Bite-Sized Horror News
Horror Book Bits
- William Hjortsberg’s 1978 supernatural novel Falling Angel and sequel Angel’s Inferno are the inspirations for a new TV series called Angel Heart.
Horror Movie Morsels
- The Witchcraft franchise is getting an 18th movie called Witchcraft: The Lanterne of Light, expected out in 2027.
- Have fun withSubservient Ghostface, a new website where you can make Ghostface do whatever you want him to do.
- The upcoming Scary Movie has been rated R for “crude sexual content, graphic nudity, strong violence, and drug content and language throughout”.
- The 3rd 28 Days Later movie won’t begin production until 2027 because “it’s set in an area of Britain [where] you can only film at certain times of the year”.
- Damien Leone’s next gig after Terrifier 4 is a Sam Raimi movie called Tortures of the Damned.
- Congratulations to all the winners of the 2026 Golden Trailer Awards. Horror movies and TV series took home quite a few wins.
- A 1968 episode of BBC’s Late Night Horror called No Such Thing As A Vampire was recently found by chance and has been preserved. It will screen at a future Film is Fabulous! event along with other, as yet unannounced, discoveries.
- There’ll be free screenings of Leviticus on 9 and 10 Jun in a few places, ahead of the movie’s official opening on 19 Jun 2026.
Horror TV Treats
- North Road Television Studios has bought the pilot of Sunken Meadow. The show is an “elevated horror series that is rooted in a dynamic family drama” and has been described as “Six Feet Under meets Weapons”.
- According to director John Fawcett, a Ginger Snaps TV series might still happen, is “a work in progress” and “there is some heat and some creative minds working on this as we speak”.
- Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds is being reimagined as a limited series inspired by the movie and the original Daphne du Maurier short story it was based on.
Horror Podcast Pieces
- A second movie is coming out of the Knifepoint Horror podcast. Fiona is about a lonely, divorced doctor who falls in love with a mysterious woman in rural America, only to discover she is channeling the raw forces of Mother Nature toward an apocalyptic purpose.
Horror Game Goodies
- Jason Voorhees becomes a playable killer in Dead By Daylight on 16 Jun 2026.
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
Writing Horror
Some places accepting submissions
The Submission Pit
Each month’s winner gets $100 + 50% of paid subscriptions
Looking for: Sci-fi, fantasy, horror
Submissions close: end of each month
Upcoming submission calls
Baffling Magazine
Pays: 8 cents per word
Looking for: Speculative stories that explore science fiction, fantasy, and horror with a queer bent
Submissions open 1 Jun and close 15 Jun 2026
ONE (P.I.C. Publishing)
Pays: CAD 5 cents per word
Looking for: Horror, which can be blended with sci-fi, fantasy, romance, comedy.
Submissions open 1 Jun and close 30 Jun 2026
Exquisite Undead anthology
Pays: USD $65 short stories, $30 poems or flash
Looking for: Vampire stories
Submissions open 1 Jun and close 1 Sep 2026
“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
― Lemony Snicket
Trailer Horror
A taste of things to come.
Horror Movie Trailers
Disclosure Day, final trailer. Sci-fi horror. Believe it when you see it. Cinema, 12 Jun 2026
I Am Frankelda. Spanish stop-motion horror. A determined 19th-century Mexican writer journeys into her subconscious to face the monsters she’s written about. Netflix, 12 Jun 2026
Mutter: The Diary of a Mother, teaser. Turkish creature horror. Under traumatic circumstances, Gül gives birth to her first child: an inhuman creature. Premieres at Tribeca Film Festival
Stepfather. Psychological horror. A desperate man hunts for the perfect family, but his new wife and daughters fear he may be deranged. Tubi, 19 Jun 2026
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. Slasher horror. After years of slapdash sequels and waning fandom, the Camp Miasma slasher franchise is handed over to an enthusiastic young director for resurrection. Cinema, 7 Aug 2026
Horror Game Trailers
The 7th Shift. Psychological horror. Work the overnight shift at a lonely grocery store. Stock shelves, clean the store, and face sinister forces that could point to the reason you were hired in the first place. Release date TBA
Hands Over. Horror party game. Play your favorite childhood games … except here, they can be fatal. Release date TBA
Nighthawks. Vampire horror. Seize the night as a modern monster, stepping out of the shadows to build a thriving nightclub empire through fear, seduction, and forbidden supernatural gifts. Release date TBA
Zangyou. Psychological horror. Trapped on the 32nd floor of a deserted Tokyo skyscraper, escape a hostile AI. Release date TBA
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
A Selection of Horror Books Released this Week
13 horror books this week. Themes: Supernatural, psychological, historical, serial killer, grief, haunted house, creature, slasher, extreme, and survival horror
See: A Selection of Horror Books Released, 24 to 30 May 2026
“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Books and You
A Selection of Horror Movies Released this Week
7 horror movies this week. Themes: Supernatural, psychological, sci-fi, and found footage horror
See: A Selection of Horror Movies Released, 24 to 30 May 2026
“How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
What We Were Thinking About this Week
What We’ve Been Reading This Week
Puzzle House by Duncan Ralston (novel)
Angel Down by Daniel Kraus (novel)
Dark Carnival by Ray Bradbury (collection)
Books of Blood, Vol 1–3 by Clive Barker (collection)
What We’re Recommending This Week
Did you know I recommend one horror book every day of the year on Bluesky, Threads, Facebook, and Twitter?
This week’s horror book recommendations
Theme: Chinese horror
Sinophagia edited by Xueting C. Ni
“You all made me do it!”
The Shadow Book of Ji Yun
“…when Lu Liuliang’s body was pulled from the ground, it was not that of a dead man…”
Bound Feet by Kelsea Yu
“No one’s going to die tonight. Not this time.”
The Ghost Bride by Yangzse Choo
“One evening, my father asked me whether I would like to become a ghost bride.”
Valley of Terror by Zhou Haohui
“Behind the wooden door stood a wall of wrought-iron bars.”
A Banquet for Hungry Ghosts by Ying Chang Compestine
“That winter, some of the workers mysteriously vanished.”
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling
“From that day on, whenever he sat in meditation he heard the voice.”
“Reading is … a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it’s a way of making contact with someone else’s imagination after a day that’s all too real.”
― Nora Ephron, I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
Horror Fun
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Jayson
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