Coming this Halloween:

It’s midnight. It’s quiet. Too quiet. You’re in your pajamas, alone with your remote; flipping around, lost, disoriented—you try a channel.

Boo!

That’s the reaction that Brian Roberts and Sony Pictures Entertainment hope to elicit from you. Because the chief executive of Comcast (nasdaq: CMCSA - news - people ) and his movie-studio partner have heard the public call—or is that bloodcurdling scream?—for an all-horror cable channel.

Slated to be launched on All Hallow’s Eve 2006—when, it is said, Hell opens its gates and demons and damned souls walk the earth—the scary-movie venue will be the first of many prospective cable channels to be created, under the terms of a Comcast deal with the Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) unit.

The channel was announced Monday at National Cable & Television Association’s annual Atlanta conference, The National Show. The spooky TV network will reportedly feature shuddery small-screen shows and "over 1,000 horror and thriller movies" from the Sony/MGM libraries. The slasher flicks will include endangered-adolescent fave I Know What You Did Last Summer, claustrophobia-inducing Panic Room and culinary masterpiece Silence of the Lambs.

As to the TV shows, perhaps some will be hit-or-miss filler—but keep in mind that a hit can have a crazed, cult-like following: Before the demise and merger of CBS’ (nyse: CBS - news - people ) UPN and Time Warner’s (nyse: TWX - news - people ) WB networks, they had Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, respectively—the latter a spinoff of Buffy, and each a wildly popular show.

Indeed, Diane Robina, president of emerging networks at Comcast, was quoted by the AP as saying, "[The channel] really appeals very strongly to a fan base of 18- to 34-year-olds. ...When you’re looking at a platform like this, you want to appeal to a passionate and loyal audience."

The Associated Press reports that the still-unnamed horror channel will be offered free to digital subscribers; some 25% of the content will be changed every two weeks. But one question remains...

Have you checked the programming?