A Grab Bag of Horror News, 24 to 30 Aug 2025

A selection of things that caught our attention in the world of horror this week

Bite-Sized Horror News

Horror Book Bits

A new edition of Clive Barker’s Books of Blood, Volumes 1 to 3 has been released, featuring a new afterword by Grady Hendrix.
Echo On Publications are publishing a novelization of 2003 slasher horror Wrong Turn. The book is based on the original screenplay and will release in 2026.
One of Us is a new horror event taking place in Iowa City on 6 Sep 2025. Meet some interesting authors and presses, buy books, have them signed, and listen to readings and conversations.

Horror Movie Morsels

The remake of 1992 psychological horror movie The Hand That Rocks the Cradle is coming to Hulu with a different script, but also some nods to the original.
2026 Frankenstein movie The Bride! has been rated R for strong/bloody violent content, sexual content/nudity and language.
The origin story of Art the Clown will be revealed in Terrifier 4, but not in a way that removes the ‘mystique’ from the character.
Documentary Theatre of Horrors: The Sordid Story of Paris’ Grand Guignol premieres at the L’Étrange Festival in Paris on 6 Sep 2025. The movie tells the story of the Parisian theatre established in 1897 that revolutionized the depiction of death in art.
Ridley Scott says he turned down $20 million to do Terminator 3.
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come starts immediately after the first movie ends and expands on the mythology.
KPOP Demon Hunters is the most watched movie of all time on Netflix. The movie also pulled in over $18 million at the box office opening and there are talks about a sequel.
The Good Boy is getting an expanded cinema release after the trailer reached over 1 million views and people rapidly googling whether the dog survives.
Have you always wanted to smell like Jaws? Well, now you can buy Jaws perfume.

Horror TV Treats

The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Titans returns for season 2 on 7 Oct 2025 on Shudder and AMC+.
The Creep Tapes, Season 2, is part of Shudder’s 2025 Halloween lineup.
The 200th episode of The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs is called ‘Joe Bob’s Splatterween’, will feature the band Gwar, and airs on 24 Oct 2025 on Shudder.

Horror Game Goodies

Fortnite has added a new The Conjuring crossover where you face Annabelle and The Nun.

Horror Festival Fare

Ice Nine Kills is taking their Silver Scream Con to London on 13-14 Dec 2025. The two confirmed guests at this stage are Terrifier director Damien Leone and Art the Clown actor David Howard Thornton.

“Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.”
R.L. Stine

Writing Horror

Some places accepting submissions

Uncanny Magazine
Pays: 10 cents per word
Looking for: Original speculative fiction
Submissions close: 8 Sep 2025

Upcoming submission calls

Into the Deep, Dark Woods anthology (Word Fire Press)
Pays: 6 cents per word
Theme: The magic and mystery of the primeval wilderness, where tangled branches create a foreboding canopy
Submissions open 1 Sep and close 15 Oct 2025

Humans from Earth anthology (Daft Notions)
Pays: $100 AUD (3K-5K words), $150 (over 5K words)
Looking for: SF/Horror, stories in which humans are a source of genuine horror/terror to extraterrestrials
Submissions open 1 Oct and close 31 Oct 2025

“I am a horror maniac who prefers to stay at home.”
Junji Ito

Trailer Horror

A taste of things to come.

Horror TV Trailers

Alice in Borderland, Season 3. Japanese psychological horror. Now, the ‘games’ that took the world by storm begin once again and the uncharted journey led by the mysterious Joker card is about to unfold. Netflix, 25 Sep 2025

Devil in Disguise: John Wayne Gacy. Serial killer horror. Peels back the twisted layers of Gacy’s life while weaving in heartrending stories of his victims, and exposes the systemic failures, missed opportunities and societal prejudices that fueled his reign of terror. Peacock, 16 Oct 2025

Wayward. Psychological horror. A small-town cop suspects that the local school for troubled teens and its dangerously charismatic founder may not be all it seems. Netflix, 25 Sep 2025

Wednesday, Season 2, Part 2. Supernatural horror. Desperate to avert her prophecy and save Enid’s life, Wednesday reopens a dark chapter in her family’s history. Netflix, 3 Sep 2025

Horror Movie Trailers

All the Devils are Here. Psychological horror. After a heist, four criminals lay low in a remote safehouse, waiting for orders. As paranoia builds, one thing becomes clear: the real threat may not be outside, but among them. VOD, 26 Sep 2025

Bugonia. Psychological horror. Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying Earth. Limited release 24 Oct, VOD 31 Oct 2025

The Carpenter’s Son. Supernatural horror. The son in a family hiding in Roman Egypt rebels against his guardian, known as ‘the Carpenter’. As he wields his own powers, the family faces natural and divine horrors. Release date TBA

Exorcism Chronicle: The Beginning. South Korean animated horror. An excommunicated priest helps his monk friend protect a powerful boy from an evil master. Cinema, 17 Oct 2025

Helloween. Clown slasher horror. At the height of the ‘killer clown’ phenomenon, a psychiatrist and an investigative journalist uncover a terrifying conspiracy masterminded by a maniacal incarcerated serial killer who’s plotting an uprising from his cell. VOD, 5 Sep 2025

Night of the Reaper. Babysitter horror. In the wake of the brutal murder of a teenaged babysitter, Deena returns home for the weekend and is roped into a babysitting gig. But the murder may not have been an isolated incident. Shudder, 19 Sep 2025

Return to Silent Hill. Psychological horror. When James receives a mysterious letter from his lost love Mary, he is drawn to Silent Hill, a once-familiar town now consumed by darkness. Cinema, 21 Nov 2025

The Summoning of Baby Blue. Supernatural horror. Through the flickering lights of a haunted bathroom mirror and the whispered chant of “Baby Blue, Blue Baby,” a babysitting gig becomes a nightmarish summoning. Release date TBA

V/H/S/Halloween. Found footage horror. A collection of Halloween-themed videotapes unleashes a series of twisted, blood-soaked tales, turning trick-or-treat into a struggle for survival. Shudder, 3 Oct 2025

Horror Game Trailers

Cryptic Tales. Psychological horror. Jon’s dreams were filled with music and a love life he once had. Now they’ve curdled into nightmares, weaving between memories and unknown realms. Release date TBA

Eclipsium. Lovecraftian horror. Search for what remains in a sunless world that is in the process of consuming itself into oblivion. Releases 19 Sep 2025

Goosebumps: Terror in Little Creek. Monster horror. Go face-to-face with sinister monsters, solve puzzles, and uncover a mystery to reveal the truth of it all. Available now

Raven 2. Dark fantasy horror. Traverse through an emotional journey to vanquish demons and uncover the secrets behind the world’s fate. Release date TBA

“Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.”
Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

A Selection of Horror Books Released this Week

13 horror books this week. Themes: Psychological, dystopian, survival, curse, summer camp, gothic, cryptid, and ghost horror

See: A Selection of Horror Books Released, 24 to 30 Aug 2025

“Horror was rooted in sympathy ... in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.”
Joe Hill, Heart-Shaped Box

A Selection of Horror Movies Released this Week

9 horror movies this week. Themes: Supernatural, psychological, slasher, survival, clown, sci-fi, body, and superhero horror

See: A Selection of Horror Movies Released, 24 to 30 Aug 2025

“The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable.”
H.P. Lovecraft, Selected Letters III: 1929-1931

What We Were Thinking About this Week

This week’s horror book recommendations

Theme: Voodoo horror

Dance for the Dead – Nuzo Ohoh
“The slave-girl is right to be afraid, not just of the dead, but also of the living.”

Ticktock – Dean Koontz
“Out of a cloudless sky on a windless November day came a sudden shadow…”

A Dark Roux – Blaine Daigle
“This is a world that time did not forget, but purposely left alone.”

The Good House – Tananarive Due
“At last, it was happening, after all this time. Gramma Marie’s magic was back.”

Vodou – Brandon Scott
“There’ll be no tricks here … but maybe a few treats.”

Darkness – John Saul
“The children of the Dark Man lurked in the shadows.”

All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By – John Farris
“The horrors have ended; or at least I have them at a distance. For now.”

“These friends – and he laid his hand on some of the books – have been good friends to me, and for some years past, ever since I had the idea of going to London, have given me many, many hours of pleasure.”
Bram Stoker, Dracula

Horror Fun

Mark Parisi, Off the Mark, on Instagram

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