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Tom Savini’s Team Brings Horror to WWE With Bray Wyatt’s Creepy New Mask
For the past several weeks, WWE has brought horror movie-like creepiness to Monday Night Raw with the return of Bray Wyatt, a former cult leader who has been repackaged here in 2019 as the host of a children’s television program. Essentially, he’s the love child of Charles Manson, Mr. Rogers and Pee-wee Herman, and the segments have been, well, very interesting.
Joined on the show by talking puppets Mercy the Buzzard, Abby the Witch and Rambling Rabbit, Wyatt’s “Firefly Fun House” segments have been generating buzz, to say the least, and they’ve been getting darker and darker as we learn more about the new take on Wyatt’s character. Last night, Wyatt revealed his “secret,” shedding the good guy persona entirely.
“It’s time for me to show the world what I’ve *really* been working on,” Wyatt teased, before the lights went out and he reappeared on screen with a whole new look.
As it turns out, Wyatt’s creepy new mask was created by Tom Savini‘s team, including Jason Baker, Mandy June Simpson and Ell Farrington! In fact, Savini’s team has been behind most of what’s been going on with the Firefly Fun House segments, with Baker directing them and also designing the creepy puppets that serve as Wyatt’s “friends” on the show.
Check out the mask reveal in this week’s Firefly Fun House below!
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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