With the impending release of David Gordon Green’s feature film Halloween coming on October 19th, 2018, Miramax, Blumhouse and Titan Books are set to deliver a novelization of the same on October 23rd.
Titled simply “Halloween”, the official movie novelization was written by Bram Stoker-award winning author John Passarella, whose previous works include several in the Joss Whedon Buffyverse. Not yet available for pre-order at either www.titanbooks.com or on its Amazon listing (we’ll let you know when it is), 100 copies of the book (each with a signed book plate from the author) were available last Friday via Burbank, CA’s horror destination book store Dark Delicacies’s website (although they sold out in less than an hour once we posted word).
Fortunately, given the enthusiastic response, Dark Delicacies has announced that Pasarrella will appear on October 23, 2018 at 7pm for a signing of the book in-store at 3512 West Magnolia Blvd., Burbank, CA. For more info, go here.
As for the slightly spoiler-ridden jacket copy, it reads:
“In 1978, Laurie Strode survived an encounter with Michael Myers, a masked figure who killed her friends and terrorized the town of Haddonfield, Illinois on Halloween night. Myers was later gunned down, apprehended and committed to Smith’s Grove State Hospital.
For forty years, memories of that nightmarish ordeal have haunted Laurie and now Myers is back once again on Halloween, having escaped a routine transfer, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. This time, Laurie is prepared with years of survival training to protect herself, her daughter Karen and her daughter Allyson, a teenager separated from her family and enjoying Halloween festivities.”
