From Echo On Publications, the new book, officially titled Spookies: Twisted Souls, will be published in time for Halloween 2026 in hardcover, paperback, and eBook formats, and is an adapted version of the film’s original screenplay, Twisted Souls which conceived and shot by the movie’s creative team, rather than the re-edited, producer-assembled cut that reached audiences in 1986.
Originally shot in 1984 under the title Twisted Souls by Brendan Faulkner and Thomas Doran with producer/co-writer Frank Farel, the film became Spookies after creative and legal disputes led the financier to commission newly shot material and a radical re-edit by Eugenie “Genie” Joseph… a production saga that has fueled the film’s legend for decades.