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Dread Central was founded on the 4th of July 2006 as a pivot from a failed horror-themed cable channel project. The founders transformed a cancelled broadcast initiative into a digital news hub for horror fiction.
Jon Condit founded Dread Central and Ted Hentschke serves as editor in chief. Staff members do not use their real names when writing for the site and instead adopt horror-themed aliases to maintain the atmosphere of the content.
Dread Central won the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award for Best Website four times and was named AMC's Site of the Week in 2008. The platform also received support from industry titans such as John Carpenter, Gale Anne Hurd, and Sid Haig.
The DREAD label is a distribution label specializing in horror films released in theaters and on demand. It was renamed from its original identity on the 29th of January 2019 and has released titles such as Terrifier and The Lake.
DreadXP is a video gaming website founded in 2019 by Jon Condit that focuses on editorial, reviews, and original streaming content. The brand published games including The Mortuary Assistant, Amanda the Adventurer 3, and Dread Delusion starting in 2020.