BY FEARSmag

-  Filmmaker Ryan Schifrin, creator and co-writer of the Devil’s Due military horror series SPOOKS, announced the January 30, 2008 launch of the official SPOOKS web site, located at http://www.SpookstheComic.com . The site will feature original creative content, including:

BY Marc Graser

{Variety} - Television producer Vin Di Bona is expanding into the comicbook biz, forming Vin Di Bona Comics and readying to launch its first title, "Urban Monsters" later this month. 

BY FEARSmag

- The Horror Writers Association will hold their annual Stoker Award Banquet in conjunction with the 2008 World Horror Convention (WHC). WHC 2008 will be held from March 27-30 at the Radisson Hotel Salt Lake City Downtown. The award-winning author Jeff Strand will be the emcee for the 2008 Bram Stoker Awards Banquet.

 The following works have been recommended for inclusion in the preliminary ballot for this year's Stoker Awards. In the following weeks, the votes will be cast and counted, after which, the nominees will be announced.

BY FEARSmag

- A new web site is happy to sell you books, but only to a point.

Abunga.com is so dedicated to providing a family-friendly environment to shop for books online, it even lets customers vote on books to ban. That happened recently with the children's fantasy novel "The Golden Compass." The book, which was the basis for the movie of the same name released in December, received criticism from religious groups for its perceived anti-Catholic and atheistic themes.