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- Condolences to family, friends, and fans of actress Carrie Anne Fleming. Fleming’s horror TV series credits include iZombie, Supernatural, and Masters of Horror. RIP.
Horror Book Bits
- Delilah S. Dawson’s 5-issue comic series, Sleepy Hollow: The Witches of the Western Wood, is a prequel to Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow movie. The first one releases on 6 May 2026.
- BizarroCon is back for its 18th year and is in Portland, Oregon, on 14 to 17 May 2026.
- Christopher Pike’s supernatural YA novel Remember Me is getting a movie adaptation.
- Fangoria is working on a 5-story horror anthology comic anthology.
Horror Movie Morsels
- Andy Muschietti, the director of the 2017 and 2019 IT movies, hasn’t yet found time to do the 6-hour supercut combination of the 2 movies plus extra scenes he promised 7 years ago. But he says they’re still “going to do it”.
- Lee Cronin says he turned down doing an Evil Dead sequel because it wasn’t risky enough, whereas his new The Mummy movie has the riskiness he was looking for.
- Actor John Hannah will reprise his role as the untrustworthy brother in The Mummy 4.
- In movie ratings news, Lee Cronin’s The Mummy has been rated R for “strong disturbing violent content, gore, language and brief drug use” and Obsession has been rated R for “strong bloody violence, grisly images, sexual content, pervasive language, and brief graphic nudity”.
- The sequel to 2024 curse horror movie It Follows is about to begin production and is called They Follow.
- The script is apparently being written for the sequel to 2009’s Jennifer’s Body and Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried are interested in returning to their roles.
- All 10 Saw movies are streaming on Netflix.
- 2016 supernatural horror movie Lights Out is getting a sequel.
Horror TV Treats
- Ryan Coogler’s The X-Files reboot will have two new original main characters that aren’t called Mulder and Scully.
- Robert Englund is voicing the character of Cosmo in the upcoming Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 animated series.
- The TV series adaptation of German supernatural graphic novel Berlinoir is called City of Blood and premieres on Disney+ in Germany on 16 Sep 2026.
- Supernatural series School Spirits is getting a 4th season.
- Barbara Muschietti says although It: Welcome to Derry season 2 hasn’t been officially announced, they are “all working towards it”.
- Anne Rice’s Talamasca: The Secret Order is not getting a 2nd season.
Horror Game Goodies
- Dead Take and FAITH: The Holy Trinity are getting movie adaptations.
- There will be a Poppy Playtime: Chapter 6 and the live-action movie adaptation is still likely to happen.
Horror Festival Fare
- Jack the Clown and Dr. Oddfellow will be back for Halloween Horror Nights this year.
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”
― Oscar Wilde
Writing Horror
A.I. and the Fetishization of Ideas by Chuck Wendig
Some places accepting submissions
Ogerog Annual
Pays: 8 cents per word
Looking for: Literary horror
Submissions close: 7 Apr 2026
Emberwick Press
Pays: 50% net royalties
Looking for: Full-length Chapter Book, Middle Grade, Young Adult, and Adult Fiction manuscripts in the Contemporary (YA/MG), Fantasy (YA/MG), Romance (Adult/YA), Romantasy (Adult/YA), Mystery (all ages), Historical Fiction (all ages), and Horror / Thriller (all ages) genres.
Submissions close: 1 May 2026
WERE-2 anthology (Zombies Need Brains LLC)
Pays: USD 8 cents per word + royalties
Looking for: Urban fantasy stories where the story revolves around were-creatures other than werewolves
Submissions close: 31 May 2026
Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness
Pays: $220 for features, advance/royalties for zines or books
Looking for: Science fiction, fantasy, literature, horror, romance, anything written from a radical perspective
“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman
Trailer Horror
A taste of things to come.
Horror TV Trailers
Devil May Cry, Season 2 teaser. Animated supernatural horror. Team Dante? Team Vergil? Why choose? Netflix, 12 May 2026
If Wishes Could Kill. South Korean YA technology horror. A mysterious app promises wishes, then starts a countdown to death. As a group of teens becomes entangled, they must break the deadly chain to survive. Netflix, 24 Apr 2026
Stranger Things: Tales from ’85, trailer. Animated supernatural horror. Those creatures can’t get out or it’s game over. Netflix, 23 Apr 2026
Widow’s Bay, new sneak peek. Comedy horror. A skeptical mayor leads the superstitious residents of a cursed New England island. Apple TV+, 29 Apr 2026
Horror Movie Trailers
Crimzon Harvest. Scarecrow horror. A poor farm family is troubled by intruders who end up encountering a supernatural scarecrow out for justice. Release date TBA
Deep Water. Shark horror. A flight goes down in the middle of the Pacific in shark infested waters. Cinema, 1 May 2026
Loner. Supernatural horror. An aspiring vlogger goes on a wilderness retreat to a cabin in the woods, where he is held captive by an ancient, natural force. Found TV. 24 Apr 2026
Hive. Psychological horror. When an anxious teen loses the child she’s babysitting, she’s forced to confront a sinister presence hiding among playground children. Tubi, 17 Apr 2026
Itch! Psychological horror. An outbreak makes people scratch themselves to death and strangers take refuge in a department store, where panic spreads faster than the infection. Release date TBA
Marama. New Zealand historical horror. In 1859, a young Māori woman is summoned from New Zealand to North Yorkshire where she uncovers her horrific colonial heritage. Cinema, 17 Apr 2026
Sorority Shark Attack. Shark horror. A group of university students band together to protect their Canadian cabin getaway from a genetically modified bull shark. Release date TBA
Thinestra. Body horror. A young woman takes a new weight-loss pill and the fat she sheds returns in the form of her blood-thirsty doppelgänger. VOD, 14 Apr 2026
Weekend at the End of the World. Comedy horror. Karl and Miles have an opportunity to strike it rich, the only thing that stands in their way is end of the world. VOD, 20 Apr 2026
The Whistler. Supernatural horror. Reeling from the loss of their daughter, a couple encounter a cult claiming it can summon spirits from beyond. Limited release, 17 Apr 2026
Horror Game Trailers
4 Penny Coffins. Survival horror. A motley collection of good-hearted citizens patrols the winding alleys and rotting byways of 1888 Whitechapel. But one is the Ripper, a gleeful demon concealed behind a facade of humanity. Release date TBA
Directive 8020. Sci-fi horror. Earth is dying and humanity is running out of time. 12 light years from home, Tau Ceti f offers a small sliver of hope. When the colony ship Cassiopeia crash lands on the planet, its crew soon realize they are far from being alone. Releases 12 May 2026
Traffic Stop Anomaly. Anomaly horror. You’re a traffic cop on endless patrol. Pull over drivers. Shine your flashlight and spot the anomalies. Let the normal ones go. Release date TBA
“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
― Dave Eggers
A Selection of Horror Books Released this Week
11 horror books this week. Themes: Supernatural, psychological, creature, gothic, monster, and folk horror
See: A Selection of Horror Books Released, 22 to 28 Mar 2026
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for?”
― Franz Kafka
A Selection of Horror Movies Released this Week
17 horror movies this week. Themes: Supernatural, psychological, creature, comedy, sci-fi, survival, body, witch, and zombie horror
See: A Selection of Horror TV Movies Released, 22 to 28 Mar 2026
“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
A Selection of Horror TV Shows Released this Week
1 horror TV show this week. Theme: Wedding horror
See: A Selection of Horror TV Shows Released, 22 to 28 Mar 2026
“A good book is an event in my life.”
― Stendhal, The Red and the Black
What We Were Thinking About this Week
What We’ve Been Reading This Week
31 Women in Horror Book Recommendations, 2026
The Stairwell by Casey Quinn (short story, FearSome Fiction)
Strange Pictures by Uketsu (novel)
The Night Birds by Christopher Golden (novel)
What We’re 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: Women in horror
The Lamb by Lucy Rose
“I spent the night helping Mama make stock out of the bones.”
The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling
“In fifteen days, there will be no food in Aymar Castle.”
The Devouring Gray by Christine Lynn Herman
“His fate lay in the cards.”
She Made Herself a Monster by Anna Kovatcheva
“There is a brick, and there is a mouth.”
Turn Off the Light by Jacquie Walters
“The apple is an omen. She does not yet know why, but she is sure of it.”
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
“And then she disappeared completely into the dark mouth that was the path’s entrance.”
Into the Forest: Tales of the Baba Yaga edited by Lindy Ryan
“Follow us now, and please come see our beautiful homes.”
“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
― Lemony Snicket
Horror Fun
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