RU SCARED? You should be! INSIDE THE WRITER HOUSE: NIGHTMARE EDITION! LIVE ON STAGE @ RUTGERS B&N. 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM, Mon. Nov 10. Because horror love doesn't stop with Halloween.
Join us at 11 AM on Mon. Nov 10 for a special live, in-person presentation of Inside the Writers House, when Writers House instructor Alex Dawson talks with bestselling horror authors Nat Cassidy (When the Wolf Comes Home), Clay McLeod Chapman (Wake Up and Open Your Eyes), and Cassandra Khaw (Library of Hellbore). Conversation, Q&A, Reading, Signing. Books on sale at the event.
NAT CASSIDY (WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME, NESTLINGS, MARY): is the bestselling and Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Mary (named one of the Best Horror Novels of All Time by Audible) and Nestlings. Esquire described him as one "of the best horror writers of this generation" and among the writers "shaping horror's next golden age." Joe Hill (Black Phone) dubbed his new novel, When the Wolf Comes Home, "a crazy-good, balls-to-the-wall horror novel," and no less a luminary than Stephen King called it "terrific!" and "a classic!"
CLAY MCLEOD CHAPMAN (ACQUIRED TASTE, WAKE UP AND OPEN YOUR EYES, GHOST EATERS): Dubbed a "weaver of nightmares" (Richard Chizmar), Clay has written for The Avengers, Spiderman, and Scott Snyder's American Vampire. His "I Walked with a Spider" (Marvel) was a top ten best-selling comic book and he created a Venomized Deadpool (aka Venompool) for "Edge of the Venom-verse." His film, The Boy (from his novel, Miss Corpus), about a nine year old sociopath, stars Rainn Wilson (The Office) and David Morse (World War Z). His fiction has been called "ambitious" (Guardian), "terrifying" (Library Journal), a "masterpiece," (Kirkus), "chilling" (Fangoria), "mad... vivid... brilliant" (Josh Malerman, Birdbox), "spellbinding" (Publishers Weekly, starred), "profound and unsettling" (New York Times Book Review). The stop motion movie adaptation of his middle grade novel, Wendell & Wild, starring Jordan Peele and helmed by Nightmare Before Christmas director Henry Selick, is on Netflix, and he wrote (w. Mac Rogers) Quiet Part Loud, a 12-part horror podcast series from Jordan Peele and Monkeypaw Productions. Esquire described him as one "of the best horror writers of this generation" and among the writers "shaping horror's next golden age." Jordan Peele called him "One of my favorite horror storytellers working today."
CASSANDRA KHAW (LIBRARY OF HELLEBORE, NOTHING BUT BLACKENED TEETH, THE SALT GROWS HEAVY): is the USA Today bestselling and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Library at Hellebore, Nothing But Blackened Teeth, The Salt Grows Heavy, and Breakable Things. Their work has been translated to Catalan, Turkish, Russian, Bulgarian, French, and Spanish. Khaw is also an award-winning game writer who has worked on games such as She Remembered Caterpillars (German Game Awards Best Childrens Game 2017), Wasteland 3, and Falcon Age. Cassandra has also done work for Magic: the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons, Critical Role, World of Darkness, and Warhammer 40k. "[Hellbore] is punk rock, eldritch god, carnage-fueled, battle royale dark academia. The Library at Hellebore is more metal than Ill ever be and too cool for most of you. Youve been warned." Olivia Blake, Atlas Six.