Joe Schreiber’s upcoming Star Wars horror novel finally has a title: Deathtroopers. The novel happens between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back. You can read more about the book on Schreiber’s blog. Here’s a quote:
Earlier today, Lucasfilm announced that my forthcoming Star Wars horror novel will be called Deathtroopers, and [...]

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I’ve been writing too much to post anything recently, but in honor of the new James Bond flick, Quantum of Solace, I thought I’d post the following, straight from the 1953 novel Casino Royale. A few simple lines, very well written, by Ian Fleming (who wrote the short story for which the new movie [...]

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The publishing, television and film universe lost an amazing and talented writer/producer yesterday when 66-year-old Michael Crichton lost his battle to cancer.
Off all his dozen bestsellers, I was wowed by the tension and creativity he managed in his 1969 novel The Andromeda Strain, and was captivated by the emotionally engaging Amy, the signing [...]

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Another reason why vampire novels are good for you and me. Even in this day and age of financial hardships, one Washington town is getting a boost in their economy from Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series. Forks, Washington is reporting a 48 percent increase in lodging tax revenue. The town is settled in [...]

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WB is working on a sequel to the movie I Am Legend, will Will Smith returning as Robert Neville (I can’t type that name without thinking of Neville’s pot-bellied neighbor Ben Cortman standing in the street, hungrily shouting out “Come out, Neville!” Don’t remember Cortman? Then go read Matheson’s 1954 classic novel so [...]

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Need a good scare with that homemade popcorn? The UK’s 2006 horror flick The Devil’s Chair is finally coming to DVD in the US on October 7th (from Simon Boyes and Adam Mason, Broken). Be warned, the trailer is gruesome.

The storyline? Four years after a murder involving a killer chair in the [...]

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More than ten years after it was published, Jose Saramago’s Nobel Prize-winning Blindness is about to hit the theaters (release is set for October 3rd by Miramax). In the story, people are suddenly stricken blind. Key words: epidemic, government, quarantine. I’m all for end-of-society stories, so I’m onboard for this flick. [...]

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I’ll let this one speak for itself.  “American Psycho,” the chilling serial killer/yuppie satire by Bret Easton Ellis (back in ‘91 Simon and Schuster passed on the book, picked up by Vintage Books) is now heading for Broadway.  No director yet, but producers say they hope the musical will hit the stage by 2010.  No [...]

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Some good news for fans of horror novels and George Lucas’ Star Wars universe as a Star Wars horror novel is in the works.  Novelist Joe Schreiber is posting on his blog that he has been commisioned to write the book for Lucasfilm, with a release date in late 2009.  Schreiber has released two books [...]

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Unless you live under a rock or your commute is just hell as well as iPod-less, you’re heard about Stephen King’s *cough* The Stand, a thirty issue joint graphic novel venture between the King of Horror and Marvel Comics.  If you “cough* haven’t picked issue #1 up yet (Captain Tripps released on September 12th) and [...]

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