Horror icon John Carpenter is now making chocolate bars. Heres how to find them

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Set us as preferred He’s brought the world a creeping deadly fog, a parasitic Antarctic alien and some of the most iconic slashers of all time, but recently the pioneering director and composer John Carpenter set his eyes on something a little sweeter.Late last year he quietly unveiled a line of small-batch chocolate bars with Sandy King, his wife and creative partner.“You know, sometimes doors open and I just walk through them and go, ‘Why not?’” said King, who spearheads the candy project and founded Storm King Productions and Comics.

“If we can do it well, why not?...With everything, you want to please the audience, whether it’s a movie, a book, a podcast or a candy bar, and if everybody’s smiling, that’s it.”King and Carpenter met on the set of Carpenter’s 1984 “Starman” and have served as each other’s partners and sounding boards for movies, TV shows, podcasts and comic books ever since, but this is their first food venture together.They launched the chocolates last October at New York Comic Con, and now the bars can be found at their traveling booths at comic and horror conventions.

They’re also sold at select comic shops throughout the country and in Burbank’s Horror Boodega, a nostalgic and scary-movie-themed snack shop.Food L.A.’s first horror- and sci-fi-themed convenience store stocks Halloween tricks and treats seen in classic scary movies and some that draw on childhood nostalgia.The hefty, nearly half-pound bars come in two flavors: John Carpenter’s Boo Bar is milk chocolate crunchy with potato chips and Pop Rocks, and the Dark & Stormy is dark chocolate laden with candied ginger and toffee and named in ode to King’s comics and production companies.Carpenter and King have preferred to keep their batches small and their marketing limited to word of mouth, but that word i...