Encyclopocalypse Dispatch #24
The Barn, Out Now! Robot Ninja Announced! 2 New Originals Announced! Our First Children's Book?!
If feels like we’re just barely into 2024 and looking at our release calendar, our years is just about FULL. This always is surreal as we start filling in release dates, as with every book we take on, it’s a miracle we can handle so many releases. From now until 2025 we have about 2 releases hitting each month.
Are you ready for an exciting email full of awesome announcements? There’s so much you may need to click a link to read more…
Welcome to the Encyclopocalypse Dispatch.
NEW RELEASES
The Barn: Special Edition
By Brian G. Berry
US: Mass Market
International: Mass Market
We are proud to release a Special Mass Market Size Edition of the Official Novelization of the horror sensation, The Barn!
Foreword by Writer/Director Justin M. Seaman
Photo Gallery
Full Press Kit used when originally promoting the film
Brian G. Berry is a wunderkind of fiction. He had gone off on his own and worked out deals to self publish a slew of novelizations. We offered to create Special Mass Market Editions. Brian and the Filmmakers were all about it. Adding forewords by the Filmmakers themselves along with photos from the films and other extras, these have become something very special.
It's Halloween 1989, best friends Sam and Josh are trying to enjoy what's left of their final Devil's Night before graduating high school. But trouble arises when the two pals and a group of friends take a detour on their way to a rock concert, finding an old abandoned barn and awakening the evil inside. Now it's up to Sam and Josh to find a way to protect their friends and defeat the creatures that lurk within "The Barn."
NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS & PRE-ORDERS
Robot Ninja: The Novelization
By Damien Casey
Release Date: October 8th, 2024
Print US: Trade* | Mass Market Edition | eBook
International Pre-orders are Coming Soon. We will let you know when they are live!
The first 25 Paperback Pre-orders will come with a FREE pack of Trading Cards!
*The Trade Size will come with a sample of the Official Comic Book!
In 1989, J.R. Bookwalter and a rag tag crew released their film ROBOT NINJA into the world. A low budget feature shot in Ohio for $15,000 with David DeCoteau credited as a executive producer, ROBOT NINJA would be released on VHS and very quickly that VHS went out of print. Home Video Media Collectors would eventually keep ROBOT NINJA into fading to obscurity, the VHS edition became highly sought out and highly valuable in Collector Circles. In 2019, J.R. Bookwalter revisited his film, by restoring and releasing a Special Edition Blu-ray and comic book. Now, ROBOT NINJA comes to novelization form by Damien Casey!
Regarding the Trading Cards, the first 25 Paperback Pre-orders will get a free pack of 5 Trading Cards. If we get to 50 Paperback Pre-orders, we will add 5 more cards for a full pack of 10 (we will even create 20 different designs and shuffle them up, making this a TRUE trading care experience.) We then will be selling these Trading Cards via our site for anyone who wants them. This can only happen with your help! Spread the word and help get us to 50 pre-orders!
Dying Sheep 2
By Jesse D’Angelo
Release Date: June 25th, 2024
Print US: Trade | eBook
International Pre-orders are Coming Soon. We will let you know when they are live!
It's 1981, and Marvin Brumlow has returned...
The highly anticipated sequel to DYING SHEEP by Jesse D'Angelo arrives on June 25th!
Cover by Jesse D’Angelo
Praise for Dying Sheep:
"One of the most fun extreme horror novellas I've ever read." - Cat Voleur
"If you like horror novels full of graphic, gore-soaked violence then look no further." - TheNeverendingTBR
"I’ll never look at a flashlight the same again…" - John Durgin, author of The Cursed Among Us and Inside The Devil's Nest
Executed serial killer Marvin Brumlow is the new superstar of the most violent entertainment sport in Hell, The Boogeyman Championships. He is a celebrity, a cultural icon, and the fans love him. They watch in delight as he returns for his next clash, a homecoming to the abandoned mental institution where he was once imprisoned, to hunt down another group of unsuspecting teenagers.
Who are they, this new group of victims? Who cares? They are simply meat for the grinder, and Marvin must dispatch them in the most brutal and entertaining ways he can think of if he wants to become the #1 Boogeyman. But is he a celebrity at the top of his game, or just a pawn in a more sinister and diabolical scheme? Either way, the fans want more blood and guts, and Marvin is only too happy to oblige.
DISC-OVERY
By Jed Rowen
Release Date: July 9, 2024
Print US: Trade | eBook
International Pre-orders are Coming Soon. We will let you know when they are live!
The first book (we’re pretty sure, anyway) with #DiscGolf as a centerpiece!
"The SIDEWAYS of Disc Golf" - author Sean Patrick Traver.
Cover by Kristopher Rufty and Sean Duregger
Jed Rowen is an actor who’s appeared in a whopping 117 films. Most recently he was in the highly entertaining low budget sci-fi film Space Wars: Quest for the Deepstar as Manx, previously he’s been in the films Pretty Boy as the titular character, The Ghastly Love of Johnny X, Carnies, and Zombie Farm. Jed is passionate about Genre Film and he’s also one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet.
Jeff leaves behind both a scandal-plagued venture capitalist career along with his estranged wife as he sets out to find out more about his deceased brother.
Retracing his brother’s footsteps leads him into the debauchery of boozing disc golfers, mystical vortexes, and weird mysticism of the park whose many secrets extend far beyond the 18 holes of the course.
Jeff travels through space and time, ventures to underground bases and battles government agents in his quest to find the truth about his brother. Along the way, he also manages to get in a lot of disc golf while disc-overing himself and what real friendship is.
The Part Mart
By Bret Nelson, Illustrated By Pete Mitchell
Release Date: May 7th, 2024
Print US
Print International
Body horror ... for kids!
Encyclopocalypse Publications presents our first children's book!
She saw a sign at the end of her street
that promised a fix for her off-putting feet.
“The Part Mart,” it said, “is a place you can go
to swap out the parts that make you feel low.”
And so begins a series of visits with Doctor Parts. On her journey, Millicent learns that she's more than just pieces. That improvements come with a cost.
Written by Bret Nelson (Manborg, Murder Garden) and illustrated by Pete Mitchell, The Part Mart is a story with an edge about accepting yourself for who you really are.
NEWS
We are pleased to announce that David Irons will be penning the novelization of Robert McGinley's 1990 film SHREDDER: ORPHEUS!
A little slice of rock 'n roll insanity with the Greek myth reimagined as a post-apocalyptic skateboard rock opera!
Expected to release in Summer 2025. We are considering releasing the Official Soundtrack to the film, as well as a bundle with the Blu-ray. This will most likely require a Kickstarter to fund this, so be on the lookout and ready to spread the word!
Richard Elfman has been hard at work producing the Audiobook Version of The Schlimazel of Sebreim. As with everything Richard does, this won’t be a standard audiobook. He’s determined to make it a full-on AUDIO DRAMA with his son Bodhi Elfman (whose credits include Collateral, Mercury Rising, Aliens, Clowns and Geeks) as Schlimazel and Richard providing the voice of The Narrator. This production will also boast of a surprise cast of genre actors and directors, the first announced is legendary director Joe Dante who just recorded his dialogue this week. Members of Radioactive Chicken Heads will be providing the soundtrack.
RELEASE CALENDAR:
March 26, 2024: House Shark, Motorboat, House Squatch, She Kills, Amityville Death Toilet by Brian G. Berry
April 2nd, 2024: Phantom Limbs by Jason Jenkins
May 7th, 2024: The Part Mart by Bret Nelson, Illustrated by Pete Mitchell
May 21st, 2024: Hate House by John C. Foster
June 25th, 2024: Dying Sheep 2 by Jesse D’Angelo
July 9th, 2024: DISC-OVERY by Jed Rowen
July 23, 2024: Chisel The Bone by Renee DeCamillis
August 20th, 2024: Splice: The Novelization by Claire Donner (Trade | MM)
September 17nd, 2024: Millennial Nasties by Ariel Powers-Schaub
October 8, 2024: Robot Ninja: The Novelization by Damien Casey (Trade | MM)
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Sean Duregger
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You seriously spoil us. 2024 is going to be amazing.