Bite-Sized Horror News
Horror Book Bits
- Supernatural graphic novel series Grim, written by Stephanie Phillips and illustrated by Flaviano, is getting an animated TV series adaptation.
- A new comic book Smile: For the Camera releases on 18 Feb 2026. Set before the events of horror movies Smile and Smile 2, the series deals with the real-world horrors of the modelling industry.
- The Phantom of the Opera is getting a 4-issue comic series. Issue 1 of Universal Monsters: The Phantom of the Opera releases on 25 Feb 2026.
- Joe Hill says he writes a screenplay every year so he can receive healthcare insurance through the Writers Guild of America union. He’s currently revising one he was paid for in 2025 that is an adaptation of an unpublished novella that will eventually be published. The next two are adaptations of other people’s work.
- Joe Hill’s King Sorrow has been optioned for a TV series adaptation.
Horror Movie Morsels
- For Godzilla fans: the documentary Ishiro Honda: Memoirs of a Film Director will screen in Schenectady, New York, at 7pm on 16 Dec 2025.
- 4K restored 1987 Japanese dystopian horror movie The Red Spectacles will have limited screenings at the Metrograph theater in New York from 21 to 26 Nov 2025.
- Grindhouse Releasing is bringing some 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s Independent-International drive-in movies into theaters. Titles include Dracula Vs. Frankenstein, Satan’s Sadists, Frankenstein’s Bloody Terror, Midnight, All the Colors of the Dark, and Creature with the Blue Hand.
- Frankenstein: The Anatomy Lesson is streaming on Netflix and is a ‘making of’ documentary about Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein.
- Actor Lin Shaye denies that Insidious 6 will be her last movie or the last movie in the franchise, saying, “We are just getting started.”
- A Kickstarter has been started for Cotton Eye Joe, a backwoods slasher movie about four friends who break down on a deserted country road and awaken the brutal legend of a killer tied to the land.
- Although found footage horror movie Paranormal Investigations hasn’t yet had a wide release, a sequel, Paranormal Investigations: The Next Generation, is already underway.
- The script for the Sleepaway Camp remake is finished, and casting will be done in early 2026.
- A ‘making of’ documentary about the 2022 Grinch horror movie The Mean One is streaming on several VOD platforms. Here’s the trailer: Christmas Chaos: Making the Mean One.
- Stephen E. de Souza, writer of the 1987 The Running Man script, doesn’t think the ending worked in either his movie or the 2025 movie and wonders if “the third version in 2045 will stick the landing”.
- On Veterans Day, Arnold Schwarzenegger bussed retired veterans to a private screening of the latest The Running Man movie because their movie theatre was out of action.
- Zach Cregger says his new Resident Evil movie will bring the video game setting to the movie and he’s trying to give the movie a video game structure.
- A school in Dorset, UK, has banned students from singing songs from KPop Demon Hunters because some members of the community are “deeply uncomfortable” with references to demons.
Horror TV Treats
- Netflix will stream Hulu’s 2-season Stephen King TV series Castle Rock from 16 Dec 2025.
- Netflix will stream Mayfair Witches, Season 2, from 2 Dec 2025.
- Joe Bob’s Cold Cruel Christmas will include a double-feature of slasher movies, as well as his annual charity drive, on 12 Dec 2025 on Shudder. It will then be available on-demand from 14 Dec.
- Twisted Metal has been renewed for season 3.
- Stranger Things will have a float in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade that will feature the Hawkins National Laboratory and an 8 ½ foot tall demigorgon puppet.
- The Duffer brothers say the Stranger Things spinoff is “moving forward”, it’s “quite different”, “it’s not going to be set in the 80s”, and they plan to remain involved in any potential offshoot.
Horror Music Moments
- The 27-song soundtrack from Anne Rice’s Talamasca: The Secret Order released this week. You can listen to one of the tracks, Vampires Among Us, on the Lakeshore Records YouTube channel.
- Rob Zombie released a second music video, Heathen Days, from his upcoming album, The Great Satan.
“Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
Writing Horror
Some places accepting submissions
Weird Christmas flash fiction conthology 2025
Pays: $35
Looking for: Max 350 words story about Christmas (or any other winter holiday) and simultaneously weird
Submissions close: 1 Dec 2025
Upcoming submission calls
Adventitious
Pays: 8 cents per word
Looking for: Stories that offer a sense of wonder through their language, characters, plots, or all of the above
Submissions open 1 Dec and close 5 Dec 2025
The Phantom Pulse
Pays: 3 cents per word for original fiction, 1 cent per word for reprints
Looking for: Traditional horror, sci-fi horror, dark fantasy, and the weird
Submissions open 1 Jan and close 14 Feb 2026
“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”
― Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Trailer Horror
A taste of things to come.
Horror TV Trailers
The Haunted Season: The Occupant of the Room. Psychological horror. When a schoolteacher takes the room of a missing hotel guest, he unknowingly invites a night of uncanny terror. Based on the Algernon Blackwood story. Shudder, 1 Dec 2025
IT: Welcome to Derry, mid-season trailer. A look at things to come. Watch on HBO Max
Horror Movie Trailers
The Creeps. Creature horror. When a gateway between dimensions unleashes a horde of nasty little creatures into Vuokatti Ski Resort, Zach and his friends’ dream holiday takes a turn for the terrifying. US release date TBA
The Dark Domain: Mickey vs Winnie. Slasher horror. A century after two convicts are swallowed by a Hell forest, a group of grown-up ex-reform school friends reunite at their decaying disciplinary school. Their trip spirals into terror as the convicts rise as mutated twisted childhood icons. Release date TBA
The Demonatrix. Supernatural horror. A priest comes to the aid of his good friend and neighbor, a dominatrix, when she accidentally summons an incubus demon. Release date TBA
Hag. Psychological horror. Rowan rents his spare room to Mag, whose obsession with him grows into a life-or-death showdown. Tubi, 12 Dec 2025
Manor of Darkness. Supernatural horror. A group of pretend filmmakers becomes stuck in a never-ending nightmare. VOD, 9 Dec 2025
New Fear’s Eve. Survival comedy horror. An annual New Year’s Eve party turns deadly when a murderer sets his sights on three best friends. Screambox, 16 Dec 2025
Night Patrol. Vampire horror. An LAPD officer must put aside his differences with the area’s street gangs when he discovers a local police task force is harboring a horrific secret. Cinema, 16 Jan 2026
Something of a Monster. Psychological horror. In 1984, a woman with a phantom pregnancy is exiled to a remote Catskills inn where she becomes convinced that she is the target of a mysterious woman in the woods. Persimmon, 4 Dec 2025
Project Hail Mary, trailer 2. Sci-fi horror. An astronaut tries to save Earth while alone in outer space. Cinema, 20 Mar 2026
Return to Silent Hill. Psychological horror. When James receives a mysterious letter from his lost love, he is drawn to Silent Hill, a once-familiar town now consumed by darkness. Cinema, 23 Jan 2026
We Bury the Dead, trailer 2. Zombie apocalypse horror. After a catastrophic military disaster, the dead don’t just rise – they hunt. Cinema, 2 Jan 2026
Horror Game Trailers
Below. Psychological horror. With the help of a camcorder, explore dark tombs and tight halls under the great pyramid and try to find its terrible secret. Release date TBA
Don’t Scream Together. Co-op survival horror. You and friends walk through a pitch-black forest with camcorders in 1993. Use proximity chat and escape the forest. But if anyone screams or speaks too loudly, the game restarts or the screamer returns as the hunter. Release date 3 Dec 2025
Liminal City. Psychological horror. Walk through the streets of Backrooms Level 11, filled with soulless buildings, searching for a way out. Release date 8 Dec 2025
The Mound: Omen of Cthulu. Cosmic horror. Face the unnameable, survive your allies’ madness and unearth what should have stayed buried. Releases summer 2026
Storebound. Co-op survival horror. During opening hours, lights flicker across deserted halls, inviting exploration. When closing time comes, employees roam the aisles looking to “assist” you. Early access available now
“All the truth in the world is held in stories.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear
A Selection of Horror Books Released this Week
7 horror books this week. Themes: Psychological, vampire, gothic, cosmic, urban, and comedy horror
See: A Selection of Horror Books Released, 16 to 22 Nov 2025
“Don’t be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel’s Game
A Selection of Horror Movies Released this Week
5 horror movies this week. Themes: Psychological, found footage, revenge, and slasher horror
See: A Selection of Horror Movies Released, 16 to 22 Nov 2025
“Eddie discovered one of his childhood’s great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.”
― Stephen King, It
A Selection of Horror TV Shows Released this Week
1 horror TV show this week. Theme: Dinosaur horror
See: A Selection of Horror TV Shows Released, 16 to 22 Nov 2025
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
― George Lucas, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
What We Were Thinking About this Week
Wanderers by Chuck Wendig (novel)
The Long Walk by Stephen King (novel)
This week’s horror book recommendations
Theme: Grief horror
You’re Not Supposed to Be Here by Mike Salt
“Everything looks the same once it’s burned to the ground.”
It Eats Your Hunger by Joseph Murnane
“He’d never forget her name, but nobody ever told him how fast a face can disappear from a memory.”
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
“The dead do not forget.”
Broken Things by Diane Corso
“This is how everything slips away.”
The Aching Plane by Cody Larkin
“Sometimes she felt as though she were a ghost in her own life, living in a faded impression.”
On a Clear Day, You Can See Block Island by Gage Greenwood
“Children react to grief differently than adults, ranging in a variety of emotions with no rhyme or reason.”
The Devil’s Pocketbook by Ross Jeffery
“He’d never felt so alone as he did then, as the world raged around him.”
“And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.”
― Paulo Coelho
Horror Fun
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