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RUSTY

Thomas Muller’s Halloween novella as a short film — released two weeks before the book itself.

RUSTY is the screen version of Thomas Muller’s horror novella: a boy in the woods of northern Pennsylvania, a Halloween with no costume, and a neighbour who offers him one. It went out on the channel on 6 November 2025; the novella went on sale on the 19th.

It belongs to Pindrop’s streak of self-contained horror pieces built to test dread in compressed running time — and it is the clearest case of the company running page and screen at the same time rather than one after the other.

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Source material Adapted from Rusty by Thomas Muller — A boy with no Halloween costume is handed one by a neighbour, days before Devil’s Night. See the book

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