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Mad Shelley Comics Releases Entire Series of HALLOWEEN GIRL Horror Graphic Novel

Mad Shelley Comics Releases Entire Series of HALLOWEEN GIRL Horror Graphic Novel

Richard T. Wilson’s Halloween Girl graphic novel series got off to a fine start, as related in this Horror Fuel review of Volume 2, and now publisher Mad Shelley Comics has released the full series. Following is the official press announcement. Following rave reviews and critical acclaim for Vol 1-4, Richard T. Wilson’s entire Halloween Girl graphic novel series has just been released! The Emmy® award-winning, writer-filmmaker, describes his latest project as a ‘supernatural odyssey with a healthy dose of reality’. “After all these years, this feels like the first thing I’ve written in a way. I feel like my whole life, I’ve been punching through the darkness like the ‘Halloween Girl’ – but this is the first time I’ve actually written about it!” says Wilson. What is the ‘Halloween Girl’? An angsty, teen ghost named Charlotte (aka ‘Halloween Girl’) and her wise-cracking, supernatural gal pal, Poe who battle diabolic, secret society, The Hollow for the soul of their hometown

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Joseph Perry
Oct 14, 2022
Legendary Launches "Trick ‘r Treat: 15th Anniversary Collection" Exclusively On Kickstarter

Legendary Launches “Trick ‘r Treat: 15th Anniversary Collection” Exclusively On Kickstarter

To celebrate Trick ‘r Treat’s first-ever theatrical release, Legendary Comics, in collaboration with Rocketship Entertainment, today launched a new Kickstarter initiative (HERE) for the graphic novel Trick ‘r Treat: The 15 Anniversary Omnibus Collection. The compendium features the original Trick ‘r Treat Omnibus along with an all-new story by Trick ‘r Treat creator Michael Dougherty and new covers by Zid (Dune Movie Graphic Novel), Ben Templesmith (Fell, 30 Days of Night), and Christopher Shy (Friday the 13th, Rise of the Warrior) This edition of the Omnibus will only be made available on Kickstarter and not released to retail outlets. Reprinted in this edition is the original Omnibus, which contains the 2009 Trick ‘r Treat comic (first published by D.C.) that adapts the film and features the talents of (Marc Andreyko, Mike Huddleston, Jim Charalampidis, Grant Bond, Christopher Gugliotti, Fiona Staples), as well as the second comic Trick ‘r Treat: Days of the Dead (Zach Shields, Todd Casey, Fiona Staples, Jose

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 10, 2022
Ben Kingsley Will Lead The Cast Of New Adaptation Of Neil Gaiman's 'Violent Cases'

Ben Kingsley Will Lead The Cast Of New Adaptation Of Neil Gaiman’s ‘Violent Cases’

35 years after publishing Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean’s first-ever graphic novel, today Scary Monster, Lakesville Productions and Foton Pictures have now announced that development on Violent Cases is well underway with Academy Award®-winning actor Ben Kingsley attached in the lead role of the Osteopath led by the creative team behind the BAFTA-nominated The Girl With All The Gifts, director Colm McCarthy, writer Mike Carey, and producer Camille Gatin. At only 50 pages, “Violent Cases” features a narrator, who tells of how, as a small child in Portsmouth, he was taken by his father to be treated by an osteopath ( a licensed physician who uses both conventional treatments and osteopathic manipulative medicine) who was once employed by Al Capone. The nature of the narrator’s relationship with his father, the tales the osteopath told, and the disturbing events that followed, are partially obscured by the narrator’s imperfect recall of things he was not old enough to understand at the time.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 8, 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
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

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 25, 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
Disney+ Unveils Trailer For Hair-Raising Marvel Halloween Special 'Werewolf By Night'

Disney+ Unveils Trailer For Hair-Raising Marvel Halloween Special ‘Werewolf By Night’

Hocus Pocus 2 isn’t the only spooktacular Halloween movie debuting on Disney+ this fall. The new trailer for Marvel’s hair-raising Special Werewolf by Night has just arrived. The black and white horror is from director Michael Giacchino who wanted to pay homage to the horror classics that spooked you as a child while honoring the comic of the same name. The character made its first appearance in Marvel Spotlight #2, released in February 1972. Gael Garcia Bernal (M. Night Shyamalan’s Old) stars as a character able of transforming into a werewolf while retaining their human intellect. Laura Donnelly stars as Nina Price. “Price is the niece of the character Jack Russell/Werewolf by Night and a vampire/werewolf hybrid. She carried the Lycan gene and was further changed after being bitten by a vampire.” Werewolf by Night will be unleashed on Disney+ on October 7, 2022.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 12, 2022
Comic 'The Silencers: The Definitive Edition' Is Out Today! (Preview)

Comic ‘The Silencers: The Definitive Edition’ Is Out Today! (Preview)

CEX Publishing has now announced that The Silencers: The Definitive Edition is arriving at comic book shops and specialty stores Today! The critically-acclaimed, hard-boiled super-crime series that launched the careers of writer Fred Van Lente (Marvel Zombies, Archer & Armstrong) and artist Steve Ellis (Only Living Boy, High Moon) is back! This time with never-before-seen story pages and an all-new introduction by fan-favorite writer Kyle Higgins (Radiant Black, Nightwing)! “THE SILENCERS, led by the legendary assassin Cardinal, are the most feared super-powered mob enforcers in the multiverse. But when they’re betrayed by one of their own, they have to become independent operators–and uncover a threat not just to the balance of power among the Five Families, but to the whole world itself.” This is the definitive edition of the cult classic you won’t want to miss! It lands in stores today, Wednesday, September 7th, 2022! Find a store near you here. Check out a preview below.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 6, 2022
The Zombie Apocalypse Rages This October In Issue 'Year Zero VOL. 0'

The Zombie Apocalypse Rages This October In Issue ‘Year Zero VOL. 0’

AWA Studios, the independent developer of bold and relevant stories from the world’s most outstanding artists, writers, and artisans, announced today the highly anticipated return of the hit series Year Zero when YEAR ZERO VOL. 0 is unleashed this October. Following the successful two-volume series from original writer Benjamin Percy and artists Ramon Rosanas and Juan Jose Ryp, New York Times best-selling horror writer Daniel Kraus (George Romero’s The Living Dead, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch) and award-winning artist and illustrator Goran Sudžuka (Hellblazer, Wonder Woman) team up for an origin anthology series that takes readers to the beginning of a deadly zombie pandemic that plunged the world into chaos. A crime story, a medical drama, a war story, and a mid-air thriller are all set against the backdrop of the zombie apocalypse. Featuring a diverse cast and a wide range of settings in the Year Zero tradition, this volume takes the chaotic early days of a pandemic,

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 1, 2022
Danny Huston Joins The Cast Of Rupert Sanders' 'The Crow'

Danny Huston Joins The Cast Of Rupert Sanders’ ‘The Crow’

Danny Huston, who has starred in films such as Wonder Woman, Clash of the Titans, 30 Days of Night, and The Aviator, as well as in the series “American Horror Story: Coven,” has now joined the cast of Rupert Sanders’ (Ghost in the Shell, Snow White and The Huntsman) upcoming reimagining of The Crow, based on the original graphic novel by James O’Barr. Huston will star alongside FKA twigs (Honeyboy) and Bill Skarsgård (It franchise, Eternals, Deadpool 2) who will play the iconic role of Eric Draven. The story centers on Eric Draven, originally played by Brandon Lee, who is brought back to life to seek revenge after he and his fiance is brutally murdered by a gang. Written by Zach Baylin (King Richard, Creed III), the new version is produced by Molly Hassell (Braven, Terminal), Victor Hadida (Resident Evil and Silent Hill franchises), John Jencks (Honest Thief, Guns Akimbo), and Edward R. Pressman (American Psycho, The Crow, Wall Street)

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 27, 2022

More from Comic Books/Graphic Novels

Mad Shelley Comics Releases Entire Series of HALLOWEEN GIRL Horror Graphic Novel

Mad Shelley Comics Releases Entire Series of HALLOWEEN GIRL Horror Graphic Novel

Richard T. Wilson’s Halloween Girl graphic novel series got off to a fine start, as related in this Horror Fuel review of Volume 2, and now publisher Mad Shelley Comics has released the full series. Following is the official press announcement. Following rave reviews and critical acclaim for Vol 1-4, Richard T. Wilson’s entire Halloween Girl graphic novel series has just been released! The Emmy® award-winning, writer-filmmaker, describes his latest project as a ‘supernatural odyssey with a healthy dose of reality’. “After all these years, this feels like the first thing I’ve written in a way. I feel like my whole life, I’ve been punching through the darkness like the ‘Halloween Girl’ – but this is the first time I’ve actually written about it!” says Wilson. What is the ‘Halloween Girl’? An angsty, teen ghost named Charlotte (aka ‘Halloween Girl’) and her wise-cracking, supernatural gal pal, Poe who battle diabolic, secret society, The Hollow for the soul of their hometown

Continue reading →
Joseph Perry
Oct 14, 2022
Legendary Launches "Trick ‘r Treat: 15th Anniversary Collection" Exclusively On Kickstarter

Legendary Launches “Trick ‘r Treat: 15th Anniversary Collection” Exclusively On Kickstarter

To celebrate Trick ‘r Treat’s first-ever theatrical release, Legendary Comics, in collaboration with Rocketship Entertainment, today launched a new Kickstarter initiative (HERE) for the graphic novel Trick ‘r Treat: The 15 Anniversary Omnibus Collection. The compendium features the original Trick ‘r Treat Omnibus along with an all-new story by Trick ‘r Treat creator Michael Dougherty and new covers by Zid (Dune Movie Graphic Novel), Ben Templesmith (Fell, 30 Days of Night), and Christopher Shy (Friday the 13th, Rise of the Warrior) This edition of the Omnibus will only be made available on Kickstarter and not released to retail outlets. Reprinted in this edition is the original Omnibus, which contains the 2009 Trick ‘r Treat comic (first published by D.C.) that adapts the film and features the talents of (Marc Andreyko, Mike Huddleston, Jim Charalampidis, Grant Bond, Christopher Gugliotti, Fiona Staples), as well as the second comic Trick ‘r Treat: Days of the Dead (Zach Shields, Todd Casey, Fiona Staples, Jose

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 10, 2022
Ben Kingsley Will Lead The Cast Of New Adaptation Of Neil Gaiman's 'Violent Cases'

Ben Kingsley Will Lead The Cast Of New Adaptation Of Neil Gaiman’s ‘Violent Cases’

35 years after publishing Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean’s first-ever graphic novel, today Scary Monster, Lakesville Productions and Foton Pictures have now announced that development on Violent Cases is well underway with Academy Award®-winning actor Ben Kingsley attached in the lead role of the Osteopath led by the creative team behind the BAFTA-nominated The Girl With All The Gifts, director Colm McCarthy, writer Mike Carey, and producer Camille Gatin. At only 50 pages, “Violent Cases” features a narrator, who tells of how, as a small child in Portsmouth, he was taken by his father to be treated by an osteopath ( a licensed physician who uses both conventional treatments and osteopathic manipulative medicine) who was once employed by Al Capone. The nature of the narrator’s relationship with his father, the tales the osteopath told, and the disturbing events that followed, are partially obscured by the narrator’s imperfect recall of things he was not old enough to understand at the time.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 8, 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
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
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
Disney+ Unveils Trailer For Hair-Raising Marvel Halloween Special 'Werewolf By Night'

Disney+ Unveils Trailer For Hair-Raising Marvel Halloween Special ‘Werewolf By Night’

Hocus Pocus 2 isn’t the only spooktacular Halloween movie debuting on Disney+ this fall. The new trailer for Marvel’s hair-raising Special Werewolf by Night has just arrived. The black and white horror is from director Michael Giacchino who wanted to pay homage to the horror classics that spooked you as a child while honoring the comic of the same name. The character made its first appearance in Marvel Spotlight #2, released in February 1972. Gael Garcia Bernal (M. Night Shyamalan’s Old) stars as a character able of transforming into a werewolf while retaining their human intellect. Laura Donnelly stars as Nina Price. “Price is the niece of the character Jack Russell/Werewolf by Night and a vampire/werewolf hybrid. She carried the Lycan gene and was further changed after being bitten by a vampire.” Werewolf by Night will be unleashed on Disney+ on October 7, 2022.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 12, 2022
Comic 'The Silencers: The Definitive Edition' Is Out Today! (Preview)

Comic ‘The Silencers: The Definitive Edition’ Is Out Today! (Preview)

CEX Publishing has now announced that The Silencers: The Definitive Edition is arriving at comic book shops and specialty stores Today! The critically-acclaimed, hard-boiled super-crime series that launched the careers of writer Fred Van Lente (Marvel Zombies, Archer & Armstrong) and artist Steve Ellis (Only Living Boy, High Moon) is back! This time with never-before-seen story pages and an all-new introduction by fan-favorite writer Kyle Higgins (Radiant Black, Nightwing)! “THE SILENCERS, led by the legendary assassin Cardinal, are the most feared super-powered mob enforcers in the multiverse. But when they’re betrayed by one of their own, they have to become independent operators–and uncover a threat not just to the balance of power among the Five Families, but to the whole world itself.” This is the definitive edition of the cult classic you won’t want to miss! It lands in stores today, Wednesday, September 7th, 2022! Find a store near you here. Check out a preview below.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 6, 2022
The Zombie Apocalypse Rages This October In Issue 'Year Zero VOL. 0'

The Zombie Apocalypse Rages This October In Issue ‘Year Zero VOL. 0’

AWA Studios, the independent developer of bold and relevant stories from the world’s most outstanding artists, writers, and artisans, announced today the highly anticipated return of the hit series Year Zero when YEAR ZERO VOL. 0 is unleashed this October. Following the successful two-volume series from original writer Benjamin Percy and artists Ramon Rosanas and Juan Jose Ryp, New York Times best-selling horror writer Daniel Kraus (George Romero’s The Living Dead, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch) and award-winning artist and illustrator Goran Sudžuka (Hellblazer, Wonder Woman) team up for an origin anthology series that takes readers to the beginning of a deadly zombie pandemic that plunged the world into chaos. A crime story, a medical drama, a war story, and a mid-air thriller are all set against the backdrop of the zombie apocalypse. Featuring a diverse cast and a wide range of settings in the Year Zero tradition, this volume takes the chaotic early days of a pandemic,

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 1, 2022
Danny Huston Joins The Cast Of Rupert Sanders' 'The Crow'

Danny Huston Joins The Cast Of Rupert Sanders’ ‘The Crow’

Danny Huston, who has starred in films such as Wonder Woman, Clash of the Titans, 30 Days of Night, and The Aviator, as well as in the series “American Horror Story: Coven,” has now joined the cast of Rupert Sanders’ (Ghost in the Shell, Snow White and The Huntsman) upcoming reimagining of The Crow, based on the original graphic novel by James O’Barr. Huston will star alongside FKA twigs (Honeyboy) and Bill Skarsgård (It franchise, Eternals, Deadpool 2) who will play the iconic role of Eric Draven. The story centers on Eric Draven, originally played by Brandon Lee, who is brought back to life to seek revenge after he and his fiance is brutally murdered by a gang. Written by Zach Baylin (King Richard, Creed III), the new version is produced by Molly Hassell (Braven, Terminal), Victor Hadida (Resident Evil and Silent Hill franchises), John Jencks (Honest Thief, Guns Akimbo), and Edward R. Pressman (American Psycho, The Crow, Wall Street)

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 27, 2022
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