Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week …
Up now on Kickstarter, Ghostland, the board game from Crystal Lake Publishing and Red-23
The gates to Ghostland are about to open in your home! The ghosts and gore are jumping from the page to your tabletop in the official Ghostland: Board Game from Crystal Lake Publishing and Red-23.
But don’t get scared, this game is accessible to all horror fans alike. No need to have read the book to punch your ticket into the world’s most haunted park.
Ghostland takes all the cool thrills, chills, and kills from a haunted theme park gone wrong, and turns them into a cooperative-ghost-capturing adventure. Play as the harrowed survivors of the first book as you travel across the park map eliminating ghosts one by one before finally taking out the Big Man himself: Rex Garrote! To find out more about the game, see exclusive artwork and pledge your support in exchange for a variety of perks, click here now.
Genre fiction festival Edge-Lit returns for an eleventh edition at Derby’s Quad on 20 September 2025
Edge-Lit returns to celebrate the best in horror, thriller, fantasy and science-fiction writing on Saturday 20 September 2025 from 10am-5pm.
In this, its eleventh edition, Edge-Lit will offering another loaded day of panels, workshops, readings, and interviews with an array of genre fiction talent from around the UK and beyond.
Attendees on the day will have access to a wide variety of activities, including a series of panel discussions, interviews and readings with the Guests of Honour, workshops, book sales offering a variety of books for independent presses and authors, and the ever-popular Edge-Lit raffle. For full information, as well as to buy tickets, check out the Edge-Lit page here.
Out now from writer Jasper Bark and Crystal Lake Publishing, Dead Scalp
Legend has it, when you’re down on your luck. When the law is on your tail and there’s nowhere left to run. There’s one last place to hide … Dead Scalp.
You won’t find Dead Scalp on any map. It’s not at the end of any trail. And your only way in is hard cash and dark magic. But if you’re willing to risk everything you might just make it. And if you make it, you might just live forever!
Outlaw James Briggs has nothing left to lose. Through a desperate gamble, he bluffs his way into Dead Scalp and onto the payroll of Big Bill Baldwin the boss of the whole violent burg. But something sinister stalks the bloody streets, something in search of retribution. A terror that defies belief and crushes what little faith James has left in humanity.
There are crimes too terrible to countenance on Dead Scalp’s conscience and fates that make death seem a blessing. Available now in eBook and paperback, you can grab your copy here.
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KEV HARRISON
