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Spirit Riser (2024) Available October 29

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After the tragic death of their parents, two sisters (Summer Greenberg and Amanda Flowers) are torn apart and sent to opposite coasts by a malevolent entity. One sister cannot remember who she is, and the other cannot grasp the fateful task that lies ahead of her. While fighting to make their way back to each other, the sisters encounter many strange characters that could either help them or destroy them.

Prepare for sensory overload from the famously outrageous Dylan Greenberg. For this magnum opus, Greenberg gathered some of her cast regulars in Amanda Flowers (Shakespeare’s Shitstorm), Jurgen Azazel Munster (Werewolf Bitches from Outer Space), and Matthew Silver (Glamarus), and joined them with jaw-dropping new faces, including Cherie Currie of The Runaways, an unrecognizable Whitney Moore (Birdemic), Lynn Lowry (Shivers), Kansas and Parker Bowling (Cuddly Toys), rock and roll legend Alan Merrill, Patti Harrison (Together Together), and Gender Outlaw author Kate Bornstein, with narration by Michael Madsen (Reservoir Dogs).

STARRING: Amanda Flowers, Cherie Currie, Michael Madsen, Kansas Bowling

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The Pumpkin Man (2023) Available October 29

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Cromwell is a town whose history is intertwined with that of a local legend; The Pumpkin Man. Most people don’t believe the tales, but when Catherine Quinn discovers the missing piece of the legend, she and her friends will come face to face with the Demon of Fall… Kürbis.

STARRING: Ryan Sheets

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Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf (1985) (4K Ultra HD) Available October 29

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Ben is mourning the recent death of his sister, Karen, whom he believes to have been killed in a savage wolf attack. At her funeral, Ben is approached by the mysterious Stefan, who warns him that a cult of werewolves had attacked Karen and that she too will become an undead lycanthrope. Although dismissing his claim as mere superstition, Ben’s girlfriend Jenny convinces him that he should take Stefan’s warning more seriously, and, sure enough, Karen is soon back from the dead, covered in fur and complete with a deadly set of K9s. After being narrowly saved from a fatal bite by Stefan, Ben is persuaded that he’s telling the truth and volunteers to join him on his mission to destroy the increasing hoards of beastly creatures ravaging Europe. But as their journey takes them to Transylvania, where werewolves from around the world are gathering for their ritual, Ben and Stefan fear that they might be in over their heads, mainly once werewolf queen Stirba receives news of their arrival…

Australia’s king of B-movies, director Philippe Mora (Mad Dog Morgan, The Beast Within), delivers an outrageously blood-soaked sequel with Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf, assembling the talents of international sex symbol Sybil Danning (Reform School Girls), cult star Reb Brown (Yor: Hunter From the Future), musician and TV personality Jimmy Nail, alongside horror icons Ferdy Mayne (The Fearless Vampire Killers) and Christopher Lee (The Satanic Rites of Dracula). Loaded with memorably gruesome set pieces, delivered with tongue firmly in cheek, Vinegar Syndrome proudly presents the UHD debut of this beloved 80s horror classic in its uncut international form, newly restored in 4K from its original camera negative and bursting at the seams with new and archival bonus features.

STARRING: Christopher Lee, Annie McEnroe, Reb Brown, Marsha A. Hunt

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Hotel (2004) Available October 29

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Newly restored in 4K and available for the first time in North America, Austrian auteur Jessica Hausner radically upends genre tropes and preempts the resurgence of folk horror with her second and most formally audacious feature, Hotel. The deceptively simple premise of a young woman who takes on a job as a night porter at a remote Austrian hotel and encounters unexplained phenomena amounts to a grand treatise on the inhibiting potential of imagination, the fine line between banality and terror and the looming specter of fate.

Allusions to local myth, mysterious disappearances and haunted forests eschew generic conclusions and serve to illustrate and complicate the inner life of a young woman reckoning with the essential ambiguities of defining one’s life. “An intelligent fable about fear and desire,” (Time Out) Hausner’s sophomore feature is a haunting metaphysical horror film unlike any other.

STARRING: Franziska Weisz, Birgit Minichmayr, Marlene Streeruwitz, Rosa Waissnix

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Flesh Freaks Available October 29

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Worm-like parasites infest the dead, returning them to gruesome half-life as rotting, bloodthirsty zombies. Freed from their jungle hell by a secret research expedition, the creatures soon find their way to modern civilization where they begin their deadly mission to transform the human race into an unstoppable army of the undead. Will they succeed in their gory quest? Will the human race be completely wiped out? Can anyone survive the blood-soaked onslaught of the Flesh Freaks!?

In 1998, a teenage film fanatic named Conall Pendergast followed his parents to Belize to document their participation in a real-life Mayan archeological dig. Stranded in a remote animal and insect filled jungle, the aspiring filmmaker realized he had a great location on his hands to stage a DIY, MiniDV zombie epic. The end result became Flesh Freaks, a micro-budget wonder shot in Central America and Toronto that’s part Evil Dead, part mumblecore, and part tropical travelogue. A youthful and rudimentary eruption of slime, rubber monster masks, and geysers of fake blood, Flesh Freaks combines the madcap antics of Peter Jackson’s Bad Taste, the exotic locales of Bruno Mattei’s Hell of the Living Dead, and gnarly, putrefied zombie mayhem of Andrea Bianchi’s Burial Ground; all filtered through the vision of a high-spirited and hyperactive high schooler. But that’s not all! Flesh Freaks comes paired with the director’s sophomore SOV feature Kill Them And Eat Them, Pendergast’s 2003 gore-soaked, mutant melee which comes newly restored and accompanied by a wealth of extras of its own!

STARRING: Eshe Mercer-James, Etan Muskat, Conall Pendergast, Erica Danya Goldblatt

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El Vampiro : Two Bloodsucking Tales from Mexico (US Limited Edition Blu-ray) Available October 29

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El Vampiro: Two Bloodsucking Tales from Mexico brings together two atmospheric and terrifying classics of Mexican Gothic, directed by Fernando Méndez (Black Pit of Dr. M), and starring Ariadne Welter (The Panther Women, Untouched), Abel Salazar (The Curse of the Crying Woman), and, in a star-making turn, Germán Robles (The Brainiac).

In The Vampire (El Vampiro, 1957), the beautiful, bereaved Marta (Welter) travels with Enrique (Salazar) to her ancestral home. There, the mysterious neighbour Duval (Robles) offers to buy her decrepit hacienda. However, Duval is really Count Karol de Lavud, a vampire whose aim is to drain Marta of her blood in order to revive his entombed brother.

In the sequel, The Vampire’s Coffin (El ataúd del vampire, 1958), grave robbers bring Lavud’s corpse to Enrique’s city hospital, where Marta now works as a nurse. Duly re-animated, Lavud sets about his bloody plan to make Marta his bride.

Pre-dating Hammer’s Dracula by a year, The Vampire’s uniquely Mexican take on vampire mythology was the first to give its antagonist elongated fangs, and its success kick-started Mexico’s horror boom. Restored from the original negatives, these films finally receive their world Blu-ray premieres in this individually numbered Limited Edition two-disc set, complete with new and archival extra features, and a fully-illustrated 80-page book.

STARRING: Abel Salazar, Germán Robles, Ariadne Welter, Carmen Montejo

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Delirium: Photo of Gioia (1987) (4K Ultra HD) Available October 29

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Gioia made her fortune working as a high-class call girl, but now she runs one of Italy’s top erotic photo magazines for which only the most beautiful women are hired as models. When a perverted psychopath begins killing them off one by one, sending Gioia macabrely staged photos of their corpses, posed to mirror their latest centerfolds, Gioia realizes that to put an end to the horrors and unmask the murderer, she will need to come to terms with a secret in her past which has resulted in all of the bloodshed…

One of director Lamberto Bava’s (A Blade in the Dark) bloodiest and most memorable gialli, Delirium: Photo of Gioia offers an intricate mystery supplemented by plentiful sadistic kills punctuated by touches of unexpected, nightmarish surrealism. Starring Serena Grandi (Miranda), Daria Nicolodi (Deep Red), David Brandon (Caligula: The Untold Story), George Eastman (Anthropophagus), and genre film siren Capucine (The Exquisite Cadaver) and featuring a score by legendary composer Simon Boswell (Santa Sangre), Vinegar Syndrome is delighted to present the world UHD debut of this sleazy and slasher-influenced treasure of Italian genre cinema, newly and exclusively scanned in 4K from its original negative and including an extensive array of new and archival extras!

STARRING: Serena Grandi, Daria Nicolodi, Vanni Corbellini, David Brandon

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Cruel Britannia : Three Killer Thrillers From the UK Available October 29

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British cinema has long cemented its legacy of producing creative thrillers, often infusing macabre twists with a wry sense of cynical humor. By the early 1970s, the British film industry had become more daring in subject matter while still relying on the consummate technical professionalism that helped establish it as a leading force in the medium. Presented here are a trio of rarely-seen murder thrillers and mysteries that showcase the types of independent and transgressive work coming out of Britain in the first half of the decade, all of which have been newly restored by Vinegar Syndrome for this release.

Showcasing the beautiful yet under-filmed region of Cornwall, the Giallo-esque Crucible Of Terror (1971) by director Ted Hooker finds a group of hippyish youths staying at the seaside home of a reclusive and mysterious sculptor. Their holiday fun is short-lived as they begin falling prey to a vicious mystery killer who’s determined to protect a deadly secret hidden deep in the cliffside caverns. Taking visual cues from Italian horror and displaying a surprising amount of horrible bloodshed, this long-overlooked whodunit is a precursor to the soon-to-be budding slasher genre.

When a young woman is slain by a trench coat-wearing and razor-wielding killer, there’s no shortage of suspects, including her twin sister, boyfriend, and plentiful shady acquaintances. As the mystery unfolds and more people vanish or are murdered, a detective begins to suspect that the crimes might be connected to a prized stamp. A slow-burn hybrid of murder mystery and crime caper directed by acclaimed cinematographer Jack Cardiff, Penny Gold (1973) offers twist after twist, leading to a murder-fueled final act, sure to leave one guessing who the real killer is until the end titles.

By day, Neal Mottram operates an unassuming antique shop, while at night, he is the high priest of a small cult worshiping the idol Chuku. After accidentally killing one of his fellow worshipers, Neal offers Chuku her body as a sacrifice, shortly after which he finds himself bestowed with good fortune. Believing that the idol is responsible for his luck, Neal finds more sacrificial victims. Anchored by a memorably unhinged starring performance by Jack Palace, director Freddie Francis’ blending of occult horror and police thriller Craze (1974) remains an overlooked gem in the oeuvre of famed producer Herman Cohen.

STARRING: Mike Raven, James Bolam

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The Classic Ghosts (Kino Cult #18) Available October 29

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Virtually unseen since their late-night airings on ABC television in 1973, The Classic Ghosts is a series of five feature-length teleplays, shot live on videotape (in the style of daytime dramas) and meticulously restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Not only do these gothic thrillers showcase an array of celebrated actors, but are notable for having been produced by a primarily female creative team, including producer Jacqueline Babbin (Sybil) and directors Lela Swift (Dark Shadows) and Gloria Monty (Sorority Kill). This two-disc edition includes all five productions: The Haunting of Rosalind, The Screaming Skull, The Deadly Visitor, The House and the Brain, and And the Bones Came Together.

STARRING: Vincent Gardenia

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Asylum of Terror (1998) Available October 29

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It used to be a prison for the criminally insane. Now it’s a haunted house, and one of its former residents wants to come home… Tonight, curious thrill-seekers enter the Asylum of Terror and travel down “death row” for a frightfully good time. Unbeknownst to them, a serial killer – and former guest of the asylum – has infiltrated the staged carnage and begun his own form of entertainment. The price of admission is your life.

VHSHitfest is so happy to bring one of the best Halloween-set slashers to blu-ray for the first time with hours of new extras! Asylum of Terror is bound to become an annual viewing tradition for many every October!

STARRING: Jason Petty, Melissa Young, Kerry Wade

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Trick ‘r Treat (2007) (Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD) Available October 29

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Dive into the sinister and darkly humorous world of Trick ‘r Treat, written and directed by Michael Dougherty. This anthology film communes with the spirits of classic horror portmanteaus like Creepshow and Tales from the Crypt, weaving together four chilling tales, all taking place during the same fateful Halloween night. Follow the secretive and disturbing life of a high school principal (Dylan Baker) who leads a double life as a ruthless serial killer; the journey of a young girl (Anna Paquin) looking for love who finds something infinitely more macabre; a group of teenagers playing a prank with disastrous consequences; and an old man (Brian Cox) confronted by Sam, a mischievous trick-or-treater with a terrifying secret. With its interwoven tales of terror and unforgettable characters, Trick ‘r Treat has cemented itself as a Halloween essential, paying loving homage to the golden age of horror comics and 80s creature features with a slick modern style sure to send shivers down the spine of any fright fiend. Get ready for the scariest Halloween of your life – and remember, always check your candy!

STARRING: Alberto Ghisi, Anna Paquin, Brett Kelly, Brian Cox

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Shocker (1989) (Collector’s Edition 4K Ultra HD) Available October 29

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Master of horror Wes Craven (Scream, The Last House on the Left, A Nightmare on Elm Street) directs this exciting visual treat which introduces a diabolical mass murderer who harnesses electricity for unimaginable killing powers.​

About to be electrocuted for a catalog of heinous crimes, the unrepentant Horace Pinker transforms into a terrifying energy source. Only young athlete Jonathan Parker, with an uncanny connection to Pinker through bizarre dreams, can fight the powerful demon. The two dive in and out of television programs, chasing each other from channel to channel through stunning scenes of disaster, game shows and old reruns.​

A blend of dazzling special effects and an electrifying soundtrack, Shocker stars actor/director Peter Berg (actor Smokin’ Aces, director Lone Survivor), Michael Murphy (X-Men: The Last Stand, Batman Returns), Ted Raimi (Evil Dead II, Candyman) and Mitch Pileggi (The X-Files, Sons of Anarchy) as Horace Pinker.

STARRING: Peter Berg, Mitch Pileggi, Michael Murphy, Cami Cooper, Theodore Raimi

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J-Horror Rising Available October 29

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Remastered from the best available elements and packed with a host of new and archival extras, J-Horror Rising presents seven of the genre’s most distinctive titles. In the ghostly pastoral horror of Shikoku, a young woman returns after many years to her rural birthplace, only to find her best friend from childhood has died by drowning when just sixteen. The dead girl’s mother, the local Shintoist priestess, has embarked on the region’s famous pilgrimage – but why is she walking backwards? The aftermath of the devasting Kobe Earthquake of 1995 creates fissures in the already fractured mind of a high-school girl in Isola: Multiple Personality Girl, allowing an unwelcome intruder to set up home in her head and leaving a volunteer worker with psychic powers to determine which of her personas is the fake one. In Inugami, a teacher finds himself drawn to a local papermaker, only to find himself the subject of some hostility from her extended family, who are rumored to be the descendants of the guardians of ancient evil canine spirits. Megumi Okina (Ju-On: The Grudge) plays the art designer for a horror-themed videogame in the innovative St. John’s Wort, who is forced to confront her childhood traumas when her colleagues ask her to gather visual materials from the creepy gothic mansion she has inherited from her estranged artist father. Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman features the titular predatory murderess drawn from urban legend, where it turns out home isn’t the safest place for her potential child victims in this disturbing supernatural horror. A new craze for wearing ceramic masks sweeps the students of a high school, unleashing a wave of anonymous juvenile delinquency amongst the literal fashion-victims of Persona. Last but not least, the chilling Noroi: The Curse adopts a pseudo-documentary format as an investigative reporter into paranormal phenomena is forced to confront horrors beyond his wildest imagination after learning about an ancient folkloric demon.

STARRING: Yûki Amami, Atsuro Watabe, Chiharu Kawai, Chiyaki Kuriyama

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Drag Me to Hell (2009) (Collector’s Edition 4K Ultra HD) Available October 29

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Christine Brown (Alison Lohman, Big Fish, Beowulf) is on her way to having it all: a devoted boyfriend (Justin Long, Barbarian, Jeepers Creepers), a hard-earned job promotion, and a bright future. But when she has to make a tough decision that evicts an elderly woman from her house, Christine becomes the victim of an evil curse. Now she has only three days to dissuade a dark spirit from stealing her soul before she is dragged to hell for an eternity of unthinkable torment. Director Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead Trilogy, Darkman) returns to the horror genre with a vengeance in the film that critics rave is “the most crazy, fun and terrifying horror movie in years” (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly)!

STARRING: Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver, Dileep Rao, David Paymer

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Dogra Magra (1988) Available October 29

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A man wakes in an asylum with no memory. Dr Wakabayashi helps him to recall his past in which he killed his bride on their wedding day. Part of his memory becomes linked to another doctor, Dr Masaki, and a manuscript, Dogra Magra. As the two doctors treat him, reality and fantasy become blurred and the patient becomes unsure of his identity or his doctors’ experiments. The final feature film by Toshio Matsumoto (Funeral Parade of Roses) is an adaptation of the celebrated novel by Kyusaku Yumeno, a period set gothic tale with a sense of dreamy dread that recalls Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure and the locked room mystery of Shutter Island. A stunningly shot phantasmagoria by Tatsuo Suzuki (Pastoral: To Die in the Country), Dogra Magra is presented on Blu-ray for the first time outside of Japan.

STARRING: Hideo Murota, Shijaku Katsura, Yoji Matsuda

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Daiei Gothic : Japanese Ghost Stories Available October 29

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A collection of three of Japan’s most famous ghost stories that have haunted people for centuries. Kenji Misumi (Lone Wolf and Cub) directs The Ghost of Yotsuya, in which a woman returns from the grave as a horribly disfigured phantom to torment her husband and his new bride. In The Snow Woman, directed by Tokuzo Tanaka (Zatoichi), a woodcutter must keep his oath to a vengeful female spirit or pay the ultimate price. The Bride from Hades by Satsuo Yamamoto (Shinobi) sees a handsome samurai so enchanted by a courtesan’s beauty that he fails to realise that is a ghost. These three film versions from the Daiei studio form a pinnacle of atmospheric Japanese horror. Their elegant visuals and ominous shadows rival the best of Terence Fisher or Mario Bava, while their iconic female ghosts would greatly influence Asian genre cinema, from Hong Kong fantasy spectacles such as A Chinese Ghost Story to J-horror.

STARRING: Kazuo Hasegawa, Kojiro Hongo, Miyoko Akaza, Shiho Fujimura

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Crackcoon (2023) Available October 29

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When a synthetically-altered street drug is discarded in the woods by a drug dealer during a car chase with police, the fallout proves nothing less than horrific when an innocent raccoon eats it, transforming it into a nightmarish killing machine straight from the bowels of hell. With unsuspecting campers, tourists, and residents of a mountain community all in close proximity to the epicenter, no one is safe from the monster’s unrelenting rampage.

STARRING: Rosario Eraso, Justin Martin

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Addams Family Values (1993) (4K Ultra HD) Available October 29

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It’s love at first fright when Gomez (Raul Julia) and Morticia (Anjelica Huston) welcome a new addition to the Addams household — Pubert, their soft, cuddly, mustachioed baby boy. As Fester (Christopher Lloyd) falls hard for voluptuous nanny Debbie Jilinksy (Joan Cusack), Wednesday (Christina Ricci) and Pugsley (Jimmy Workman) discover she’s a black-widow murderess who plans to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands. The family’s future grows even bleaker when the no-good nanny marries Fester and has the kids shipped off to summer camp. But Wednesday still has a Thing or two up her sleeve… With gags and ghouls galore, Addams Family Values is “screamingly funny!” (Jeff Craig, Sixty Second Preview)

STARRING: Joan Cusack, Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Christina Ricci

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Speak No Evil (2024) Available November 19

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Based on the Danish thriller of the same name, acclaimed writer/director James Watkins (“The Woman in Black”) teams up for the remake with legendary horror studio Blumhouse Productions (“M3GAN” and “The Purge”). The story follows an American family who visit a British family they met on holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly unravels as the guests try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness. BAFTA Award winner James McAvoy (“Atonement,” “Split”) stars in this hellish horror story.

STARRING: James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis, Aisling Franciosi, Scoot McNairy

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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) (4K Ultra HD) Available November 19

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After 36 years, Beetlejuice returns to unleash his very own brand of mayhem.

STARRING: Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, Jenna Ortega

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The Skin You’re In : A Collection of Horror Comics Available November 13

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By: Ashley Robin Franklin

For better or worse, the bodies we inhabit are our homes. But despite the old adage, home isn’t always the safest place to be…

Within these pages, Ashley Robin Franklin leads you through the corridors of the uncanny in eight horror comics that are just begging to get under your skin. Whether set in the arid desert or the rain-soaked forest, these stories reveal the fallibilities of flesh that lurk just beneath the surface. A strange desert flower offers an intoxicating balm to grief, a group of friends invoke an old tale by the campfire, and outside a remote farmhouse, something miraculous and terrible falls from the night sky. Bodies are found, lost, celebrated, borrowed, haunted ― and irrevocably changed.

The Skin You’re In is the definitive collection of Ashley Robin Franklin’s horror comics, showcasing her skillful exploration of queer horror and the ways in which our bodies, relationships, and environments affect us straight to the bone. The book collects all her previously published work, such as One Million Tiny Fires and Fruiting Bodies, as well as five never-before-seen comics, including the 100-page graphic novella Contest Winner. It’s all packaged in a deluxe fabric-bound hardcover with foil accents. Just be warned: you might want to read this collection with the lights on.

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