Bite-Sized Horror News
Horror Book Bits
- Charles Burns’ monster/serial killer Black Hole graphic novels are getting a TV series adaptation.
- There are some pretty good bargains on BookFunnel’s Spooktober Sales list.
- Godzilla is going to die in Issue #6 of the ongoing IDW comic book series.
- Monster horror comic Something is Killing the Children is getting a movie adaptation and a TV series adaptation from Blumhouse.
- The complete screenplay of Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein screenplay will be published on 25 Nov 2025.
Horror Movie Morsels
- Amazon has some pretty good deals on horror movies for the Halloween season.
- Supernatural horror short The Bells is getting a full-length movie adaptation.
- Johnny Depp will star in a new Ebenezer: A Christmas Tale movie.
- Actor Glenn Powell says that Stephen King had to watch him in Hit Man before approving him for the lead role in The Running Man remake.
- Talking about Terrifier 4, actor David Howard Thornton says Art the Clown’s backstory will be revealed in the first 15 minutes and the “finale is bat-shit insane”.
- Robert Englund is getting his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 11:30am on 31 Oct 2025.
- Screamboat is getting a sequel called Screamboat 2: Nothing Stays Dead and will feature Minnie as a love interest.
- You can watch documentary When Good Ghouls Go Missing for free on YouTube. The movie is a retrospective look back at 2001 Halloween TV horror movie When Good Ghouls Go Bad.
- You can watch Fangoria’s 2025 Chainsaw Awards show for free on YouTube.
- Scream Factory is discontinuing its 12-movie Friday the 13th box set collection.
Horror TV Treats
- The Stranger Things, Season 5, finale will screen in cinemas at the same time as it appears on Netflix.
- The Duffer brothers confirm that Eddie Munson will definitely not be in Stranger Things, Season 5.
- Andy Muschietti, co-producer/director of IT: Welcome to Derry, says the story “seems much more relevant in the days we’re living in now”.
- Osgood Perkins is not happy about how his father has been portrayed in Netflix’s Monster: The Ed Gein Story and takes issue with how true crime streamers leave out a lot of context. The author of a definitive Ed Gein book says that “a very large percentage of the show is just made up” and other subjects and families criticize how creative liberties are taken with shows based on real serial killers.
- The DCU Arkham Asylum series is not happening because “it just didn’t work”.
Horror Game Goodies
- Time travel horror game Fear the Spotlight is getting a graphic novel adaptation.
Horror Music Moments
- John Carpenter is planning to release the unused score he did for Death of a Unicorn.
Horror Festival Fare
- Winners of the jury awards for Best Feature at this year’s Brooklyn Horror Film Festival were: Don’t Leave the Kids Alone (Dark Matter category), Every Heavy Thing (Head Trip category), and Last Call (Short category).
“Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”
― John Hodgman
Writing Horror
Here are the writer’s guidelines for the Views From the Overlook anthology. Submissions will be open for 24 hours from 12:01am 1 Mar 2026 to 12:01am 2 Mar 2026 and all submissions will be read, not just the first 500 as was originally planned.
Crystal Lake Publishing is running a 3-hour online workshop on 8 Nov 2025, The Creative Reset – Step Into 2026 Fearless and Ready, featuring Ben Farthing, Jes Hart Stone, Felix Blackwell, Nick Roberts, and Joe Mynhardt.
Some places accepting submissions
Africanfuturism anthology (Flame Tree Press)
Pays: 8 cents/6 pence for original stories, 6 cents/4 pence for reprints
Looking for: stories set in and about Africa – whether that’s a future Africa, an alternative Africa or a parallel Africa
Submissions close: 2 Nov 2025
Fantabulosa
Pays: 8 cents per word
Looking for: high-quality, original, unpublished prose, poetry, non-fiction, and art of (and about) fantasy, science fiction and speculative horror by queer creatives
Submissions close: 30 Nov 2025
The Dark magazine
Pays: 5 cents per word for original fiction, 1 cent per word for reprints
Looking for: Horror and dark fantasy
“Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Trailer Horror
A taste of things to come.
Horror Movie Trailers
Fey. Psychological horror. In the final phase of a trauma study, Maddy films her first nights alone since the incident, but as she records, the feeling of being watched returns. Release date TBA
Troll 2. Creature horror. Nora, Andreas, and Captain Kris embark on their most dangerous adventure yet. With the clock ticking and chaos spreading, they’ll need new allies and ancient secrets to stop the rampage. Netflix, 1 Dec 2025
Horror Game Trailers
The Cave Diver. Psychological horror. Crawl down a suffocating cave system using only your arms and discover what morbid force is calling you deeper into the caves. Release date TBA
Demon Spore. Monster horror. A failed lab experiment gives birth to a rapidly growing viral horror. Improvise an escape plan before the life form evolves out of control. Releases Q1 2026
Nightholme. Survival horror. Take back the night by gunning down bosses of nightmares, getting the jump on enemy teams, and escaping the ever-changing city. Release date TBA
“Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly – all these make for great stories.”
― Chuck Palahniuk
A Selection of Horror Books Released this Week
11 horror books this week. Themes: Supernatural, psychological, historical, body, zombie, ghost, western, and Halloween horror
See: A Selection of Horror Books Released, 19 to 25 Oct 2025
“But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.”
― Stephen King
A Selection of Horror Movies Released this Week
23 horror movies this week. Themes: Supernatural, psychological, vampire, animal, found footage, zombie, grief, dystopian, witch, and cabin in the woods horror
See: A Selection of Horror Movies Released, 19 to 25 Oct 2025
“…the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn’t. And yet you want to know again.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
A Selection of Horror TV Shows Released this Week
1 horror TV show this week. Theme: Supernatural horror
See: A Selection of Horror TV Shows Released, 19 to 25 Oct 2025
“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
What We Were Thinking About this Week
Big List of Western Horror Books
Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
Doorways to the Deadeye by Eric J. Guignard
This week’s horror book recommendations
Theme: Halloween horror
Red Harvest by Patrick C. Greene
“Trick or treat! Rotten meat! That is what we want to eat!”
What October Brings by Douglas Draa (editor)
“People who went out into the dark sometimes did not come back.”
All Hallow’s Dead by Bryan Smith
“Lloyd’s family had been operating the pumpkin stand at this same roadside location for generations.”
Haunted Nights by Ellen Datlow & Lisa Morton (editors)
“Dead is dead. Dead moves on. But the Holston house…”
It Came From the Pumpkin Patch by Chris Heinicke & Kate Reedwood
“God how he hated pumpkins.”
Thirteen Paths by Jess Boldt, Andy Lockwood, Jenifer Lynn
“They say the ghosts are still in there.”
Carrick Glynn by Tony Urban
“Eat!” Brighid repeated. And Conal did. As he had before. As he would again.”
“Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and sometimes they’re amiable and sometimes not.”
― China Miéville, The City & the City
Horror Fun
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Jayson
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