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Hallmark Brings Rick Grimes to Your Christmas Tree This Year
All I want for Christmas is… stuff… and things.
Hallmark isn’t exactly a company you’d expect to be giving love to the horror genre, but for the past couple years, they’ve been doing just that. For the 2014 holiday season, horror classics like Jaws and Frankenstein were turned into Keepsake ornaments, and the fun continued in 2015 with Beetlejuice, Gremlins, and Predator ornaments. Last year also saw the release of Hallmark’s very first “The Walking Dead” ornament, and there’s another one headed our way this year.
Joining Daryl Dixon on the tree this year is main character Rick Grimes:
In a post-apocalyptic world, survivor Rick Grimes stands tall at the heart of a ragtag group who must fight off zombies—and the living. Time and again, he makes tough calls and risks his own life to protect those around him as a valued leader on AMC’s The Walking Dead.
The artist-crafted ornament, which measures 1.8″ W x 4.45″ H x 1.13″ D, arms Rick with his trademark revolver, and judging by the look on his face, we’re thinking Negan just stopped by Alexandria and slipped something down his throat. Okay so look. We’ve seen way better Rick Grimes figures over the years, but it’s just cool to see Hallmark spreading that horror love.
Hallmark’s Rick Grimes ornament is expected to arrive in late November.
We have learned the sad news this week that prolific horror author Ray Garton, who wrote nearly 70 books over the course of his career, has passed away after a battle with lung cancer.
Ray Garton was 61 years old.
Stephen King tweets, “I’m hearing that Ray Garton, horror novelist and friend, died yesterday. This is sad news, and a loss to those who enjoyed his amusing, often surreal, posts on Twitter.”
Ray Garton’s novels include Seductions, Darklings, Live Girls, Night Life, and Crucifax in the 1980s, followed in later decades by output including A Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting, Trade Secrets, The New Neighbor, Lot Lizards, Dark Channel, Shackled, The Girl in the Basement, The Loveliest Dead, Ravenous, Bestial, and most recently, Trailer Park Noir.
Garton also wrote young adult novels under the name Joseph Locke, including the novelizations for A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Master and The Dream Child. He also wrote the novelizations for Tobe Hooper’s Invaders from Mars and Warlock, as well as several books for the Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchises.
Other young adult horror novels you may remember the name Joseph Locke from include Petrified, Kiss of Death, Game Over, 1-900-Killer, Vengeance, and Kill the Teacher’s Pet.
You can browse Ray Garton’s full bibliography over on his official website.
He wrote on his website when it launched, “Since I was eight years old, all I’ve wanted to be was a writer, and since 1984, I have been fortunate enough to spend my life writing full time. I’ve written over 60 books—novels and novellas in the horror and suspense genres, collections of short stories, movie novelizations, and TV tie-ins—with more in the works.”
“My readers have made it possible for me to indulge my love of writing and I get a tremendous amount of joy out of communicating with them,” Garton added at the time.
Ray Garton is survived by his longtime wife, Dawn.
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