A Grab Bag of Horror News, 7 to 13 Apr 2024

Horror Book Bits

• If you’ve got a couple of dollars to spare, please consider donating to Ray Garton’s fundraiser or buying one of his books. He and his wife, Dawn, are facing a challenging health battle that has created a significant financial strain.
• Eric LaRocca’s At Dark, I Become Loathsome will be the first title published under Norman Reedus’s bigbaldhead productions imprint. The book will be released on 28 January 2025.
• There’s controversy over the Top 25 ‘horror’ anime series as voted by 833 Reddit users. The criticism is about whether some of the entries are or are not ‘horror’. Higurashi: When They Cry, which isn’t one of the controversial ones, took out the number 1 spot.
• Joel Lane’s out-of-print horror collection The Lost District will soon be back in print again in a new edition. Influx Press has bought the rights and will publish it in the UK in May.
• Quill Tree Books has bought the North American rights to Paul Tremblay’s first middle grade book, Another, which sounds like it’s about a golem.
• StokerCon®2024 news:
  • Rob Savage joins Nisi Shawl, Jonathan Maberry, Paul Tremblay, and Justina Ireland as a Guest of Honor.
  • A reminder that the special discount rate for the overflow hotel Town & Country San Diego Resort ends on 29 April 2024. If you haven’t already booked, you might want to get onto it.
  • Steve Rasnic Tem, Mort Castle, and Cassandra Peterson will receive the HWA’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
  • Congratulations to the recipients of this year’s HWA Specialty Awards. Thunderstorm Books will receive the Specialty Press Award, Brian W. Matthews the Richard Laymon President’s Award, Lila Denning the Karen Lansdale Silver Hammer Award, and Lisa Wood the Mentor of the Year Award.

Horror Movie Morsels

• The Blair Witch Project is getting a reimagining from Lionsgate and Blumhouse.
• A new Scary Movie movie is coming in 2025.
• CinemaCon attendees got to see their first glimpses of Nosferatu (release date 25 December 2024) and Smile 2 (release date 18 October 2024).
• Sony Pictures is already lining up a director for the second instalment of 28 Years Later. Danny Boyle will direct the first one, then the second is expected to begin production immediately after the first one is done.
• Lionsgate has shuffled some release dates. The Crow now appears on 23 August 2024. Never Let Go will now open on 27 September 2024, replacing Saw XI which has been pushed out another year to 26 September 2025.
• Paramount Pictures is backing a remake of Stephen King’s novel The Running Man. Glenn Powell will play the role that was played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1987 movie.
• Cineverse and Bloody Disgusting are partnering up again with Iconic Events Releasing for the theatrical distribution of Terrifier 3.

Horror TV Treats

• AMC Networks is launching “a year-long spotlight on horror across all platforms”. They are also planning to offer ad-supported versions of all its targeted streaming services.
• Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is getting a second season as well as multiple spinoff series based on it.

Horror Game Goodies

• Deceit 2 is now available as a free-to-play social deduction horror game on Xbox.
• The remake of survival horror game Dead Space 2 is still not happening. Or is it? EA denied the rumour about it being cancelled.
• Dredge, the Lovecraftian fishing horror game, is going to be adapted into a live-action movie.
• Looks like the fan mod Friday The 13th: The Game – Resurrected won’t go ahead now after Horror Inc. sent cease and desist orders to the developers.