Rewind of the Living Dead
200 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★ - 35 ratingsA podcast for true horror fanatics. Each week we will take a deep dive into the best horror films of all time and some movies that aren't so great as well. We will also review current horror films and break down different categories including our favorite performances, the best gore, the best lines and if these movies truly scared us or not!
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The Thing 40th Anniversary Special - Episode 93
June 16, 2022 07:13 - 1 hour - 114 MBWhen John Carpenter was first contacted about potentially directing a remake of the 1951 classic “The Thing from Another World,” he was reluctant to sign onto the project. The studio had already hired and fired “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” director Tobe Hooper and Carpenter didn’t really see a path to a creative remake from a film he admired so much. But it was his first chance to move from independent cinema to do a studio film so Carpenter eventually decided to take on the project while p...
Watcher Review, Scream 6 without Neve Campbell and the Best All-Time Thrillers — Episode 92
June 08, 2022 07:55 - 1 hour - 118 MBJust because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean something isn’t really happening. That’s the premise behind the new film “Watcher,” which just opened in theaters as director Chloe Okuno teams up with “It Follows” star Maika Monroe for a thriller that feels like something that should have Alfred Hitchcock’s name attached to it. In addition to “Watcher” opening in theaters, David Cronenberg’s latest film called “Crimes of the Future” is also being released with the reception to this latest movie m...
Stranger Things Season 4, Vol 1 Review — Episode 91
June 01, 2022 05:30 - 1 hour - 130 MBHorror has always found a home on television but it’s hard to imagine anything capturing the attention of the pop culture zeitgeist like “Stranger Things” has done over the past few years. Developed by the Duffer brothers, the series based in the 1980’s was equal parts nostalgia and great storytelling while making titles like Eleven and the Demogorgon household names across the globe. When “Stranger Things” season 3 ended, the evil Mindflayer had been stopped but Eleven lost her powers a...
Men - Episode 90
May 25, 2022 05:43 - 1 hour - 119 MBIt was 15 years ago when writer and director Alex Garland first got an idea for a new script that he wanted to develop. At the time, Garland was only a screenwriter because his directorial debut didn’t come until 2014 with his film “Ex-Machina.” The original idea that haunted Garland was a straight forward horror film centered around The Green Man — a creature of folklore that often appears in architecture around the world yet the meaning behind the symbols are often left up to interpretat...
The Sadness, Firestarter, Scream 6 Cast News and the Fangoria Awards — Episode 89
May 18, 2022 05:32 - 49 minutes - 67.3 MBThe latest episode of Rewind of the Living Dead features short reviews for two new horror films that just dropped over the past week as we tackle the controversial new movie “The Sadness” as well as “Firestarter.” “The Sadness” is being hailed by many as a visionary next step in the zombie film evolution while others have said the movie goes too far with gore and extreme images. We’ll give our thoughts on the film and whether or not this is a movie built for the most hardcore horror fans. ...
Friday the 13th Part 2 — Episode 88
May 13, 2022 08:31 - 1 hour - 120 MBThe wild success of the first Friday the 13th movie had Paramount Pictures frothing at the mouth for a sequel but the initial idea was to essentially treat the franchise as an anthology where each movie would involve an entirely new scary story. Some of the producers on the original film had a much different idea that the sequel should involve Jason Voorhees even though his appearance in the original film was essentially done in a nightmare sequence that was never expected to go any furthe...
The Night House — Episode 87
May 12, 2022 04:17 - 1 hour - 103 MBWriting partners Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski had already managed to get several scripts made into films but there was plenty more left on the cutting room floor from projects that never got picked up or pieces of stories that were deemed too ambitious that the pair called their “murdered darlings.” Armed with those ideas along with an intense desire to write something that would scare each other, Collins and Piotrowski started to develop an idea for a new script that would deal with a ...
'The Boy Behind the Door' and 'The Djinn' Filmmakers David Charbonier and Justin Powell — Episode 86
May 04, 2022 06:46 - 1 hour - 118 MBIn a special episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, David Charbonier and Justin Powell —the writers and directors behind “The Boy Behind the Door” and “The Djinn” — join the show for a far reaching conversation about how they got involved in the film industry after growing up as lifelong friends since kindergarten. They’ll detail how a delay in making “The Boy Behind the Door” actually led them to creating “The Djinn” almost out of thin air, which ultimately because their first major film t...
Master — Episode 85
April 28, 2022 07:28 - 1 hour - 106 MBWhen writer and director Miriama Diallo attended Yale University, she referred to the person in charge of her residential college as ‘master’ — an incredibly outdated term that the school tried to explain away as nothing more than a way to pay homage to a British system on which it was based while stating it had nothing to do with the ugly history of slavery in America. Diallo just went along with the university’s rules but a few years after she graduated, she happened to run into the form...
Choose or Die — Episode 84
April 20, 2022 07:08 - 1 hour - 66.8 MBCombining a modern tale of terror with a 1980s video game, first-time director Toby Meakins and writer Simon Allen decided to tackle a horror film that feels like it’s one part ‘Jumanji’ and another part ‘Black Mirror.’ The premise centers around a down-on-her-luck computer programming enthusiast named Kayla, who cleans buildings at night to help support her family, as they continue to grieve the loss of her little brother. When she’s not working, Kayla is hanging out with Isaac — another ...
Near Dark - Episode 83
April 13, 2022 04:26 - 1 hour - 70.3 MBAs she prepared to direct her first solo feature, future Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow wanted to film a Western movie but she found it difficult to secure financing and a studio to back up her vision. So alongside co-writer Eric Red, who also penned the horror film “The Hitcher,” Bigelow shifted gears to combine her idea for a modern Western with the vampire genre that had become increasingly popular in recent years, especially after the success of “Fright Night” as well as another film cal...
Morbius - Episode 82
April 06, 2022 06:14 - 1 hour - 76 MBWith ownership over the entire “Spider-Man” catalog and the characters surrounding the friendly neighborhood webslinger, Sony announced plans to develop several new films that would branch out and expand the whole universe. Following the surprising success around “Venom,” the studio moved swiftly to begin developing even more projects including one centered around Morbius The Living Vampire — a character that started out as a villain and eventually became more of an anti-hero in recent yea...
Tragedy Girls - Episode 81
March 30, 2022 05:59 - 1 hour - 70.1 MBThanks to the reception from their first film titled “Patchwork,” writers Tyler MacIntyre and Chris Lee Hill were commissioned to rework a script that had similar overtones as a horror-comedy with female leads. They eventually got inspired to transform the script into a slasher movie but MacIntyre and Hill wanted to tackle the project from a different angle than the typical point-of-view from the victims and instead put the killers in the driver’s seat. Eventually they wrote a scene that...
X - Episode 80
March 23, 2022 06:11 - 1 hour - 66 MBDirector Ti West had made several horror films throughout his career but he got to a point where he felt like he said all he needed to say in the genre. Following a nearly 10-year-long break, West finally got inspired to return after realizing that he had never made a slasher movie but he was still trying to find the right idea that would inspire him to make another horror film. As a lifelong fan of filmmakers and filmmaking, West took inspiration from that for his next feature. But rath...
Rob Zombie's Halloween - Episode 79
March 16, 2022 06:38 - 1 hour - 90.7 MBA less than enthusiastic reaction to 2002’s “Halloween: Resurrection” left the famous horror franchise in limbo as producers tried to figure out the best way to go forward. Numerous scripts were produced that included Michael Myers facing off with the Cenobites from “Hellraiser,” another featuring the return of Jamie Lloyd and even one that would serve as a prequel of sorts to take place during the events of “Halloween III: Season of the Witch.” Ultimately, Dimension Films reached out to...
Fresh - Episode 78
March 09, 2022 06:45 - 1 hour - 74.4 MBWriter Lauryn Kahn grew up loving horror movies so she was very excited for the chance to actually make one of her own. When she was looking for inspiration, a friend who had previously written a horror film said that she based the script around “the scariest thing” possible for her. That gave Kahn the idea to write her story from the female perspective in the world of dating while also addressing the fears that women deal with everyday like something so seemingly mundane like walking to t...
Freddy's Nightmares — Episode 77
March 02, 2022 07:55 - 1 hour - 59.4 MBThroughout the 1980s, the “Nightmare on Elm Street” film series was one of the most popular horror franchises with fans regularly flocking to the theaters to see what new group of teenagers would be sliced and diced in their dreams by the demonic Freddy Krueger. After three films with a fourth on the way, New Line Cinema — the studio that produced the “Nightmare on Elm Street” films — decided to take a stab at bringing Freddy to the small screen by developing a new series based around the ...
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) — Episode 76
February 22, 2022 19:50 - 1 hour - 104 MBThere’s never been a shortage of ideas when it came to making more sequels, reboots or remakes of Tobe Hooper’s 1974 classic “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” but the latest incarnation didn’t start taking shape until 2018 when Legendary Pictures obtained the rights to the iconic horror franchise. Following the success of his “Evil Dead” remake along with the breakout hit “Don’t Breathe,” Fede Alvarez got interested in the project and signed on as a producer with newcomer Chris Thomas Devlin ...
Attack the Block - Episode 75
February 17, 2022 08:28 - 1 hour - 78.8 MBAfter he got car-jacked near his home in South London, future writer and director Joe Cornish started to wonder what would have happened if a meteor fell from the sky and came crashing down to the ground at the same time he was being robbed. How would that change the dynamic of that situation? Cornish believed that he would probably turn to his tormentors to ask them to have his back in such an unpredictable and potentially dangerous moment. That spawned an idea for Cornish, who had grown ...
Nope Trailer Reaction
February 13, 2022 22:23 - 33 minutes - 30.2 MBJordan Peele will release his new movie on July 22 but the first trailer for his upcoming horror film "Nope" dropped on Sunday and Rewind of the Living Dead is going to react to the footage on this special podcast. What kind of anticipation is there surrounding Peele's latest film after he won an Oscar for "Get Out" and then followed that up with "Us"? Listen to this special episode to find out everything we know about "Nope" and what was revealed in the trailer. Music courtesy of Andrew...
The Boys from County Hell - Episode 74
February 10, 2022 18:48 - 1 hour - 60.8 MBThere have been hundreds of different takes on vampires on television and film but writer and director Chris Baugh had never seen anything set against the backdrop of his home in Northern Ireland. That’s why he decided to take a stab at a script based around his home country but while everybody knows that “Dracula” author Bram Stoker is Irish, there’s far less knowledge surrounding the influence an ancient Irish legend supposedly had on him while writing one of the definitive horror novels...
The Fog - Episode 73
February 03, 2022 08:11 - 1 hour - 70.9 MBFollowing the massive success of his breakout film “Halloween” in 1978, director John Carpenter inked a two-film deal with AVCO Embassy Pictures for his next two follow ups. Because he was known for the horror genre after creating one of the most iconic slashers in history with Michael Myers, Carpenter was expected to follow that up with another terrifying film. The inspiration for his next film came during a trip to England with his producing partner and then girlfriend Debra Hill when th...
Reaction: The New Texas Chainsaw Massacre Trailer
February 01, 2022 08:31 - 24 minutes - 22 MBThe buzz is back as a new trailer for "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" has arrived and Rewind of the Living Dead reacts to the first footage from the upcoming sequel... Music courtesy of Andrew Scott Bell and Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio For more Rewind of the Living Dead, follow on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/rewindofdead Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rewindoflivingdead Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rewindoflivingdead/
Prisoners of the Ghostland — Episode 72
January 25, 2022 06:57 - 1 hour - 64.6 MBHardcore film fanatics probably already know the name Sono Sion from his many works in Japan where he’s been hailed as “one of the most idiosyncratic artists of his generation.” From films such as “Suicide Club” to “Love Exposure,” Sion had a reputation for grotesque violence, extreme eroticism, surreal images and complex narratives. In 2018, Sion planned his first overseas production with an English language film that would star Nicolas Cage, who described the project as “the wildest mo...
Scream 5 - Episode 71
January 18, 2022 07:44 - 1 hour - 104 MBAs far back as 2011 just after the release of “Scream 4,” there were talks about a fifth film in the series being developed by director Wes Craven and writer Kevin Williamson. Unfortunately, a lukewarm response to the fourth film put those plans on hold and then sadly Craven passed away in 2015 after he had directed all four films in the “Scream” franchise. It wasn’t until 2019 when Spyglass Media Group acquired the rights to “Scream” and then four months later it was announced that the sa...
Scream (1996) — Episode 70
January 10, 2022 06:41 - 1 hour - 110 MBBy the mid 90s, the horror film industry was on life support without much interest from studios to invest in high profile projects. That all changed after executives started hearing about a script from writer Kevin Williamson called ‘Scary Movie.’ Written over three days while he was holed up at a friend’s home in Palm Springs, Williamson took inspiration from films such as ‘Psycho’ when setting up his opening scene and from there he managed to blend together a perfect mix of horror and co...
The Best Horror Films of 2021 - Episode 69
December 31, 2021 16:40 - 1 hour - 73.9 MBThere was a lot to like about the horror industry in 2021, especially with a return to theaters and the chance to share some of these moments with an audience again. From the return of the “Candyman” franchise through director Nia DaCosta to the inventive release schedule surrounding the “Fear Street” trilogy on Netflix, there was no shortage of new as well as recognizable titles that were released throughout the year. While there was plenty of choose from, what really ended up as the best ...
Saint Maud - Episode 68
December 28, 2021 08:25 - 1 hour - 65.3 MBFirst time filmmaker Rose Glass came up with the idea for her debut movie back when she was still in school in 2014 and it started out as a love story between a woman and the voice inside her own head. According to Glass, she was fascinated by the various conditions that people can develop while interacting with the voices in their heads. The idea eventually evolved to a story about a woman who has conversations with God, which she wanted to explore in order to better understand the storie...
Black Christmas (1974) — Episode 67
December 22, 2021 05:58 - 1 hour - 77.6 MBHoliday themed horror is fairly commonplace these days but back in the 1970’s, it was still almost taboo to crossover a beloved holiday with a truly horrific act. Canadian screenwriter Roy Moore decided to tackle that very subject when he wrote a film based loosely on the urban legend called “The Babysitter and the Man Upstairs,” which told the story about a girl receiving a phone call warning her to check on the children she was watching only to discover the assailant was calling from ins...
The Boy Behind the Door - Episode 66
December 15, 2021 07:23 - 1 hour - 75.9 MBFriends since kindergarten, David Charbonier and Justin Powell had been lifelong horror fans but after a script they wrote together kept getting rejected by studios and production companies, they decided to write a story that they could potentially fund themselves. They quickly discovered that writing a movie that centered around a pair of 12 year old boys wasn’t going to be as easy as intended so a production company eventually came on board after reading a treatment of the script. The fl...
New Texas Chainsaw Massacre Trailer Reaction Plus Kane Hodder Playing Leatherface in New Game
December 11, 2021 09:26 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MBIn this special edition of Rewind of the Living Dead, Damon and Patrick react to the new trailer for the upcoming "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" sequel as well as comments about how this movie ties together with past films. They will also react to the news about the new "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" game coming out along with legendary horror actor Kane Hodder portraying Leatherface. Music courtesy of Andrew Scott Bell and Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio For more Rewind of the Living Dead, fo...
An Education in International Horror w/ Special Guest Rabia Sitabi — Episode 65
November 30, 2021 07:29 - 1 hour - 78.5 MBGreat filmmaking can happen anywhere and there’s no better evidence to that than the long history of horror films from across the globe. From iconic Italian horror films created by directors such as Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci to the rise of the South Korean scene with movies like “Train to Busan” and critically acclaimed hits such as “Tigers are Not Afraid” out of Mexico, there’s no shortage of truly terrifying movies that are spawned from every corner of the world. Some would argue t...
Ghostbusters: Afterlife — Episode 64
November 23, 2021 07:37 - 1 hour - 85.1 MBRumors about a “Ghostbusters” sequel have persisted ever since “Ghostbuster II” was released in 1989 including a version penned by Dan Aykroyd that involved the original team traveling to an alternate hellish landscape where the boys in grey would literally battle with the devil. Numerous other versions took shape over the years but each one seemed to stall out after original cast member Bill Murray stated that he just wasn’t that interested in coming back for another sequel. The death of ...
Ghostbusters - Episode 63
November 16, 2021 07:52 - 1 hour - 87.1 MBFascinated by the paranormal, Dan Aykroyd originally came up with a concept for a movie after reading a story about quantum physics and parapsychology that gave him the idea about trapping ghosts. He was also interested in creating a modern comedic ghost film following in the footsteps of icons such as Abbott and Costello as well as Bob Hope. He wrote the script with plans to star alongside his friend John Belushi and he pitched the idea as “three men who chase ghosts” and basically compar...
The Lost Boys — Episode 62
November 10, 2021 06:50 - 2 hours - 126 MBVampires have always been a huge staple in horror but a script that first began circulating in the mid 80s that envisioned child-like characters more in the same vein as Peter Pan, who never grew old and could never die but were far from the bloodsucking fiends best known throughout cinema. The film was essentially capitalizing on the popularity of “The Goonies,” which had come out two years earlier and Richard Donner, the same director for that movie, was initially attached to this one as...
Last Night in Soho — Episode 61
November 01, 2021 06:37 - 1 hour - 69.2 MBIt was over a decade ago when director Edgar Wright was gifted a book called “Hammer Glamour: Classic Images from the Archive of Hammer Films” that showcased iconic women from the studio’s vast history except this wasn’t just some glossy coffee table book. Instead, Wright was struck by the sheer number of those women whose careers were cut short or lives that ended tragically. Combined with his own history for a certain neighborhood in North London and Wright started to get an idea for a s...
Pumpkinhead — Episode 60
October 27, 2021 05:01 - 1 hour - 70 MBOriginally inspired by a creepy poem by Ed Justin that also served as the basis for the Misfits song of the same name, the DeLaurentis Entertainment Group began development for a film about a vengeful spirit conjured to exact justice for those who have been wronged. The studio eventually brought the project to famed creature creator Stan Winston — best known for his work in films such as ‘The Terminator’ as well as ‘Aliens’ and ‘Terminator 2,’ which earned him several Academy Awards — in o...
Halloween Kills — Episode 59
October 18, 2021 05:16 - 1 hour - 71.9 MBWhen David Gordon Green and Danny McBride kicked off production on 2018’s “Halloween,” the duo had already thought about shooting a pair of films back-to-back but they ultimately decided to wait until the first film came out to discover how audience felt about the movie before shifting gears into a sequel. Once “Halloween” opened to rave reviews and became a box office smash, producer Jason Blum gave the greenlight on not only a second film but a third in the series to complete a new “Hall...
'Scream' and 'Black Phone' Trailer Reaction
October 16, 2021 05:20 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MBIn this special episode of Rewind of the Living Dead, we react to the new "Scream" trailer, which reunites the original cast including Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette as they go up against a brand new Ghostface. Plus we discuss the new trailer for the upcoming film "Black Phone," which stars Ethan Hawke as a terrifying serial killer and he's teaming up with "Sinister" director Scott Derrickson again for this new horror film. Music courtesy of Andrew Scott Bell and Karl Ca...
Halloween (2018) — Episode 58
October 12, 2021 05:51 - 1 hour - 76.9 MBThe “Halloween” franchise has been one of the most active in horror history with very little time passing between sequels and remakes ever since the original film was released in 1978. After Rob Zombie found success with his version of “Halloween” in 2007 and a subsequent sequel in 2009, a third film was ordered but the rock star turned director didn’t want to return for another film. There was talk about a movie called “Halloween 3D” that would have kept the same characters from Zombie’s ...
Halloween (1978) — Episode 57
October 05, 2021 06:03 - 1 hour - 83.6 MBFollowing the buzz around his first film “Assault on Precinct 13,” director John Carpenter was sought out by a pair of producers named Irwin Yablans and Moustapha Akkad to make a movie about a psychotic killer who stalked babysitters. Carpenter agreed to do the project so long as he had complete creative control over the film. He then got to work on the script with his girlfriend Debra Hill with the original title of the film as “The Babysitter Murders.” The script reportedly took only a...
Basket Case - Episode 56
September 22, 2021 01:05 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBThe term “cult classic” can be seen as a compliment or an insult when it comes to a movie because many times that designation means the film is so bad that audiences can’t help but enjoy it but other times that just shows the dedication fans have to a particular work of art. For director Frank Henenlotter, arguably his greatest success was also his greatest shame. After he was inspired to write a script following a simple idea about a monster living inside a basket, Henenlotter ended up wi...
Episode 55 — Malignant
September 14, 2021 07:10 - 1 hour - 77.4 MBIn the era of modern horror films, few directors are as revered as James Wan after he terrified audiences with films such as “Saw” and “Insidious” and eventually creating a massive franchise based around “The Conjuring.” Of course, Wan’s talent eventually landed him blockbuster movie credentials after he directed the first “Aquaman” movie but as he was preparing to shoot the sequel, he decided he wanted to return to his horror roots and create an entirely different kind of film. Inspired...
Episode 54 — Manhunter
September 07, 2021 07:21 - 1 hour - 73.7 MBFollowing the release of the novel “Red Dragon” in 1981 by author Thomas Harris, a film adaptation was put in the works just a few years later with Dino De Laurentiis serving as producer. The search started for a director capable of adapting the material and David Lynch was initially offered the job but he ultimately turned it down. That’s when Michael Mann stepped into the role after he had found massive success as a showrunner on the hit series “Miami Vice.” Mann didn’t change a lot from...
Episode 53 — Candyman (2021)
August 31, 2021 07:35 - 1 hour - 74.6 MBOriginally based upon a Clive Barker short story called “The Forbidden,” director Bernard Rose optioned the tale for a film called “Candyman” that was first released in 1992. The movie did solid enough business at the box office to deliver two forgettable sequels but more importantly was the chord it struck within audiences to turn the movie into a bona fide cult classic. Talks of a sequel or a remake were rumored for years but then in 2018, Academy Award winner Jordan Peele entered talk...
Episode 52 — Wrong Turn (2021)
August 25, 2021 07:02 - 1 hour - 69.8 MBEver since Ned Beatty was told to “squeal like a pig” in “Deliverance,” tales of survival have been fodder for many writers and directors across the globe with films such as “The Hills Have Eyes” becoming horror classics. In 2003, a film called “Wrong Turn” was released from director Rob Schmidt with a story and script from Alan McElroy. The movie told the story about a group of teens in the wrong place at the wrong time after they encounter a group of backwoods cannibals. The first film w...
Episode 51 — Friday the 13th IV: The Final Chapter
August 13, 2021 05:39 - 1 hour - 83.2 MBThe rise of slasher films in the 1980s has been well documented but months before Freddy Kreuger started haunting the dreams of the Elm Street children, Jason Voorhees was going on his fourth rampage through a group of teenage kids dumb enough to stay near Camp Crystal Lake. Following the release of “Friday the 13th Part III, which was rumored to be the final film in the series, Paramount decided to do one more movie to finally kill off Jason once and for all. The studio hired Joseph Zito,...
Episode 50 — The Fear Street Trilogy
August 02, 2021 06:10 - 1 hour - 63.6 MBR.L. Stine — an author nicknamed “the Stephen King of children’s literature” — penned a series of over 100 books in his “Fear Street” catalog and much like his beloved “Goosebumps” series, there were plenty of attempts to eventually adapt his stories into a film or television show. In 1997, Hollywood Pictures retained the rights to the “Fear Street” franchise with the intention of making a series of “Scream” like movies after the success of those films from director Wes Craven. The proje...
Episode 49 — Dog Soldiers
July 28, 2021 08:27 - 1 hour - 67.4 MBLong before he was directing epic battles on “Game of Thrones,” Neil Marshall was a just a film school graduate looking for some kind of way to get involved in the industry. After he completed school, Marshall and a friend were both toiling away at various jobs including editing before eventually working on a small film called “Killing Time.” It was during production that Marshall decided it was finally time to make their own movie and he pitched his friend on a simple concept — “what abou...
Episode 48 — Stephen King's Silver Bullet
July 19, 2021 07:12 - 1 hour - 65.3 MBBack in the early 1980’s, horror legend Stephen King was working on a calendar with illustrations that would tell the story of a year long saga involving a small town being terrorized by a werewolf. As the collection started to come together, King realized that his writing didn’t really fit in the vignette form needed for the calendar. That’s when he decided to adapt the material into a short novel with illustrations from famed comic book artist Bernie Wrightson. In 1983, the 127-page ...