FX developing series based on witch-hunt novel Speaks the Nightbird

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

First published in 2002 (and available for purchase at THIS LINK), author Robert McCammon's novel Speaks the Nightbird told "a dark and chilling tale about a witch-hunt in the seventeenth century Carolina colonies."

In the Carolinas of 1699, a traveling magistrate and his clerk, Matthew, arrive in Fount Royal to hold a trial for an accused witch, a beautiful young woman named Rachel Howarth, a trial that reveals that Fount Royal has become a battleground between good and evil and that not even the innocent are safe.

FX is now developing a potential series based on the novel, and UNFRIENDED: DARK WEB (pictured above) writer/director Stephen Susco is writing the adaptation.

Speaks the Nightbird is being produced by Shay Prentice, Kevin Nicklaus, Kevin Matusow of The Traveling Picture Show Company, and Mark Wolper of Wolper Organization.

The Matthew mentioned in the plot description is Matthew Corbett, a "professional problem solver" who has been featured in six more McCammon novels so far. So if the Speaks the Nightbird series does move forward at FX, they'll have plenty more stories about Corbett to choose from for future seasons.