Tie-Ins: The Crow

Gothic Death Wish franchise The Crow started as a 1989 comic which was cool mainly just for having Joy Division quotes.  The movie inspired bad Halloween costumes for years and literally murdered star Brandon Lee, who managed to survive Laser Mission.  I rewatched the movie recently and thought it didn't hold up, until I remembered how much I hated it 25 years ago, and if anything my opinion on it has improved.  Except for Lee, he needed to spend more time kicking and less brooding like a sad clown.

The movies continued with increasingly bizarre casting, and a TV series continued the tradition of on-set fatal accidents.

The film was written by two 80s horror novelists, John Shirley and David J. Schow, and several other 90s favorites continued a series of novels, each of which has a different protagonist.

1994: Die Krahe by Kenneth Roycroft - German only

1996: City of Angels by Chet Williamson - novelization of the film

1998: Quoth the Crow by David Bischoff

1998: The Lazarus Heart by Poppy Z. Brite

1998: Clash by Night by Chet Williamson

1998: A Murder of Crows: Omnibus of last three titles above

1999: Temple of Night by S. P. Somtow

1999: The Crow: Shattered Lives & Broken Dreams - anthology with the likes of Iggy Pop and Henry Rollins.  Peak 90s.

2000: Wicked Prayer by Norman Partridge - the first time I've noticed this, the movie was based on the tie-in novel

2001: Hellbound by A. A. Attanasio