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George Romero, before his death in 2017, was working on a zombie novel entitled The Living Dead. Unfortunately, Romero passed away before it was completed, Luckily for us, Daniel Kraus took the reigns along with Romero’s notes and fished the project! This 656-page novel is a brand new story, not based on any of the movies, and is surely a must-read for any Romero fans. The book is being released through Tor Books on August 4, 2020 and anyone who pre-orders from anywhere gets a poster to go along with the book! In “The Living Dead”… “On October 24th, John Doe rises from the dead. Assistant Medical Examiner Luis Acocella and his assistant Charlene Rutkowksi are vivisecting him when it happens, and so begins a global nightmare beyond comprehension. “Greer Morgan is a teenager living in a trailer park, and when the dead begin their assault, the true natures of her neighbors are revealed. Chuck Chaplin is a pretty-boy cable-news
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Let’s face it, Disney villains can be terrifying! Disney Chills is a collection of books where the scariest Disney villains enter the real-world lives of contemporary kids. Disney Chills: Part of Your Nightmare will kick the whole thing off with Ursula from “The Little Mermaid”: “Eleven-year-old Shelly Anderson just wants to be popular. Her parents have split and she has to start over at a new school with different classes, a brand new swim team and an unfamiliar social scene. So what if she just wants the cool kids to like her? Is that really too much to ask? So when Shelly finds a mysterious nautilus shell that summons the infamous sea witch, Ursula, she jumps at her chance to make a deal that will solidify her as one of the coolest girls in school. But when Shelly’s wish quickly goes belly-up, she must figure out how to back out of the witch’s deal before it forever binds her fate.”
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Hey cats n’ creeps; feast your eerie eyeballs on this terror tidbit of horror news: Out of Print has launched their Stephen King Collection T-shirt collection featuring artwork made famous on the covers of the novels; The Stand, It, Pet Sematary and The Shining! The best part about purchasing these killer clothes is that Out of Print has a one-for-one charitable segment: each purchase helps to fund literacy programs and book donations to communities in need! Now let’s take a gander at those devilish designs! Sweet, right?!! But I know you lot want to know how these things would fit in person… and you’re in luck because Out of Print sent me a sample of these beastly babies; and let me tell ya, these are high quality, soft as hell (which is surprisingly comfy, take my word for it… ), and absolutely guaranteed to have every horror hounds putrid peepers aimed die-rectly at ya! See, they go with anything! Here’s
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Now that we over the halfway mark to October, it’s time that Halloween season movie releases and themed subjects are beginning to be announced. We’ve got the news that Ray Bradbury‘s 1972 fantasy novel The Halloween Tree is currently being adapted for a feature film by Warner. Bros. and that the script is being written by Will Dunn. The Halloween Tree centers on Tom and his friends who set off to investigate the strange happenings in their small town on Halloween night. With the help of an unlikely ally, a mysterious figure known as Moundshroud, Tom and his friends must journey into the Land of the Dead to rescue their friend Pip from the demon who has abducted him. The group pursues their friend through time and space to times and places, including ancient Egypt, Medieval Paris, and Mexico for the Day of the Dead. Along their journey, they discover the origins of holidays and face supernatural entities as well
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Stephen King and Owen King‘s bestselling 2017 novel Sleeping Beauties is being adapted into a new 10-part graphic novel by Rio Youers (The Forgotten Girl) and Alison Sampson (Winnebago Graveyard). In the thrilling story, “a strange sleeping sickness, known as Aurora, has fallen over the world, and strangest of all, it only affects women. In the small town of Dooling, a mysterious woman has walked out of the woods; she calls herself Eve and leaves a trail of carnage behind her. More mysterious: she’s the only woman not falling asleep.” The graphic novel’s art is incredible, truly frame-worthy. I really hope that at some point the covers are released as a series of posters. I’ve seen several of the covers, take my word for it, they’re gorgeous. If the rest of the series is anything like the first well written and illustrated book, we’re in for something special. But when the name King is involved you already know it’s going
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Merge Games and Antab Studio have announced that they’re working on an upcoming shooter game that combines the neon-lit aesthetics of a cyberpunk world and the folding pages of a comic book. Inspired by the Deux Ex and Max Payne games along with Frank Miller’s graphic novel Hard Boiled comes the third-person shooter Foreclosed. In Foreclosed, players will take on the role of Evan Kapnos who has had their identity “Foreclosed”, which is like identity theft BUT the person now no longer exists. Face with this, Evan now must fight against the dehumanizing bureaucracy that took his identity before his identity and his cybernetic implants are auctioned off! Foreclosed will visually appear as a graphic novel with interactive cutscenes and smooth transitions making loading feel like it’s not there. Foreclosed is currently in development and is expected to be coming in 2021 to PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.
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From writer-director Christian Alvart (Antibodies, Pandorum) comes the dark German horror-thriller Cut Off, based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Fitzek and Michael Tsokos. Titled Abgeschnitten in its original language, the pulse-pounding film centers on Coroner Paul Herzfeld who discovers something terrifying, a capsule in the head of a heavily mutilated corpse, containing a phone number and single word: the name of his daughter who is missing. Paul finds himself to save his daughter from a serial killer on an island cut off from the mainland by a raging storm. Moritz Bleibtreu leads the cast that includes Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Fahri Yardim, Enno Hesse, Christian Kuchenbuch, Urs Jucker, and Barbara Prakopenka. Cut Off will receive an American release on digital platforms on July 3, 2020, from Dark Sky Films
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I have just had the chance to read the novel The Light Reapers: End of the World by Gary Hickman. Right off the bat, bluntly and honestly, I enjoyed this novel very much and I am grateful that Mr. Hickman sent it to me to read and review. The “Light Reapers” are an elite special ops group of soldiers who have a history of missions together that have bonded them over the years. They are deployed to rescue a scientist who may be able to find a cure for a viral pandemic caused by an ISIS faction which turns people into vicious, flesh eating hordes who who kill for any reason and in every grotesque way you can imagine. Story On the surface, the story of Light Reapers is not anything new. Zombies are a time honored horror tradition with a long, long list of media building their anthology of gnawing and feeding on flesh. For broad strokes purposes, this
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The Emmy Award-winning “Chernobyl” John Renck is currently in negotiation to direct the adaptation of John Fowles’ novel for the mini-series “The Magus,” Variety reports. “The Magus,” originally published back in 1966, is set on a Greek isle where Nicholas Urfe, a young school teacher, finds himself embroiled in the psychological illusions of a master trickster, which becomes increasingly dark and serious. “1917’s” Neal Street Productions produces along with Pippa Harris and Sam Mendes and is written by Tom Edge (Judy, “The Crown”). The novel has been adapted once before in the 1960s by Fowles himself and starred Anthony Quinn. Take a look at the 1968 film’s trailer (below). Featured Image By Variety
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In a fun new video the cast of Netflix’s hit series “The Umbrella Academy” revealed the premiere date for the second season. Based on the comic book series from Dark Horse Comics of the same name created and written by Gerard Way and illustrated by Gabriel Bá, the series follows a family of former child heroes, now grown apart, who reunite to continue to protect the world. Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañ, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, and Aiden Gallagher star in this incredible, action-packed series. “The Umbrella Academy‘s” season one finale ended in a cliffhanger after it was revealed that their sister Vanya (Ellen Page) is the one who brings about the end of the world. Watch the first season on Netflix now before season two premieres on July 31, 2020.
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George Romero, before his death in 2017, was working on a zombie novel entitled The Living Dead. Unfortunately, Romero passed away before it was completed, Luckily for us, Daniel Kraus took the reigns along with Romero’s notes and fished the project! This 656-page novel is a brand new story, not based on any of the movies, and is surely a must-read for any Romero fans. The book is being released through Tor Books on August 4, 2020 and anyone who pre-orders from anywhere gets a poster to go along with the book! In “The Living Dead”… “On October 24th, John Doe rises from the dead. Assistant Medical Examiner Luis Acocella and his assistant Charlene Rutkowksi are vivisecting him when it happens, and so begins a global nightmare beyond comprehension. “Greer Morgan is a teenager living in a trailer park, and when the dead begin their assault, the true natures of her neighbors are revealed. Chuck Chaplin is a pretty-boy cable-news
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Let’s face it, Disney villains can be terrifying! Disney Chills is a collection of books where the scariest Disney villains enter the real-world lives of contemporary kids. Disney Chills: Part of Your Nightmare will kick the whole thing off with Ursula from “The Little Mermaid”: “Eleven-year-old Shelly Anderson just wants to be popular. Her parents have split and she has to start over at a new school with different classes, a brand new swim team and an unfamiliar social scene. So what if she just wants the cool kids to like her? Is that really too much to ask? So when Shelly finds a mysterious nautilus shell that summons the infamous sea witch, Ursula, she jumps at her chance to make a deal that will solidify her as one of the coolest girls in school. But when Shelly’s wish quickly goes belly-up, she must figure out how to back out of the witch’s deal before it forever binds her fate.”
Continue reading →
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Hey cats n’ creeps; feast your eerie eyeballs on this terror tidbit of horror news: Out of Print has launched their Stephen King Collection T-shirt collection featuring artwork made famous on the covers of the novels; The Stand, It, Pet Sematary and The Shining! The best part about purchasing these killer clothes is that Out of Print has a one-for-one charitable segment: each purchase helps to fund literacy programs and book donations to communities in need! Now let’s take a gander at those devilish designs! Sweet, right?!! But I know you lot want to know how these things would fit in person… and you’re in luck because Out of Print sent me a sample of these beastly babies; and let me tell ya, these are high quality, soft as hell (which is surprisingly comfy, take my word for it… ), and absolutely guaranteed to have every horror hounds putrid peepers aimed die-rectly at ya! See, they go with anything! Here’s
Continue reading →
BooksHalloweenMoviesNews
Now that we over the halfway mark to October, it’s time that Halloween season movie releases and themed subjects are beginning to be announced. We’ve got the news that Ray Bradbury‘s 1972 fantasy novel The Halloween Tree is currently being adapted for a feature film by Warner. Bros. and that the script is being written by Will Dunn. The Halloween Tree centers on Tom and his friends who set off to investigate the strange happenings in their small town on Halloween night. With the help of an unlikely ally, a mysterious figure known as Moundshroud, Tom and his friends must journey into the Land of the Dead to rescue their friend Pip from the demon who has abducted him. The group pursues their friend through time and space to times and places, including ancient Egypt, Medieval Paris, and Mexico for the Day of the Dead. Along their journey, they discover the origins of holidays and face supernatural entities as well
Continue reading →
BooksComic Books/Graphic NovelsNewsReviews
Stephen King and Owen King‘s bestselling 2017 novel Sleeping Beauties is being adapted into a new 10-part graphic novel by Rio Youers (The Forgotten Girl) and Alison Sampson (Winnebago Graveyard). In the thrilling story, “a strange sleeping sickness, known as Aurora, has fallen over the world, and strangest of all, it only affects women. In the small town of Dooling, a mysterious woman has walked out of the woods; she calls herself Eve and leaves a trail of carnage behind her. More mysterious: she’s the only woman not falling asleep.” The graphic novel’s art is incredible, truly frame-worthy. I really hope that at some point the covers are released as a series of posters. I’ve seen several of the covers, take my word for it, they’re gorgeous. If the rest of the series is anything like the first well written and illustrated book, we’re in for something special. But when the name King is involved you already know it’s going
Continue reading →
Comic Books/Graphic NovelsGamingNewsTrailers
Merge Games and Antab Studio have announced that they’re working on an upcoming shooter game that combines the neon-lit aesthetics of a cyberpunk world and the folding pages of a comic book. Inspired by the Deux Ex and Max Payne games along with Frank Miller’s graphic novel Hard Boiled comes the third-person shooter Foreclosed. In Foreclosed, players will take on the role of Evan Kapnos who has had their identity “Foreclosed”, which is like identity theft BUT the person now no longer exists. Face with this, Evan now must fight against the dehumanizing bureaucracy that took his identity before his identity and his cybernetic implants are auctioned off! Foreclosed will visually appear as a graphic novel with interactive cutscenes and smooth transitions making loading feel like it’s not there. Foreclosed is currently in development and is expected to be coming in 2021 to PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.
Continue reading →
BooksForeignMoviesNewsTrailers
From writer-director Christian Alvart (Antibodies, Pandorum) comes the dark German horror-thriller Cut Off, based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Fitzek and Michael Tsokos. Titled Abgeschnitten in its original language, the pulse-pounding film centers on Coroner Paul Herzfeld who discovers something terrifying, a capsule in the head of a heavily mutilated corpse, containing a phone number and single word: the name of his daughter who is missing. Paul finds himself to save his daughter from a serial killer on an island cut off from the mainland by a raging storm. Moritz Bleibtreu leads the cast that includes Jasna Fritzi Bauer, Fahri Yardim, Enno Hesse, Christian Kuchenbuch, Urs Jucker, and Barbara Prakopenka. Cut Off will receive an American release on digital platforms on July 3, 2020, from Dark Sky Films
Continue reading →
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I have just had the chance to read the novel The Light Reapers: End of the World by Gary Hickman. Right off the bat, bluntly and honestly, I enjoyed this novel very much and I am grateful that Mr. Hickman sent it to me to read and review. The “Light Reapers” are an elite special ops group of soldiers who have a history of missions together that have bonded them over the years. They are deployed to rescue a scientist who may be able to find a cure for a viral pandemic caused by an ISIS faction which turns people into vicious, flesh eating hordes who who kill for any reason and in every grotesque way you can imagine. Story On the surface, the story of Light Reapers is not anything new. Zombies are a time honored horror tradition with a long, long list of media building their anthology of gnawing and feeding on flesh. For broad strokes purposes, this
Continue reading →
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The Emmy Award-winning “Chernobyl” John Renck is currently in negotiation to direct the adaptation of John Fowles’ novel for the mini-series “The Magus,” Variety reports. “The Magus,” originally published back in 1966, is set on a Greek isle where Nicholas Urfe, a young school teacher, finds himself embroiled in the psychological illusions of a master trickster, which becomes increasingly dark and serious. “1917’s” Neal Street Productions produces along with Pippa Harris and Sam Mendes and is written by Tom Edge (Judy, “The Crown”). The novel has been adapted once before in the 1960s by Fowles himself and starred Anthony Quinn. Take a look at the 1968 film’s trailer (below). Featured Image By Variety
Continue reading →
Comic Books/Graphic NovelsNetflixNewsShowStreaming TVTrailers
In a fun new video the cast of Netflix’s hit series “The Umbrella Academy” revealed the premiere date for the second season. Based on the comic book series from Dark Horse Comics of the same name created and written by Gerard Way and illustrated by Gabriel Bá, the series follows a family of former child heroes, now grown apart, who reunite to continue to protect the world. Ellen Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañ, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, and Aiden Gallagher star in this incredible, action-packed series. “The Umbrella Academy‘s” season one finale ended in a cliffhanger after it was revealed that their sister Vanya (Ellen Page) is the one who brings about the end of the world. Watch the first season on Netflix now before season two premieres on July 31, 2020.
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