From left: Joe Hill, director Alex-andre Aja, and Daniel Radcliffe at San Diego Comic-Con in July. Joe Scarnici/Getty Images/file

Joe Hill will have a memorable Halloween. The author, who lives on the New Hampshire seacoast, will be bouncing between New York City and Los Angeles this week for the premieres of “Horns,” the movie based on his book of the same name. Technically, this won’t be Hill’s first red carpet experience. He was with his dad, Stephen King, for the premiere of “Firestarter” in 1984. Hill remembers the event well enough to know that he fell in love that night. “I thought she was the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen in my entire life,” Hill said, laughing, remembering meeting the film’s star, Drew Barrymore (they were both about 10 years old at the time). Hill’s 2010 novel “Horns” is about a guy suspected of his girlfriend’s murder who happens to grow horns. The film adaptation stars Daniel Radcliffe and

Juno Temple as his girlfriend (Temple was recently in Boston to play Deborah Hussey in the adaptation of “Black Mass” with Johnny Depp). Hill is happy to celebrate the project, especially after his comic, “Locke & Key,” illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez, was optioned for television, had a pilot directed by Mark Romanek, but was never picked up to series. Hill said the network, Fox, believed that the show was too scary. Of course Fox has now had success with “American Horror Story” on its network FX. “ ‘Walking Dead’ is the No. 1 show,” Hill said. “That’s a horror show based on a popular comic.” Hill says that “Locke & Key” might be revived as a movie. In the meantime there’s “Horns,” which is already available OnDemand and opens in theaters Oct. 31. Hill said he hasn’t decided what to wear for the premieres just yet, but he’ll probably opt for his regular dress-up attire, a “writer’s jacket” (“corduroy,” he says, “with patches”) and a T-shirt made by Out of Print, a company that makes literature-inspired shirts and accessories. As for what’s next, Hill says he’ll be finishing his next book, “The Fireman,” and then plans to spend time on short stories. “I think that the short story is the classroom where you learn to be a good novelist,” he said. “It’s like personal training for your writing.”