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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If anyone out there likes vampires, Louisiana, sex, Anna Paquin and watching TV (and who doesn’t?), here is the show for you.  True Blood. HBO’s new series debuted last Sunday,  adapted by Alan Ball (Six Feet Under) and taken from Charlaine Harris‘ (From Dead to Worse, Ice Cold Grave) Southern vampire novels.
The story is [...]

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Okay, now I’m way behind.   My wife lost her father a few weeks back and we’ve been very busy.  While you’re never really back to business after such a thing, business goes on — and so does the blog.  With that in mind, what a great way to start but with a heavy dose of [...]

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Okay, I’m behind yet again. Busy getting the last MS ready to send out, following the PNWC. But enough about me. On to better things horror: Remember the day when there used to be a horror section in the book store? Well, in an effort to keep readers updated, here are some [...]

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