflix Series “The Midnight Club” Premieres This October

Mike Flanagan, the brilliant filmmaker behind Doctor Sleep, Gerald’s Game, and Netflix’s “Haunting of Hill House” is back with his Netflix series adaptation of Christopher Pike’s 1994 novel The Midnight Club with co-creator Leah Fong. The horror series centers on a club of terminally ill young adults who gather together at midnight to tell scary stories. They have made a pact that whichever of them dies first will contact the others from beyond the grave. The cast includes Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, William Chris Sumpter, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Shephard, Sauriyan Sapkota, Zach Gilford, Samantha Sloyan, and Matt Biedel. Scream Queen Heather Langenkamp (A Nightmare on Elm Street) will star as the series’ doctor who runs the hospice. Julia Bickell will executive produce along with Flanagan, Leah Fong, and Julia Bicknell. James Flanagan, Elan Gale, and Chinaka Hodge will also write for the series. “The Midnight Club” premieres on Netflix on October 7, 2022.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 14, 2022
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