The New Horror Handbook Cover

I was pretty excited about The New Horror Handbook even before seeing the finalized cover yesterday. Now I’m feeling pretty much like a kid on Christmas morning. Great job, Pamela Norman!

It’s looking like this Memorial Day weekend is going to be a marathon session for editing proofs; don’t know when the last time was that I was so jazzed about so much work. I love this part

PS – You can check out close ups of the front cover here, and the back here.

New Horror Handbook: Home Stretch

The first proofs for The New Horror Handbook are in, and your’s truly couldn’t be happier. I really think you all are going to enjoy it.

True, this project has taken a tad longer than we thought it was going to, in part because the time we picked to document the modern horror film has been one of the genre’s most frenetic in decades.

Trying to explore the best and most innovative films and filmmakers in horror when the likes of Inside, Let the Right One In and Martyrs are hitting the market is slightly akin to catching rain drops with a thimble. At some point you simply have to stop and tell yourself that there can always be The New Horror Handbook Vol. 2.

In the meantime, we plan to get the book to press in the next two weeks. Thanks again for all your support!

-Aaron

Final Edits Begin This Weekend

The New Horror Handbook is just a few weeks from going to press; art director Pamela Norman is finalizing the last bits of design this week before your’s truly gets his mits on it.

Thanks go to all those who’ve so patiently given of their time, photos, and feedback during the writing of this book: Eli Roth, Karen Walton, Greg McLean, Joe Monks and so many more. The result is going to be one heck of a book!