Killer VHS

Series · 4 books · 2024-2025

By Brian McAuley, Patrick Barb, Joshua Millican, and more

Books in series

Teleportasm

2024

Four friends unearth a unique VHS tape that, when viewed, causes short-distance teleportation with euphoric after-effects, inadvertently launching a perilous trend. As copies of the original tape are made, the results become less predictable and ultimately gruesome due to analog generational decay. Despite the danger, some will risk everything for just one more trip.

Cicada

2024

Ash is stranded at a rural horror film festival about a giant killer cicada and can't decide what's worse, the movie or her idiot boyfriend, until she realizes she's starring in the bloody sequel when people start dying and the locals won't let them leave.

Candy Cain Kills Again

The Second Slaying

2024

A slasher sequel that picks up immediately where the first book left off with the festive killer coming to town on Christmas morning to punish a parish full of sinners. Praise for Candy Cain Kills: "A perfect book for gorehounds to devour on a cold Christmas night." —Library Journal “A masterclass in slasher fiction.” —FanFiAddict "Sublimely drawn characters fuel a slasher romp that delivers the goods." —Kirkus Reviews

Night of the Witch-Hunter

2025

It’s 1999 and Fallen Church, New Hampshire is ready for Y2K. But they never planned for Goodman Pryce. As the new millennium approaches, outcast teen Josey’s school video project for history class inadvertently leads to the resurrection of Pryce, a demonic witch-hunter from the 1600s. As he unleashes puritanical Hell on Earth in her small New England town, Josey must rely on her best friend, an ancestor accused of witchcraft, and the mystical powers inside herself to put an end to the Night of the Witch-Hunter once and for all.

Authors

Brian McAuley

Author · 4 books

Brian McAuley is a WGA screenwriter whose produced credits range from family sitcoms to horror films. He holds an MFA in Screenwriting from Columbia University and teaches at various schools in Los Angeles, where he currently resides. Connect with him on social media @BrianMcWriter.

Patrick Barb

Author · 9 books

Patrick Barb is an author of weird, dark, and horrifying tales, currently living (and trying not to freeze to death) in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is the author of Gargantuana's Ghost (Grey Matter Press), The Nut House (currently serialized in Cosmic Horror Monthly), and the collection Pre-Approved for Haunting (forthcoming, Keylight Books/Turner Publishing, Summer 2023). In addition, he is an Active Member of the HWA and a Full Member of the SFWA.

Joshua Millican

Author · 4 books

After establishing a personal blog in 2011, Millican quickly became one of the genre’s most prolific journalists, contributing to many websites before ultimately landing at Dread Central in 2016. One of the top horror outlets on the planet, Millican served as Editor-in-Chief from 2019 through 2021. His talk show Chronic Horror (sidelined by the Pandemic) explored the intersection of horror movie fandom and cannabis culture. Follow him on Twitter at @josh_millican. Encyclopocalypse published Millican’s debut horror novel, Deeper Than Hell, in 2022. In addition to The Dreadful Years, the publisher will also be releasing a sequel to Deeper Than Hell and Millican’s novelization of the 1980s cult film Forbidden Zone, written and directed by Richard Elfman. Follow Encyclopocalyse on Twitter @EnPocalypsePub

Tanya Pell

Author · 3 books