(December 1 2025) With its cutting-edge blend of horror and humor George A. Romero and Stephen King’s 1982 film Creepshow™ inspired generations of fans and launched a beloved horror franchise. Prolific special effects artist, director, and producer Greg Nicotero (Walking Dead) introduced a new generation of fans to Creepshow™ with the acclaimed 2018 Shudder TV Series. And next year, in May 2026, Bram Stoker Award-winning editor and writer James Aquilone’s Monstrous Books is launching Creepshow: 13 Tales of Terror, the first-ever short story collection inspired by the acclaimed series.
This terrifying volume, licensed by Evoke Entertainment, brings together award-winning horror and speculative fiction authors to deliver an unforgettable reading experience that brings the series’ chilling tales to life in prose for the very first time.
Creepshow: 13 Tales of Terror features original stories by James Aquilone (Kolchak: The Night Stalker), David Avallone (Elvira: Mistress of the Dark), Simon Bestwick (Best Horror of the Year), Nancy A. Collins (Swamp Thing, Blade Runner, Sonja Blue), Dennis Crosby (Weird Tales), Keith R.A. DeCandido (Supernatural Crimes Unit, Star Trek, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Gwendolyn Kriste (2024 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel for The Haunting of Velkwood), Jonathan Maberry (V-Wars), Lisa Morton (The Best American Mystery Stories 2020), Steve Niles (30 Days of Night), Nick Roberts (The Exorcist’s House),Thomas E. Sniegoski (Hellboy, Vampirella), and Tim Waggoner (Terrifier, Halloween Kills novelizations). Creepshow: 13 Tales of Terror is a macabre celebration of the series’ legacy — twisting morality tales of terror, justice, and cosmic retribution, told through the Creep’s ghoulish grin.
Creepshow: 13 Tales of Terror will feature a cover from Russ Braun (The Boys, Kolchak: The Night Stalker), and each story will be accompanied by a full-page piece of art featuring The Creep from EV Cantada.
The Creepshow™ anthology deal was brokered by Striker Entertainment.
“Each story is a macabre celebration of Creepshow™’s legacy,” said James Aquilone. “We’ve assembled a can’t-miss anthology, with morality tales of terror, justice, and cosmic retribution, all told with the Creep’s ghoulish grin.”
Monstrous has raised more than $500,000 on Kickstarter over the last four years with such projects as Kolchak Meets the Classic Monsters, The Omega Eleven, and Classic Monsters Unleashed. Monstrous and its founder, James Aquilone, have won multiple accolades, including the Bram Stoker Award, Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award, and the Scribe Award from the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers.
Creepshow: 13 Tales of Terror will be available as an ebook, paperback, and hardcover on May 19, 2026, wherever books are sold, including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, and local independent retailers. The Creep invites you to turn the page… if you dare.
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ABOUT GREG NICOTERO
Greg Nicotero is an executive producer, director, and special effects makeup supervisor who co-founded The KNB EFX Group, Inc., the longest running make up effects house in Hollywood. Since 1988, Nicotero and his team have worked on nearly 1000 film and television programs including Reservoir Dogs, The Green Mile, Suicide Squad, The Mist, Scream, and Sin City to the most recent Werewolf by Night, Candy and Watchmen. In 2010, he was asked by Frank Darabont to design zombies for the AMC series The Walking Dead and went on to become the producing director on the hit show. To date, he has directed 33 episodes of the series. His work on The Pacific, Dune, The Walking Dead, and Breaking Bad has garnered him nearly a dozen Emmy nominations and four wins. As the zombie epic enters its last season, Nicotero, fresh off directing the series finale, sets his sights on his critically acclaimed series Creepshow, an anthology comprised of twelve terrifying tales per season inspired by the original 1982 film of the same name. He serves as the executive producer, showrunner and frequent director throughout the Creepshow series. Season four recently aired on Shudder and AMC+.
ABOUT EVOKE ENTERTAINMENT
Evoke Entertainment, formerly known as Cartel Entertainment, was founded in 2011 and is a full-service management, production, and finance company with offices in Los Angeles, Canada, New York, and Las Vegas. The company represents top-tier showrunners, show creators, writers, directors, producers, animators, and production companies in film, TV, and new media. Evoke Entertainment has produced and financed numerous series and movies since its inception, including the hit series Creepshow for Shudder/AMC, the animated family series Twelve Forever for Netflix and the Universal/Syfy series Day of the Dead, the upcoming Adult Animated series for Tubi, Breaking Bear (starring Academy Award Winner Brendan Fraser, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Josh Gad, Elizabeth Hurley, and Annie Murphy) and the unscripted series for NBC and Peacock Forever Young with Dr. Pablo Prichard for NBC and Peacock. Evoke Entertainment also produced the series Ties That Bind for Up TV, and A Place in the Sun for Discovery, produces dozens of independent films and TV Movies a year and has dozens of projects in development across broadcast, cable and streamers.
ABOUT MONSTROUS
Monstrous is an independent publisher focused on dark fiction and action-packed stories. Owned and operated by Bram Stoker Award-winning editor and writer James Aquilone, Monstrous is dedicated to creating high-quality print and digital comics, graphic novels, and prose books that aim to entertain with its stories and delight with its aesthetics. Monstrous is the new home of Kolchak: The Night Stalker. Its other titles include Monstrous magazine, Dead Detectives Society, Shakespeare Unleashed, and The Omega Eleven, and the upcoming Weird Tales graphic novel.
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