Strange Matter, volume 15, Creature Features is being adapted by Dan Angel and Billy Brown for R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour on HUB network!

For the first time, a STRANGE MATTER story is about to hit the screen! We are psyched! Our story, about a haunted drive-in theater and the unfortunate kids who get sucked into a world of 50s style B movie horrors, will be the 2 part season opener of R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour this September! Wait, Kids! There's more!

Creature Features stars JOEL COURTNEY, the 15-year-old lead in this summer's amazing blockbuster SUPER 8 by J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg. We still can't believe it! For Ray and I, this is a dream come true and has special significance.

For those who have not seen Super 8, do yourself and favor and see it. Though the film is set in 1979, the experience transported me back to 1982—a magic year for young movie-goers that included Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, E.T., Tron, Blade Runner, Mad Max: The Road Warrior, and John Carpenter's The Thing among others. I lived for the movies that summer, much like John, the lead in Creature Features, wants to live in the movies. Super 8 made me feel like a kid again and reminded me why I started writing Strange Matter in the first place.

You see, Ray and I grew up on the films of Steven Spielberg and the movies of the late 70s and 80s. They were a HUGE part of our childhood and teenage years. We spent countless hours discussing, reading, studying…nay…ABSORBING all things Lucas, Spielberg, Zemekis, Dante, Landis, Scott and Carpenter. We soaked ourselves in the original Famous Monsters of Filmland (in its final days), Starlog (including those awesome photobooks you could order from the back), the parent-enraging upstart Fangoria and of course DC and Marvel and their ongoing soap operas for boys. Fantasy, Sci-Fi and Horror knowledge and trivia oozed from our pores, forging everlasting brotherhood with like-minded peers while simultaneously repulsing the fairer sex. Video games had eight colors and one screen. Wizard of Oz and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang were annual televised events.

SUPER 8 took me back to a place and time I had almost forgotten in a way that was breathtaking. I took my teenage daughters with me to see it and they also loved it. Both have seen it multiple times now, taking their friends along for the ride. I think they finally understand what I've been talking about all these years, about how they "don't make 'em like they used to." Well, they made this one like they used to and I hope it's the first of many. It's time for a new '82 at the cinema—magic movies that have it all and speak to the wide-eyed kid in all of us.

- Marty E.

Super 8 official site
The Haunting Hour on HUB Network