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- Condolences to family, friends, and fans of actor Polly Holliday. Holliday played the mean Mrs. Deagle in Gremlins. RIP.
Horror Book Bits
- Monica Ojeda’s coming of age horror novel Jawbone is getting a TV series adaptation.
Horror Movie Morsels
- Bloody Bites is back for Season 15 on Screambox TV and streams 2 horror shorts every Friday night for the next 8 weeks.
- Peacock announced its Halloween 2025 horror movie streaming lineup.
- A remastered 3D version of animated middle grade horror ParaNorman, celebrating the movie’s 13th anniversary, will play in select theatres from 25 to 28 Oct 2025, and will also be released internationally on 23 Oct.
- Marlon Wayans confirmed he’ll definitely be back as Shorty in Scary Movie 6 and he had to lose 20lbs because he “didn’t wanna show up to set as Shorty buff”. He also says the movie will spoof I Know What You Did Last Summer, Scream, Heretic, Longlegs, Get Out, Nope, and Sinners.
- Warner Bros intends to launch an Oscars award campaign for both Sinners and Weapons.
- MeTV’s Svengoolie’s BOO-Nanza runs every Saturday night from 4 to 31 Oct 2025 showing classic horror movies.
- Rumor is that A24 is ahead in the bidding for Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie and TV rights.
- The Rhode Island house that inspired The Conjuring franchise will go under the hammer in a mortgagee foreclosure auction on 31 Oct 2025. The property includes a 3-bedroom farmhouse and 8.5 acres.
- AEW wrestler MJF has joined the cast of Violent Night 2.
- Rob Zombie and Sheri Moon Zombie will be doing a live Q&A on 16 Oct 2025 at the 20th anniversary celebration screening of The Devil’s Rejects in Bantam, CT.
- Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 has been rated PG-13 for “violent content, terror and some language”.
- John Travolta and Chet Hanks have signed on for AI-themed sci-fi horror movie, Ed.
- Amityville Horror is getting a reimagining.
- Talk to Me director Michael Philippou is competing in an exploding barbed wire rope wrestling deathmatch on 20 Sep 2025 in Mexico.
- Vin Diesel will reprise his role of Kaulder in The Last Witch Hunter sequel and Michael Caine may also reprise his role as Dolan.
Horror TV Treats
- Netflix and AMC Networks have expanded their deal so US Netflix subscribers will get access to new seasons of AMC franchises, such as The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon and Anne Rice’s Interview with a Vampire.
- All 4 episodes ofIs it Cake? Halloween stream on Netflix on 8 Oct 2025.
- Neil Druckmann says he left The Last of Us because he “wanted to elevate the show beyond the people that have played the game”, but he “felt like the path [had] been set for it”.
- The Wednesday spin-off series featuring Uncle Fester is still in the works.
- Hannibal creator, Bryan Fuller, has expressed interest in doing a Silence of the Lambs limited series with Mads Mikkelsen and Zendaya.
- The Conjuring TV series is moving forward at HBO Max.
Horror Podcast Pieces
- Push the Roll with Ross Bryant is a new improv podcast set in the cosmic horror world of RPG Call of Cthulhu.
Horror Game Goodies
- Survival horror game Dark Deception is getting a movie adaptation.
Horror Music Moments
- Evil Dead in Concert begins its 50-city US tour on 22 Sep 2025 in Buffalo, NY. A live orchestral ensemble performs a reimagined and reorchestrated score as The Evil Dead plays on a large HD screen.
Horror Festival Fare
- Beyond Fest announced its full 90 movie lineup and in-person guest appearances. The event takes place in LA from 23 Sep to 8 Oct 2025.
- The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival announced its 2025 lineup. The event begins on 26 Oct with Queens of the Dead and ends on 25 Oct with Karmadonna.
“I’ve been amazed as an adult that most people don’t have stories constantly playing in their minds.”
― Jack Borden
Writing Horror
Protecting Intellectual Property: What Writers Need to Know About Copyright by Victoria Strauss (Writer Beware)
Some places accepting submissions
Folklore & Horror Short Stories (Flame Tree Fiction)
Pays: 8 cents/6 pence per word for original stories, 6 cents/4 pence for reprints
Looking for: Stories rooted in the dark side of the land and nature, of global mythologies and folktales, of ritual and isolation
Submissions close: 26 Sep 2025
Christmas Ghosts Short Stories (Flame Tree Fiction)
Pays: 8 cents/6 pence per word for original stories, 6 cents/4 pence for reprints
Looking for: Yuletide ghosts – malevolent demons, terrifying wraiths or spirits of fateful Christmases past perhaps, seeking eternal rest
Submissions close: 28 Sep 2025
Horror novels (Burial Books)
Pays: Onetime payment plus percentage of royalties
Looking for: Good horror novels at least 60,000 words.
Submissions close 31 Oct 2025
“People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don’t, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?”
― Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller
Trailer Horror
A taste of things to come.
Horror TV Trailers
Hazbin Hotel, Season 2. Animated musical comedy horror. Vox’s dark rise to power against Charlie Morningstar and her hotel’s mission. Prime Video, 29 Oct 2025
Horror Movie Trailers
Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc. Anime supernatural horror. In a brutal war between devils, hunters, and secret enemies, a mysterious girl named Reze has stepped into Denji’s world, and he faces his deadliest battle yet. Cinema, 24 Oct 2025
The Correction Unit. Sci-fi horror. A group of troubled teen criminals is sent to a mysterious facility where AI technology can make their wildest dreams and darkest traumas come true. Release date TBA
Coyotes. Comedy horror. Trapped in their Hollywood Hills home, a family fights for survival when caught between a raging wildfire and a pack of savage coyotes. Cinema, 3 Oct 2025
Dust Bunny. Monster horror. Ten-year-old Aurora has a neighbor who kills real-life monsters. When Aurora needs help killing the monster she believes ate her entire family, she procures his services. Cinema, 12 Dec 2025
The Healing. Russian psychological horror. Lyuba flees her abusive husband for a mysterious retreat with friends. Surreal rituals and haunting visions reveal dark secrets, pushing her to confront a terrifying choice: escape or succumb to a chilling fate. VOD, 7 Oct 2025
Killer Content. Parasocial horror. After surviving a near-death encounter with a stalker, a social media influencer retreats to her childhood cabin to recover and plan her return to the spotlight. But when a superfan tracks her down, that fan discovers there’s more to her idol than meets the eye. VOD, 16 Sep 2025
The Mannequin. Supernatural horror. After an aspiring fashion designer dies alone in a historical downtown Los Angeles building, her younger sister Liana does not believe it was a suicide and discovers that the building is haunted by a serial killer. VOD, 14 Oct 2025
Savage Hunt. Creature horror. A vengeful tracker is brought in to hunt down a large grizzly bear that starts attacking humans at the construction of a new local resort. Release date TBA
Takeout. Psychological horror. On a dead-end night shift at a remote fast-food diner, three coworkers suspect a customer is a serial killer. After digging for proof, they quickly realize they’re in over their heads. Tubi, 19 Sep 2025
Tinsman Road. Found footage horror. A young man navigates the mystery surrounding his long-missing sister and their family home. Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival, 3 Oct 2025
Horror Game Trailers
Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake. Japanese horror. Twin sisters, lost in a village that has vanished from the map, fight to unravel the mysteries of the supernatural phenomena surrounding them. Releases 2026
Father. Psychological horror. A family lives in strict isolation under the oppressive rule of a father. But the attempt to escape evil turns into a horror that grows from within. Release date TBA
Living Hell. Monster horror. Retrieve specimens before sunrise, as solar radiation twists animals and humans into terrifying mutations. Release date TBA
Winnie-the-Pooh: Black Honey. Survival horror. Set in a haunting reimagining of the Hundred Acre Wood, you’ll need creativity, quick thinking, and a bit of mischief to outsmart monstrous versions of Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, and Owl. Release date TBA
“Things worth telling – take time”
― Nicholas Denmon
A Selection of Horror Books Released this Week
18 horror books this week. Themes: Supernatural, psychological, folklore, vampire, gothic, cult, dark academia, witch, haunted house, ghost, survival, small town, and sci-fi horror
See: A Selection of Horror Books Released, 7 to 13 Sep 2025
“I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller”
― G.K. Chesterton
A Selection of Horror Movies Released this Week
12 horror movies this week. Themes: Supernatural, psychological, body, revenge, found footage, dystopian, slasher, and folk horror
See: A Selection of Horror Movies Released, 7 to 13 Sep 2025
“He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.”
― Homer
A Selection of Horror TV Shows Released this Week
2 horror TV shows this week. Themes: Zombie apocalypse, and animated werewolf TV horror
See: A Selection of Horror TV Shows Released, 7 to 13 Sep 2025
“Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive.”
― Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue
What We Were Thinking About this Week
13 Voodoo Horror Book Recommendations
13 Haunted House Horror Book Recommendations
This week’s daily horror book recommendations
Theme: Cursed object horror
Always Darker Inside by Fedowar Press
“Then here was Steely telling them a chair was floating outside the spacecraft like a balloon in the sky.”
Threshold by Andy Lockwood
“It surprised her that after all this time, it still had the power to try drawing her in.”
TerrorTome by Garth Marenghi
“Maybe a small second-hand shop specialising in offbeat mysterious oddities didn’t attract major footfall. That or the eels were an issue.”
Sinister Melody by Boris Bacic
“The music in his head wouldn’t stop. It was far worse than a catchy tune.”
Forsaken by Andrew Van Wey
“Dan took a few steps back, taking in the entire scope of the painting. It was a bizarre creation, both modern and macabre.”
Estate Sale by Mia Dalia
“Dreaming loud nightmares. Screaming silent screams. In this chair. Rocking away. You’d notice if you ever sat down.”
The Witch’s Diary by Charity Williams Smith
“Just think about the history. Can you imagine what could have happened here?”
“A writer is a dangerous friend. Everything you say, all of your life and experience, is fodder for our writing. We mean you no harm, but what you know and what you’ve done is unavoidably fascinating to us.”
― Randy Murray
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