Horror

The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman at Comic Con 2013

The television channel AMC, which broadcasts the TV show “The Walking Dead”, has announced the start of the production of a spinoff titled “Spread the Dead”. Robert Kirkman (photo ©Gage Skidmore), the creator of the comic book “The Walking Dead” from which the TV show was adapted, will be the executive producer of the spinoff together with Gale Anne Hurd and Dave Alpert.

The DVD box set of The X-Files season 1

On September 10, 1993 the TV show “The X-Files” made its debut in the USA. A celebration of the 20th anniversary already happened at the Comic-Con in San Diego with the show’s protagonists but surely today many fans will celebrate with meetings, parties and rewatching the pilot episode and possibly other ones.

Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons (Italian edition)

The novel “Carrion Comfort” by Dan Simmons was published for the first time in 1989. It won the Bram Stoker Award, the Locus Poll Award as the best horror novel, the World Fantasy Award and the August Derleth Award.

There are some people who feed on the emotions of others and are also able to mentally control normal people, even at a distance. Saul Laski, a psychiatrist who survived a Nazi concentration camp, has been looking for almost forty years for one of those people, a former SS officer named Wilhelm von Borchert who uses the false name Willi Borden.

Richard Matheson in 2008

The American writer Richard Matheson died last Sunday after a long illness. Richard Burton Matheson was born on February 20, 1926 in Allendale, New Jersey. As a writer he was famous for novels such as “I Am Legend”, as a screenwriter for the movie “Duel” and many adaptations for TV show episodes.

Peter Cushing in the trailer of the movie The Brides of Dracula

Peter Wilton Cushing was born on May 26, 1913 in Kenley, South London, England. He’s been a great actor in theatre, television and cinema. He’s been a simbol of horror movies in the ’60s and ’70s. He had other famous roles such as Sherlock Holmes, The Doctor and Tarkin in “Star Wars”.