Coffin Moon, Keith Rosson’s 1975-set vampire revenge novel, is headed for television. Paramount Television Studios is developing a series adaptation with Jessica Biel‘s Iron Ocean producing. Deadline reported the deal on Tuesday.
Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue will adapt the novel and showrun the series, with Rosson attached as a consulting producer. Biel is producing through Iron Ocean, the company she runs with Michelle Purple. No network, no cast and no production timeline have been announced, and Biel’s own casting is not part of the deal as reported.
A Revenge Story With Fangs In It
It is winter 1975 in Portland, Oregon. Duane Minor is a Vietnam veteran tending bar and trying to put a life back together with his wife Heidi and his thirteen-year-old niece Julia. Then a vampire named John Varley walks into the bar, and Heidi does not survive the aftermath.
What follows is Minor and Julia chasing Varley across the Pacific Northwest, through undead children, men who cast silver bullets for a living, and a trail of other broken men who found something to admire in the thing that ruined them. It is a road-revenge novel with a monster at the end of it, and the monster is not the most damaged character in the book.
The Blurb That Did the Heavy Lifting
Random House published the hardcover on September 9, 2025, carrying a jacket blurb from Stephen King: “This is mind-blowingly good. A horror novel that will keep you awake long after you turn the last page.” King had already gone to bat for Rosson once, calling the earlier Fever House exactly what reading for pleasure is all about.
The paperback arrived September 22, 2026 — the same day the series deal became public. Publishing and television have always kept the same calendar.
Biel Has Been Here Before
Biel’s genre résumé is deeper than the producing credit suggests. She played Erin Hardesty in the 2003 Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake, the film that kicked off the Platinum Dunes era, and the following year she played vampire hunter Abigail Whistler in Blade: Trinity. Her producing work since has leaned hard into true crime — she executive produced and starred in The Sinner, Candy and The Better Sister — which is a useful instinct to bring to a book where the vampire is less frightening than the people chasing him.
Where You Know the Writers From
Harpster and Fitzerman-Blue are the more surprising piece of this. The pair wrote A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, the Tom Hanks film about Mister Rogers, and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, and created Painkiller for Netflix. The closest either has come to the genre is Fitzerman-Blue’s additional-material credit on Disney’s Haunted Mansion.
That reads stranger on paper than it does in practice. Both of those projects are about people carrying damage around in public and deciding what to do with it, which is most of what Coffin Moon is doing between the kills. A vampire hunt led by a traumatized veteran and a teenage girl needs someone who can write the quiet parts. The fangs are the easy half.
What Is Not Settled Yet
One detail worth holding onto: Paramount Television Studios is a supplier, not a buyer. It makes shows for other people’s networks and streamers. So Coffin Moon being set up there means the series exists on paper and has writers. It does not yet mean anyone has agreed to air it.
Coffin Moon is Rosson’s sixth novel, arriving after the Fever House duology he closed out with The Devil by Name, and his story collection Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons won the Shirley Jackson Award. If you want more vampires while this one finds a home, Shudder has a vampire Santa arriving in December, and Mike Flanagan’s ‘Carrie’ is the next King adaptation on the calendar.
