Latest Horror Book News

The Jonathan Levine helmed 'Warm Bodies' hits US theatres this Friday (1st February) and so now the announcement and release of the prequel novel to the newly adapted film appears to have arrived just in the nick of time. The Isaac Marion penned novel 'The New Hunger' is released today courtesy of eBook publisher Zola Books and tells the real back story of the apocalyptic events leading up to the action about to be seen in 'Warm Bodies'. The flick stars Nicholas Hoult ('X-Men: First Class'), Rob Corddry ('Hot Tub Time Machine'), John Malkovich ('Burn After Reading'), Lizzy Caplan ('True Blood') and the smoking hot Teresa Palmer ('I Am Number Four'). Head below for 'The New Hunger' synopsis and then click on the EW link at the bottom to read a special 13-page preview of the book.

'Playzom: Parody for the Undead' is the latest horror magazine you're not yet reading! But your lucks in as you can now thankfully head to Dark Delicacies in Burbank, California or online over at their official Facebook fan page, at the link below, and pick up your copy of the newly unleashed first issue. The horror slash zombie mag features a whole host of sexy girls, oodles of blood, interviews and more gore than you can shake a gory stick at. It's all about the boobies, hot chicks and women in the horror industry plus some fantastic features. Included in their inaugural edition are articles featuring Sean Clark, Toby Sells, Del Howison, Monster Machine, The Scary Truth movie reviews by DeeDee Bigelow (below) and Brett Wagner ('The Crazies') plus On The Red Carpet with famous photographer Al Ortega and Zed Girl.

In his debut graphic novel, The Adventures of Joe and Nancy Volume 1, writer James Israelson has looked to adventure and classic sci-fi/horror films for inspiration. "There is nothing like an over the top action/adventure story that has a bit of horror to it," he said. "In the first issue, Joe and Nancy go to a mall during the Christmas season and while they are there the mall Santa turns into a werewolf and starts wreaking havoc.” James says that the 120-page graphic novel was designed to be family friendly, but… “Don’t let that put that you off. There is tons and tons of exciting action and horror elements in the story, I just didn’t over do it."

BOOM! Studios' 'Hellraiser' comic book series is changing things up a bit for it's new issue number 8 release. The series, co-penned by 'Hellraiser' creator Clive Barker, has turned the female lead from the original movie Kirsty Cotton into a new Pinhead with breasts for it's latest edition. Miss Pinhead features on cover B of the new Hellraiser #8 edition which has been revealed by Bleeding Cool and which you can check out below. As for the franchises on-screen presence a potential Patrick Lussier and Todd Farmer's 'Hellraiser' remake doesn't appear to be going ahead and of course Barker himself was very vocal with his opinions on the terrible direct to DVD sequel 'Hellraiser: Revelations' which arrived last month.

Those Raw Flesh fellas have started to stock UK horror magazine 'Scream'. Issue 7 arrives next month which of course Raw Flesh will be stocking and it'll include exclusive chats with Robert Englund ('Strippers Vs. Werewolves'), Rutger Hauer ('The Reverend') and Corey Feldman ('Six Degrees of Hell'). And of course will still be stuffed with the usual horror news, photography, giveaways and more. You'll soon be able to buy the new edition upon its September release but you can also pick-up all the back issues at Raw Flesh. The site established earlier this year features its own exclusive range of horror tshirts available for despatch around the World!

'The Silence of the Lambs' helmer Jonathan Demme has snapped up the rights to adapt the new Stephen King novel '11/22/63'. The new book, which won't be released into stores until 8 November, deals with time-travel and the ultimate aim to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. It'll be interesting to see if the movie takes the same name as the book as I'm sure some idiots here in the UK won't understand the different date format. And by idiots I of course refer to rioting morons! Check the book synopsis below.

Scribe Mitch Klebanoff is currently adapting supernatural thriller 'Paranormalcy' from the novel by Kiersten White. Reverie Entertainment Partners picked up the rights to the novel before it was published and now it appears they may have the right man for the job of bringing it to the big screen. Norwegian director and photographer Ray Kay is being lined up for directorial duties on the new project. Kay has previously helmed a bunch of award-winning music videos and is responsible for such memorable vids such as Lady GaGa's Poker Face, Destiny Child's Soldier, Willow Smith's Whip My Hair and Justin Bieber's Baby.

The first bit of banner promo art for comic book adaption feature 'R.I.P.D.' (Rest In Peace Department) has appeared at the Vegas based Licensing International Expo. The new feature from director Robert Schwentke ('Red), which stars Ryan Reynolds ('Green Lantern') and Jeff Bridges ('True Grit'), is based on the Dark Horse comic book penned by Peter Lenkov. The banner spotted at the expo by the guys over at ShockTillYouDrop simply shows the movie's title, two leading stars and the release year 2013. Check it out below.

Novelist Alan Goldsher's very popular zombie book 'Paul is Undead' has been picked up by Sham Productions. The enjoyable Fab Four walking dead story will be heading to the big screen. 'Paul Is Undead: The British Zombie Invasion', which parallels the real-world career of The Beatles with a subtle twist - they're all zombies, will see Sham prez Barry M. Greenberg co-produce with author Goldsher. It'll hopefully be a fresh take on the world of the undead which you'd think would be a tough thing to achieve nowadays. But you have to admit it's the sub-genre that keeps on giving!

Dynamic Forces, the comic book maestro of those damn special limited editions, are back with an incredible team-up of literary greatness. It appears that both the 'Army of Darkness' and 'Danger Girl' will be meeting up in new comic book crossover. The 'Army of Darkness' comics, that follow Ash Williams from 'The Evil Dead' series, will team up with femme fatale Abbey Chase, star of the 'Danger Girl' comic series, that features a number of busty and scantily-clad female secret agents. The new comic release was written by Andy Hartnell with the art provided by Chris Bolson. Check out the cover art below!

Graphic novel 'Full Moon Fever' as you may already know is in development to become a feature. Solipsist Films is producing the comic adaption, taken from Caleb Gerard and Joe Casey's werewolf/space tale. Mania are reporting that British director Simon Hunter ('Mutant Chronicles') has been bought on board to helm the project and Joe Casey has already prepared a script for him, which was nice. Unfortunately it may be quite a slow development period on this project at the moment as Hunter is already working hard on the development stages of 'Safe House', starring Lena Headey (below) and Michael Ironside which is expected to begin shooting next year.

Texan director Catherine Hardwicke is going to have to tread very carefully over the coming years before she gets pigeon-holed into the go-to gal for 'teen' fantasy flicks. Already notching up 'Twilight' and the upcoming 'Red Riding Hood', with Amanda Seyfried (below), Hardwicke is currently in negotiations to take on the feature adaption of James Dashner's 'The Maze Runner'. The first book in the popular sci-fi trilogy from Dashner could mark a new project for Hardwicke although she has quite the upcoming schedule of work including a fresh version of 'Hamlet' starring Emile Hirsch.

Sarah Langon's upcoming horror novel 'Audrey's Door' has already been picked up by Dimension Films for a feature film adaption. Variety is reporting that the book, about a creepy apartment building opening to a hellish dimension, will be published by HarperCollins this September.

Director Len Wiseman's future underwater project 'Atlantis Rising' has grabbed itself a writer finally to pen the script based on the comic book series by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg. Dreamworks has hired Joby Harold to scribe the sci-fi action flick.

After spending the last eight years scaring the living heck out of his readers (and selling 12 million books in the process), Darren Shan's publishers HarperCollins are celebrating the paperback release of Death's Shadow (the seventh book in the blood-curdling Demonata series) by launching a terrifying new microsite that allows you to freak out your friends!