A Grab Bag of Horror News, 15 to 21 Sep 2024

A selection of things that caught our attention in the world of horror this week

Bite-Sized Horror News

Horror Book Bits

Meet some fantastic HWA authors at the Horror & Hops event on Wednesday, 25 September 2024, at the Santa Monica Brew Works. Host Paul Carro says, ‘We have assembled a diverse group of horror authors, graphic novelists, podcasters, and film people for a night of frightful fun.”
The Kickstarter campaign for London Gothic Chapter 3 – The Victorian Horror Graphic Novel is up.

Horror Movie Morsels

Ice Nine Kills has a new single, A Work of Art, that’s part of a collaboration with Terrifier 3. The official music video, starring David Howard Thornton as Art the Clown, premiered at Fantastic Fest this week and will play after the movie in select AMC theaters on 10 October. The single and the movie officially release on 11 October 2024.
Scandinavian author Jo Nesbø is adapting his small-town novel, The Night House, into a horror movie. In the novel, a boy sees a classmate disappearing into a phone receiver but no one believes him, especially the police who think he’s responsible for the boy’s disappearance.
Damien Leone says there will be a Terrifier 4.
Filming has wrapped on zombie movie, 28 Years Later. Apparently the movie was filmed with adapted iPhone 15s.
There’s been a lot of reactions to the premiere of Terrifier 3 this week. This one from Atom on Twitter might be our favorite: “You all are not ready for how batshit wild & sadistic this movie gets, makes this trailer look like Teletubbies.”

Horror TV Treats

Netflix posted a 15-second teaser video on Twitter with some of the names involved in the next season of Black Mirror.
Netflix also posted a 58-second ‘first look behind the scenes’ teaser video of Wednesday, Season 2.
Pretty Little Liars is not getting a third season.

Horror Festival Fare

The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival has announced its lineup for this year’s event. The 9th year of the festival runs from 17 to 24 October at Nitehawk Cinema’s Williamsburg and Prospect Park, and includes a Leviathan Award honoring Larry Fessenden.

“If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.”
Francois Mauriac

Writing Horror

Some places accepting submissions

Confounding Cupids: When Love Goes Awry anthology (Wordfire Press)
Pays: 6 cents per word
Looking for: Take aim at your favorite romance tropes and have a fantastical time
Submissions close: 7 October 2024
Choices: An Anthology of Reproductive Horror (Renaissance Press)
Pays: 8 cents CAD per word
Looking for: The horrors that occur when reproductive choices are threatened or taken away, written by people of marginalized genders
Submissions close: 30 November 2024
Never Whistle at Night, Part II: Back for Blood anthology
Looking for: Horror stories by emerging Indigenous writers
Submissions close: 1 December 2024
Mistaken Identity (NonBinary Review)
Pays: 1 cent per word
Looking for: Weird, wonderful, bizarre, impossible stories of mistaken identity
Submissions close: 1 February 2025

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
Margaret Atwood

Trailer Horror

A taste of things to come.

Horror TV Trailers

Castlevania: Nocturne, Season 2. Animated vampire horror. Erzsebet Báthory, the Vampire Messiah, who already seems invincible, seeks the full power of the goddess Sekhmet so she can plunge the world into endless darkness and terror. Netflix, January 2025
Hellbound, Season 2. South Korean supernatural horror. A resurrection. Hellbound again. Netflix, 25 October 2024
Sweetpea. Killer horror. Rhiannon Lewis doesn’t make much of an impression, but then everything in her life turns upside down. Her life transforms as she steps into a new, intoxicating power, but can she keep her killer secret? STARZ, 10 October 2024

Horror Movie Trailers

1 Million Followers. Psychological horror. An 18-year-old influencer enters a competition to win a $500,000 sponsorship. Her success is threatened when she and the others are kidnapped as part of a larger conspiracy they never saw coming. VOD, 25 October 2024
Amityville: Where the Echo Lives. Supernatural horror. When a paranormal investigator receives a call from a terrified woman who claims her house is inhabited by a ghost, she discovers the building has a horrifying history. VOD, 29 October 2024
Come Home. Supernatural horror. Two couples, seeking refuge in the Adirondacks, find themselves marked by the trapped souls that inhabit the forest. VOD, 1 October 2024
Crackcoon. Comedy horror. When a synthetically-altered street drug is discarded in the woods by a drug dealer during a car chase with police, the fallout proves nothing less than horrific as an innocent raccoon eats it. Screambox, 1 October 2024
The Curse of the Necklace. Supernatural horror. Trying to get ex-wife back, Frank gives her a beautiful antique necklace he finds in an old 1938 evidence bag at the station. Unfortunately, the necklace is a conduit for the tormented soul of an evil boy from long ago. VOD, 1 October 2024
Daddy’s Head. Supernatural horror. A boy and his stepmother are haunted by a terrifying creature that bears an unsettling resemblance to his recently deceased father. Shudder, 11 October 2024
The Deserving. Serial killer horror. A depressed mute serial killer is tormented in his house by the ghost of his victims. On the morning he’s set to kill himself, he’s visited by a sudden walk-in client in need of a photo shoot. VOD, 1 October 2024
Don’t Move. Psychological horror. A woman alone in the forests of Big Sur must escape a serial killer with just 20 minutes left before her body completely shuts down. Netflix, 25 October 2024
Glowzies. Zombie horror. An ancient and evil extraterrestrial slime that was buried in a remote Colorado canyon eons ago is returning to life. While the military and various government agencies and players trip over themselves to control it, it falls on an aging group of military veterans to stop the menace. Release date TBA
He Never Left. Serial killer horror. After hearing disturbing noises from the next motel room, a fugitive on the run and his girlfriend become prey to the notoriously brutal ‘Pale Face’ killer, whose legend has haunted the local community for decades. VOD, 5 November 2024
Heretic. Supernatural horror. Two missionaries become ensnared in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse after they knock on the wrong door. Cinema, 15 November 2024
I Will Never Leave You Alone. Supernatural horror. A mute ex-con is in the custody of a superstitious realtor who pays him to evict a witch-ghost. If he can’t stay six nights he goes back to prison. VOD, 18 October 2024
Krazy House. Comedy horror. When Russian workers in Bernie’s house turn out to be wanted criminals, Bernie has to man up and save his ’90s sitcom family. VOD, 4 October 2024
Mr. Crocket. Supernatural horror. A mother embarks on a perilous quest to rescue her son from a demonic children’s show host who is kidnapping kids. Hulu, 11 October 2024
Saint Catherine. Supernatural horror. An orphan girl is taken to the Saint Catherine Institute after being rescued from a kidnapping with satanic overtones. This secret institution, hidden behind the facade of a convent, trains young survivors of exorcisms and possessions to fight evil. Release date TBA
Spin the Bottle. Supernatural horror. When a group of friends play spin the bottle in a house marked by a brutal massacre, they unknowingly unleash an evil spirit and start dying in terrifying ways. VOD, 4 October 2024
Strange Harvest. Serial killer horror. A faux true-crime documentary about the pursuit by two detectives of an infamous serial killer named Mr. Shiny, who terrorized Southern California for almost two decades. Release date TBA

Horror Game Trailers

No More Room in Hell. Zombie apocalypse horror. Find your friends in the dark and survive in a dynamic, endlessly replayable, zombie apocalypse. Early access, 22 October 2024
Painted in Blood. Monster horror. Trapped in the haunting realm of an artist’s twisted nightmare, engage in intense combats with grotesque enemies and monsters, experience unpredictable horror events. Release date TBA

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.”
Robert Louis Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

A Selection of Horror Books Released this Week

10 horror books this week. Themes: Supernatural, psychological, virus apocalypse, folklore, and splatter western horror

See: A Selection of Horror Books Released, 15 to 21 Sep 2024

“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.”
Markus Zusak

A Selection of Horror Movies Released this Week

10 horror movies this week. Themes: Supernatural, psychological, survival, werewolf, and body horror

See: A Selection of Horror Movies Released, 15 to 21 Sep 2024

“Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.”
Stéphane Mallarmé

What We Were Thinking About this Week

13 Technology Horror Book Recommendations
The Invisible Hotel by Yeji Y. Ham (novel)
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones (novel)
Skipped Practice by Lucy Zhang (short story, Cosmic Horror Monthly)
No Suspicious Circumstances by Simon John Parkin (short story, Crow & Cross Keys)

“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

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