Yes, it's official! After nearly TWO YEARS of literally round-the-clock work, SHOCK FESTIVAL will finally bow its ugly mug in bookstores on OCTOBER 25, courtesy of the fine nuts over at IDW PUBLISHING, the leading indie giants responsible for such awesome best-sellers as 30 DAYS OF NIGHT, STAR TREK, ANGEL, TRANSFORMERS and DAWN OF THE DEAD. . . and the best part is: if you pre-order your book NOW, you'll get a whopping discount off the weighty bookstore price. It's only 26 BUCKS and some change! You can't beat that with a fucking stick!! What you get for your money is 350 FULL COLOR PAGES in an oversized 9X12 COFFEE TABLE FORMAT, HARDBOUND WITH A GLOSSY CASEWRAP COVER!! What are you waiting for!? Get over to our website at www.shockfestival.net to find out how to pre-order, or just head straight for the TARGET website or the AMAZON website. They have the mainline on SHOCK FESTIVAL!
I am also proud to announce the co-branding of RAW ENTERTAINMENT on the book. That's the awesome publishing/movie production house headed by Thomas Jane and Tim Bradstreet! HOT DAMN! Tim has been firm in the driver's seat as an editor since March and has contributed some cool new art, too! The final version of SHOCK FESTIVAL is even twice as ambitious as it was before, with hundreds of new posters, illustrations . . . and you'll get to see Tom as you've never seen him before. Really. Don't miss the world's hunkiest horror/action icon IN DRAG for the very first (and hopefully last?) time!! How the hell did we talk The Punisher into putting on a dress? How the hell does it figure into the wacky, fictional universe of SHOCK FESTIVAL!? Well . . . as they say . . . BUY THE BOOK! And stay tuned here and at DREAD CENTRAL, for some exciting new updates as we count down the days to October, baby!
I am proud as hell to be in the company of such great collaborators and presenters, and I think you'll agree that when the book comes out, it will stink of all the hard work that's gone into it. And speaking of hard work . . .
. . . my side career as a movie poster artist keeps on shifting into higher gears, with new commissions coming along all the time. Check out BEYOND THE
DUNWICH HORROR, my latest and greatest, on the main page! And visit our bros at
www.myspace.com/graveyardrotthemovie It looks like a pretty cooll movie, though they just took the trailer off the page. DAMN!
FULCI LIVES! VIVA SHOCK FESTIVAL!!!
STEPHEN