​Earlier this year, comics company Eibon Press began turning the classic films of Lucio Fulci into comic book mini-series’, part of their Saga of the 7 Gates project that continues early next year. First up was a 3-issue comic book adaptation of Gates of Hell (aka City of the Living Dead), and up next Eibon is giving new life to Fulci’s House by the Cemetery.
We’re excited to exclusively let you know tonight that Eibon has enlisted the legendary Vince Locke to do the artwork for their House by the Cemetery mini-series!
Eibon writer Stephen Romano explains to us…
“We weren’t just making idle threats last year when we announced that my collaboration with Derek Rook on LUCIO FULCI’S GATES OF HELL was just the start of an insane 13-issues extended comic book universe. That first part of the SAGA went out in high style earlier this year with GATES issue 3, one of our proudest moments at Eibon. But guess what? That was just the first chapter. The SAGA has now officially entered it’s SECOND PHASE, and we are pulling out ALL the stops. This will come in the form of our utterly batshit adaptation of Fulci’s
HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY. And we scored a real high end collaborator for this one.”
“It is a REAL dream come true to work with Vince Locke. He is a 25 year industry veteran, a legend in the business, and he came on board the Eibon team because he likes the way we do business here. He is the celebrated artist of DEADWORLD and the co-creator of my favorite “Splatterpunk” graphic crime novel A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE. Vince is hard at work on HOUSE issue one as we speak, and the book will be available for pre-orders in February.”
“My script for this epic 3 issue mini-series within the SAGA OF THE 7 GATES will take the concept of the Seven Gateways to hell uniting Fulci’s most cerebrated horror films a quantum leap forward, with extended backstory on the Boyle family and of course the infamous undead Doctor Freudstein himself. We’ve remained faithful to the storyline of the film, while exploring many aspects of Fulci’s creepy side plots that were never fully explained in the film, so the whole damn thing is filled with ghosts, gore and mayhem you won’t believe.”
Preview Locke’s artwork below.

Scott Wampler™ ✔ @ScottWamplerBMD
 · Aug 27, 2018My #1 question about SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK: are they going to try to preserve the look of Stephen Gammell's legendary illustrations for the various creature designs in the film? I do not expect @RealGDT to answer this.
Guillermo del Toro ✔ @RealGDT
Yes.
9:54 AM - Aug 27, 2018

Again, great info by Josh Squires for Bloody Disgusting!
We thank Reddit for the heads up that USAopoly has just released Trivial Pursuit: Horror Movie Edition, an all-horror version of the trivia game that includes 600 questions and covers 100 years of the horror genre. How perfect is this for the Halloween season?!
“The Movie Horror Edition of Trivial Pursuit® allows players to test their knowledge of 100 years of horror including 600 questions relating to psychological thrillers, epic monster films, the paranormal and the goriest and most disturbing cinema of all time.”
Individual categories include:

• Monster
• Gore/Disturbing
• Psychological
• Paranormal
• Slasher
• International

You can grab this online through Amazon or in store over at GameStop for just $19.99.

We may be no closer to that Beetlejuice sequel finally becoming reality, but the beloved characters will at least be returning in a musical that’s headed to Broadway early next year. Deadline reports today that the musical will arrive in March 2019 at the Winter Garden Theatre, with the official opening set to follow in April.
The site adds, “The new musical, based on Tim Burton’s 1988 movie, will have its pre-Broadway world premiere at the National Theatre in Washington D.C., with previews beginning Sunday, October 14 and opening on Sunday, November 4.”
Directed by Alex Timbers, with a score by Eddie Perfect, book by Scott Brown & Anthony King and choreography by Connor Gallagher, the pre-Broadway engagement stars Alex Brightman and Sophia Anne Caruso as the title character and Lydia Deetz, respectively.
Beetlejuice tells the story of Lydia Deetz, a strange teenager obsessed with the whole “being dead thing.” When Lydia calls on a degenerate demon to scare away her insufferable parents, Beetlejuice comes up with a plan involving exorcism, arranged marriages and an adorable girl scout who gets scared out of her wits.
By Josh Squires for Bloody Disgusting

​Production is now underway on director André Øvredal‘s film adaptation of Alvin Schwartz’s Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books, being produced by Guillermo del Toro. Recently, del Toro confirmed that artist Stephen Gammell’s illustrations will be faithfully brought to life in the film, which has us very excited about what promises to be a terrifying movie.
On a related note, how about some Scary Stories toys?!
We’ve profiled the work of customizer Readful Things a few times in the recent past here on BD, as he’s impressed us with his custom horror toys and even horror VHS art pieces. Today, we wanted to shine the spotlight on his many Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark-inspired toys, based on Gammell’s aforementioned illustrations that still give us nightmares.
A couple of these are currently available in the Readful Things Etsy shop, but we encourage you to drop the shop a line through Etsy if you’d like to make a custom order for any others.
Childhood nightmares resume in 3, 2, 1…​

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