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Horror Week 2025: Living in Scary Times - Why Horror is Having a Moment
Column by Rob Salkowitz
August 19, 2025

For Horror Week, columnist Rob Salkowitz asks whether the horror boom can help get us through a moment full of woe and dread.

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ICv2 Horror Week 2025
Halloween Now a Major Shopping Season
August 18, 2025
Halloween is now a major shopping season, with around three quarters of all consumers making purchases tied to the holiday.
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Sponsored: What's New in Horror RPGs from Renegade Game Studios?
From Surreal Desert Towns to Modern Monsters: RPGs to Stock Leading into October
August 19, 2025
Step into Night Vale’s strange world, then expand your store's horror RPG selection with these essential World of Darkness titles.
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Horror Week 2025: Top Trends in Horror Comics
Top-Selling Horror Comics of the Summer
August 19, 2025
We noticed two trends in this summer's top-selling horror comics.
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IDW Joins Whatnot Sales Platform
With Plans for Weekly Live Show
August 18, 2025
The publisher plans a weekly live show.
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Preview: 'Good as Dead' #1
From Image Comics
August 18, 2025
Here's a preview of Good as Dead #1, by David & Maria Lapham.
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Ares Games Will Release 'Wunderwaffen'
New WWII Wargame by Walter Obert
August 18, 2025
Ares Games will release Wunderwaffen, a new WWII wargame.
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Mighty Boards Reveals 'Tenby' for Retail
New City Building Card Game by Benjie Talbot
August 18, 2025
Mighty Boards revealed Tenby, a new city building card game by Benjie Talbot.
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Exclusive: Vault Launches Vantage, New Compact Editions Line
Debuting in Direct Market Before Bookstores with Titles by Tim Seeley, Ram V, More
August 18, 2025
The new imprint, which includes titles by Tim Seeley and Ram V, will launch in the direct market before going to the book channel.
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'Magic: The Gathering - Festival in a Box' for 'MagicCon: Atlanta' Incoming
Contains a New Array of Promos
August 18, 2025
Wizards of the Coast will place Festival in a Box - MagicCon: Atlanta, a Secret Lair drop for Magic: The Gathering, onto DTC preorder.
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Horror Week 2025: 'Welcome to Night Vale' Gets a Retail Date
Podcast-based RPG Now on Preorder; New Deets on Boxed Set Contents
August 18, 2025
Renegade Game Studios will release Welcome to Night Vale RPG into retail.
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Horror Week 2025: Wyrd Will Release New 'Malifaux 4E' Starter
New Two-Player Starter Features Ampersand vs. Banished
August 18, 2025
Wyrd Games will release Malifaux 4E - Two-Player Starter Set, a new entry level set, into retail.
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'Marvel Zombies' Gets a New Date; 'Wednesday' S2 Has Strong Debut, S2 Part 2 Trailer; 'TWD: Daryl Dixon' Ending; 'Haunted Hotel' Trailer; 'It: Welcome to Derry' Second Teaser; New 'Scary Movie' Announced
Special Horror Week Showbiz Round-Up
August 18, 2025
Horror is the biggest thing in showbiz, and we round up news in the genre here.
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