In today's Horror Highlights we gather around the campfire for BOOM! Studios' Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal Tales graphic novel. We also have screening details and a trailer for Jack Fessenden's Stray Bullets and a promo video for tonight's episode of TLC's Paranormal Lockdown.
Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal Tales Graphic Novel: Press Release: "Los Angeles, Calif. (February 2, 2017) – BOOM! Studios and The Jim Henson Company are proud to announce JIM HENSON’S THE DARK CRYSTAL TALES, a new children’s book set for release this summer by acclaimed writer and artist Cory Godbey (Have Courage, Be Kind: The Tale of Cinderella). The publication is a follow-up to last fall’s best-selling JIM HENSON’S LABYRINTH TALES, also written and illustrated by Godbey.
Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal Tales delves deep into the Skeksis-ruled land of Thra in this beautiful look at some of Jim Henson and Brian Froud’s finest creations from the beloved cult-classic film The Dark Crystal. In one tale, when a little bird is hurt in a Skeksis net, Jen takes it to the Mystics for healing and learns how every act of kindness grows like ripples in a lake.
“The themes woven within The Dark Crystal have never been more important for children or the parents of those children to hear,” said Godbey. “As the UrSkek tells Jen, ‘...we all are a part of each other.’ For this book, my goal was to create three stories which reflect those ideas and honor the tone of Jim Henson's original, groundbreaking film. These stories explore how a single act can ripple outward and how you can never know who it will touch or who it might help.”
“Cory Godbey brings tremendous beauty to Jim Henson’s visionary creations as seen in the bestselling Labyrinth Tales. We were eager to work with Cory again and witness his take on the colorful, rich world of The Dark Crystal,” said Editor Sierra Hahn. “What new chapters await young Jen and Kira long before their fateful meeting? Cory’s genius is in full effect in the delightfully spun The Dark Crystal Tales.”
Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal Tales is the latest release from BOOM! Studios’ Archaia imprint, home to an acclaimed line of ambitious and award-winning graphic novels, including Mouse Guard by David Petersen; Rust by Royden Lepp; Jim Henson’s Tale of Sand by Jim Henson, Jerry Juhl, and Ramón K. Pérez; The Realist by Asaf Hanuka; and Hacktivist by Alyssa Milano, Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, and Marcus To.
For more on Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal Tales and more from BOOM! Studios, please visit www.boom-studios.com and follow @boomstudios on Twitter."
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Stray Bullets Screenings & Trailer: "In 16-year-old Jack Fessenden's directorial debut, two teenage boys are tasked with cleaning out their father's old mobile home on an abandoned property in Upstate New York. But the boys are in for a surprise when they discover three crooks on the run have taken refuge in the trailer.
writer / director: Jack Fessenden
cast: Asa Spurlock, Jack Fessenden, James Le Gros,
John Speredakos, Larry Fessenden, Robert Burke Warren,
Roger Peltzman and Kevin Corrigan
a GLASS EYE PIX / FESSYPIX production
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SPECIAL EVENTS WITH CAST AND CREW:
NYC —PREMIERE SCREENINGS!!
Come join us at Village East Cinemas
Thursday February 9th @ 9PM
Q&A with Cast and Crew following the show!
Q&A with Cast and Crew Saturday Feb 11th after the 7pm show
BOSTON—OPENING NIGHT SCREENING
Q&A with director and producer Friday February 10th
after the 7PM show"
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Paranormal Lockdown: "ABOUT THIS WEEK'S EPISODE: Friday, February 3 at 9/8c
Peeling back layers of history that predate the American Revolution, paranormal investigators Nick Groff and Katrina Weidman spend 72 hours locked down in White Hill Mansion in Fieldsboro, N.J. The home played host to mysterious disappearances, fatal battlefield injuries, and strife of the Civil War. In its later years, the mansion took on a different darkness, hosting a bordello and prohibition-era speakeasy that attracted unsavory characters. Nick and Katrina record unprecedented visual evidence of a child in the attic, but as they uncover White Hill Mansion's secrets, they soon find that all of the spirits they contact may not be quite so innocent.
ABOUT PARANORMAL LOCKDOWN
Season 2 of the hit television series PARANORMAL LOCKDOWN on TLC follows world-renowned paranormal investigators Nick Groff and Katrina Weidman as they spend an unprecedented 72 hours locked inside a haunted location in an effort to capture groundbreaking paranormal evidence. No stone goes unturned for Nick and Katrina, who believe that the longer they stay confined in a haunted location, the more spirits will communicate with them."
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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