Horror recommendations are essentially a horror exchange. I want someone to be very scared or uneasy about fiction and to share my screams with someone else. By doing so, there is always a chance that one of the movies and books you recommend will turn a curious passerby into a lifelong horror hound.
For example, George Romero’s films have that effect. Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead is a very good piece of horror, and they become dambusters for those who want to dive deep into the genre and its most well-known Otel. You’ll want to see what Romero did. It paves the way for films like Martin (1977) and Crazy (1973), each making the classic rationale es (Martin’s vampire and superstition) and social horror (pandemic and government control in madness).
That said, he continues his job as Dark Lord, digging into the bags of legendary films, books and cartoons, and bringing new horror converts into the pack. But looking at the present, you get your own rewards. You can’t overstate how important it is to have a balanced intake of old and new fears in your system. By stepping on both sides, stakeholders can better understand the breadth, scope and scope of this genre.
So, without further ado, here are new movies, new comics, new novels to welcome into the Halloween season. It’s fresh from the oven, so to speak, and is worth the entrance fee.
Movie: Director Ricky Amberger (2025) The Man with a Black Umbrella
Generating dreads is not easy. It requires understanding the pacing and atmosphere, and how much you can manipulate it to slowly build that sweet sense of destiny and despair. Director Ricky Umberger accomplishes this with his film The Man with the Black Umbrella.
The film centers around a horrifying murder created by a mysterious murderer who kills his victim with a knife in one hand and a black umbrella on the other. It may sound a bit ridiculous from the gate, but Umberger finds a way to lean towards the finest qualities of discovered footage to build a horrifying slash that deals with people who wash the web for urban legends and wash the web to obscure the myths of the Internet. A few clever nods to the Blair Witch project close out a truly intrusive horror film that leaves plenty of space for one or two.
Book: Bale, Written by Jonathan Jants (2025)
The invisible monsters are taken in by the kind of fear that they envy. They prey on the imagination. Tips of shapes, claws and fangs turn their stories into “filling the blanks with the worst thing you can think of.” Jonathan Jants has done a lot with this with his new book veil, but his approach is focused on build-up. Reading the Veil is walking into an inevitable nightmare that promises to get each page.
Bale follows John Calhoun, the father of two, who is married on a rock that they are about to bring it together. One sunny day, people begin to disappear from where they stand, as if they were taken away from the thin air. It appears that invisible creatures are responsible for this, but their intentions are unknown. John’s son is first taken. The rest will continue soon.
While some may remind you of Josh Malerman’s bird box and its invisible threat, Jants’ prose runs much faster and endlessly tense. It bumps into the power of disaster movies and feels just as urgent. The adduction sequence is one of the most frightening things I’ve seen in a long time, but it’s just the tip of a terrifying iceberg waiting for more books.
Comic: More Weight: The Salem Story Written and Drawn by Ben Wicky (2025)
The Salem Witch Trial in 1692 stands as one of the clear stories of American experiences. It describes the country’s own brand of politics, persecution and delusion, particularly as it relates to the social divisions that have tormented the United States throughout its entire history. It’s widely covered in all media, but few have impressed viewers with the weight of the event and its outcome, and the more weight of Ben Wicky, the story of Salem.
This book is a time of terror leading to witch hunts, an era in which authors Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow contemplating their connection to the dark history of walking the streets of Salem, and a day when they transform into “wickey fiendly-frendy-frendy-frendy-frendy-frendy-frenly,” transformed into the city of Wicky today.
The monumentality of Salem’s history and its impact on the American spirit can be felt on each page. It’s a dense book that acknowledges the amount of academic work already there to find different ways to express the horrors experienced when small Massachusetts towns began to blame their fellow witchcraft neighbours. In terms of scope and vision, it deserves to be spoken in the same breath as Alan Moore’s from Hell. You will learn a lot, but you will also appreciate how good the history of a horror writer is.
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