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A Grab Bag of Horror News, 30 Jun to 6 Jul 2024

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

Horror news

Table of Contents

Bite-Sized Horror News

Horror Book Bits

Horror Movie Morsels

Horror TV Treats

Horror Game Goodies

  • Jason Blum told Variety that while the upcoming Blumhouse games will be horror, the fear factor degree will vary. He said, “…what you’re looking at on the slate is twisted and weird games, and then playing a pixelated cozy agricultural game with murder.”
  • Bloody Disgusting reports that Capcom is working on a new Resident Evil

Horror Festival Fare

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”

Albert Einstein

Writing Horror

Some places accepting submissions

  • Zombies in the New Normal (D.L. Russell)
    Pays: $100
    Looking for: Real world based zombie horror
    Submissions close: 1 August 2024
  • The First Line
    Pays: $25 to $50 for fiction
    First line of the story must be: When she was eight, Alice Henderson briefly held the world record for filling her mouth with marbles.
    Submissions close on 1 August 2024
  • Roots of My Fears anthology (Gemma Amor/Titan Books)
    Pays: 8 cents per word
    Looking for: Family or heritage lore
    Submissions close on 4 August 2024
  • River Folk Books
    Pays: $100
    Looking for: Technology-based horror shorts
    Submissions close on 30 September 2024

Some places with upcoming submission calls

  • khōréō
    Pays: 10 cents per word
    Looking for: Fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and any genre in between or around it, as long as there’s a speculative element. Note: Authors must identify as an immigrant or member of a diaspora in the broadest definitions of the terms
    Submissions open on 15 July and close on 15 August 2024

“What a curious power words have.”

Tadeusz Borowski, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

Trailer Horror

A taste of things to come.

Horror TV Trailers

  • Sweet Home, Season 3. South Korean monster horror. The world teeters on the boundary between monsters and humans, leaving humanity with a difficult choice. As desires clash, a desperate fight ensues. Premieres on Netflix on 19 July 2024.

Horror Movie Trailers

  • Longlegs final trailer. Supernatural serial killer horror. FBI Agent Lee Harker is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer. As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless killer and must race against time to stop him before he claims the lives of another innocent family. Releases in cinemas on 12 July 2024.
  • Trap second trailer. Psychological horror. A father and his teen daughter attend a pop concert only to realize they’ve entered the center of a dark and sinister event. Releases in cinemas on 2 August 2024.
  • Afraid. AI horror. Curtis and his family are selected to test a revolutionary new digital family assistant called AIA. Taking smart home to the next level, once the unit and all its sensors and cameras are installed in their home, AIA seems able to do it all. She learns the family’s behaviors and begins to anticipate their needs. And she can make sure nothing – and no one – gets in her family’s way. Releases in cinemas on 30 August 2024.
  • Booger. Body horror. After her best friend unexpectedly dies in a bike accident, and her cat escapes, Anna struggles to put the pieces back together. As she turns her life upside down looking for him, a gnarly cat bite results in terrifying physical changes. Releases on VOD on 13 September 2024.
  • Hellboy: The Crooked Man. Action horror. Hellboy and a rookie BPRD agent stranded in 1950s rural Appalachia, discover a small community haunted by witches, led by a local devil with a troubling connection to Hellboy’s past: the Crooked Man. Release date TBA.
  • The Soul Eater. French supernatural horror. When violent and gruesome deaths start plaguing a small mountain village, an old legend about a malevolent creature resurfaces. Release date TBA.
  • Bando Stone & The New World. Post-apocalyptic horror. A famous musician navigating a world empty of people meets a woman and her child, and together they journey through a dystopian, post-apocalyptic world. Release date TBA.

Horror Game Trailers

  • A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead story trailer. Sci-fi horror. Prepare to survive the end of the world as Alex Taylor. With nothing more than your wits and the tools you scavenge, you’ll have to overcome the many treacherous challenges and obstacles that lay ahead – all without making a sound. Release date TBA.
  • Alchemists. Supernatural co-op horror game. Play with 1 to 4 players. Your goal is to expel the evil spirit from cursed places by completing the 4 Element ritual. Planned release date Q3 2024.

“Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out.”

Randall Munroe, xkcd: volume 0

A Selection of Horror Books Released this Week

5 horror books this week. Themes: Supernatural, monster, ghost, and haunted house horror

See: A Selection of Horror Books Released, 30 Jun to 6 Jul 2024

“Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.”

Aaron Swartz

A Selection of Horror Movies Released this Week

4 horror movies this week. Themes: Serial killer and werewolf comedy horror

See: A Selection of Horror Movies Released, 30 Jun to 6 Jul 2024

“There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations.”

Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review

A Selection of Horror TV Shows Released this Week

1 horror TV show this week. Theme: Anthology horror

See: A Selection of Horror TV Shows Released, 30 Jun to 6 Jul 2024

“It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

What We Were Thinking About this Week

“Tears are curious things, for like earthquakes or puppet shows, they can occur at any time, without any warning and without any good reason.”

Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

And Now For Something Completely Different

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See the FearSome Fiction shop for horror designs available on a wide variety of T-shirts, tanks, sweatshirts, and hoodies, as well as bags, notebooks, phone cases, pillows, duvets, blankets, bath mats, and more.

Published: 6 July 2024

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