cold moon over babylon by michael mcdowell

Now they are about to endure another: fourteen-year-old Margaret Larkin will be robbed of her innocence and her life by a killer who is beyond the reach of the law.īut something strange is happening in Babylon: traffic lights flash an eerie blue, a ghostly hand slithers from the drain of a kitchen sink, graves erupt from the local cemetery in an implacable march of terror. 'Welcome to Babylon, a typical sleepy southern town, where years earlier the Larkin family suffered a terrible tragedy. We've been provided with an excerpt from the atmospheric horror novel, which you can read below.

To learn more, visit:Ĭold Moon Over Babylon: Originally published in 1980, Michael McDowell's Cold Moon Over Babylon is now available from Valancourt Books with new cover art by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola. The short film, The Body, is now available on We Are Colony, along with extras including scripts, deleted scenes, bloopers, and behind-the-scenes stills. The Body stars Alfie Allen ( Game of Thrones, John Wick) and Hannah Tointon ( Penny Dreadful, Mr Selfridge, The Inbetweeners), and is directed by Paul Davis ( Him Indoors).' The group set off in the killer's van to drive to a quiet woodland area where events then take a hilarious and horrifying turn for the worse.

As he attempts to drag the dead man's body across London, his gear and body bag get mistaken for a costume, and he is talked into a attending a local Halloween party with a group of revellers.Įvents take another strange twist when the killer finds himself enjoying the company of a young partygoer named Maggie, who mistakenly believes the killer is on a scavenger hunt, and recruits her friends to help him bury the body. The Body: 'The Body is the story of a contract killer using the cover of Halloween to dispose of his latest victim. TV's Lucifer pilot (based on the character from Neil Gaiman's The Sandman comic book series and its spin-off series, Lucifer). Welcome to another horror round-up! This time around, we have the first trailer for the short horror comedy film, The Body, starring Alfie Allen ( Game of Thrones, John Wick), an excerpt from Valancourt Books' special re-release of Michael McDowell's souther horror novel, Cold Moon Over Babylon (which is now being adapted for the big screen), and details on who will play the titular role for Fox and Warner Bros.

Cold moon over babylon by michael mcdowell