A Celebration of Horror: Christopher Golden's Carry Me to Your Bookshelf

For his new release, Carry Me to My Grave, New York Times bestselling “king of the horror thriller” Christopher Golden (Road of Bones, All Hallows) has created a new kind of book tour, which will include a series of pop-up mini-conventions. Golden has put together these events to celebrate the dark imagination and the horror community, including panel discussions and author signings, hosted by some of the best independent bookstores in the nation.

About the participants:

Christopher Golden is the New York Times bestselling and Bram Stoker award-winning author of Ararat, All Hallows, Road of Bones, and Snowblind, among many other novels. He is the co-creator of two cult favorite comic book series, Baltimore and Joe Golem: Occult Detective. He is also the editor of such anthologies as Seize the Night and The New Dead, and won the Shirley Jackson Award for coediting The Twisted Book of Shadows. He lives in Massachusetts.

Philip Fracassi is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of the story collections Behold the Void and Beneath a Pale Sky. His novels include A Child Alone with Strangers, Gothic, and Boys in the Valley. His stories have been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Best Horror of the Year, Nightmare Magazine, Southwest Review, Interzone, and Black Static. Philip lives in Los Angeles.

Rachel Howzell Hall is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of fourteen novels, including the bestselling romantasy The Last One, a Good Morning America Book Club selection, as well as What Fire Brings, What Never Happened, We Lie Here, and multiple award–nominated And Now She’s Gone and These Toxic Things. Rachel is a two-time finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She is a former member of the board of directors for Mystery Writers of America and was a featured writer on NPR’s acclaimed Crime in the City series and the National Endowment for the Arts weekly podcast. rachelhowzell.com

Caroline Kepnes is the author of You, Hidden Bodies, You Love Me, For You and Only You, and Providence. Her work has been translated into a multitude of languages and inspired a television series adaptation of You, currently on Netflix. Kepnes graduated from Brown University and worked as a pop culture journalist for Entertainment Weekly and a TV writer for 7th Heaven and The Secret Life of the American Teenager. She grew up on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and now lives in Los Angeles.

Liz Kerin is an author, playwright, screenwriter, and graduate of the Rita and Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She is also the author of The Phantom Forest (2019). She lives in Southern California.

Monika Kim is an acclaimed, Sunday Times bestselling author of “violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original” (The New York Times Book Review) horror novels. Her debut, The Eyes Are the Best Part, was a TIME Magazine, New York Times, B&N, and Kobo Best of the Year, as well as a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist and a Bram Stoker Award nominee. A second-generation Korean American, she learned about eating fish eyes and other Korean superstitions from her mother, who immigrated to California from Seoul in 1985. She lives in Los Angeles’s Koreatown and can be found online at Monika-Kim.com.

Kasey Lansdale has been in the fiction world since birth as a writer, editor, audiobook narrator, and creative professional. Lansdale is based in LA and currently serves as head editor at Pandi Press. She has released numerous short stories and anthologies from publications such as Harper Collins, Titan Books, and more, and her fiction has been adapted for television and comics. First Chance is her debut novel.

Lisa Morton is a six-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author. Her books include Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween and Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances.

Keith Rosson is the author of the novels Fever House, The Devil by Name, Smoke City, Road Seven, and The Mercy of the Tide, as well as the Shirley Jackson Award–winning story collection Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Chuck Tingle is the USA Today bestselling author of Camp Damascus, Bury Your Gays, Lucky Day, Fabulous Bodies, and Straight. He is a Locus Award winner, and a finalist for the Bram Stoker and CALIBA Golden Poppy Awards. Tingle is a mysterious force of energy behind sunglasses and a pink mask. He is also an anonymous author of romance, horror, and fantasy who lives in Los Angeles, California. Tingle writes to prove love is real, because love is the most important tool we have when resisting the endless cosmic void. Not everything people say about Tingle is true, but the important parts are.

Catriona Ward is the USA Today bestselling author of Looking Glass Sound. She was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in the United States, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen, and Morocco. She studied English at the University of Oxford and later earned her master’s degree in creative writing at the University of East Anglia. Ward is a three-time winner of the August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel: for The Girl from Rawblood, her debut; Little Eve; and The Last House on Needless Street. Little Eve also won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel. Sundial won the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Hardcover Novel.

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