Earthling has announced the upcoming publication later this year of the 25h Anniversary Edition of Weaveworld by Clive Barker. Subterranean Press will be selling copies.

Description: That which is imagined need never be lost…

Earthling celebrates 25 years of Clive Barker’s Weaveworld with the definitive edition of this dark fantasy masterwork. Weaveworld: 25th Anniversary Edition will be released late 2012 in a modest print run.

Description: Clive Barker has made his mark on modern fiction by exposing all that is surreal and magical in the ordinary world – and exploring the profound and overwhelming terror that results. With its volatile mix of the fantastical and the contemporary, the everyday and the otherworldly, Weaveworld is an epic work of dark fantasy and horror – a tour de force from one of today’s most forceful and imaginative artists.

Gift Edition: clothbound, unsigned

Numbered Edition: hand numbered 1-350; signed by Clive Barker and illustrator Richard Kirk; leatherbound; fine endsheets; bound-in satin ribbon page marker; traycased; includes bonus appendix material printed in full color: previously unreleased art as well as an early treatment/synopsis and original typed and hand-edited manuscript pages for Weaveworld when it was initially conceived as a children’s book

All editions feature new typesetting and design, two-color offset printing on fine paper (likely 80# Finch), 7×10 inch oversized pages, and smyth sewing … and nearly 30 original pieces of art by Richard Kirk, who has illustrated other projects by Clive Barker as well as Earthling releases by China Mieville and Christopher Golden.

Time Magazine calls Weaveworld “an irresistible yarn,” and Peter Straub says it is “pure dazzle, pure storytelling.” This 25th anniversary edition of Weaveworld will undoubtedly be the one to own and experience.

Limited: 350 signed numbered copies, in traycase
Gift: Fully cloth bound hardcover edition

You can pre-order directly from Subterranean Press here: Weaveworld

Bram Stoker’s great grand-nephew Dacre Stoker, who penned Dracula the Un-Dead, the official sequel to the 1897 classic, made the pilgrimage to the author’s final resting place as part of a two-day symposium to celebrate the blood curdling success of the godfather of gore.

Seth Grahame-Smith’s personal take on Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes – “I first read Something Wicked in middle school. Not for class, but on the advice of my stepfather — a used- and rare-book dealer who kept some 5,000 volumes of horror and science fiction in our basement. I’d already tried my hand at Bradbury’s other books, but he hadn’t yet grabbed a hold of me with the sharp claws I’d hoped. But then, I was 12, and not quite ready. Something Wicked, however, was tailor-made.”

In the first deal of its kind, the San Jose, California based Winchester Mystery House considered the “world’s most haunted house” is authorizing Hammer, an Exclusive Media company, the use of its unique property for a feature film based on its legendary story. Hammer has optioned all rights to develop and produce the feature film with Imagination Design Works (IDW) and Nine/8 Entertainment, it was announced today by Simon Oakes, Vice-Chairman of Exclusive Media and President & CEO of Hammer, and Guy East and Nigel Sinclair, Co-Chairmen of Exclusive Media.

With the all the superhero blockbusters hogging theaters this summer, it seems that film producers are relying more and more on comic books for their source material. On top of the big-budget superhero movies, the success of The Walking Dead TV series, and films like 30 Days of Night and Blade, are perhaps a sign that we’ll be seeing more horror comics being adapted for the screen in the near future. While the horror genre hasn’t always been the most accessible, recent trends in pop culture have veered towards the darker side of fiction, opening the door for horror comic adaptation. Bloody Disgusting has done some wishful thinking and put together a list of comics they’re dying to see in live action, some of which are already in the works.

Bethesda Softworks, the publisher behind Fallout and The Elder Scrolls, is teaming up with the creator of Resident Evil on a new survival horror game. Shinji Mikami and his studio, Tango Gameworks, will develop the title code-named “Zwei.”

Taking Submissions: The Inanimates I

These three are very different books, not at all aimed at the same target audience, so it’s interesting to see how each author decided to handle the werewolf mythos. The Pack is pulpy adult horror fiction; Wereworld is middle grade fantasy; The Last Werewolf is adult literary fiction. Rise of the Werewolves: 3 Very Different Stories About Lycanthropes

Profile Books is re-inventing the “choose your own adventure” genre for the digital age with the launch of Frankenstein, an interactive app based on Mary Shelley’s 19th-century horror novel.

Riven, the latest tale set to debut in Dark Horse Comics’ legendary anthology Dark Horse Presents, marks a new beginning for horror fans. Dark Horse Comics recently announced the Riven graphic novel, the third collaboration between cowriters Bo Hampton (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) and Robert Tinnell (The Wicked West), which is slated to hit stores August 22.

If you thought everything Stephen King’s ever written has already been filmed, you’d be wrong. SyFy has found one of the few that got away: The Eyes of the Dragon is now in development for American TV. Published in 1987, this was King’s next book after It, but fans who expected more trademark horror were a little thrown. The book begins: “Once, in a kingdom called Delain, there was a King with two sons. Delain was a very old kingdom and it had had hundreds of Kings, perhaps even thousands; when time goes on long enough, not even historians can remember everything.”

Stir in a little Lovecraft and magic, season it with apocalyptic gloom, and you have Joe Golum and the Drowning City. Horror author Christopher Golden and artist Mike Mignola, creator of the comic Hellboy, have collaborated on an illustrated novel. New York is “The Drowning City” set in an alternate world where earthquakes in 1922 start disasters that culminate with half of Manhattan under water.

Fans of H.P. Lovecraft are likely to be familiar with his subgenre of weird fiction — best described as a cross between horror and science fiction, with a healthy dose of suspense. In the third-annual H.P. Lovecraft Festival, presented by Radio Theatre and the Horse Trade Theater Group, several of Lovecraft’s weird stories are transformed into a theatrical experience that explores the fear of the unknown.

GenreCon, a free literary convention featuring several mystery, science fiction, horror and fantasy authors, returns to Sarnia Library on Saturday, May 5. Providing fans and local writers with an opportunity to talk with other genre fans and writers, GenreCon presents a wide range of panels on writing, reading, marketing, electronic publishing, genre mystery, horror, fantasy and science fiction.

Resident Writer Kit Reed has been nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. Her book, What Wolves Know, published in spring 2011 by PS Publishing, was nominated in the category of Single Author Collection.

Stephen King’s newest effort, The Wind Through the Keyhole, combines two of the author’s more masterful skills: creating short stories with similar themes in a single package, and writing chapters set in his Western-tinged fantasy The Dark Tower series, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year.

Death of a Saint is the second in the Mall Rats horror series by South African writing phenomenon Lily Herne, which is the pen name for the composite efforts of a local mother-and-daughter writing team, Sarah and Savannah Lotz.

Terror Comes Knocking is the second of Aaron Paul Lazar’s Sam Moore novels, a series which expands his habitual country mystery genre into the paranormal. Sam Moore, a retired family doctor in rural upstate New York, is a keen gardener.

Joey Esposito is the comics editor over at IGN and he recently stepped into the world of comics creation with his new series Footprints. The comic details a mystery being solved by the most unlikely of noir characters, the world’s cryptids (Bigfoot, Nessie, The Jersey Devil, etc.). Exclusive Interview: Footprints’ Joey Esposito

IFC Films is treating The Moth Diaries, a moody bildungs roman that also features a vampire, as a horror film. In trailers and promotional images, IFC is using Moth’s most exploitable scene, in which a teenage girl is showered in blood, to highlight the film’s more generic elements. Director Mary Harron is on record calling it “a chillingly atmospheric horror story with real emotional depth.”

An interview horror author Ray Wallace, who is the author of The Nameless, Escape from Zombie City, and the new release The Hell Season. More than two dozen of his short stories have appeared in various publications. His story “One of the Six” took first place in CHIZINE’s second annual fiction contest. He now writes reviews for CHIZINE and SFReader.com.

“Zombies have represented everything from communism to consumerism,” Seth Grahame-Smith said of his first smash novel Pride & Prejudice & Zombies at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Book. “All I wanted to do was take Jane Austen’s themes and humor and put them in an even more absurd landscape. It’s the same thing in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. The vampires are slavery. They steal your life force to enrich themselves. That’s what slavery is.”

Werewolf fiction is borderline-anthropomorphic, and Corpus Lupus is especially so. At least these werewolves are sentient, not feral dumb beasts. But the narrator, homicide detective Lieut. Larry Highridge, and his Pack spend most of their time in this novel in human form. It is a good murder mystery/horror novel, if a rather repulsive one; just not a very anthropomorphic one. Review: ‘Corpus Lupus’, by Phil Geusz

Stephen King: “I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of the ground, and you just pick them up. Someone once told me that that was me low-balling my own creativity. That might or might not be the case. But still, on the story I am working on now, I do have some unresolved problem. It doesn’t keep me awake at nights. I feel like when it comes down, it will be there…” This is a quote from an interview Neil Gaiman did with Stephen King. You can read the interview in its entirety on Gaiman’ blog.

Bev Vincent posted his 150th installment of the Cemetery Dance online version of News from the Dead Zone, covering everything having to do with Stephen King. Here’s the line up:

• the publication of The Dark Tower 4.5, aka The Wind Through the Keyhole
• an update on the Marvel Dark Tower comic series
• Ghost Brothers of Darkland County
• Neil Gaiman interviewed King
• King is working on a novel called Joyland about an amusement park serial killer
• 11/22/63 was a winner at the 32nd annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes in the mystery/suspense category
• King’s story “Herman Wouk is Still Alive” won the Bram Stoker Award for short story
• SyFy plans to adapt The Eyes of the Dragon for the cable network
• Mark Pavia (director of The Night Flier) is working on an anthology movie called Stephen King’s The Reaper’s Image
• Chloe Moretz has been chosen to play Carrie in the remake planned for next March
• and more.

You can read it all here: News From The Dead Zone

The Lexicon Writers Conference will be held on July 21 – 22, 2012 in Denton, Texas but they have special events set up for the 19th and 20th as well.

The Conference seeks to assist, promote, and educate writers in all genres and fields, including fiction, non-fiction, screenplay, and graphic novel. Published and unpublished writers are invited to attend. Meet with established writers, literary agents, publishers and marketing experts to discuss your finished or unfinished manuscripts. We will also have experts in various fields to provide technical information.

Itinerary

Thursday Night, July 19th: A special event for early arrivals – The Downtown Pub Crawl and Music Fest. Additional charge required. Transportation provided to and from downtown and the hotels/conference site.

Friday Day, July 20th: A day of special programs. Horseback riding in the early morning. Space is limited so indicate your interest on the CONTACT US form and we will reserve a spot for you. Pay at the conference.

F.A.T.S. Program – Firearms Training Seminar – Friday, July 20th. A two hour gun safety and home/personal defense techniques seminar run by the Texas Firearms Training Academy and Top Gun Firearms Training. Whether you are a novice who’s never fired a gun or a professional hit-man (smirk) this course will be fun and educational. Total price of $60.00 includes range fee, 50 rounds of ammo, gun rental, transportation to and from the conference site and refreshments. Space is limited so reserve your spot now and pay at the conference. See SPEAKER page for more details.

Golf outing to the famous Winstar Casino and golf resort for $100.00. Additional charge includes transportation to and from the conference sight; greens fees, cart fee, GPS, range, tax, and $10 prize fund per player good for merchandise in their Pro Shop. Space is limited so please reserve by July 1st. Pay at the conference.

Book signings for our established writers at various outlets in the Denton, Dallas, Ft. Worth Metroplex area.

Friday Night, July 20th: Intimate meet and greet dinner with special entertainment provided. A great chance to break the ice and network with other conference attendees.

Saturday, July 21st: All Day Conference with dynamic and entertaining guest speakers in the publishing industry, literary agents, and established authors. Free entertainment and surprise contests throughout the day. Private one-on-ones will be set up on a lottery basis.

Sunday, July 22nd – Day: Conference Breakfast, book signings, pitch sessions, and award presentations.

Sunday, July 22nd – Casino Trip (Additional Charge and Reservation required) – The conference is over, time to relax. What better way to relax than to board a charter bus at your hotel for a quick trip to the world famous WINSTAR CASINO in Oklahoma. The trip is approximately a 45 minute ride from the conference site. You will have between four and five hours to spend at the casino and enjoy all of the games found in Las Vegas.

Book Signings: Will be held at several chain and independent book stores all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday and are open to the public. Many of these major outlets are only minutes away from the conference site and authors will be ferried to and from the sites by staff members at the proper times for convenience. Appearances by the authors at these book signings will be heavily advertised and promoted.

Independent Book Stores: Numerous independent book stores across the country have been invited to attend the conference so that representatives can meet with the authors about signings and appearances. Independent Book Stores will also be able to pick up stock for their stores at wholesale prices or on consignment. Independent Book Stores are welcome to set up booths at the conference to sell their stock, have signings, and promote their services and locations. If enough interest is shown in setting up booths for the Independent Book Stores then an additional venue for that purpose exclusively will be added to the conference. (Shipping of product can be taken care of at the UPS Store approximately five minutes away.)

Conference Bookstore: A bookstore for all attending published authors will be set up in one of the hotels. All books on display should be autographed ahead of time. Business cards or bookmarks with contact information should also be included inside the books. Authors will receive 90% of the book sale price. The remaining 10% covers the cost of running the store.

One-On-Ones: Private meetings between agents, publishing executives, and writers. Writers are chosen by lottery for these ultra exclusive meetings.

Agent And Publisher Pitch Session: A panel of agents and publishing representatives will be convened on Sunday from 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Authors will have the opportunity to pitch their latest work to the agents and publishing representatives and hopefully walk away with a representation or publishing contract from one of the guest speakers. Pitches cannot last longer than two minutes.

In addition, there will be classes provided prior to the pitch session where authors may receive constructive criticism and guidance for their pitches. The pitch sessions will be chosen by lottery so all attendees who want to pitch their product should be ready.

Vendors: Tables and display areas for books and services are available. Please check the Advertising Page for rates. Vendors do not have to purchase admittance fee of $75.00. They are only responsible for the table/display fee.

Price: Saturday and Sunday Conference – $75.00 for attendees who sign up before June 1st. $95.00 for attendees who sign up after June 1st. Spouses may attend for the lower price of $35.00

Where: The Best Western Premier And Hilton Garden Inn located at Hospitality Hill in Denton, Texas – 30 minutes north of D/FW International Airport and Dallas, Texas. The two host hotels have special rates for attendees and have waved their cancellation policy, allowing people to cancel their rooms up to 4:00 the day of July 20, 2012.

Hospitality Hill consists of three major hotels – The Courtyard by Marriott, the Best Western Premier, and the Hilton Garden Inn – and four restaurants – The Olive Garden, On the Border, Texas Roadhouse, and Red Lobster – all in one convenient location.

For additional information: The LexiCon Writers Conference

The horror of the Saw movies is taking to the waves during the “Official Saw Movie Cruise,” to be held August 11-16, 2012, aboard the cruise ship Carnival Glory. Saw cruisers will travel round-trip from New York to Canada’s Maritime Provinces. Fans of the Saw movies will find plenty to love on the Official Saw Cruise (www.SAWatSEA.com).

Every Saw Cruiser can meet, party and dine with stars of the Saw movies. Fans can take photos with many of their favorite actors including Saw franchise legend Costas Mandylor (“Hoffman”). In addition, Jigsaw’s “Puppet,” used and seen in the Saw movies, will be aboard and available for free photo opportunities.

Dan Yeager, who stars as “Leatherface” in the new movie Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D, will also be on the cruise – and everyone on the Saw cruise will get a free Dan Yeager autographed photo. This is Dan Yeager’s first official fan appearance, and he will be signing autographs and taking photos with fans during the entire cruise.

The five-night round-trip cruise leaves New York City on August 11 and includes stops at Saint John, N.B., and Halifax, N.S., plus two days at sea.

Saw cruisers can choose from three cruise packages, depending on the type of cabin (room) they select. Based on the package purchased, cruisers can receive access to the following events: private meals and cocktail parties with Saw actors, autograph signings with Saw actors, parties with the Saw stars, including an open bar; individual photos with Saw stars, question-and-answer sessions with Saw stars; pool and dance parties with Saw stars; a Saw tattoo contest judged by Saw stars; a Saw trivia contest, mini-golf and volleyball tournaments with Saw stars; and screenings of Saw movies.

All Saw cruisers receive a $50 shipboard credit per cabin applicable towards onboard purchases. All meals are included in the price of the Saw cruise, and food is available 24 hours a day. Cruisers will also have access at no extra charge to the shipboard amenities, including 22 lounges and bars, four pools (one with a 214-foot waterslide), nightclubs, a casino, spa, salon, gym, jogging track, miniature golf, duty-free shops, and restaurants, including a sushi bar, buffets, pizzeria, deli and steakhouse. Most of the ship’s extra spacious cabins (rooms) feature ocean views, and the majority of those boast private balconies.

This is the first Official Saw Cruise. The seven Saw Films from Twisted Pictures and Lionsgate are the most successful horror franchise in movie history.

For more information or to register for the Official Saw Cruise, visit Saw At Sea.

David B. Silva has two new titles on the Kindle that are in need of reviews.

The first title is Losing Touch, a short story collection consisting of 7 stories and running 155 pages. This collection draws on three stories that originally appeared in A Little White Book of Lies plus four new stories, “And He Who Mourns,” “New To The Neighborhood,” “Through Desmond’s Eyes,” and “Trouble Follows.” The original theme of lies doesn’t cross every story, however, the theme of losing touch comes fairly close.

The full table of contents:

• Introduction – Part One
• Introduction – Part Two
• And He Who Mourns
• New To The Neighborhood
• Never Far From Mind
• Fade In/Fade Out
• Through Desmond’s Eyes
• Trouble Follows
• Where The Past Lay Buried

The second title is a novel, The Presence. Allie Turner’s husband Max has been missing from home for nearly nine months now, and Allie is desperately struggling to hold her family – and herself – together. But things begin to fall apart when her twelve-year-old son Sean is badly burned in a fire at the abandoned lumber mill.

At the hospital, as Allie and her old son Darrell keep watch over Sean, things become increasingly difficult to handle. For Sean confides to Darrell that he encountered their father at the mill just before the fire broke out. Worse still, there as something terribly wrong with the man’s face, as if part of it had melted away.

Darrell has already had a hard time dealing with his father’s absence, and isn’t sure if he can believe Sean. But he promises to search for Max anyway.

His quest leads him to Old Miner’s Creek, where he uncovers something unbelievably terrifying. There’s a scattering of dead animals … all with the same facial disfigurement his younger brother previously described.

Yes, something strange and otherworldly has come to Kingston Mills.

Something dramatically affecting all living creatures which cross its path.

A curious, unstoppable presence of evil…

If you’re interested in receiving a PDF of either or both of these titles for review purposes, please contact the author by email: David B. Silva

In The Flame Alphabet, Ben Marcus imagines our species becoming allergic to this ubiquitous byproduct of its civilizations. In it, language becomes so toxic in all its forms that communication itself becomes a lethal plague that only children are immune to. One might imagine the result to be a descent into feral post-apocalypse, with humans becoming more overtly animalistic, but Marcus surprises with a truly strange, original vision of a post-linguistic world. Language As Body Horror: Ben Marcus’s The Flame Alphabet

Set in 1911 Texas, the story follows a set of grisly and bizarre murders in the Big Thicket section of Southeast Texas. Victims are torn limb from limb, with organs and blood removed. Initially packs of wild dogs are blamed, but a local sheriff and a doctor with a dark past slowly come to the conclusion that what is haunting the woods is not a normal animal. Read the full review of Sour Lake…

If you thought The Cabin in the Woods — Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon’s brilliant deconstruction of the horror genre — was both laugh-out-loud funny and terrifyingly insane in the final act, then the next horror film you should see is John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness. It boasts the same sardonic wit and the same sense of limitless chaos crawling and scuttling beneath the surface. It also plays some of the same metafictional games with its subject matter. Read the full review of this classic, In the Mouth of Madness..

Many historians have wondered how Stoker, a one-time Dublin civil servant and chum of Oscar Wilde came to imagine the gothic horrors of Dracula and now, new research into Stoker’s family tree by the genealogy website Find My Past provides the answer. What was Stoker’s genealogy?

Stephanie Meyer, author of the Twilight books, has purchased the film rights to Lois Duncan’s gothic horror novel Down a Dark Hall, which is set in a haunted boarding school. Meyer will also produce the movie adaptation of her science fiction novel The Host.

Nightmarish scenes unfolded last night at Windham Hospital. The hospital was used for an all-day shoot of the cable television movie Dead Souls. The movie has already begun production in Canterbury and features Jesse James, who has starred in The Flyboys, Amityville Horror and other movies. Read the full story…

Open Road Films has acquired all U.S. distribution rights to Silent Hill: Revelation 3d, the highly anticipated sequel to 2006’s film Silent Hill, released by TriStar Pictures. Silent Hill: Revelation 3d will be released wide on October 26, 2012 in time for Halloween. The announcement was made today by Tom Ortenberg, CEO of Open Road Films and producers Samuel Hadida and Don Carmody.

According to Digital Spy, Canadian actor Jonathan Frid, who originated the role of vampire Barnabas Collins on the daytime soap opera Dark Shadows (a role Johnny Depp plays in the new Tim Burton film) has passed away at the age of 87.

Horror icons Bill Moseley and Michael Berryman will play the leads in the new cable television series pilot Hell Hunters. The series is an action/horror/suspense/crime drama/thriller about two childhood friends from North Dakota who read a comic book and decide to become the murderous vigilante characters in real life.

Of the film adaptations of the influential, perennially popular horror writer HP Lovecraft, there are no doubt some you’ve seen and fondly remember. Stuart Gordon’s anarchic Re-Animator and From Beyond no doubt fall into this category. Then there’s Guillermo Del Toro’s At The Mountains Of Madness, which falls into the rarefied category of Lovecraft films we’d love to see but probably never will. Standing apart from all of those movies, there’s Dark Heritage: The Final Descendant – a Lovecraft adaptation you might not have seen, and probably shouldn’t.

Bram Stoker put the “vampire-as-sexual-metaphor” idea front and center in the original Dracula, it’s the engine that drives the book. And it’s been front and center in vampire fiction ever since, from Stoker’s novel and its various adaptations and sequels and so forth on up through Anne Rice, Kim Newman, and even Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Rabies, the new Hebrew-language horror film from Navot Papushado and Aharon Keshales, knows how to creep up on its viewers and totally floor their expectations. If you think you know how this story will end, you will be wrong. Rabies is a purely original horror flick. Read the full review…

One of the hottest new books is Lord Loss by best-selling horror author Darren Shan. It deals with the supernatural — demons, zombies and even werewolves — and has also been described as a young-adult fantasy book. Cheyenne South High School Librarian Susan Skaar said Shan’s books offer a new genre, a new trend, which kids like.

A gruesome story from the pen of master horror writer Stephen King is being brought to life by a young Birmingham film-maker.

Stephen King’s 11/22/1963, about a time traveler who attempts to prevent John F. Kennedy’s assassination, was among the winners Friday at the 32nd annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes.

The founder and driving force behind a company called RadioTheatre, Dan Bianchi has been producing aural adaptations of weird classics since 2004. On April 19, he presented the third installment in his H.P. Lovecraft festival, produced at the Kraine Theater in collaboration with the Horse Trade Theater Group; it runs through June 24.

Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ The Dark Knight Rises, the much-anticipated final chapter in writer-director Christopher Nolan’s film trilogy featuring the legendary DC Comics character Batman, will be adapted into an official tie-in novel written by award-winning author Greg Cox and published by Titan Books, under a licensing agreement with Warner Bros. Consumer Products.

It’s been more than three decades since author Anne Rice first penned her best selling book, Interview with the Vampire.
Since then, she’s gone on to sell more than 100 million copies of her books. Along the way, her stories of vampires, witches and angels helped define a genre of gothic horror. And many today credit her with inspiring the like of Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series of books (and films) and Charlaine Harris’ books that became HBO’s True Blood. Listen to this podcast, in which she discusses vampires, werewolves and writing.

Fantasy-and-horror artists advised their hopeful fans at the Manchester Monster Convention last weekend. The convention was held at Sachas Hotel by Hic Dragones, a Manchester-based literature organisation that runs training events and publishes dark fiction.

Interview: zombie horror author Dana Fredsti heads to Plague Town.

Since 2000, the top twenty grossing American films that were not directly based on a book already were all made into mass market paperbacks. (13 of those arrived after Hendrix’s piece was published, in 2006.) However, while there are still regular novelizations among the biggest blockbusters, adaptations of smaller films appear to have declined in frequency, due to dropping sales figures. Do Movies Still Get Novelized?

The author who invented the vampire story thought he was being funny. The Vampyre, first published anonymously in 1819, was taken to be the work of the famous poet (and early 19th-century equivalent of a tabloid celebrity) Lord Byron, but turned out to be by Byron’s personal physician (and devoted hanger-on), Dr. John Polidori. A Brief History of Vampire Fiction

With the support of Profile Books and digital designers inkle, video-game designer Dave Morrishe has turned Frankenstein into an interactive app for iPhones and iPads.