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Five Awesome Books Perfect for Spooky Holiday Gift Giving
Thanksgiving has come and gone; Cyber Monday is upon us. It’s time to think about holiday gift giving.
What a headache, right?
Well, don’t worry. If someone on your list is a horror fan and a reader, we’ve got you covered.
There was a time when telling spooky stories around the fire was a tradition reserved for Christmas Eve, and these particular books are full of exactly the kind of stories to make your holidays as creepy as possible.
Ghostly Tales: Spine-Chilling Stories of the Victorian Age
Illustrated by Bill Bragg and filled with classic ghost stories from some of founders of the genre, Ghostly Tales is one creepy collection. The volume is small, but don’t let its size fool you. By the time you’ve read “Oh Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” by M.R. James, “The Body-Snatcher” by Robert Louis Stevenson, and “The Phantom Coach” by Amelia B. Edwards, we guarantee you’ll be covered in goosebumps from head to toe, and there are still four more stories to go!
The Victorian Book of the Dead
Painstakingly researched by Chris Woodyard and illustrated by Jessica Wiesel, The Victorian Book of the Dead digs deep into the Victorian Era’s fascination with death as well as the occult detailing mourning rituals, funeral fads, and stories of ghosts, spontaneously combusting corpses, and so much more.
The book is as engrossing as it is informative, and it’s perfect for those readers on your gift giving list with a macabre fascination with death.
The Resurrectionist: The Work of Dr. Spencer Black
This one is a bit difficult to describe so I’ll rely on the official synopsis:
The Resurrectionist offers two extraordinary books in one. The first is a fictional biography of Dr. Spencer Black, from a childhood spent exhuming corpses through his medical training, his travels with carnivals, and the mysterious disappearance at the end of his life. The second book is Black’s magnum opus: The Codex Extinct Animalia, a Gray’s Anatomy for mythological beasts—dragons, centaurs, Pegasus, Cerberus—all rendered in meticulously detailed anatomical illustrations. You need only look at these images to realize they are the work of a madman. The Resurrectionist tells his story.
Believe me when I tell you, this book is one of a kind. Buy one for a friend and one for yourself while you’re at it!
The Lottery and Other Stories
Shirley Jackson is a hot ticket right now with the success of Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House, and now is the perfect time to dig into the author’s collected stories.
Containing a total of 25 stories by the legendary author, this collection is filled with suspense and tension from cover to cover. This particular edition comes with an introduction by A.M. Homes, but if you’ve never read the stories before, I recommend skipping the introduction until you’ve finished reading the stories. It gets a little spoiler-y.
Grimm’s Complete Fairy Tales
I know, I know, you’ve heard them all before…but if you’ve never read the original version of these tales, you don’t know what you’re missing!
The Brothers Grimm told the darkest version of the stories they collected, and they’ll creep into your subconscious and fill your dreams with dark shadows. Don’t take my word for it, though. Buy a copy and see for yourself!
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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