A Grab Bag of Horror News, 8 to 14 Jun 2025

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

Bite-Sized Horror News

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Condolences to family, friends, and fans of actor Joe Vaz. Vaz starred in the recent Street Trash Other horror roles included Resident Evil (TV series), Lost Boys: The Thirst, Critters Attack, and Slay. RIP.

Horror Book Bits

From the looks of the social media pictures, everyone at StokerCon® 2025 is having a fantastic time this weekend. Wish I was there.
2009 zombie movie Doghouse is being adapted into a novel by Christian Francis. The movie is about a group of men out for a weekend escape who discover that all the women have been infected with a virus making them man-hating cannibals. The book will be released on 28 Sep 2025.
IDW Dark is releasing a new comic book anthology series based on The Twilight Zone. Every issue will be black and white and can be read as standalone stories.
Outpost 512 in Taylor, TX, is hosting an art exhibition that pays homage to Stephen King’s works. The Summer of King features over 50 artists with paintings, prints, and sculptures and opens on 25 Jul 2025.

Horror Movie Morsels

Evil Dead in Concert heads out on tour beginning on 22 Sep 2025 in Buffalo, NY, and ending on 21 Nov 2025 in Charlotte, NC. The Evil Dead movie will play on a large HD screen and a live orchestral ensemble will perform the score on stage along with the movie.
Robert Eggers is writing and directing a new take on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
2012 animated kids horror movie ParaNorman will be re-released on 25 Oct 2025 and will include a new CG animated short, ParaNorman: The Thrifting.
Bring Her Back, Heretic, Longlegs, Nosferatu, Sinners, and The Substance are all vying for Best Horror Movie in the 2025 Critics Choice Super Awards.

Horror TV Treats

Animated Stranger Things: Tales from ’85 will air on Netflix in 2026 and will try to “evoke the feeling of an ‘80s cartoon” for younger audiences. The series will be set between the 2nd and 3rd season of Stranger Things.
Neil Druckmann confirmed that The Last of Us, Season 3, will focus on Abby.
Mike Flanagan says Stephen King wasn’t keen on another Carrie adaptation until he explained how it would be different from previous ones. He says they’re bringing the story into the modern day and are “focused way more on the destruction of a community through these very modern tools”.
Sarah Paulson will most likely be in American Horror Story, season 13.

Horror Game Goodies

Coinciding with the Stranger Things final season, Sandbox VR will have a new location-based VR game, Stranger Things: Catalyst, where players will work together to face supernatural threats plaguing the town of Hawkins.
Blumhouse Games announced 3 new horror game projects that are in development: Sleep Awake (centers on the reliance on psychedelic medicines to stay awake), Grave Seasons (solve a murder in your vegetable garden), and Crisol: Theater of Idols (inspired by Spanish folklore, religion, and art).

Horror Festival Fare

Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights 2025 has added a Jason Universe haunted house attraction that takes you back to the summer camp where it all started.

“When you consider what a slight part the weird plays in our moods, feelings, and lives, you can easily see how basically minor the weird tale must necessarily be.”
H.P. Lovecraft

Writing Horror

Some places accepting submissions

Sapphic horror anthology (Graveside Press)
Pays: 2 cents per word
Theme: Dark sapphic horror
Submissions close: 30 Jun 2025

Upcoming submission calls

The Last Girls Club Magazine
Pays: 1.5 cents per word (max $37.50 for fiction, $15 for flash fiction)
Theme: Monkey’s Paw/Answered Prayers
Submissions open 1 Jul and close 15 Jul 2025

Cosmic Horror Monthly
Pays: 3 cents per word
Looking for: Weird and cosmic fiction
Submissions open 1 Jul and close 7 Jul 2025

“Sometimes you just have to start writing the story.”
Chuck Wendig, Damn Fine Story

Trailer Horror

A taste of things to come.

Horror TV Trailers

The Institute. Psychological horror. Teenager Luke Ellis is kidnapped and awakens at The Institute, a facility full of children who all got there the same way he did and who all possess unusual abilities. MGM+, 13 Jul 2025

Twisted Metal, Season 2, sneak peek. Apocalypse horror. John and Quiet enter the deadly Twisted Metal demolition derby. Peacock, 31 Jul 2025

Horror Movie Trailers

Abraham’s Boys. Vampire horror. When Max and Rudy Van Helsing begin to uncover the violent truths behind their father’s history with Dracula, their world unravels. Cinema, 11 Jul 2025

The Banished. Folk horror. After her brother goes missing, Grace ventures into the wilderness to find him. As she uncovers the horrific truth of his disappearance, she is faced with a darkness which also threatens to claim her. VOD, 18 Jul 2025

Brute 1976. Survival horror. In 1976, a group of people in the desert for a photo shoot stumble upon an abandoned town called Savage. But a family of masked psychopaths have claimed Savage as their own and are hell bent on living up to its name. VOD, 26 Aug 2025

Don’t Log Off. Psychological horror. A group of friends are connecting via video call during lockdown when one of them suddenly vanishes. VOD, 15 Jul 2025

Eye for an Eye. Psychological horror. When Anna becomes a bystander to an unforgivable act of violence, she finds herself ensnared by Mr. Sandman – the twisted soul of a tormented child who haunts bullies’ dreams before feasting on their eyeballs when they finally wake. VOD, 20 Jun 2025

Forgive Us All. Zombie horror. A virus has made humans into violent cannibals. A woman sheltering in a mountain cabin must decide whether to help a stranger on the run. VOD, 11 Jul 2025

(Iconic). Psychological horror. A beauty industry influencer struggles to maintain her lifestyle and sanity after an internet scandal, new love interest and obsessive and violent new fan base turn her life upside down. VOD, 15 Jul 2025

O.T.H.E.R. Psychological horror. Alice returns to her childhood home after her mother’s death, only to find the house is rigged with surveillance tracking her every move, as a sinister presence lurks. Release date TBA

Saint Clare. Psychological horror. In a small town, a solitary woman is haunted by voices that lead her to assassinate ill intended people and get away with it, until her last kill sucks her down a rabbit hole riddled with corruption, trafficking and visions from the beyond. VOD, 18 Jul 2025

Went Up the Hill. Ghost horror. A recently deceased woman haunts her estranged son and her grieving widow. Cinema, 15 Aug 2025

Horror Game Trailers

Dark Mine. Survival horror. Trapped underground, you are the sole survivor of a deadly attack. Armed only with a night vision camera, navigate the darkness, avoid the creature, and find a way out. Releases 24 Jun 2025

Flesh Made Fear. Survival horror. Descend into a world of horrifying experiments and occult rituals where every step plunges you deeper into madness. Releases 1 Nov 2025

Warning. Psychological horror. Monitor security cameras, report supernatural anomalies, and survive your night shift in a haunted underground ward. Releases 24 Jun 2025

“Fear of the unknown is at the core of all good horror fiction.”
Tim Waggoner, Writing in the Dark

A Selection of Horror Books Released this Week

12 horror books this week. Themes: Supernatural, psychological, cosmic, religious, revenge, slasher horror, and horror movie novelizations

See: A Selection of Horror Books Released, 8 to 14 Jun 2025

“We’re walking in the footsteps of giants. Every scare we write, every chill we give, owes a little to the horror masters who haunted the pages before us.”
Joe Mynhardt, Shadows & Ink

A Selection of Horror Movies Released this Week

14 horror movies this week. Themes: Supernatural, psychological, vampire, slasher, zombie, serial killer, and animal horror

See: A Selection of Horror Movies Released, 8 to 14 Jun 2025

“Horror movies challenge us to examine how we live our lives.”
Neal Bell, How to Write a Horror Movie

A Selection of Horror TV Shows Released this Week

1 horror TV show this week. Themes: Supernatural horror

See: A Selection of Horror TV Shows Released, 8 to 14 Jun 2025

“If a writer sets out to scare, it should come from experience, from a deep understanding of what it means to be afraid, whatever the fear.”
Chad Lutzke, The Horror Writer: A Study of Craft and Identity in the Horror Genre

What We Were Thinking About this Week

The Mobius Door by Andrew Najberg (novel)

77 Shadow Street by Dean Koontz (novel)

The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig (novel)

This week’s book recommendations

Theme: Movie horror

Final Cuts by Ellen Datlow (editor)
“He didn’t want to hear it, wanted to run away from it.”

The Traveling Movie Show by Robert Essig
“Leon believed in Death Obsession more than anything in the world.”

Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
“A twig snapped, and the woman looked behind her in terror. She began to run.”

The Devil’s Playground by Craig Russell
“Those few who saw the movie said they had never seen or experienced anything like it.”

Only the Dead Know Burbank by Bradford Tatum
“I wasn’t always in love with the dark.”

Harrow Lake by Kat Ellis
“The last horror story she’ll tell is her own.”

How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive by Craig DiLouie
“If you aren’t horrified, you aren’t paying attention.”

“Horror is everywhere. It’s in fairy tales and the evening headlines; it’s in street corner gossip and the incontrovertible facts of history. It’s in playground ditties…it’s in the doctor’s surgery…it’s on the altar, bleeding for our sins…”
Clive Barker, Where Nightmares Come From: The Art of Storytelling in the Horror Genre

And Now For Something Completely Different

Graham Annable aka Grickle on Instagram

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