​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

​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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The Art of Krampus takes a look at how this terrifying character inspired the filmmaker and Legendary Pictures to create a movie that captures the dark side of the holidays. With fascinating concept art and unit photography showcasing the most thrilling, suspenseful, and horrifying moments of the movie alongside insightful commentary from the cast and crew, this deluxe coffee-table book details all that went into crafting Dougherty’s eagerly-awaited Yuletide horror film. Visually stunning and comprehensive, The Art of Krampus is the perfect holiday gift for horror enthusiasts.

The photographs in Haunted Air provide an extraordinary glimpse into the traditions of this macabre festival from ages past, and form an important document of photographic history. These are the pictures of the dead: family portraits, mementos of the treasured, now unrecognizable, and others. The roots of Halloween lie in the ancient pre–Christian Celtic festival of Samhain, a feast to mark the death of the old year and the birth of the new. It was believed that on this night the veil separating the worlds of the living and the dead grew thin and ruptured, allowing spirits to pass through and walk unseen but not unheard amongst men. The advent of Christianity saw the pagan festival subsumed in All Souls' Day, when across Europe the dead were mourned and venerated. Children and the poor, often masked or in outlandish costume, wandered the night begging "soul cakes" in exchange for prayers, and fires burned to keep malevolent phantoms at bay. From Europe, the haunted tradition would quickly take root and flourish in the fertile soil of the New World. Feeding hungrily on fresh lore, consuming half–remembered tales of its own shadowy origins and rituals, Halloween was reborn in America. The pumpkin supplanted the carved turnip; costumes grew ever stranger, and celebrants both rural and urban seized gleefully on the festival's intoxicating, lawless spirit. For one wild night, the dead stared into the faces of the living, and the living, ghoulishly masked and clad in tattered backwoods baroque, stared back.

We are pleased to announce that the Summer 2015 issue of Goreyesque will be released mid-June (exact date TBD). We are eager to read your short stories, poems, artwork, or other creations; please submit by our deadline - June 1, 2015. Submit all work to: [email protected].

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