Bite-Sized Horror News
Horror Book Bits
- Adam Cesare’s cosmic horror comic series Dead Mall is getting a movie adaptation.
- Sandi Jones’ psychological thriller The Other Woman is getting a series adaptation.
- In Ireland recently, Paul Tremblay spent 4 days on the set of the movie adaptation of A Head Full of Ghosts and says “it’s going to be a cool, creepy, beautiful-to-look-at movie”.
Horror Movie Morsels
- Scream 8 has locked in its writers.
- Two Zachs (Cregger and Shields) are writing the screenplay for Gladys, the prequel to Weapons.
- Has Blumhouse found the director for its reimagining of The Blair Witch Project? Rumour says yes.
- Ghostbusters in Concert has a live orchestra accompanying the screening of the original movie on a large HD cinema screen. The first show is 18 Sep 2026 in Spokane, WA.
- Crackcoon is getting a sequel.
- There’s potentially going to be an English remake of Japanese liminal horror movie Exit 8.
- A vertical series based on found footage horror movie Megan is Missing has finished filming in LA.
Horror TV Treats
- The pilot script of upcoming comedy horror series Widow’s Bay was originally submitted in a writing gig interview for season 2 of Parks and Recreation.
- The pilot of the animated series adaption of horror comic Wytches series is done. No more details yet.
- Indonesian zombie series Zona Merah is getting a movie adaptation.
Horror Podcast Pieces
- British paranormal podcast The Witch Farm is getting a BBC drama series adaptation.
Horror Game Goodies
- If your character is killed in the upcoming Halloween video game, you’ll have a chance to come back as Michael Myers’ nemesis Doctor Loomis.
- The first issue of the comic series Dead By Daylight: The Hillbilly, releasing on 8 Aug 2026, tells the origin story of the Hillbilly.
- There will not be a Dead By Daylight 2 according to the developers.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
Writing Horror
How Horror Writers Can Win the War Against AI Fiction by Tim Waggoner
Some places accepting submissions
Novellas (Ruadán Books)
Pays: Professional rates
Looking for: Dark speculative fiction and dark thriller novellas
Submissions close: 30 Apr 2026
Mud Season Review
Pays: USD $50
Looking for: Deeply human work that will teach us something about life, but also about the craft of writing or visual art, and work that is original in its approach and that in some way moves us
Submissions close: 30 Apr 2026
Extremely Weird Splatter anthology (Horrific Scribblings)
Pays: USD 8 cents per word
Looking for: Stories that highlight the awesome potential released when extreme aesthetics and splatter savvy fuse with weird
Submissions close: 15 May 2026
Fractured Lit
Pays: $50 for micro fiction, $75 for flash fiction
Looking for: Micro fiction (up to 400 words) and Flash fiction (401 to 1000 words)
Flash Frog
Pays: USD $25
Looking for: Flash fiction up to 1000 words
Brilliant Flash Fiction
Pays: USD $20
Looking for: Flash fiction up to 1000 words
“Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
Trailer Horror
A taste of things to come.
Horror TV Trailers
Cape Fear, Season 1 teaser. Survival horror. A happily married couple faces a growing threat when a killer from their past is released from prison and seeks revenge. Apple TV+, 5 Jun 2026
The Terror: Devil in Silver, teaser. Psychological horror. Inside New Hyde, reality disappears. AMC+, Shudder, 7 May 2026
Widow’s Bay, teaser. Comedy horror. A skeptical mayor leads the superstitious residents of a cursed New England island. Apple TV+, 29 Apr 2026
Horror Movie Trailers
300 Feet Tall. Musical psychological horror. As Mika’s boyfriend pounds on the bathroom door, she swallows a handful of pills and is transported to a fantastical forest near her childhood home where she comes face-to-face with a dark secret. Release date TBA
Backrooms. Psychological horror. A series of disturbing home videos captures supernatural events that terrorize their witnesses. Cinema, 29 May 2026
Bloodthirsty. Zombie horror. On the night of their anniversary, Sarah is unexpectedly called into work. When a sudden zombie outbreak traps her inside, Brian fights to reach her before it’s too late. VOD, 12 May 2026
The Fuzzies. Puppet horror. After their childhood friend dies, a group of old pals reunite at her eerie estate and discover the grotesque puppets from her famous children’s TV show are alive. VOD, 1 May 2026
Happy Halloween. Halloween slasher horror. A Halloween prank goes wrong and a masked killer seeks revenge. Cinema, 14 Apr 2026
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, new trailer. Supernatural horror. The young daughter of a journalist disappears into the desert. Eight years later, she returns. Cinema, 17 Apr 2026
Shed. Australian survival horror. A 10-year-old girl locked in a shed must survive inconceivable odds whilst trying to discover what happened to her family. Release date TBA
Up the Catalogue. Comedy horror. Tasked with flogging an endless cycle of questionable products, the star presenter starts to fear she might be trapped in live television. VOD, 14 Apr 2026
Werewolf: Blood Inheritance. Werewolf horror. An archeology post grad exhumes an iron stake from a newly discovered site and unleashes a terrible curse. She has to either pass the curse on to one of her closest friends or be forever transformed into a monstrous creature. Release date TBA
Horror Game Trailers
Am I Here? Psychological horror. Explore a liminal world full of traps, platforming challenges, and make the best guess as to where you are. Release date TBA
Anomaly 404. Anomaly horror. As a journalist, explore the unstable reality of a secret bunker to uncover the horrifying truth behind Project 404. Released 3 Apr 2026
Panic Delivery. Monster horror. Every delivery could be your last in a dystopian world ruled by grotesque monsters. Failure isn’t an option and if the customers don’t get you, the company will. Early access Q2 2026
The Well is Not Empty. Psychological horror. Explore a dark, abandoned underground structure beneath a village that’s been deprived of water. Release date TBA
“Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid
A Selection of Horror Books Released this Week
10 horror books this week. Themes: Supernatural, psychological, gothic, dark fantasy, and wilderness horror
See: A Selection of Horror Books Released, 29 Mar to 4 Apr 2026
“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
― Franz Kafka
A Selection of Horror Movies Released this Week
5 horror movies this week. Themes: Psychological, monster, slasher, body, and found footage horror
See: A Selection of Horror Movies Released, 29 Mar to 4 Apr 2026
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
― Plato
What We Were Thinking About this Week
What We’ve Been Reading This Week
9 Horror Books to Indulge in this Easter
Small Town Horror by Ronald Malfi (novel)
Skeleton Crew by Stephen King (collection)
What We’re Recommending This Week
Did you know I recommend one horror book every day of the year on Bluesky, Threads, Facebook, and Twitter?
This week’s horror book recommendations
Theme: No real theme just good horror
Darkness There but Something More by Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar
“They enter the path in single file, a curving snake of girls, the sorority pledge mistress at the helm.”
All’s Well by Mona Awad
“I lie like this, and I do not feel relief.”
You Asked For It by Amanda Ruzsa
“Shelly thought Donny’s dusty doll shop was a wonderland…”
Cabal by Clive Barker
“What time didn’t steal from under your nose, circumstance did.”
I Don’t Recognize This World Anymore by Kristopher Triana
“My ex-wife was the one to send me to prison, but it was my dog that led me to crime.”
Scrivenery Collywobbles by Llrâc Nôdbé
“Was that a knock on the front door? Surely not.”
Message in the Bones by Dawn Merriman
“Freak is a nasty word. It burns like a slap.”
“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Horror Fun
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Thanks for reading
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Jayson
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