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‘The Conjuring: The Lover’ Comic Set to Launch DC Horror Imprint

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Beginning this summer, DC comics is launching DC HORROR, a 17+ imprint from DC and Warner Bros. branded to “deliver a new level of suspense and terror guaranteed to have fans reading with the lights on, even in the daytime.” The new imprint will launch with The Conjuring: The Lover, a tie-in to the film franchise based on the case files of Ed and Lorraine Warren.

“From early titles like House of Mystery and House of Secrets to current series featuring Swamp Thing and John Constantine: Hellblazer, DC has always been the home of great horror comics and characters,” said Marie Javins, DC editor-in-chief. “DC HORROR continues this tradition with new frightening tales from both well-known and new storytellers that will keep fans spooked and entertained.”

The five-issue limited series will provide some set-up for the upcoming The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It which is set for release in theaters and on HBO Max on June 4, 2021.

David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, screenwriter of The Conjuring 2 and The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, co-wrote the comics with author Rex Ogle (Free Lunch). Art is provided by Garry Brown with cover art from Bill Sienkiewicz. The synopsis reads as follows:

Jessica, a college freshman, returns to campus after winter break, bringing with her the anxieties of last semester’s poor grades, the awkwardness of facing a boy she wishes she’d never slept with, and an undeniably unnerving feeling of being watched. Jessica soon comes to realize that something evil has made her its target, and it will not rest until it has her in its unholy grip. But why did this sinister presence set its sights on a seemingly normal college freshman?

The series will also take readers into the mysterious and terrifying Warren Artifact Room.

Issue #1 of The Conjuring: The Lover will be available in comic stores and on digital platforms on June 1, 2021 with Issue #2 following on July 6, 2021.

Additional titles for the new DC HORROR imprint will be announced in July with an eye on publishing in October 2021!

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‘Official Five Nights at Freddy’s Cookbook’ Gets Release This Fall

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Five Nights at Freddy’s is getting a big Blumhouse release very soon. But, that’s not all that the game is being adapted into. The hit horror game experience is also being made into a cookbook filled with deliciously spooky recipes.

The Official Five Nights at Freddy’s Cookbook is filled with items that you would find at an official Freddy’s location.

This cookbook is something fans have been dying for since the first games’ original release. Now, you will be able to cook signature dishes from the comfort of your own home.

The synopsis for Five Nights at Freddy’s goes like this:

As an anonymous night guard, you must survive five nights as you are hunted by five animatronics hell-bent on killing you. Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria is a fantastic place for children and adults can have fun with all the robotic animals; Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy.

You can find the Official Five Nights at Freddy’s Cookbook in stores beginning September 5.

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Stephen King’s ‘Billy Summers’ Being Made By Warner Brothers

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Breaking News: Warner Brothers Acquires Stephen King Bestseller “Billy Summers”

The news just dropped via a Deadline exclusive that Warner Brothers has acquired the rights to Stephen King’s bestseller, Billy Summers. And the powerhouses behind the film adaptation? None other than J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way.

Speculation is already rampant as fans can’t wait to see who will bring the titular character, Billy Summers, to life on the big screen. Will it be the one and only Leonardo DiCaprio? And will J.J. Abrams be sitting in the director’s chair?

The masterminds behind the script, Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz, are already working on the screenplay and it sounds like it’s going to be a real doozy!

Originally, this project was slated as a ten-episode limited series, but the powers that be have decided to go all out and turn it into a full-fledged feature.

Stephen King’s book Billy Summers is about a former Marine and Iraq War veteran who has turned into a hitman. With a moral code that only allows him to target those he deems “bad guys,” and a modest fee of never more than $70,000 for each job, Billy is unlike any hitman you’ve seen before.

However, as Billy begins to consider retirement from the hitman business, he is summoned for one final mission. This time, he must wait in a small city in the American South for the perfect opportunity to take out a murderer who has killed a teenager in the past. The catch? The target is being brought back from California to the city to stand trial for murder, and the hit must be completed before he can make a plea deal that would bring his sentence from the death penalty to life in prison and potentially reveal the crimes of others.

As Billy waits for the right moment to strike, he passes the time by writing a sort of autobiography about his life, and by getting to know his neighbors.

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Clive Barker Says This Book is “Terrifying” & It’s Becoming a TV Series

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Remember the boost The Evil Dead got back in 1982 when Stephen King called the film “Ferocuisly original?” Now we have another horror literary icon, Clive Barker, calling a work “Utterly terrifying.”

That work is the novel The Deep. No, not the 1976 Peter Benchley thriller with the same name. This is Nick Cutter’s 2015 bestseller which takes place underwater. Cutter is the pen name used by Canadian author Craig Davidson.

Speaking of King, he has also praised Cutter’s work, saying the novel The Troop, “scared the hell out of me and I couldn’t put it down … old-school horror at its best.”

That’s high praise because Google Books describes The Deep as “The Abyss meets The Shining.”

Two horror literary legends lauding your work as “terrifying” and “the best?” No pressure there.

Bloody Disgusting breaks down the plot for The Deep in their story:

“A strange plague called the ‘Gets is decimating humanity on a global scale. It causes people to forget—small things at first, like where they left their keys, then the not-so-small things, like how to drive or the letters of the alphabet. Their bodies forget how to function involuntarily. There is no cure.

But far below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, a universal healer hailed as “ambrosia” has been discovered. In order to study this phenomenon, a special research lab has been built eight miles under the sea’s surface. But when the station goes incommunicado, a brave few descend through the lightless fathoms in hopes of unraveling the mysteries lurking at those crushing depths…and perhaps to encounter an evil blacker than anything one could possibly imagine.”

Writer C. Henry Chaisson, who wrote screenplays for both Antlers and Apple TV’s Servant is adapting the book for Amazon Studios.

iHorror will keep you updated on the progress of the series as we know more.

*Header image taken from The Telegraph.

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