Horror fiction

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2024 Clive Barker's poem 'Upon A Warm Milk Dawn' is scheduled to be published in 'The Mad Butterfly's Ball,' edited by Preston Grassmann and Chris Kelso.
2024 In early 2024, Clive Barker announced he would stop attending conventions and public events to focus on writing, working on manuscripts for 31 different projects.
August 21 2024 A short video resembling an EAS titled 'EAS Indonesia Concept (24/10/1991), ANM-021 (Mesem) - First Encounter' gains widespread attention on Indonesian social media during pro-democracy protests.
2023 A film adaptation of The Backrooms is announced, with Kane Parsons set to direct.
February 6 2023 A24 announced a film adaptation of the Backrooms based on Parsons' videos, with Parsons set to direct. Roberto Patino will write the screenplay, and producers include James Wan, Michael Clear, Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen, and Dan Levine.
2022 Midwest Angelica horror series is published on YouTube by Team AQ, presenting a narrative set in 1999 involving a government organization H.O.M.E researching an extraterrestrial being codenamed 'AZ-001'.
2022 Aidan Chick removed the controversial 'Crimson Creek' episode on the day of its upload and subsequently privated all episodes of Eventide Media Center, along with his other analog horror series Analog Archives and Rocket Records.
2022 Kane Parsons expanded the original short film into a series of sixteen shorts following employees investigating the Backrooms, using Blender and Adobe After Effects.
2022 Kyle Edward Ball's experimental supernatural horror film Skinamarink debuts at the Fantasia Film Festival, utilizing a crowdfunded budget of $15,000 and shot in his childhood home to explore horror through a child's perspective.
2022 Parsons received a Creator Honors for the Backrooms series at the Streamy Awards from The Game Theorists.
2022 Netflix releases the Archive 81 adaptation as a Netflix Original series, which is subsequently cancelled after one season.
2022 The Eventide Media Center series was cancelled near the beginning of its second season following controversy over the episode 'Crimson Creek', which depicted an eldritch abomination attack on a school that was covered up as a school shooting.
2022 The film 'Hellraiser' was released, produced based on Clive Barker's novella 'The Hellbound Heart'.
2022 The film Hellraiser, directed by David Bruckner, was based on Clive Barker's novella The Hellbound Heart.
2022 Barker served as executive producer on a reboot film of Hellraiser for the streaming service Hulu.
January 2022 Kane Parsons, a sixteen-year-old from Northern California, uploaded a short horror film titled 'The Backrooms (Found Footage)' to YouTube, creating a viral analog horror piece based on the Backrooms creepypasta.
2021 Patorikku created The Smile Tapes, an analog horror series set in the mid-1990s, exploring a fictional drug called SMILE with extraterrestrial origins.
2021 Alex Kister, a twenty-year-old creator from Hubertus, Wisconsin, created The Mandela Catalogue, a YouTube analog horror series set in fictional Mandela County, Wisconsin, depicting a narrative involving supernatural doppelgängers called 'alternates' and altered biblical imagery.
2021 The film Candyman, directed by Nia DaCosta, was based on characters from Clive Barker's novelette 'The Forbidden'.
2021 Clive Barker's poem 'The Hour' was published in 'Out of the Ruins,' edited by Preston Grassmann.
2020 Aidan Chick created the Eventide Media Center, an analog horror anthology series set in the fictional town of Eventide Valley, Massachusetts, presenting different episodes focusing on local events and monsters.
2020 Netflix announces the adaptation of the analog horror podcast Archive 81 into a series, which is later canceled after one season.
2020 Barker regained control of the Hellraiser franchise.
2020 He published 'Clive Barker: Imaginer Volume 7' followed by 'Clive Barker: Imaginer Volume 8', enriching his collection of illustrations.
2020 Barker was involved in a film adaptation of The Books of Blood for a streaming service.
2020 Regained control of the Hellraiser franchise.
April 2020 HBO announced the development of a Hellraiser television series, which is designed to be an extended continuation of its mythology, with Clive Barker's involvement in the writing and production team.
2019 Remy Abode initially releases the Gemini Home Entertainment horror anthology series, introducing a fictional VHS tape distributor documenting anomalous incidents and alien creatures.
2018 Clive Barker released two volumes in the 'Imaginer' series: 'Clive Barker: Imaginer Volume 5' and 'Clive Barker: Imaginer Volume 6'.
2018 The novella 'Hellraiser: The Toll' was published, which included story credit to Clive Barker for his unfinished short story 'Heaven's Reply.'
2017 Local 58 dedicated YouTube channel was established, consolidating the analog horror series and helping to popularize the genre.
2017 The Infernal Parade was republished with the title Infernal Parade.
2017 The series saw another installment with 'Clive Barker: Imaginer Volume 4', showcasing more of his artistic creations.
2016 CH/SS YouTube series first released by Turkey Lenin III, a 15-year-old Singaporean creator, introducing a narrative about a mental health television service with mysterious supernatural elements.
2016 Dan Powell and Marc Sollinger release the horror podcast Archive 81, which follows an archivist named Dan investigating mysterious interview tapes from an apartment complex.
2016 Barker published 'Clive Barker: Imaginer Volume 3', adding to the growing collection of his illustrated works.
2015 A spinoff film 'Always Watching: A Marble Hornets Story' is released, which was critically panned by reviewers for poor storytelling and technical execution.
2015 Kris Straub published 'Weather Service', the first video of Local 58, which is considered a pioneering work in the analog horror genre.
2015 A film set in the Marble Hornets universe is released, which receives negative reviews.
2015 Barker's work 'Tonight, Again: Tales of Love, Lust and Everything in Between' was released in 2015, featuring 24 short stories and 7 poems.
2015 Clive Barker released 'The Scarlet Gospels,' a novel that continues the story of his original works and features the character Pinhead from the Hellraiser series.
2015 He continued the 'Imaginer' series with the release of 'Clive Barker: Imaginer Volume 2'.
2015 Tortured Souls was published with the title Tortured Souls: The Legend of Primordium.
2015 Clive Barker was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Awards in the Horror category for 'The Scarlet Gospels'
2015 Clive Barker was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award in the Novel category for 'The Scarlet Gospels'
October 2015 Kris Straub releases 'Local 58', which significantly popularizes the analog horror genre and provides the genre's defining slogan 'ANALOG HORROR AT 476 MHz'.
May 2015 Clive Barker was reported to be developing a television series adaptation titled Clive Barker's Creepypastas, in partnership with Warner Brothers, focusing on various creepypastas like Slender Man and Ben Drowned.
2014 Clive Barker launched the 'Imaginer' series with 'Clive Barker: Imaginer Volume 1', which featured illustrations and insights into his creative process.
2014 Barker published Chiliad: A Meditation.
2013 In 2013, Barker published 'Clive Barker's First Tales', which is a collection of one short story and one novella, titled 'The Candle in the Cloud'.

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