Your eyes are not deceiving you, that’s art by Siren Head creator Trevor Henderson! Recently revealed over at Dread Central, the trade paperback edition of Dead Mall (the comic written by me, with art by David Stoll and letters by Justin Birch) hits comic and bookstore shelves in June 2023, but is available for pre-order right now! If you want to hear David, Trevor, and I talk about the series (and “mall horror” as a subgenre) with DC editor Mary Beth McAndrews: please click over to Dread. While Dead Mall’s certainly not a “childrens” book, CBW is a great bookstore local to me who’ve been kind enough to ship out signed books for me. Though no official release date has been announced for the movie adaptation of Clown in a Cornfield, we hope to hear more about the casting and release as we roll into 2023.UPDATE: if you’re in the US you can pre-order signed, personalized copies of Dead Mall from Children’s Book World. After making new friends and learning about the small town’s creepy past, a killer dressed as the town’s mascot, Friendo the Clown, begins to pick off Quinn’s friends and acquaintances one by one. The story of Clown in a Cornfield follows a teenage girl named Quinn, who moves from Philadelphia to the middle of nowhere in Kettle Springs, Missouri, after her mother dies. Cesare released Clown in a Cornfield 2: Friendo Lives on August 25 th, 2022. The book received such grand and immediate attention, that HarperCollins Publishers greenlit a sequel in 2021.

Though Craig typically dabbles in comedy-horror, Temple Hill Entertainment felt that he was perfect for the job, and released this in a statement, “We love Eli Craig’s brand of scary fun and are thrilled to be working with him on this terrifying slasher adaptation that is both timely and timeless.”Ĭesare’s popular novel has garnered attention from big names in the horror genre, including filmmaker and writer Clive Barker, and Cesare won the Bram Stoker Award in 2020 for best young adult novel.

RELATED: ‘FAIRY TALE’ BOOK REVIEW: STEPHEN KING’S BEST NOVEL IN THE LAST DECADE The screenplay will be helmed by Carter Blanchard, who wrote the screenplay for Independence Day: Resurgence. Evil, one of the more popular horror comedies released in the last decade, and Little Evil, a Netflix original horror-comedy starring Adam Scott and Evangeline Lily.

Most recently, Temple Hill Entertainment is responsible for taking Smile, one of 2022’s most beloved horror movies, and turning its 17-million-dollar budget into a whopping 216-million-dollar success.Ĭesare’s young adult-focused horror adaptation will be directed by Eli Craig, the director behind Tucker & Dale vs. One of the horror book genre’s biggest sleeper hits of 2020 is getting a film adaptation, as Adam Cesare’s Clown in a Cornfield has been picked up by Temple Hill Entertainment, per Deadline.

Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare