‘You Can’t Kill the Boogeyman’ Book by Wayne Byrne Unmasks the ‘Halloween’ Saga

You Can’t Kill the Boogeyman: The Ongoing Halloween Saga―13 Movies and Counting will be published in hardcover and e-book on August 7 via Bloomsbury Publishing.

Written by Wayne Byrne (Welcome to Elm Street: Inside the Film and Television Nightmares), the book is a cultural and critical examination of the Halloween franchise, considering the style, themes, and development of the series within temporal and industrial contexts.

Through candid conversations, a variety of directors, screenwriters, cinematographers, composers, and actors from across the 13 Halloween films offer exclusive insights into their careers, their unique aesthetic approaches, and their experiences of working on one of the most celebrated horror franchises of all time.

Interview subjects include: actors Gloria Gifford, Marianne Hagan, and Brad Loree; directors Tommy Lee Wallace, Dwight H. Little, and Dominique Othenin-Girard; writer Daniel Farrands; cinematographers Dean Cundey, Peter Lyons Collister, Rob Draper, Daryn Okada, David Geddes, and Phil Parmet; and composers Alan Howarth, John Ottman, and Danny Lux.

Former Fangoria editor-in-chief Tony Timpine provides a foreword to the 272-page tome.

For more Michael Myers insight, Andrew Grevas’ Horror in Haddonfield: The Untold Stories of Halloween will be published on October 7.

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