Bite-Sized Horror News
Horror Book Bits
- In Search of Edgar Allan Poe, a 3-hour, 2-part, documentary about Poe, begins airing on PBS stations and on the PBS app on 25 Oct 2025.
- The final issue of Stephen Graham Jones and Joshua Viola’s slasher comic True Believers features cameos from Slash (Guns N’ Roses), Jeffrey Combs (Re-Animator), Barbara Crampton (From Beyond), Klayton (Celldweller), Gwar, and Matthew Heafy (Trivium). The comic releases on 13 Oct 2025 and has 3 front cover variants: Barbara Crampton, Slash, and Klayton.
- Fox Entertainment Studios and HarperCollins have struck a deal that allows Fox to develop original series, feature films and TV movies based on books from the HarperCollins’ Avon A imprint, and Avon A to publish book adaptations of Fox originals. Avon A publishes YA and horror books.
- R.L. Stein’s Stinetinglers is being adapted into an animated TV series.
- IDW Dark is publishing two new comic book series, one based on Smile and one based on A Quiet Place.
Horror Movie Morsels
- Production has begun on The Revenge of La Llorona, the sequel to 2019’s The Curse of La Llorona.
- 20th Century Studios won the bidding war for Crush, a snake horror movie inspired by true events and told primarily in real time.
- Letterboxd has decided that 2025 is so close to being over, they’ve announced their Official Top 25 Horror Films of 2025. Ranked by “member rating according to ‘horror’ genre tags”, the top 5, in order from 1 to 5, are: Sinners, Obsession, The Plague, It Ends, and Weapons.
- Animated horror shortParaNorman: The Thrifting will play in cinemas with the rerelease of ParaNorman at the end of Oct 2025.
- Jason Blum says “James Wan will be hugely involved” in any new Saw movies and “that’s how we’re going to reinvent it”.
- On 5 Nov 2025, AMC Theatres are screening a double feature of Prey and Predator: Badlands. Prey, itself, never had a cinematic release, as it only screened on Hulu when it first came out in 2022.
- The Lost Boys: A New Musical opens on Broadway on 26 Apr 2026.
- Patrick Brice says that Creep 3 is still coming but it will be “a defining … end of a sentence … that closes things up”.
- The Blumhouse Enhanced Cinema app that launched on Meta Quest is a new immersive experience promising to “reimagine how we watch horror films”.
Horror TV Treats
- Beefy Frank is a new adult animated horror comedy series releasing next year about a low-level mob guy who’s mutated into a disembodied head with telekinetic powers. Now out of prison, he’s trying to get his life together.
- Charlie Hunnam will be back for the Season 4 of Netflix’s Monster series, which will be about Lizzie Borden. Hunnam will play the role of Andrew Borden.
- Dexter: Resurrection is getting a 2nd season.
- Season 4 will be the last season of Yellowjackets.
- A bunch of The Walking Dead stuff is up for auction from all seasons of the show. Season 1 items include Rick’s pistol, sheriff’s hat, hospital gown and boxers, custom GTO car, and the ‘Don’t open/dead inside’ hospital doors, and Merle Dixon’s accessories, such as the hacksaw and chain that secured him to the roof of the building. Daryl’s crossbow from Seasons 1 to 3 is also one of the items. Live proxy bidding is open until 30 Oct, with the actual auction running from 3 Oct to 1 Nov 2025.
Horror Podcast Pieces
- The team behind Re: Dracula and Re: Carmilla are crowdfunding Re: Frankenstein, an audio adaptation of Frankenstein which will be “a faithful, text-accurate adaption” of the novel.
Horror Game Goodies
- Little Nightmares III has an online co-op mode as well as single player mode.
Horror Music Moments
- All the songs on punk band Horror Section’s new album Part III: Return to Rot are based on ‘third’ movies in horror franchises.
- The new song from Ice Nine Kills, The Laugh Track, pays homage to Tim Burton’s Batman and has a 2-part music video.
- Rob Zombie released Punks and Demons which will be part of his next album The Great Satan which releases on 27 Feb 2026.
- The Future Ruins music festival dedicated to movie and TV composers has been canceled.
“For some of us, Halloween is everyday.”
― Tim Burton
Writing Horror
Some places accepting submissions
No Laughing Matter anthology (Flame Tree Fiction)
Pays: 8 cents per word
Looking for: Fiction that embraces the horror/thriller genres with elements of bleak, black humour, wry observation, a touch of irony and satire, and hints of the absurd
Submissions close: 19 October 2025
Metastellar
Pays: 8 cents per word
Looking for: Science fiction, fantasy, or horror
Submissions close: 31 October 2025
Small Wonders magazine
Pays: 10 cents per word
Looking for: Flash speculative fiction (under 1000 words) with elements not of this world: fantasy, science fiction, horror
UnchartedPays: $200
Looking for: Thriller/Mystery/Horror stories that keep us up at night, afraid to turn the corner
“But, it was a little different tonight. There was a feeling of autumn coming to last a million years. There would be no spring.”
― Ray Bradbury, The October Game
Trailer Horror
A taste of things to come.
Horror Movie Trailers
Dorothea. True crime serial killer horror. Serial killer granny Dorothea Puente hides death behind a smile, turning her boarding house into a graveyard. VOD, 4 Nov 2025
It Needs Eyes. Psychological horror. A troubled teen moves to her aunt’s coastal house, where she escapes into dark corners of the internet. Her fixation on a mysterious missing woman’s videos leads to disturbing discoveries about the digital underworld and her own secrets. Release date TBA
The Last Supper. Horror anthology. In a deserted house, a mysterious man savors an exquisite menu in the company of an unseen guest. From this eerie dinner table, a succession of terrifying stories is revealed. Release date TBA
Maria. Sci-fi horror. After erotic film star Maria Black’s mysteriously disappearance, she resurfaces as a vengeful cyborg seeking revenge. VOD, 14 Oct 2025
The Red Mask. Slasher horror. Allina, a rising indie screenwriter, is hired to revive a cult ’80s slasher, she and her fiancée retreat to a remote cabin for inspiration. But as her screenplay begins to rewrite itself and two masked strangers appear, their weekend spirals into a terrifying showdown where homage, horror, and reality bleed together. Release date TBA
Horror Game Trailers
Bleak Haven. Survival horror. Explore abandoned villages, crypts, ruins, and underground chambers, each hiding twisted secrets and fragments of a lost past. Steam, 27 Oct 2025
Cult of Blood. Survival horror. Investigate strange reports as a police officer, only to uncover a hidden village ruled by a blood cult. Demo available on Steam, full release date TBA
Netbreak. Found footage horror. Solve puzzles to find six hidden assets on the dark web to decrypt them and take down the underground marketplace. Release date TBA
“Yes, Halloween excites me. … None of the renewal and redemption cliches of spring. No. Something darker and more primal and more important than that.”
― Alice LaPlante
A Selection of Horror Books Released this Week
13 horror books this week. Themes: Supernatural, psychological, ghosts, fairy tale, gothic, folk, noir, and children’s horror.
See: A Selection of Horror Books Released, 5 to 11 Oct 2025
“You start to grow up when you understand that the stuff that scares you is part of the air you breathe.”
― Peter Straub
A Selection of Horror Movies Released this Week
17 horror movies this week. Themes: Supernatural, psychological, creature, shark, ghost, serial killer, and isolation horror
See: A Selection of Horror Movies Released, 5 to 11 Oct 2025
“But the truth is, ghosts are everywhere. In the bread aisle at your grocery store, in the middle of your grandmother’s garden, in the front seat on your bus. Just because you can’t see them doesn’t mean they aren’t there.”
― Victoria Schwab, City of Ghosts
A Selection of Horror TV Shows Released this Week
2 horror TV shows this week. Themes: Supernatural and reality horror
See: A Selection of Horror TV Shows Released, 5 to 11 Oct 2025
“The week after Halloween had a quality both hungover and ominous, the light pitched, the sky smashed against the rooftops.”
― Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude
What We Were Thinking About this Week
16 Halloween Horror Book Recommendations
Shivers and Thrills: 15 Halloween Horror Anthologies and Collections Recommendations
This week’s horror book recommendations
Theme: Halloween horror
The Girls of October by Josh Hancock
“In the days after her birth, Beverly Dreger witnessed bizarre behavior from her parents…”
Devil’s Night by Curtis M. Lawson
“You know, I saw the Nain Rouge once.”
Prank Night by Kristopher Rufty
“Her hand was reaching for the curtain when she heard the faint thump of knocking.”
Autumncrow by Cameron Chaney
“You were forever distracted by the monsters in your notebooks.”
Unholy Blood by Ian Gielen
“One cavern stands apart in the secluded twists and turns of the cave system…”
Bad Apples by Corpus Press
“For the twins, the days between Halloweens passed like hours.”
Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon
“The house, Mrs. Dodd explained before unlocking the front door, was one of the oldest in the village.”
“The scythe fell and lay in the grass like a lost smile.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree
Horror Fun
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