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Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, iZombie co-creator Chris Roberson, acclaimed artist Christopher Mitten, and colorist Michelle Madsen will unleash Witchfinder: Reign of Darkness. In this all-new, five-part miniseries from Dark Horse Comics, Sir Edward Grey, occult adviser to the Queen, takes […]

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At Dark Horse Comics, the Mignolaverse is ever-expanding, and following our exciting news that Mike Mignola, Matt Smith, and Dave Stewart are teaming up for Hellboy and The B.P.R.D.: Long Night at Goloski Station, it's now been revealed that Mignola is also teaming up with writer Chris Roberson, artist Christopher Mitten, and colorist Michelle Madsen for the five-issue miniseries Witchfinder: The Reign of Darkness, which will feature occult expert Sir Edward Grey investigating the gruesome murders of Jack the Ripper.

The first issue of Witchfinder: The Reign of Darkness will be released on November 27th from Dark Horse Comics. Read on for more details on the new miniseries, check out the cover art for the first issue below, keep an eye on Dark Horse Comics' official website for additional details, and visit our Comic-Con online hub to keep up to date on all of our coverage of the upcoming convention!

Well, as they say, all good things must come to an end, and they do in the twelfth and final issue of the Penny Dreadful comic book sequel to the Showtime series of the same name. Also in today's Comics Corner: The Walking Dead #186, B.P.R.D.: The Devil You Know #11, Border Town #4, and Her Infernal Descent #5.

Penny Dreadful #12: "(W) Chris King (A) Jesus Hervas (CA) Roberta Ingranata

Continues the story directly after the shocking events of Penny Dreadful's season three finale!

In Shops Srp: $3.99."

To learn more about anything that you missed from this fantastic series, head on over to Previews World on behalf of Titan Comics.

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The Walking Dead #186: "Published: December 5, 2018

Diamond ID: OCT180261

Age Rating: M

Imprint: Skybound

Cover price: $3.99

The powder keg: once it goes off, it can’t be contained."

For more information, visit Image Comics' website.

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Another day, another Hellboy spinoff. It’s not quite that frequent in the real world, but it certainly can seem that way. (And I did just talk about The Visitor: How and Why He Stayed yesterday.)

Rise of the Black Flame is another unnecessary book, which fills in backstory that wasn’t required the first time around. Of course, all fiction is unnecessary if you think of things that way — but this is material that explains how one character got the beginning of another story when we already had “he was subsumed by some alien evil power,” and that was good enough.

Again, for me basically every single “mainstream” comic is totally unnecessary — who does Spider-Man fight this month? which character will have a shocking death touted in press releases three months ahead? does any of it track back to anything at all from the original creators? — so this is a very minor complaint.

NBC has put in development drama Bad Medicine, based on the comic by Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir and illustrator Christopher Mitten. The project hails from Midnight, Texas co-executive producer Mark Kruger and executive producer David Janollari, T.G.I.M. Films (Atomic Blonde) and Universal TV, where David Janollari Entertainment is based. Written by Kruger, Bad Medicine is a character-driven procedural that brings together the unlikeliest pair: a world-renowned yet…...

The Penny Dreadful comic book sequel from Titan Comics returns in today's Comics Corner, as we have three stellar preview pages to share with our readers from The Awaking 2.5! Also: check out a new character in The Walking Dead #171 and take a look at Venomverse #1 from Marvel, three The Evil Within #1 covers and preview pages, Extremity Vol.1, Outcast #30, Predator Hunters #5, Seven to Eternity #9, and World Reader #6. Also, today's Flash Forward section features the paperback collection of R.L. Stine's Man-Thing.

Penny Dreadful: The Awaking #5: "Continues the story directly after the shocking events of Penny Dreadful’s season three TV finale!

On Sale: 6 Sep 2017

Writer: Chris King

Artist: Jesus Hervas

Type: Comic

Series: Penny Dreadful

Genres: Fantasy, Horror

Age: 17+."

To learn more, go to:

https://titan-comics.com/c/1032-penny-dreadful-the-awaking/

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The Walking Dead #171: "Fear The Princess Who is she, and what does she want?

Story: Robert Kirkman

Art: Charlie Adlard,...

A quiet night at home turns into a frightening game of cat-and-mouse in the official trailer for IFC Midnight’s Intruder. Also in today’s Horror Highlights: a trailer and release details for the John Bradley-starring film Traders, teaser videos and release information for The Dooms Chapel Horror, and the cover art and details for the first issue of Dark Horse’s Rise of the Black Flame comic book series.

Watch the Trailer for Intruder: “A young woman’s quiet night in becomes a free-fall into fear in this disturbing home invasion thriller. After she lands her dream job, a young cellist (Louise Linton) settles in for a relaxing few days holed up in her apartment but as a violent storm rages outside, she can’t shake the feeling that someone is watching her every move. Cleverly toying with the rules of suspense, director Travis Z wrings maximum terror from everyone’s worst nightmare: you may not be alone.”

Written and directed by Travis Zariwny, Intruder stars Louise Linton, John Robinson, and Moby. The film will be released theatrically in New York and on VOD nationwide on June 24th courtesy of IFC Midnight.”

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Traders Trailer, Poster, and Release Details: Press Release: “Desperate times call for desperate measures, but the scheme at the center of Traders may be the most desperate of all. The twist-filled suspense drama in which young men risk their lives to get ahead stars John Bradley (Samwell from Game of Thrones) and Killian Scott. Traders will be available on Digital Platforms and Cable VOD on July 11, 2016.

Jobs are gone. Homes are being repossessed. Suicide rates are soaring. But newly unemployed Vernon Stynes (John Bradley, Game of Thrones) might have the solution to the despair brought on by recession. He masterminds a diabolical, all-or-nothing plan he calls Trading. Through an underground online network of similarly displaced individuals, two people agree to “trade” by emptying their bank accounts, selling everything they own and putting the cash in nondescript green bags. They then travel to a remote location, dig a grave and fight to the death. Winner buries the loser and takes the two bags.

Then you find someone else and do it again, and again, and again, until you are rich enough or dead, whichever comes first. Like Vernon, Harry Fox (Killian Scott, Calvary, Love/Hate) has lost his job and his dignity. What else has he got to lose? Why not become a Trader? But when Trading becomes an alarmingly popular underground phenomenon, Vernon becomes a participant in the very game he created. Featuring an exciting young cast and sure to appeal to fans of such classics as Shallow Grave and Fight Club, Traders is a daring and troubling look at the depths to which ordinary people can be driven.

iTunes pre-order link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/traders/id1104505114”

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The Dooms Chapel Horror Teaser Videos & Release Details: Press Release: “Paducah, Kentucky – The indie horror title The Dooms Chapel Horror is set for a wide release. This title, from director John William Holt and writer Jason Turner, will be available on DVD and through Video-on-demand formats this week. This feature focuses on the character Kyle Cole, his return to a small town and a strange group – with nefarious plans. As well, the film stars Bill Oberst Jr., Joshua Mark Robinson, Shaun Gerardo and Wendy Kneeling. A preview of the film’s home entertainment launch is hosted here.

The film will be available on a number of platforms. On cable, The Dooms Chapel Horror will be showing on DirectTV, the Dish Network and Charter. Through Video-on-demand, this title will be on Netflix, Vimeo-on-demand, iTunes and Amazon Video. Also, this horror title will be available on DVD at: Best Buy, Walmart, Target and Barnes & Noble. Being distributed by Brain Damage Films, a sub-division of Midnight Releasing, this title will be available across North America, beginning this June 14th!

The film’s official trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=930OIpMagFw

The official synopsis: Kyle Cole returns to home for the first time in nearly 10 years with the hopes of healing the emotional wounds caused by a family tragedy. What he finds is that his family and the town are not ready for the same. However, a mysterious man, Jordan, has been waiting for him with an evil plan.

More info: http://braindamagefilms.com/dvd/horror/suspense-thriller/dooms-chapel-horror/

Social media links: https://www.facebook.com/TheDoomsChapelHorror/

On Twitter: https://twitter.com/theDCHmovie”

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Rise of the Black Flame #1 (of 5) Release Details & Cover Art: “Press Release: “Milwaukie, Or— This September, legendary Hellboy creator Mike Mignola,iZOMBIE co-creator Chris Roberson, Criminal Macabre and 30 Days of Night artist Christopher Mitten, award winning colorist Dave Stewart and cover artist Laurence Campbell will present Rise Of The Black Flame. This five issue miniseries from Dark Horse Comics will present a dark horror story about an ancient, evil power. In Rise Of The Black Flame, young girls are going missing from the cities of Siam, and the trail leads to the jungle hideout of a bloodthirsty cult– the Cult of the Black Flame.

“There have been several villains in Hellboy’s world who’ve been called the Black Flame, and the striking visual of a skeleton burning with dark flames is pretty hard to beat,” said co-writer Chris Roberson. “In Rise Of The Black Flame, we reveal that before there was a man called the Black Flame, there was an ancient cult hidden deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia known by that name. We plumb the depths of cruelty and ruthlessness that groups of people are capable of reaching, and explore how this cult which reaches back to prehistoric times is connected to the most dangerous villain in the history of the Hellboy books.”

“After all these years it’s still so exciting to find new corners (or in this case a giant shadowy, uncharted abyss of horror) of the Hellboy world left to explore,” said Mike Mignola.

In addition to Rise Of The Black Flame, Roberson and Mignola will be co-writing Hellboy & The Bprd: 1954 and Witchfinder: City Of The Dead. Rise Of The Black Flame will mark the Mignolaverse debut of artist Christopher Mitten.

“It is tremendous fun–and a little surreal–to be given the chance to dive into this fantastic universe,” said Christopher Mitten. “Mike and Chris (with whom I’ve long wanted to work) have concocted a fantastic story, and then there’s Dave Stewart…I mean, Knowing Dave would be coloring and then actually Seeing his artistry in action are two wholly different things. Getting a chance to dip my toe into this expansive world has made me want to dig in and explore more of it, to go off into little corners and find what strangeness, what beauty, lurks there.”

Rise Of The Black Flame #1 (of 5) goes on sale from Dark Horse Comics on September 7. Preorder your copy today at your local comic shop!”

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Fright Rags has added four new beautifully dark T-Shirts to their collection that were inspired by covers of the Idw Publishing horror comic series, 30 Days of Night. Also in this morning's round-up: release details for Mickey Keating's Pod and the horror-thriller Blood Punch.

30 Days of Night T-Shirts: In the three-issue comic series 30 Days of Night written by Steve Niles with artwork by Ben Templesmith, vampires roam the frozen landscape of Barrow, Alaska. The town lies 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle, resulting in the sun not rising there (during the Winter Solstice) for 30 days. The vampires take this annual celestial event as an opportunity to wreak havoc on the townspeople.

In 2012, the series returned with 30 Days of Night Volume 1 by series creator Steve Niles and illustrated by Sam Kieth. Volume 2 in the series was released in August of that same year with artwork by Christopher Mitten and Davide Furno.

Wes Craven is keeping busy on the small screen front. He's executive producing MTV's Scream TV series (debuting June 30th) and now it's been revealed that Craven has agreed to a first-look deal with Universal Cable Productions and has two horror TV series adaptations in the works at Syfy.

According to Variety, Craven is working to adapt both his 1991 film, The People Under the Stairs, and Daryl Gregory's novel, We Are All Completely Fine, as respective TV series for the Syfy network.

Michael Reisz will write and executive produce The People Under the Stairs pilot, which is "described as a contemporary “Downton Abbey” meets “Amityville Horror,” “People Under the Stairs” focuses on centuries-old horrors discovered deep within an estate after a girl goes missing." Craven, Shep Gordon (who also executive produced the 1991 film with Craven) from Alive Productions, as well as Tracey Murray and Sara Bottfeld from Industry Entertainment, will also executive produce the project.