A Grab Bag of Horror News, 9 to 15 Mar 2025

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

Bite-Sized Horror News

Horror Book Bits

Grove Atlantic is offering a remote, paid internship for someone “passionate about mystery, thriller and crime fiction books”. Main responsibilities are “reading, evaluating, and reporting on incoming manuscripts, helping prepare sales and marketing materials, and conducting marketing outreach”.
Novelizations of movie trilogy Maniac Cop will be released on 20 May 2025 as paperbacks, e-books, and a special hardcover collection.
Night of the Living Dead: The Official Story of the Film will be released on 30 September 2025. The book tells the story of how the film was made by a small group of people at the outset of their film-making careers.

Horror Movie Morsels

Cujo is getting a remake.
A Quiet Place 3 is officially in development.
Single White Female is getting a remake.

Horror TV Treats

A Tim Burton docuseries is on the way.

Horror Game Goodies

TerrorBytes: The Evolution of Horror Gaming is a 5-part documentary with each part digging into a different theme. Each episode delves into a different theme, beginning with survival horror, then licensed games, FMV and interactive movie games, the indie horror scene, and ending on cursed and controversial games. You can order now and get digital versions of 1 and 2 immediately, with digital 3 to 5 delivered in April 2025. Physical items ship 31 May 2025.

Horror Music Munchies

John Carpenter is doing a 1-night concert in New York on 10 October 2025.

Horror Festival Fare

The Chattanooga Film Festival (20-28 Jun 2025) announced its first wave movie lineup. The premiere of Hot Spring Shark Attack is the opening night selection. After the movie, there’ll be an indoor beach party. Also part of the festival is Clay McLeod Chapman’s The Pumpkin Pie Show, a “punk rock, in-your-face, literary lapdance”.
Frendo the Clown from Clown in a Cornfield was wandering around the streets of Austin, Texas, scaring SXSW attendees.

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Writing Horror

Some places accepting submissions

2025 Parsec Short Story Contest
Prizes: Winner $200, Second $100, Third $50, Youth story $50
Theme: Roots
Submissions close: 31 Mar 2025

Elder Things Expeditions anthology (Hiraeth Publishing)
Pays: 8 cents per word for the first 3000 words and 3 cents per word thereafter
The anthology explores three sections of time in exploration of Antarctica leading to revelations about the nature of the denizens, normal and paranormal, residing there.
Submissions close: 31 Mar 2025

Robert’s Recurring Nightmares charity anthology (Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers)
Pays: 1 contributor’s copy
Looking for: Horror fiction with a character named Robert and a reference to a mechanical watch
Submissions close: 31 Mar 2025

Upcoming submission calls

Novels or novellas (Eerie River Publishing)
Pays: 40% royalties for net eBook sales with a chance to increase to 50% should a specific threshold of sales be met
Looking for: Dark fiction, horror, dark romance, horror romance from Canadian authors who identify as BIPOC, 2SLGBTQIA+, or are from marginalized communities.
Submissions open 15 Apr and close 1 Jun 2025

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
Jorge Luis Borges

Trailer Horror

A taste of things to come.

Horror TV Trailers

Black Mirror, Season 7. Anthology horror. Lose your mind. Lose your reality. Nothing is as it seems. Netflix, 10 Apr 2025

Devil May Cry. Animated supernatural horror. When a villain threatens to open the gates of Hell, a demon hunter could be the world’s best hope for salvation. Netflix, 3 Apr 2025

Gannibal, Season 2. Japanese folk horror. Return to the Kuge Village with police offer Daigo Agawa as he tries to uncover the horrifying, dark truth that the village has held to secrecy. Hulu, 19 Mar 2025

Jurassic World: Chaos Theory, Season 3. Animated dinosaur horror. More danger. More dinosaurs. More chaos. Netflix, 3 Apr 2025

The Last of Us, Season 2. Post-apocalyptic horror. HBO Max, 13 Apr 2025

You, Season 5. Serial killer horror. A young man goes to extreme measures to insert himself into the lives of those he is transfixed by. Netflix, 24 Apr 2025

Horror Movie Trailers

825 Forest Road. Haunted house horror. After a family tragedy, Chuck Wilson hopes to start a new life in Ashland Falls with his wife and sister, but discovers that the town has a dark secret. Shudder, 4 Apr 2025

The Dark Domain: MVW Mickey-vs-Winnie. Slasher horror. A century ago, two convicts disappeared into Hell Forest, a place feared for its dark legends and whispers of a malevolent curse. Release date TBA

Ed Kemper. Serial killer horror. The chilling true story of a manipulative serial killer whose charm hid a dark obsession with murder, revenge, and his tormented past. VOD, 8 Apr 2025

The Killgrin. Psychological horror. When Miranda explores self-help methods, she learns from a healer that her aura is infected by a ‘killgrin’, which thrives off her misery. Release date TBA

The Life of Chuck. Psychological horror. Three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz. Cinema, 6 June 2025

Lost Joy. Psychological horror. Jane’s getaway with her partner to the woods deteriorates when a stranger arrives and questions the integrity of their relationship. Release date TBA

The Shrouds, new trailer. Supernatural horror. After the death of his wife, Karsh invents a revolutionary technology that enables the living to monitor their dear departed in their shrouds. When multiple graves, including his wife’s, are desecrated, he sets out to track down the perpetrators. Cinema, 25 Apr 2025

Horror Game Trailers

Death Stranding 2: On the Beach. Sci-fi horror. Sam sets out on a new journey to save humanity from extinction. 26 Jun 2025

Eyes Never Wake. Monster horror. The monster watches you through your webcam. Hide by physically ducking beneath your desk while exploring a strange game never meant to be played. Release date TBA

Silent Hill f. Japanese psychological horror. A secluded town transforms into a haunting nightmare as a sudden fog envelops the area. As the town falls silent and the fog thickens, Hinako must navigate the twisted paths. Release date TBA

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

A Selection of Horror Books Released this Week

8 horror books this week. Themes: Supernatural, psychological, dystopian, creature, cosmic, and children’s educational horror

See: A Selection of Horror Books Released, 9 to 15 Mar 2025

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
Oscar Wilde

A Selection of Horror Movies Released this Week

9 horror movies this week. Themes: Supernatural, psychological, slasher, parasite, virus, and documentary horror

See: A Selection of Horror Movies Released, 9 to 15 Mar 2025

“Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.”
Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

What We Were Thinking About this Week

Dangerous Materials by Nicole Sellew (Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize 2024/25 Winner)

The Patchwork Child by Allison Wyss (flash fiction, Wigleaf)

Black Fanged Thing by Sam Rebelein (short story, Shimmer)

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
George R. R. Martin

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