Seth Grahame-Smith’s perversely hilarious literary mash-ups have been destined for a Hollywood adaptation since their inception. The ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ author is crafts the kind of sharp, original and, most importantly, violent content that should have Studio execs drooling at the sheer utterance of one of his titles. With a relatively strong and [...]

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith’s horror spoof on the Jane Austen classic, is developing into a feature film, with Natalie Portman set to star as Elizabeth Bennet, who, in the new story, has to combat zombies on top of her feelings for Mr. Darcy.  The character was last played by Keira Knightley in Joe [...]

Stephen King is set to write a sequel to The Shining, set to follow a forty-year old version of Danny Torrance.  King provided a short logline of the sequel, “All these years after being tormented by the spiritual inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel and his father’s alcoholism/homicidal rage, Danny is now working at a hospice using [...]

Bram Stoker never lived to see the popularity of Dracula.  And when the novel was considered public domain, the rest of his family rarely received any money or were allowed creative input on film adaptations or literary sequels.  This year, the novel Dracula: The Un-Dead brings the character back to the Stokers, with Dacre Stoker, Bram’s [...]

Yesterday, the American version of the vampire coming-of-age tale Let The Right One In began filming, with Matt Reeves behind the camera.  The film, retitled Let Me In, is an adaptation of the John Ajvide Lindqvist novel and a remake of Tomas Alfredson’s Swedish film.
The movie will star Kodie-Smith McPhee as a twelve-year old outcast [...]

Renowned horror author Stephen King is set to co-write on a five-issue comic book series called American Vampire.  Each issue will contain two 16-page stories, with Scott Snyder telling the story of Pearl, a vampire looking for fame during the jazz era.  The other story will be by King about a vampire named Skinner Sweet, [...]

Mandalay Pictures, which has produced horror films like I Know What You Did Last Summer and Sleepy Hollow, has bought the rights for Horns, an upcoming novel by Joe Hill, the son of renowned horror author Stephen King.
Horns follows the story of a young man who wakes up one morning with horns and discovers that [...]

In his interview with HorrorCrush, John Dies At The End author David Wong shared that he set out to make an unpredictable horror novel. “Every time the reader thinks they know where the story is headed, it goes crashing through the guardrails and rolling down the mountainside.”
Wong has quite the sense of humor, but he [...]

Yesterday, St. Martin’s Press republished John Dies At The End, a comedic horror novel by Cracked.com editor David Wong.  The story began as a webseries in 2001 before it was printed as a novel in 2007.
It follows a pair of college dropouts- John and David (Yes, the latter is the author’s surrogate)- who, through an insane [...]

Watch out, Twilight. Another book series of teen horror romance is crossing over to the big screen.