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John Carpenter’s Tales for a HalloweeNight, Volume 11 (Storm King Comics), Graphic Novel, 2025
BIO: Writer, producer of film, television and podcasts, and CEO of Storm King Productions.
Sandy King’s filmmaking career has included working with John Cassavetes, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Mann, Walter Hill, John Hughes and John Carpenter.
She has produced films ranging from public service announcements on Hunger Awareness to a documentary on astronaut and teacher Christa McAuliffe for CNN, and major theatrical hits like They Live and John Carpenter’s Vampires. She directed and produced the John Carpenter Live tour film and it’s accompanying Behind the Scenes documentary, and produced the horror/thriller, The Manor, for BlumHouse and Amazon. In television she produced the series Suburban Screams for Universal.
Her podcast Roanoke Falls for Realm won two Signal Awards. She is currently producing Something Wicked along with Twelve Angry Bears for Cineverse.
King is the first woman to found a comic publishing house. Through Storm King Comics, she has created and written the award-winning Asylum series, the multiple award-winning Tales for a HalloweeNight anthologies, and the graphic novel lines Tales of Science Fiction, Night Terrors and most recently, Dark & Twisted, focusing on horror stories with no supernatural or sci-fi elements. In December 2019, King launched the comics line, Storm Kids, offering horror comics for ages 4 to 18 years old, and in 2021, received an Eisner nomination for the all ages title, Stanley’s Ghost. In 2026 she was nominated for a Bram Stoker award for Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel, for editing Tales for a HalloweeNight Vol. 11.
