Bite-sized horror news
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- Condolences to family, friends, and fans of director and visual effects artist John Lechago. Lechago’s horror credits include the Killjoy franchise (2010 – 2016), Blood Gnome (2004), Bio Slime (2010), and Blade: The Iron Cross (2020). RIP.
Horror book bits
- Grady Hendrix’s slasher novel The Final Girl Support Group is getting a movie adaptation instead of a series adaptation.
Horror movie morsels
- Ryan Gosling will be the Ghost Rider in the new movie set to release in 2028.
- Cosm and Warner Bros have created an IT shared reality horror experience that will “transport guests through the eerie woods, haunted sewers, and shadowy corners of Derry, igniting fear at every turn”, debuting 28 Aug 2026.
- In movie ratings news, Other Mommy has been rated R for some bloody violence and language and Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence has been rated PG-13 for language, some violent content and suggestive material.
Horror TV treats
- Silo, Season 4 (the final season) will air on Apple TV in summer 2027.
- All 7 seasons of Tales from the Crypt are streaming for free on Tubi.
- Ryan Murphy says that American Horror Story, Season 13, is a “sequel to all seasons combined”.
- From 2027, all The Walking Dead shows will stream on both Netflix and AMC+.
- Propstore is auctioning off a bunch of entertainment memorabilia from 26 to 29 Aug 2026.
Horror game goodies
- Dual Effect has sold the exclusive movie and television rights to their survival horror game Tormented Souls.
- Jason Voorhees has been added to the upcoming horror trading card game Hellbreak.
- The Creepshow anthology video game has a release date of 13 Aug 2026.
Horror festival fare
- Halloween Horror Nights will have an Ozzy Osbourne: Prince of Darkness haunted house.
“Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn’t. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn’t read.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Writing horror
Some places accepting submissions
Menace
Pays: $50
Looking for: Speculative stories that weave unreal elements into a version of our world or traditional genres like science fiction and horror.
Slapshots in Space & Magical Marathons anthology – Tyche Books
Pays: $50
Looking for: Speculative fiction that re-examines sports
Submissions close: 31 Aug 2026
Upcoming submission calls
Haven Speculative
Pays: 8 cents per word
Looking for: Stories across the SFF and weird spectra (e.g., science fiction, fantasy, speculative horror, and beyond)
Submissions open 1 Aug and close 31 Aug 2026
“Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.”
― Katherine Paterson
Trailer horror
A taste of things to come.
Horror TV trailers
Below. Creature. There’s something in the water. Netflix, 8 Oct 2026
Carrie. Psychological. She just wanted a friend. They gave her a fight. Prime Video, 7 Oct 2026
Yaga. Supernatural. A private investigator investigating the disappearance of a young fishery heir, finding himself at odds with a local detective, a charismatic professor, and a labyrinth of enigmatic suspects and ancient magic. AMC+, Oct 2026
Horror movie trailers
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: Organic Intelligence. Comedy. A young biotech prodigy develops a revolutionary genetically engineered vegetable designed to solve humanity’s problems. Limited release, 7 Aug 2026
Blood Shine. Psychological. A religious zealot takes a filmmaker captive, claiming her sadistic rituals will change him into a god. VOD, 21 Aug 2026
Bury the Devil. Supernatural. A nurse locked inside the home of her dementia patient begins to suspect something demonic is seeping through the cracks of this old home. Release date TBA
The Cycle. Psychological. A daughter unravels her father’s dark past after his body, missing for 36 years, is found at a horrific crime scene. VOD, 23 Oct 2026
Dinosaurs of the Wild West. Dinosaur western. In an alternate 1879, humans and dinosaurs have built civilisation together. Release date TBA
Evel. Technology. A young woman is held hostage in an EV self-driving car on an isolated northern highway. Release date TBA
Fall 2: Deadpoint. Psychological. Two friends climbing in Thailand are left fighting the elements and the impact on their bodies. Cinema, 2 Sep 2026
Mouser. Psychological. After a night of drinking, a mentally ill young woman begins experiencing vivid encounters with a sinister talking cat, who seems to control her actions. Release date TBA
Onslaught, trailer 2. Creature. When a rogue squad of genetically engineered super soldiers breaks loose in the desert, an army sniper must protect her young daughter. Cinema, 4 Sep 2026
Ragebait. Found footage anthology. On Halloween night, a socially parasitic live streamer becomes the target of a malevolent entity after a mysterious viewer curses his stream, forcing him to watch a collection of cursed videos from missing content creators. Screambox, 4 Aug 2026
She Saw Us. Witch. Four friends are trapped in a remote house haunted by a vengeful witch and a two-headed doll that embodies the souls of her conjoined daughters. Cinema, 28 Aug 2026
Victorian Psycho. Gothic. In Victorian England, an eccentric governess arrives at a remote gothic manor, where strange happenings stir suspicion that she’s not what she seems. Cinema, 25 Sep 2026
Who’s Watching. Psychological. A shy, obsessive office worker’s “documentary” spirals into stalking, delusion, and danger as he fixates on a new coworker. Release date TBA
Horror game trailers
The Eventide. Supernatural. In a neon-noir Canadian cityscape, control a covert team of paranormal investigators tasked with monitoring, studying, and intervening in strange cases. Release date TBA
Flick. Psychological. Traverse between realities with the flick of a light switch to make sense of a demented family’s past. Release date TBA
Mr. Freezy. Serial killer. In New Detroit, authorities are hunting a serial killer they call after hundreds of severed heads are discovered hidden inside freezers across the city. Release date TBA
Prospice. Psychological. Explore an uncharted island with your cargo truck, manage its resources while completing deliveries in an open world environment where you’ll “identify, recover, and record artifacts born of godly decay.” Open playtest available on Steam
“I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
A selection of horror books released this week
7 horror books this week. Themes: Supernatural, psychological, ghosts, gothic, body, and vampire horror
See: A selection of horror books released, 27 to 31 Jul 2026
“I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.”
― Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You
A selection of horror movies released this week
9 horror movies this week. Themes: Supernatural, psychological, creature, shark, and sci-fi horror
See: A selection of horror movies released, 27 to 31 Jul 2026
“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life.”
― Christopher Morley, Parnassus on Wheels
A selection of horror TV shows released this week
1 horror TV show this week. Theme: Zombie apocalypse horror
See: A selection of horror TV shows released, 27 to 31 Jul 2026
“Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged, adapted, adulterated, shredded, and boiled down, it is mind-easing and mind-inspiring to sit down privately with a congenial book.”
― Thomas S. Monson
What we were thinking about this week
What we’ve been reading this week
Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons (novel)
Night and Day by John Connelly (collection)
What we’ve been recommending this week
Did you know we recommend one horror book every day of the year on Bluesky, Threads, Facebook, and Twitter?
This week’s horror book recommendations
Theme: Classic horror
Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
“Like so many unhappinesses, this one had begun with silence in the place of honest open talk.”
The Auctioneer by Joan Samson
“It’s almost like living lots of lives at once, telling stories is.”
The Dark by James Herbert
“Maybe … the more you believe in something, the more you go against it when that belief is shattered.”
Floating Dragon by Peter Straub
“All of this could have happened, and some of it did, but not in that way.”
Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
“I had forgotten that monsters do not die. They must be killed.”
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
“Everything that happens before Death is what counts.”
Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
“The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.”
“I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.”
― Lawrence Durrell
Horror fun
Thanks for reading
Thanks for reading. Catch you on the other side.
Jayson
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