EXCLUSIVE: Producer Tony Eldridge (The Equalizer films) of Lonetree Entertainment has optioned the film rights to Bram Stoker Award-winning author Hailey Piper’s new horror novel A Light Most Hateful, which Titan Books recently acquired at a competitive auction.
A Light Most Hateful is billed as a terrifying survival horror full of haunting friendships in which the female experience turns monstrous.
The story focuses on Olivia, who having fled home three years prior, is stuck in a dead-end job in nowhere Chapel Hill, Pennsylvania with her best friend Sunflower.
That’s until a night storm crashes into town with a mind-bending monster in tow. If Olivia’s going to survive the night to someday reconcile with her parents, she needs to dodge residents enslaved by the storm’s otherworldly powers and find Sunflower.
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