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Fan Uses WWE 2K17 Video Game to Create Elaborate Horror Federation

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Welcome to… the RING OF HORROR.

Horror fans are some of the most creative and talented human beings on this planet, and we’ve got yet another example of that awesome creativity for you today. If you’re a fan of both horror and wrestling, you will absolutely love what one fan has done with the recently released video game WWE 2K17: he literally created an entire federation that’s full of nothing but horror icons.

Appropriately titled Ring of Horror, the custom-made federation was made using WWE 2K17’s community creations mode, which allows gamers to create their own superstars, title belts, shows and arenas. The man behind the massive undertaking is Anthony Sketch, and as he explained to us, he even came up with a brilliant backstory to explain how all the icons came together.

Sketch explains:

Ring of Horror features a total of 36 Horror icons, both heroes and villains. 20 men and 16 women, all beating the crap out of one another to be the “King of Horror Champion” (Men’s Division), “Queen of Scream Champion” (Women’s Division), or the “Hack and Slash Champions” (Tag Team Division).

The arena is custom made to fit the horror feel, and also has an interesting backstory.

The host of Ring Of Horror, Guile, is using the Necronomicon to bind them all to the arena, unable to kill each other, fighting for the entertainment of others. Currently nobody knows why, but people are too busy enjoying themselves to care.

The roster of horror icons in the Ring of Horror federation includes the big slasher villains like Jason, Freddy, Michael, and Leatherface, and Sketch also created characters such as Ash Williams, Herbert West, Candyman, Cassie Hack, Jigsaw, Pennywise, and Trick ‘r Treat‘s Sam. Coolest of all, this custom content can be downloaded to your own system so you can play along.

Preview the federation below and then feel free to watch a horror icon Royal Rumble!

Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

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One of Clive Barker’s Final Convention Appearances Will Be at New Jersey’s Monster Mania in August

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Clive Barker

We told you earlier this month that horror legend Clive Barker is leaving the convention scene behind to focus entirely on his writing, with various upcoming projects in the works.

A series of final appearances from Barker will begin at Days of the Dead Chicago this month, and we’ve learned Barker will also be coming to Monster Mania in New Jersey.

Clive Barker will be signing at Monster Mania 59 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, which runs from August 2 – August 4, 2024. Stay tuned for more info from the convention.

Barker’s official statement earlier this month explained, “… it’s time to focus entirely on writing. I’m not stopping public events because I’ve lost delight in meeting you all over the years. I’m as passionate as ever about sharing my imagination with readers and moviegoers around the world. In the very room where I’m writing these words, I have the manuscripts for a very large number of projects (Thirty-one of them), some very close to completion, others still telling themselves. There are some wild projects in this collection of works, whether close to finished or done. There are also stories that you all knew I would be finishing.”

“Abarat IV and V are amongst the books at my feet,” he continued. “So is the Third and final book of The Art and the sequel to The Thief of Always. There are also return visits to characters and mythologies you may have thought I would never return to.

“I hope I am still able to surprise you in the decades ahead.”

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