Books

Written by Josep

Now that holidays are over, it's time to start thinking about what we might get for some of our Dread Central staffers for Christmas 2012, and thanks to the McFarland publishing company, we have already crossed Foy off our list. Ladies and gentlemen, feast your eyes on David Coleman's The Bigfoot Filmography: Fictional and Documentary Appearances in Film and Television.

Written by Christa Faust Published by Titan Books

Written by John Passarella

Written by John Kenneth Muir Published by Published by McFarland & Company

Written by Lisa Morton

With so many various Frankenstein projects swirling around us these days, it's hard to keep track of them all, but one we've been keeping an eye on for some time now is Gris Grimly's upcoming three-volume 200-page Frankenstein artbook, and today he showed off one of his newest illustrations.

Written by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Have you ever wanted to be on the cover of a zombie novel? Now’s your chance! Just in time for Halloween, acclaimed indie publisher Creeping Hemlock Press/Print Is Dead announces the "Zombie Census" contest.

Don't want to wait until November 8th for the release of Stephen King's upcoming 11/22/63 to check it out? Then you'll want to head over to the prolific author's website right now, where several audiobook samples from the novel await your perked up ears.

Stephen Carpenter, screenwriter turned self-published author/creator of NBC's new show "Grimm", is releasing the second book in his Killer series, which follows Jack Rhodes, an author and former boxer who was on his way to literary success when his life was blown apart by the horrific suicide of his fiancee. On December 6th Killer in the Hills will be available in e-book format from online retailers Amazon, iTunes, etc.

You know us - the more zombie stuff we can pass along to our readers, the happier we are. Which is why a new book from Matt Mogk caught our eye, and it probably will yours as well. Read on for more details about Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies from Gallery Books.

ABRAMS, the preeminent publisher of high-quality art and illustrated books, has announced that the company has signed a deal with AMC, the cable television network, and Robert Kirkman’s Skybound, an imprint of Image Comics, to publish two books based on AMC’s original series "The Walking Dead". From the Press Release:

We know Young Adult novels aren't high on most of our readers' "must read" lists, but we also know a lot of you have kids who are budding horror fans; and with its blend of star-crossed love, kung fu, and magic, Dark Territory: The Tracks, Book One sounds like something they might be interested in checking out.

Maybe the old assumption that black characters are always the first to die in horror films isn't quite right after all. At least not according to a new book that hit store shelves this week entitled Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present, which presents a unique social history of blacks in America through changing images in horror films.