This year was the year that YouTubers took over Hollywood, with popular online creators like Markiplier, Curry Barker, and Kane Parsons hitting big with their debut horror movies in theaters. Every major studio is looking for the next popular YouTuber who can translate their online success into box office success, but many of them aren’t sitting around waiting for Hollywood.
Twenty three horror-loving YouTubers have gotten together to create Tales from the Tube, a new “YouTuber Horror Anthology” novel that’s now crowd-funding over on Kickstarter.
Tales from the Tube launched on Kickstarter earlier this month and has already smashed through its $10,000 initial goal, raising $10,950 at the time of this article being written.
The team previews, “What happens when you take 23 YouTube creators, remove the cameras, editing software, thumbnails and algorithms, and give them nothing but a blank page? Then tell them: SCARE US. No cameras. No editing. No production crews. No algorithm. Just the story. Twenty-three creators accepted the challenge. The result is Tales from the Tube.”
Tales from the Tube is an original horror anthology bringing together creators from 23 YouTube channels to tell 23 completely original horror stories, with no generative A.I. anywhere in sight.
The list of contributors includes…
- Sean Chandler — Sean Chandler Talks About…
- Cody Leach — Cody Leach
- Adam Olinger — Adam Does Movies
- Riley Lorden — Slash ‘n Cast
- Vincente DiSanti — Womp Stomp Films
- Daryk “The Maniacal Cinephile” Nowak — Stitched Together Pics
- Antonio Piluso — Hack the Movies
- Kylie Roseanne — Haunted Hippie
- Lee McCoy — Drumdums
- Cecil Laird — The Horror Show Channel
- Chris Stanley — Chris Stanley Official
- Ken, Ashley & Khloe Sledge — Sledgehammer Horror
- Dave McRae — Dave McRae Official
- Jason Smith — Sinister Cinema Reviews
- Braden Timmons — BradenTimmons
- Antonia Carlotta — Universally Me
- Danny Knightmare — Horror Addicts
- Rudy Apolinar — Gen EX Reviews
- Chauncey K. Robinson — Chauncey K. Robinson
- Courtney Leigh — By Courtney Leigh
- Hlaleleni Walker — HorrorFreq
- Jaime En Fuego — Enfuegotainment
- Chris Brennan — Storybreakers
And here’s a little taste of some of the stories they cooked up…
- A zombie-bitten father desperately tries to save his toddler before it’s too late.
- A mysterious door hidden inside a man’s home leads him towards a forgotten experiment.
- A camping trip is interrupted by a giant, prehistoric predator.
- A seemingly harmless garden gnome has one man convinced that it is anything but harmless.
- A property owner discovers that removing an old fence may have disturbed something that was there long before him.
- A woman returns home to find her front door open and soon discovers something much worse than an intruder.
- A man wakes up to realize his problems have only just begun when he notices he no longer has a head.
Head over to Kickstarter to pre-order your copy of Tales from the Tube now!
