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Start the Halloween pregame with IT, Hellraiser, True Blood, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and The Loved Ones as major horror anniversaries return from September 7 through September 13. This Week in Horror History heads into spooky season with Stephen King's Pennywise and Derry, Clive Barker's Lament Configuration and Cenobites, HBO vampires, no-combat survival horror, prom-night terror, and The X-Files' paranormal conspiracy.

This weekly horror release-date and anniversary roundup revisits the movies, television, games, creators, and cult classics that shaped the genre while building an early-September Halloween watchlist: vampire horror, Stephen King adaptations, supernatural horror movies, survival-horror games, giallo legends, prom-night horror, monster-of-the-week television, and fall horror listening.Inside this episode:

• September 7, 2008 - True Blood - Alan Ball's HBO vampire hit brings Sookie Stackhouse, Bill Compton, Bon Temps, and supernatural politics out of the coffin.
• September 8, 2010 - Amnesia: The Dark Descent - Frictional Games turns Brennenburg Castle into a landmark no-combat survival-horror nightmare built on darkness, sanity, running, and hiding.
• September 8, 2017 - It - Andy Muschietti sends the Losers Club into Derry's sewers to face Bill Skarsgård's Pennywise in a record-breaking Stephen King blockbuster.
• September 11, 1987 - Hellraiser - Clive Barker opens the Lament Configuration and unleashes the Cenobites in his feature-directing debut and the start of a horror franchise.
• September 13, 2009 - The Loved Ones - Sean Byrne's Australian prom-night nightmare premieres internationally at TIFF, where a rejected invitation becomes a private dance no one should attend.

Plus: a horror birthday roll honoring Dario Argento, David Arquette, Brian De Palma, and Roald Dahl; and a Weekly Recommendation for The X-Files, Chris Carter's paranormal-conspiracy classic and an ideal early-autumn binge.From Pennywise beneath Derry and Cenobites beyond the puzzle box to Bon Temps vampires, Brennenburg Castle, and a pink-satin torture prom, this September 7-13 horror history roundup is your Halloween pregame: a spooky-season warm-up for scary-movie marathons, cult-horror fans, survival-horror gamers, paranormal-TV devotees, and anyone counting down to October one nightmare at a time.

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