The Red 5 Comics upcoming series, “Haunted,” has not even hit the shelves yet but it has already been optioned for film by Bryan Singer’s Bad Hat Harry Productions. As Red 5 is an independent publisher, the best way to ensure your copy of “Haunted” this spring is to pre-order it before February 28 from your comic shop using order code FEB141420. “Haunted #1” of the four-issue series is set for release on April 30, 2014.

“Haunted” shows us a world where the barrier between our world and the spiritual realm was mysteriously torn apart allowing the Earth to be overrun by ghosts, demons and poltergeists. Creatures once thought to be mythological terrorized mankind and society collapsed. Thirteen years later, Sarah McCallister manages to survive by being tough, smart, and looking out only for herself. But when a chance to set the world back to normal arises, she finds herself in the compromising position of putting her faith in strangers for the first time.

The four-part horror action-adventure was written by Scott Chitwood (“Drone,” “Afterburn,” “Dead or Alive”), illustrated by newcomer Danny Luckert, and colored by Ivan Plascencia (“Neozoic: Trader’s Gambit”). It is also featured in Red 5’s 2014 Free Comic Book Day issue.

“The problem with most ghost stories is that if the characters simply leave the haunted house, all of their problems are over,” said Chitwood. “But if the entire world is the haunted house, there’s nowhere to run or hide. Imagine the end of ‘Ghostbusters,’ but with the heroes failing and Gozer taking over the world.”

Chitwood commented on the main character Sarah and how she fits in to the overrun world.

“Sarah survived a traumatic and dangerous childhood, constantly on the run from all manner of horrors. But if she is to have any hope of saving the world, she must go against every instinct that has kept her alive so far.”