With the paperback edition of Keith Rosson’s vampire novel out now, Paramount has an even bigger announcement: Coffin Moon is coming to TV. Deadline reports that the studio has acquired the rights to the 2025 horror novel, with actress Jessica Biel and her production company Iron Ocean producing.
Paramount has tapped Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue for the series, with the duo set to develop, adapt, and showrun the whole thing, with Rosson serving as a consulting producer. The book’s synopsis is as follows:
It’s the winter of 1975, and Portland, Oregon, is all sleet and neon. Duane Minor is back home after a tour in Vietnam, a bartender just trying to stay sober; save his marriage with his wife, Heidi; and connect with his thirteen-year-old niece, Julia, now that he’s responsible for raising her. Things aren’t easy, but Minor is scraping by. Then a vampire walks into his bar and ruins his life.
When Minor crosses John Varley, a killer who sleeps during the day beneath loose drifts of earth and grows teeth in the light of the moon, Varley brutally retaliates by murdering Heidi, leaving Minor broken with guilt and Julia filled with rage. What’s left of their splintered family is united by only one desire: vengeance.
So begins a furious, frenzied pursuit across the Pacific Northwest and beyond. From grimy alleyways to desolate highways to snow-lashed plains, Minor and Julia are cast into the dark orbit of undead children, silver bullet casters, and the bevy of broken men transfixed by Varley’s ferocity. Everyone’s out for blood.
Coffin Moon is Rosson’s sixth novel, following his popular duology Fever House and The Devil by Name. His latest horror novel, Crone, about a father searching for his missing daughter, just hit shelves today, so it seems like he’s having quite the banner week.
No release date has been set for Coffin Moon. Stay tuned to FANGORIA for more updates.
