For a dead guy, William Castle keeps pretty busy. So busy he's beginning to make us living folk look bad . . . and lazy. He's got three books to release this month and a slate of  TV and movie projects in the making, which makes us in The Basement tingle with excitement because the world needs more William Castle! But Castle isn't alone on these projects, his very much alive daughter Terry is on board, having written one of the three books that hits stores this month.  The titles include House on Haunted Hill: A William Castle Annotated Screamplay, which will be published on Halloween, and two young adult horror novels -- From the Grave: The Prayer (which we read and reviewed here ) and FearMaker: Family Matters, which Terry wrote. But the newly formed William Castle Productions (see the logo above. It's beautiful) isn't stopping there. Also on the way is Spine-Tingler: The Musical, which is about William Castle and horror films, as well as a feature adaptation...

This is for our young fans in Los Angeles, New York and the Bay area of California (represent!), as you're all cordially invited to attend a reading from a book written From the Grave . . . and just in time for Halloween. Our good, and very dead, friend William Castle has informed us Basement Dwellers that his new novel From the Grave: The Prayer will be read by his very own flesh-and-blood daughter Terry Castle at Stories Books & Cafe in Los Angeles (Echo Park) on Thursday Oct. 27 at 7:30 p.m. From the Grave: The Prayer was written for young adults, so all ages are welcome to come and enjoy the reading and other Halloween tricks and treats, including a look at how to make fake blood using the Castle secret family recipe Other gigs for From the Grave: The Prayer are scheduled for Books of Wonder's Chills and Thrills for Young Readers in New York City on Oct. 16 at 1 p.m. ( http://www.booksofwonder.com/ events.asp ) and Book Passage in Cortes Madera, CA, on Oct. 21 at ...