The Craven Companion: The Films That Shaped a Generation of Horror Storytellers is edited by Dustin Pinney, and will tentatively be released in April 2027. Introduction by Mick Garris.
With essays by Stephen Graham Jones, Grady Hendrix, Nick Roberts, Angela Yuriko Smith, Cameron Chaney, Jamal Hodge, Nikki DeKeuster, Shane Morin, Kevin Lucia, Jessie Earl (aka Jessie Gender), K.L. Young, Ken Reid, Mike Davis, S.C. Fisher, Robert Ottone, Maxwell I. Gold, and Joe Mynhardt.
Editor Dustin Pinney is a neurodivergent writer and editor living in Central, NY. He’s worked as a screenwriter, copywriter, entertainment features writer, and ghostwriter for almost two decades. Under his former pseudonym, Mark Guyer, he released the horror novel Nostalgiamares: Phantom Delivery and co-authored Mochi’s Grimoire for Space & Time. Finding pen names more trouble than they’re worth, he recently decided to drop it and return to the plain moniker given to him at birth. Devoting a book to the work of Wes Craven has been a dream of his since middle school and he still can’t believe it actually exists now. He writes a lot about mental health, creativity, and ADHD on his free Patreon. Go check out his profile on BlueSky!