It's described as "the world's highest-profile horror movie magazine," and it now belongs to Cinestate, the Dallas-based entertainment company owned by Dallas Sonnier, who grew up in the Park Cities and returned to Dallas in 2015.

In an interview Thursday morning, Sonnier said he "used to buy issues all the time at places like B. Dalton and Taylor Books as a kid in the '90s. Bringing this legendary brand to the city of Dallas is a tremendous point of pride for me, and my 13-year-old self would be the first in line to buy the new issues coming soon."

The Cinestate press release describes Fangoria as "being resurrected from its digital grave and back into print where it belongs." Sonnier's company plans to publish Fangoria as a "collectible quarterly with the first issue set to drop this fall in time for Halloween."

Sonnier says he acquired the assets and trademarks of the Fangoria brand, including the magazine, from The Brooklyn Co. He then hired his "favorite film writer," Phil Nobile Jr. as editor in chief. Nobile comes to Fangoria from his role as editor at large for the website Birth.Movies.Death., and as a writer-producer for Stage 3 Productions in Philadelphia, where he created a feature-length documentary on John Carpenter's Halloween. Nobile will act as creative director for the entire Fangoria brand.

"The magazine was a constant presence in the genre since 1979 — and then one day it was gone," Nobile says in the press release. "That felt, to us, tragically incorrect. Fangoria was, for multiple generations, a privileged window into the world of horror.

"It gave us access to filmmakers' processes and secrets, opened our eyes to movies we might have otherwise missed, and nurtured a wave of talent that's out there driving the genre today. I'm proud and excited to be part of the team that's bringing this institution back."

As part of the deal, Cinestate now controls all material from more than 300 issues of Fangoria, including articles, photos and exclusive interviews spanning the past 39 years.

The Fangoria news comes not long after Cinestate earned praise at the Venice Film Festival for Brawl in Cell Block 99, a film produced by Sonnier that stars Vince Vaughn. The film also scored a rave review in The New York Times.

This is a 2011 Fangoria video: