Delighted to share for the first time, the cover to my forthcoming horror novel, CHOKING HAZARDS🚬, courtesy of Luke Bird, the 2026 British Book Awards winner for Designer of the Year. Here's the blurb from publishers Dead Ink (and the pre-order link is in the comments below): Someone's trying to hide a crime... and they're using Madeline's body to do it. As if living with the consequences of her vindictive ex-husband's manipulation wasn't enough to have her questioning reality, strange objects have begun to manifest on the back of her tongue. A cigarette butt. Someone else's tooth. A set of severed fingers... CHOKING HAZARDS 🚬 is a grisly, stomach-turning blitz of a horror-thriller from author Michael Sellars. Perfect for readers who love Grady Hendrix and Paul Tremblay and available to pre-order now! Link below! Support your indie creators!

The make-up effects for The Fly by the great Chris Walas demonstrate the importance of practical and prosthetic effects: they give the actor something tangible to work with, they become an integral part of the performance. – at Huyton-with-Roby, England

Wishing Victor Valla a very happy 84th birthday. Here's his cover art for the 1972 Lancer Books edition of The Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft. It really captures that eerie cosmic-horror vibe.

On this day in 1978, John Carpenter's Halloween premiered in downtown Kansas City at the AMC Empire theatre. In 2006, it was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Now watching The Cycle on @Shudder.

Maybe not the coolest but definitely the cruelest.

Just finished a rewatch of Predator (1987) and the FX, nearly 40 years later, not only stand up but put any number of contemporary horror movies to shame. Stan Winston and his team created something truly iconic.