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APP.COM ASBURY PARK ALIVE! 13 These days, John influence can be seen pretty much everywhere you turn in the arts. Last sleeper hit film the aes- hetic of the critically acclaimed 2013 video game Wolf Among and the string of remakes of his own films (with Trouble in Little Chin looking like the next in line) all show that body of work casts an incredibly long shadow. But the horror auteur, whose game-changing slash- er (1978) returns to theaters on Thursday, is looking to his own influences for his latest work. Carpenter, who in recent years has focused some his creative efforts in the world of comic books, returns to the page with the anthology Carp Tales For a HalloweeNight, Volume A 100-page, six-story collection, the book contains a new original story by Carpenter as well as works by is wife, film producer and writer Sandy King, and others, and is set to be released on Saturday, Oct. 31, through Storm King Productions, where King is the resident.

goes back to when I was a recalled Carpenter, 67. Comics, who I grew up with, put out a itle called from the kind of a famous horror title, along with Haunt of But rom the was horror stories put together with he Crypt Keeper narrating, so this is a chance to kind of go back and create our own version of that." arpenter and King, who previously paid tribute to he gloriously gruesome and macabre EC Comics tradition with the film in 1993, said hoping to bring a little spooky spirit to comic shops in time for Halloween. just thought it would be said King. think comic shops have enough special holiday tuff in them for Halloween, and the fans of comics sually cross over into the genre films and games. We anted something special for this holiday; it started out that we were going to do a three-story floppy, and more writers wanted to participate, so it grew into a 1 00-page book.

Next is already planned to be a 200-page tale, Ghost boasts vivid a rt by Federico De Luca and treads similar territory to deeply unsettling cult classic of (1987), paying science-based tribute to one of the greatest literary inspirations. (story) came from a couple of different places: my love of quantum mechanics just the way it is, what it is and my love of H.P. Carpenter explained. sort of a Lovecraftian deal in hat Lovecraft always wrote short stories where the scare would come with the last sentence. one alled that I borrowed heavily from.

where it Carpenter, who most directly saluted Lovecraft ith the 1995 film the Mouth of said he was first introduced to the work around the age of 8 or 9, when his college professor father ought him the 1944 book Tales of Terror and the In its pages, the collection contained Rats in the 1924) and Dunwich (1929). just believe what I was reading, it was Carpenter remembered. was one the American masters of horror tales and science fiction, despite his flaws. I just loved arpenter and King are looking to stay busy in the omics world for some time to come. Their on-going horror series, "John Carpenter's Asylum," has been unning since 2013, and they're hoping to launch the title "Vortex" next summer, followed by the 2016 installment of "Tales for a HalloweeNight." big thing with comics is it makes you be more isciplined," said King.

a more economical writ- i ng form, you have to have cliffhangers for your page urns, and I think it makes you sharper in your Halloween tales Film legend John Carpenter returns comics with new anthology ALEX BIESE COURTESY OF STORM KING PRODUCTIONS Apage from the for a short Tell Pencils by Darick Robertson, inks by Richard P. lark, colors by Diego Rodriguez. COURTESY OF KYLE CASSIDY Horror film icon John Carpenter is staying busy in the world of omic books..