Well, book fans, welcome to the new year. And a new year means it’s time for our first good old fashioned book news roundup of 2025! With a fresh year comes lots of fresh book news, so let’s take a look at some of the biggest book stories to hit the Internet lately.
Nosferatu director Robert Eggers has said that he would love to direct another literary adaptation: Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher. “But the problem with Poe,” Eggers says, “is that because of his belief [that] short stories are the best way to tell horror, you always end up having to pad it out to make a feature film and it doesn’t quite work.” Would Eggers attempt to try it anyway? We’ll have to wait and see.
Filming for the adaptation of Freida McFadden’s The Housemaid has started. You can follow The Housemaid‘s Instagram account for more detailed updates. The film is directed by Paul Feig and starts Sydney Sweeney, Amanda Seyfried, and Michele Morrone.
R.L. Stine has confirmed that three more Fear Street movies are in the works. Following the success of Leigh Janiak’s 2021 Fear Street trilogy, a fourth film, Prom Queen is releasing some time in 2025. But beyond that, there are three more in the works. “The writers are working,” Stine says. “So I’ve got my fingers crossed.”
Sherlock Holmes is set to get a brand new manga adaptation, written by Crystal S. Chan and illustrated by Julien Choy. Rather than a retelling of the classic stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, this new series aims to tell a faithful adaptation. The first book in the series, A Study in Scarlet, will be published on January 21.
Here’s to the first exciting roundup of books news for 2025, and here’s hoping we’ve got lots of reading, writing, and adaptation-watching to look forward to this year!
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