A Grab Bag of Horror News, 28 Apr to 4 May 2024
A selection of things that caught our attention in the world of horror this week
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Bite-Sized Horror News
Horror Book Bits
- Get your tickets for the Official StokerCon PreParty, Spirited Giving. Horror-themed fundraiser happening on 29 May 2024, loaded with author readings, live performances, meet and greets, and book signings, all while raising funds for a good cause. Guests include Clay McLeod Chapman, Jamie Flanagan, Ai Jiang, Danger Slater, Bridget D. Brave, Vincent V. Cava, and Mr. Creepypasta.
- Jonathan Helland is the recipient of the Stokercon 2024 Scholarship from Hell.
- Victoria Strauss says she’s getting reports that new publisher Book Slayer Press has disappeared with no explanation.
Horror Movie Morsels
- Mike Flanagan is busy. He’s in talks to direct the next Exorcist movie and is now an executive producer on Shelby Oaks, the movie that raised over $1.39M on Kickstarter in 2022.
- Are you up for a slasher movie that pits Mickey Mouse against Winnie-the-Pooh?
- Terrifier 3 is now hitting cinemas on 11 October 2024, two weeks earlier than anticipated.
- The Pope’s Exorcist is getting a sequel and Russell Crowe has suggested that the series could become a trilogy.
- Netflix shared a first look at Fear Street: Prom Queen.
- Elvira, one of Cinderella’s stepsisters, is getting her own movie: The Ugly Stepsister. Expected to be gory, Elvira tries to compete with Cinderella “in a kingdom where beauty is a brutal business”.
Horror TV Treats
- Chucky is asking you to call to vote him back into office for a fourth term.
- Black Mirror took home two BAFTA Television Craft Awards. The Writer: Drama award went to Charlie Brooker and Bisha K Ali. The Photography & Lighting: Fiction award went to Stephan Pehrsson.
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo“I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.”
Writing Horror
Some places accepting submissions.
- Long Division Stories of Social Decay, Societal Collapse, and Bad Manners (Bad Hand Books)
Pays: 10 cents per word
Looking for: Original stories of transgression, of the mechanisms behind what’s fraying the bonds that bind us.
Submissions close: Once 500 submissions are received - Shallow Waters flash fiction contest (Crystal Lake Entertainment)
Theme: Coming of rage
Submissions close: 31 May 2024 - Bite anthology (Graveside Press)
Pays: 2 cents per word + 1 trade paperback copy + 1 hardcover copy + 10 digital copies
Theme: Vampires
Submissions close: 31 May 2024 - Howl anthology (Graveside Press)
Pays: 2 cents per word + 1 trade paperback copy + 1 hardcover copy + 10 digital copies
Theme: Werewolves and other shape-changers
Submissions close: 31 May 2024 - Soul anthology (Graveside Press)
Pays: 2 cents per word + 1 trade paperback copy + 1 hardcover copy + 10 digital copies
Theme: Ghosts and possession
Submissions close: 31 May 2024 - Tiny Terrors (Graveside Press)
Pays: 2 cents per word + 5 trade paperback copies + 10 digital copies
Looking for: Horror fiction between 5,000 and 12,000 words
Cornelia Funke, Inkheart“Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.”
Trailer Horror
A taste of things to come.
Horror TV Trailers
- From, Season 3. Supernatural horror. How much further can the residents be pushed? Premieres this Fall on MGM+.
Horror Movie Trailers
- Insane Like Me. Vampire horror. A combat veteran returns home after a tour of duty, becomes the lead suspect in his girlfriend’s disappearance, and is subsequently wrongly convicted and incarcerated. Ten years later, he is released from the mental asylum and returns home to find the truth and settle the score. Releases on VOD on 4 June 2024.
- Wild Eyed and Wicked. Psychological horror. Lily tries to strike back at the medieval creature that’s haunted her family for generations. She reconnects with her estranged father and learns how to draw upon a time of steel and blade when armour-clad knights rode out and duelled monsters to the death. Releases on VOD on 11 June 2024.
- The Well. Supernatural horror. A budding art restorer travels to a small Italian village to bring a medieval painting back to its former glory. She doesn’t know she is placing her life in danger from an evil curse and a monster born of myth and brutal pain. Release date TBA.
Horror Game Trailers
- MADiSON VR. Psychological horror. Bridge the gap between our world and the unknown. Snap photos, develop them by yourself to solve puzzles, explore the shadows and above all, survive. Available now on PSVR and PSVR2.
- Hide the Corpse. VR physics-based puzzle game. Grab, drag, and contort the body and objects you find to stash the body in one of the available hiding places before the place is crawling with cops. Hide the body in the allotted time across 10 levels and 60 hiding spots. Support the kickstarter.
- Funko Fusion. Co-operative action game that blends 20 movie franchisers, including Jurassic World, Jaws, Chucky, and more. Releases on 13 September 2024 on PC and consoles.
Charles M. Schulz“I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.”
A Selection of Horror Books Released this Week
20 horror books this week. Themes: Supernatural, psychological, ghosts, serial killer, witch, monster, vampire, haunted house, and body horror
See: A Selection of Horror Books Released, 28 Apr to 4 May 2024
Thomas Helm“My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter.”
A Selection of Horror Movies Released this Week
5 horror movies this week. Themes: Supernatural, psychological, dystopian, witch, and shark horror
See: A Selection of Horror Movies Released, 28 Apr to 4 May 2024
Stephen Fry, Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold“For the world seems never to offer anything worthwhile without also providing a dreadful opposite.”
What We Were Thinking About this Week
- The Two Musics by Michael Cisco (short story, Reactor)
- Wonderful Pain: How Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers Uses the Language of Body Horror by Nick Johnston (Reactor)
- Kill Creek by Scott Thomas (novel)
- The Drift by C.J. Tudor (novel)
- Shiny New World (horror short, ALTER YouTube channel)
Bram Stoker, Dracula“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.”
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Published: 4 May 2024
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