Grimmfest 2026 in Manchester, UK, screens Hammer’s restored ‘Dracula’ beside ‘Ithaqua,’ the horror studio’s first film under its current owners.

David Sala’s ‘Frankenstein’ is a horror graphic novel from Astiberri that paints Mary Shelley’s maker and creature across 232 full-color pages.

A metal music studies essay on the 1984 ‘Scandinavian Metal Attack’ compilation, its Thor painting, and the Finnish bands Nordic metal history left out.

Mark London and Jaime Infante’s ‘Honor and Curse: Eternal’ #7 from Mad Cave Studios chases its Tengu into Exit City in a horror graphic novel saga.

Brenda LaTorre’s debut ‘Bruja’s Nest,’ a Mexican folk body horror novel from Creature Publishing, hatches a monster under Santa Muerte’s gaze.

Sitges Film Festival 2026 in Sitges, Spain, gives Bárbara Rey its Nosferatu Award, reopening the Templar lineage of Spanish fantastic cinema.

Conrad “Cronos” Lant, founder, bassist, and vocalist of Venom, has died at 63. A remembrance of the man behind ‘Black Metal,’ the album that named a genre.

James Kuhoric and American Mythology’s ‘Beware the Witch’s Shadow: Monster Bash’ #1 carries EC horror anthology justice into the graphic novel era.

Celebrating 16 years, we argue that fear has a grammar of myth, history, and the body, and that Colombia’s own legends teach it best.

Amorphis, the Finnish progressive metal band, plays Auditorio CEG in Bogotá on October 9th with ‘Borderland,’ Kalevala-rooted songs, and a stand-in bassist.

Ann Demeulemeester presents Spring/Summer 2027 in Paris on October 3rd, as Stefano Gallici carries the house’s mourning codes into the Edwardian decades.

Iron Age Comics’ ‘Watson v. Holmes’ by Jon Santana turns Sherlock Holmes into a vampire in a horror-detective graphic novel told in 12 serial parts.

Kathleen Kaufman’s ‘Beyond the Graves Waits Mist and Sea,’ a coastal gothic horror novel from Kensington, sets Icelandic sea lore beneath a Salem refuge.

Ablaze prints Mike Carey and Thomas Jane’s ‘The Lycan’ #1, an Eisner-nominated gothic horror comic and graphic novel pitting hunters against werewolves.

Michael Wehunt’s ‘Nightjars,’ an Appalachian gothic vampire horror novel from St. Martin’s Press, ties a son’s buried memories to his father’s killings.

Kek-W and Dave Kendall’s ‘The Fall of Deadworld’ omnibus, a horror graphic novel from Rebellion’s 2000 AD, collects the Dark Judges origin saga in hardback.

Heather Davey’s Gothic folk horror novel ‘The Memory Tree,’ from Titan Books, follows a vicarage family haunted by an ancient churchyard yew.

Jennifer Thorne’s ‘Newbourne Park,’ a country-house horror novel from G.P. Putnam’s Sons, follows a caregiver drawn onto an estate with a hungry master.

United States duo Antania fuse avant-garde industrial black metal and Hecate devotion in ‘33,’ the video single from ‘The Unholy 33.’

‘Gastronomique’ #2 from BOOM! Studios sends Marguerite Bennett’s fictional spy after Tarrare, a soldier never proved a killer, in historical horror.

Andrew K. Clark’s ‘Hollow Folk,’ an Appalachian folk horror novel from Quill & Crow Publishing House, traps a 1993 hotel night crew as clocks stop.

‘Poseído,’ Diego Velasco’s supernatural horror film based on the El Silbón legend, opens in Colombian theaters September 24th, 2026.

Amarillo’s Catrina Dress Exhibit and DODFest 2026 test whether handmade Día de Muertos costume art survives its move from ritual to gallery.

Verker’s independent atmospheric black/folk metal debut ‘Twilight... (Røkkr, Act I)’ explores Norse and Indo-European myth, out September 22nd, 2026.

‘Silent Hill: Townfall,’ developed by Screen Burn and published by Konami and Annapurna Interactive, is a horror video game arriving September 24th.

On ‘Scour Order,’ Krallice sets Aeschylus and Hölderlin inside dense black metal, ahead of their first-ever tour across Europe.

‘Upiro,’ Óscar Martín’s Spanish vampire film, world-premieres at Fantastic Fest 2026 in Austin, USA, capping a five-lab development circuit.

HorrorFest International returns to St. George, Utah, September 16th–19th, 2026, pairing Shudder and Magnolia closers with genre history.

Colombian author Carolina Flórez-Cerchiaro sends La Muelona into ‘Something Followed Us Home,’ a Latiné horror fiction collection from Primero Sueño Press.

Sheboygan Haunted Asylum returns to Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin, for a third season inside a real former psychiatric hospital, adding an outdoor corn maze.

Oxford University Press publishes Simone Beta’s study of riddles, oracles, and dreams, reframing the Sphinx’s riddle as a mechanism of fate.

Fantastic Fest 2026 opens Sept. 17th in Austin, USA, testing its FIAPF fantastic-cinema standing against a Berlinale-vetted frontier plague drama.

‘Spiritus Sancti’ is an upcoming horror video game from Divider Studios that turns spoken Latin exorcism rites into its central survival mechanic.

Titan Books publishes ‘Unearthed,’ a horror fiction anthology from editors Dan Coxon and Philip Fracassi, collecting nineteen stories of ancient ruins.

Colorado Festival of Horror returns to Denver, Colorado, USA, September 18th to 20th, 2026, testing its Clowns vs. Witches horror theme.

Anna Biller’s horror film ‘The Face of Horror,’ a medieval gothic ghost story, has its World Premiere at TIFF’s Midnight Madness section on September 11th.

Leopoldo Goût’s ‘Rooted,’ a Tor Nightfire horror novel grounded in Aztec mythology, sends a Mexico City lawyer into her family’s buried past.

Left to Die, the American death metal act built from Death and Massacre alumni, plays Medellín’s Green Club on September 24th.

Dreadnought release ‘Wars of Spirit // Wards of Light,’ a progressive metal album on Vesperian, out September 11th, fusing folk, doom, and atmosphere.

E. B. Hudspeth’s ‘The Cult of Dr. Black,’ a Gothic horror novel from Blackstone Publishing, extends the teratological world begun in ‘The Resurrectionist.’

Green Lung release their fourth album, ‘Necropolitan,’ a British occult doom record on Nuclear Blast Records, out September 11th, 2026.

Fluisteraars release ‘Jacht der Mysteriën’ on Eisenwald September 11, 2026, the Dutch atmospheric black metal band’s sixth full-length album.

Grimner’s ‘Stormvingar’ (Despotz Records) is a Swedish folk metal album reinterpreting a 2012 song with founding singer Marcus Asplund Brattberg returning.

Bloodbath and NervoChaos arrive at Bogotá’s Capital Live Concerts on September 6th for a death metal bill marking Bloodbath’s Colombian debut.

The 20th Fiesta del Libro y la Cultura returns to Medellín, Colombia, in September 2026 with Mircea Cărtărescu, testing dark fiction reach.

Carlos Garaicoa’s ‘Ciudad Armero’ at Cali’s La Tertulia turns Armero’s ruins into bone, asking what memory owes the dead.

Amsterdam Tattoo Convention 2026 returns to NDSM Loods in the Netherlands, weighing sacred hand-tap traditions against its competition circuit.

Sigh release ‘Goh-ka’, an avant-garde metal album on Peaceville Records centered on Kusōzu, the Buddhist meditation on bodily decay, out September 4th.

Javier Morales’s ‘J'avis sinistra’ at Ibagué’s Museo de Arte del Tolima puts folk demonology on a gallery wall this 2026 season.

Green Carnation close their Rimbaud-inspired trilogy with ‘A Dark Poem, Part III: The Messiah Complex,’ the Norwegian band’s new album on Season of Mist.