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- Condolences to family, friends, and fans of actor/musician Jonathan Tiersten. Tiersten’s horror movie credits include Sleepaway Camp (1983), Return to Sleepaway Camp (2008), The Perfect House (2012), Blood Reservoir (2014), The House That Wept Blood (2016), and Lake of Shadows (2019). RIP.
- Condolences to family, friends, and fans of actor Beau Starr. Starr played Sheriff Ben Meeker in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) and again in Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989). RIP.
- Condolences to family, friends, and fans of actor Angelina Armani. Armani’s horror movie credits include Chromeskull: Laid to Rest 2 (2011), Creep Van (2012), Fear Clinic (2014), and Bedeviled (2016). RIP.
Horror Book Bits
- Congratulations to author Daniel Kraus for winning the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction with his novel Angel Down.
- Marvel Comics has a “terrifying new universe coming this fall” called Midnight. No more details yet except “The light had its turn”.
- Armando Muñoz’s Silent Night, Deadlier Night, releasing on 10 Nov 2026, is a new sequel to 1984 slasher movie Silent Night.
- DC’s upcoming Absolute Green Arrow slasher comic book series gives us “…a Robin Hood that’s less Errol Flynn … and more Michael Myers”. The first issue releases on 20 May 2026. Watch the trailer.
Horror Movie Morsels
- 9 years after announcing a new Piranha movie based in Japan about tuna-piranha hybrids, Piranha: Pacific Nightmare is finally moving forward again.
- Longlegs 2 has been given a release date of 14 Jan 2028 and will “not be a sequel, but will be set in the Longlegs universe”.
- Bloody Disgusting is offering free advance screenings of supernatural horror movie Passenger on 18 May in New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Dallas, Atlanta, and Miami.
- Amityville Backrooms is streaming on Tubi and new streaming platform BloodStream.
- James Cameron says he’s thinking of converting Aliens to 3D.
- Terrifier 4 will take place around New Year’s Eve.
Horror TV Treats
- Dan Aykroyd will be an executive producer on the Ghostbusters animated TV series premiering on Netflix in 2027.
- Friday the 13th actor/stuntman Kane Hodder has been cast in Dexter: Resurrection, season 2.
- AMC and Mini Museum have a kickstarter going for The Walking Dead Mini Museum, a limited-edition collectible featuring “32 screen-used props, costumes, and set pieces”.
Horror Game Goodies
- Paranormal Activity: Threshold has been cancelled because Paramount refused the developer’s request for a time extension.
- Board gameProm Night: The Game is available for preorder for expected shipping in Dec 2026.
- Leon Must Die Forever is available now as a free update to Resident Evil Requiem and is playable after completing the main story.
Horror Music Moments
- Episode 2 of Ice Nine Kills’ Laid to Rest: The Grave Diggler Story is on YouTube.
Horror Festival Fare
- Horror titles in the Fantasia International Film Festival’s 30th anniversary first wave list include The Last Temptation of Becky, No Rest for the Wicked, The Eyes, Ancestral Beasts, Captured!, Unholy Night, Sleep No More, and Ferine.
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing Horror
Book Festival Scams, Interview Fakes: Two New AI-Driven Impersonation Scams to Avoid by Victoria Strauss (Writer Beware)
Some places accepting submissions
Three-Lobed Burning Eye magazine
Pays: US 8 cents per word + 1 copy of annual print anthology
Looking for: Original unpublished speculative fiction, including horror, dark fantasy, and science fiction
Submissions close: 15 May 2026
Saros #6
Pays: CAD $33 + 1 print copy and all digital formats of the issue containing your work
Theme: Breaking the mold
Submissions close: 17 May 2026
Undead Appalachia anthology (Brood XIV Books)
Pays: $50
Looking for: Authentic Appalachian settings and characters, preferably from writers who live or have lived in Appalachia
Submissions close: 31 May 2026
It Came From The Trailer Park Anthology Vol 6 (Three Ravens Publishin)
Pays: Percentage of sales divided equally between the contributing authors
Looking for: Original creature-feature, horror-comedy with an “Exiled/Outcast/Alien Prisoner” twist
Submissions close: 1 Jul 2026
The First Line
Pays: $25 – $50 fiction, $10 poetry, $25 nonfiction
Looking for: Stories with the first line: “The line of people stretched all the way around the block”
Submissions close: 1 Aug 2026
“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”
― John Steinbeck
Trailer Horror
A taste of things to come.
Horror TV Trailers
The Boroughs. Sci-fi horror. In a seemingly picturesque retirement community, a group of unlikely heroes band together to stop an otherworldly threat from stealing the one thing they don’t have: time. Netflix, 21 May 2026
Cape Fear, Season 1. Survival horror. A happily married couple faces a growing threat when a killer from their past is released from prison and seeks revenge. Apple TV+
Horror Movie Trailers
Big Buck Massacre. Animal horror. A hapless crew of corporate misfits quickly discovers the forest is home to a monstrous zombie deer. Release date TBA
Camp. Witch horror. Haunted by a traumatic past, Emily finds solace as a camp counselor while navigating grief, witchcraft, and the power of female friendship. Cinema, 26 Jun 2026
Evil Dead Burn. Supernatural horror. After the loss of her husband, a woman seeks solace with her in-laws in their secluded family home. As they are transformed into Deadites, she discovers that the vows she took in life live on even in death. Cinema, 10 Jul 2026
Find Your Friends. Revenge horror. Amber and her friends visit Joshua Tree for a fun girls’ trip but face hostility from locals. Shudder, 12 Jun 2026
Kraken. Norwegian monster horror. Unnatural behavior in wild salmon, followed by inexplicable deaths in Norway’s deepest fjord, points to the mythical Kraken. VOD, 12 Jun 2026
Models vs Werewolves. Werewolf horror. A gang of self-centered influencers escape the city for a rural weekend away, but they are not alone. Texas Frightmare Weekend, 23 May 2026
Pacifico. Spanish creature horror. A group of young travelers are stranded on an island where they struggle to escape an evil presence that has been kept hidden from mankind for centuries. Release date TBA
Penny Lane is Dead. Psychological horror. In 1986, during a scorching Aussie summer, a celebration at a beach house turns into a blood-soaked fight for survival when a prank goes horribly wrong. Release date TBA
Sight Unseen. Supernatural horror. After the death of their estranged father, three siblings inherit his rural cabin and discover that something still lingers there. Release date TBA
The Voices of Our Mother. Supernatural horror. When a family matriarch falls seriously ill, relatives gather and discover their shared ancestral ties bind them in unexpected ways. Shudder, 19 Jun 2026
Horror Game Trailers
Curse of the Crimson Stag. Folk horror. Explore the abandoned Whiteroot Hotel and the blurred reality between deadly conspiracies and the supernatural. Release date TBA
Dracula: The Disciple. Gothic horror. A dying French archivist is drawn to Dracula’s abandoned stronghold in search of a cure. Release date TBA
The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu. Cosmic horror. Search for treasure in a cursed jungle. Releases 15 Jul 2026
“We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence.”
― Philip Pullman
A Selection of Horror Books Released this Week
19 horror books this week. Themes: Supernatural, psychological, haunted house, slasher, folk, gothic, dark fantasy, poetry, and middle grade horror
See: A Selection of Horror Books Released, 3 to 9 May 2026
“I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods
A Selection of Horror Movies Released this Week
6 horror movies this week. Themes: Supernatural, psychological, vampire, and comedy horror
See: A Selection of Horror Movies Released, 3 to 9 May 2026
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
A Selection of Horror TV Shows Released this Week
3 horror TV shows this week. Themes: Psychological and serial killer horror
See: A Selection of Horror TV Shows Released, 3 to 9 May 2026
“You know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon…everything’s different.”
― Bill Watterson
What We Were Thinking About this Week
What We’ve Been Reading This Week
This Fleshy Side of the Bone by John Langan (short story, Reactor)
Books of Blood, Vols 1 to 3, by Clive Barker (short story collection)
The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi (novel)
Monsters in the Archive: My Year of Fear with Stephen King by Caroline Bicks (non-fiction)
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: Supernatural horror
John Carpenter’s The Fog by Dennis Etchison
“It is said that one day the same deadly fog will surely return…”
Saltblood by T.C. Parker
“What you have to understand about the residents … is they don’t mix.”
The Cold Visitor by Jonathan Butcher
“…the Cold had returned – and once again, the ritual had begun.”
Closure May Never Come by PD Doling
“Her sanity had drained as quickly as her voice and only a whisper remained.”
Gone to the Dogs by Mark Towse
“He looks around to see if anyone else sees what he sees…”
The Final Reconciliation by Todd Keisling
“The Yellow Kings were my favorite band back then.”
Darker Days by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
“But it was November. Everything changed in November.”
“How did it get so late so soon?”
― Dr. Seuss
Horror Fun
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Jayson
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