In late 2013, The CW announced that Joe Hill, Alex Kurtzman, and Robert Orci would be helming a reboot of “Tales From the Darkside“, the horror anthology series that aired from 1983 through 1988. And while that series never materialized, that doesn’t mean we won’t get to see Hill’s stories. It just means we won’t get to see them on the small screen.
Earlier this year, it was announced that Hill had teamed up with IDW to release four issues based on the scripts that he wrote. But now, they’ll also be releasing a hardcover book that features three additional scripts that were completed but never realized.
Hill explains:
When I was offered a chance to reinvent Tales from the Darkside, I leapt. This was a landmark show for my generation: our Twilight Zone, our Outer Limits. Right away, I wanted to do something that honored the spirit of the original Darkside… and at the same time I wanted to go bigger, to do something fresh, something with scope. In the end I wrote three scripts and sketched a vision for a whole Darkside universe. I envisioned a series of individual horror stories that would, ultimately, turn out to be connected by a single mythology. I really wanted to do something with the scale of Locke & Key. TV is tough and in the end we didn’t quite make it to the little screen. But it’s a delight and a thrill to share the scripts alongside Charles Paul Wilson’s beautifully sick illustrations. Here’s the show that could’ve been, now playing in your imagination.
Dubbed “Tales From the Darkside: Scripts by Joe Hill“, the collection will feature illustrations from Charles Paul Wilson III and will be released in October.
