Bram Stoker Award-winning writer James Aquilone and Monstrous Books are teaming up with Blackstone Audio to bring to life a brand new audiobook of Jeff Rice’s Kolchak: The Night Stalker, the novel that inspired the iconic Kolchak movie and TV series.
We’re excited to exclusively reveal today that the Kolchak: The Night Stalker audiobook, publishing on February 11, will be narrated by The Greatest American Hero and Carrie star William Katt.
Airing in 1972, Kolchak: The Night Stalker became the highest-rated TV movie in U.S. history and spawned the cult TV series starring Darren McGavin. The TV movie’s iconic screenplay was written by horror legend and novelist Richard Matheson (I Am Legend) and was based on the novel by Jeff Rice.
In the KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER novel, the corpses of young women – many of whom are working night jobs — are discovered, drained of blood, with unusual puncture marks on their necks, and it’s up to intrepid reporter Carl Kolchak to find out what happened to them.
The new, deluxe edition of Kolchak: The Night Stalker also features a new foreword by the one and only David Dastmalchian (Late Night with the Devil), a new afterword by writer and producer Rodney Barnes (Killadelphia), a new essay on Jeff Rice by Kolchak expert Mark Dawidziak, (The Night Stalker Companion) and a cover (seen below) by Russ Braun (The Boys).
Here’s what Katt has to say about lending his voice to the project:
“It was a humbling experience working in the shadow of Jeff Rice and Darren McGavin! […] The cult classic Kolchak: The Night Stalker laid the groundwork for so many shows that followed—including The Greatest American Hero and so many others that borrowed generously and paid homage to the amazing world of Carl Kolchak!”
James Aquilone, publisher of Monstrous Books and editor of the award-winning Kolchak: The Night Stalker 50th Anniversary graphic novel, expresses his excitement for having Katt on board:
“I always thought William Katt would make a great Carl Kolchak […] So when I had the opportunity to choose a narrator for Monstrous Books’ reprint of the original Kolchak: The Night Stalker novel, I knew I had to reach out to the star of one of my favorite shows as a kid, The Greatest American Hero.”
For more information and to pre-order your copy of Kolchak: The Night Stalker (also available as an ebook and trade paperback), go to the Monstrous Books website or follow Monstrous Books on Facebook, Instagram and X.
