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A Grab Bag of Horror News, 23 to 29 Mar 2025

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

Horror Movie Morsels

Horror TV Treats

Horror Game Goodies

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

Albert Einstein

Writing Horror

Some places accepting submissions

YA horror (Terrorcore Publishing)
Pays: 50/50 profit split
Looking for: Stories set between 1985-1995, with young adult protagonists (ages 15-19)
Submissions close: 2 Apr 2025

The Necronomicon of Sherlock Holmes anthology (Belanger Books)
Pays: $125 + paperback copy
Looking for: traditional Sherlock Holmes stories blended with one or more of Lovecraft’s tales
Submissions close: 15 Jun 2025

Saturday Mourning Television anthology (Sliced Up Press)
Pays: $35
Looking for: Short horror fiction inspired by early morning kids TV
Submissions close: 30 Jun 2025

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts.”

Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Trailer Horror

A taste of things to come.

Horror Movie Trailers

Dead Mail. Killer horror. An ominous, bloody help note finds its way to the desk of a seasoned dead letter investigator at a 1980’s mid-western post office. As he begins to piece together the letter’s origins, it leads him down a violent, unforeseen path to a kidnapped keyboard engineer and his eccentric business associate. Shudder, 18 Apr 2025

A Desert. Psychological horror. A photographer’s road trip takes a dark turn when he befriends a reckless couple, plunging him into a nightmarish neo-noir spiral of unpredictable horror. Limited, 2 May 2025

Drop, trailer 2. Psychological horror. A widowed mother’s first date in years takes a terrifying turn when she’s bombarded with anonymous threatening messages on her phone during their upscale dinner, leaving her questioning if her charming date is behind the harassment. Cinemas, 11 Apr 2025

Field of Screams. Scarecrow comedy horror. Following the death of his grandfather, Allen Crowe inherits an old farmhouse. When he and his friends arrive, they expect to find time-worn tchotchkes and family memories, not a living scarecrow named Billy. VOD, 6 May 2025

Final Destination: Bloodlines. Supernatural horror. Plagued by a violent recurring nightmare, college student Stefanie heads home to track down the one person who might be able to break the cycle and save her family from the grisly demise that inevitably awaits them all. Cinemas, 16 May 2025

Mouseboat Massacre. Slasher horror. A young woman battling a drug addiction begins to see a mutated mouse human hybrid who infests her life. Release date TBA

The Ritual. Supernatural horror. Two priests, one in crisis with his faith and the other confronting a turbulent past, must overcome their differences to perform a risky exorcism. Cinema, 6 Jun 2025

Wellwood. Sci-fi horror. When Nick desperately seeks a cure for his terminally-ill wife, his journey uncovers an extraterrestrial entity that could hold the key. VOD, 1 Apr 2025

Horror Game Trailers

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream. Cosmic horror. Based on Harlan Ellison’s story, assume the roles of five different characters, each in a unique environment. Available now

KARMA: The Dark World. Psychological horror. Set in an alternate timeline where post-war Germany has fallen into a dystopian state, ruled over by the Leviathan Corporation using mass surveillance and mind-bending technology. Available now

Moroi. Psychological horror. You awake to find yourself a prisoner within a living nightmare. Your name, your past: gone, but not the record of your misdeeds. Your crimes: beyond comprehension. Your conviction: incontestable. Your sentence: eternal. The need to escape and set things right: undeniable. Releases 30 Apr 2025

“I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.”

C.S. Lewis

A Selection of Horror Books Released this Week

11 horror books this week. Themes: Supernatural, psychological, vampire, gothic, folklore, and serial killer horror

See: A Selection of Horror Books Released, 23 to 29 Mar 2025

“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”

Saul Bellow

A Selection of Horror Movies Released this Week

8 horror movies this week. Themes: Psychological, food, home invasion, found footage, zombie, werewolf, and creature horror

See: A Selection of Horror Movies Released, 23 to 29 Mar 2025

“Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever.”

Walt Disney

What We Were Thinking About this Week

31 Women in Horror Book Recommendations, 2025

Swan Song by Robert McCammon (novel)

Home Before Dark by Riley Sager (novel)

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

And Now For Something Completely Different

Horror-Themed Shopping

See the FearSome Fiction shop for horror designs available on a wide variety of T-shirts, tanks, sweatshirts, and hoodies, as well as bags, notebooks, phone cases, pillows, duvets, blankets, bath mats, and more.

Published: 29 March 2025

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