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A Grab Bag of Horror News, 6 to 12 Apr 2025

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

Horror news

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Bite-Sized Horror News

Horror Book Bits

  • Congratulations to Del and Sue Howison, Dame Susan Hill, and David Cronenberg on receiving the HWA’s Lifetime Achievement Award for 2025. The awards will be presented at the Bram Stoker Awards® Presentation at StokerCon®2025 in Stamford, Connecticut.
  • Christopher Golden’s The House of Last Resort is getting a movie adaptation. Golden is adapting the book for the screen.
  • Voting is open for the This is Horror Awards 2024. Cast your vote for best Novel, Novella, Short Story Collection, Fiction Podcast, and Nonfiction Podcast.

Horror Movie Morsels

Horror TV Treats

Horror Game Goodies

Horror Festival Fare

  • Winners of the Overlook Film Festival 2025 awards included The Ugly Stepsister (Audience Award), Touch Me (Grand Jury Best Feature Film), and Best Wishes to All (Scariest Feature). Short film winners included The Traveler & the Troll (Audience Award), Los Muchachos (Grand Jury Best Short Film), and Cruelty (Scariest Short Film).

“To survive, you must tell stories.”

Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before

Writing Horror

Some places accepting submissions

Memento Mori Book One: Relics
Pays: 2 cents per word for short stories, 3 cents per word for poetry
Looking for: Stories about ancient objects or seemingly mundane items which have the power to whisper to those who possess them
Submissions close: 1 Jun 2025

Tales of Galactic Pest Control anthology (Amazing Stories)
Pays: $100, possibly higher depending on Kickstarter
Theme: Pest control – the crucial element is the struggle against some form of infestation, nuisance, or destructive force.

Short Story Substack
Pays: $100 for chosen story + 50% of subscription revenue
Theme: Any genre short story
Submissions close: end of each month

“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”

Isaac Asimov

Trailer Horror

A taste of things to come.

Horror Movie Trailers

A Breed Apart. Survival horror. When Violet accepts an invitation to a private island with some of the world’s most famous social influencers, she soon becomes part of her own horrific reality show when the guests are pitted against each other to capture the island’s legendary man-eating dogs. Limited release, 16 May 2025

Fear Below. Shark horror. When a gang of criminals loses their stolen gold in a river, they turn to a team of desperate, down-on-their-luck divers to retrieve it. What begins as a high-stakes recovery mission quickly spirals when the divers find themselves in the company of a vicious bull shark. VOD, 2 May 2025

Hallow Road. Psychological horror. Two parents receive a distressing late-night call from their teenage daughter, who has just accidentally hit a pedestrian. They jump in their car, racing to get there before anyone else stumbles across the scene. As they head deeper into the night, disturbing revelations threaten to tear the family apart as they soon realize they might not be the only ones driving down Hallow Road. Release date TBA

The Haunting at Jack the Ripper’s House. Found footage horror. A group of famous YouTubers attempt to prove their paranormal investigations are real by spending the night inside the notorious Jack the Ripper Manor. Release date TBA

I Don’t Understand You. Comedy horror. Dom and Cole embark on a picture-perfect Italian vacation before their impending adoption but find themselves lost in a foreign land with no cell service, zero comprehension of the language, and escalating turmoil that could explode at any moment. Cinema, 6 Jun 2025

Sorority of the Damned. Supernatural horror. A reluctant handyman is pitted against evil when a Sorority house mother opens a gate to Hell, resulting in the whole sorority being possessed by demons. Release date TBA

Vulcanizadora. Psychological horror. Two friends trudge through a Michigan forest with the intention of following through on a disturbing pact. Once their plan goes shockingly awry, the haunting consequences of their failure can’t stay hidden for long. Limited, 2 May 2025

Horror Game Trailers

Captured 2. Psychological horror. Emily is trapped in an endless hallway within her own apartment, slowly losing her memory. Strange anomalies begin to appear, and by capturing them, she catches glimpses of her forgotten past. Release date TBA

No, I’m Not a Human. Psychological horror. Stay inside. Lock your doors. Close the blinds. Only let humans in. Eliminate all visitors. Release date TBA

“You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Selection of Horror Books Released this Week

7 horror books this week. Themes: Supernatural, psychological, space, serial killer, alien, and killer plant horror

See: A Selection of Horror Books Released, 6 to 12 Apr 2025

“If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.”

Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim

A Selection of Horror Movies Released this Week

12 horror movies this week. Themes: Supernatural, psychological, killer, summer camp, werewolf, and dark fantasy horror

See: A Selection of Horror Movies Released, 6 to 12 Apr 2025

“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”

G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

A Selection of Horror TV Shows Released this Week

2 horror TV shows this week. Themes: Psychological and animated creature horror

See: A Selection of Horror TV Shows Released, 6 to 12 Apr 2025

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”

Thomas Jefferson

What We Were Thinking About this Week

The Third Rule of Time Travel by Philip Fracassi (novel)

The Shape of Stones by Hildur Knútsdóttir (short story, Reactor Magazine)

The Unfactory by Derrick Boden (short story, Diabolical Plots)

“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”

Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

And Now For Something Completely Different

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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: 12 April 2025

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