Five-Star Reads Show

Are you stuck in a reading slump and looking for your next great horror book for spooky season?

Then come to Five-Star Reads Show! Some of LA’s funniest comedians will pitch you their FAVORITE HORROR BOOK, then they’ll tell other great jokes!

Every audience member receives a FREE bookish trinket! First come, first serve, so arrive early if you want the special stuff (like cute crochet amigurumi!!!).

Plus, we’ll be joined by horror author CHLOE LAUTER for a special Q&A about her novel THE FLAYED MAN. She’ll be selling and signing books at the show!

If you’re interested in a complex mother-daughter relationship, family curses, blood-thirsty ghouls, and budding romance set against the Mojave Desert and Las Vegas, then this is the book for you!

THIS SHOW’S COMICS:

NICK ARAGON

ALLIE ZISFEIN

NICOLE FOTI

KATHERINE YOON

HOSTED BY DANA SAYLES

THE FLAYED MAN SYNOPSIS

Ellis Karsten spends nights working triage in the ER and days having the same conversation with her mom. The early onset dementia is exhausting, but the real challenge is their curse—Ellis’s family must feed daily on blood, or risk becoming mindless, skinless killing machines. When Ellis’s uncle, who supplies their blood, vanishes, she takes it upon herself to find a new source, aided by a prickly paramedic who’s equal parts unpredictable and intoxicating. But as Ellis fights to balance her bloodthirsty nature with a new relationship, her mom’s impossible demands transform into panicked warnings that a fabled monster, “The Flayed Man,” is stalking them.

As she traverses the desert in search of blood, Ellis risks her safety and her family’s secret, until it becomes clear that her mom is right: something ancient and hungry is hunting them, and it has come for her mom. Blood hunger begins to overtake Ellis, transforming her body into something ghoulish and frightening—exactly what The Flayed Man wants. In the end, she must decide who to trust, what she’s willing to sacrifice, and whether she is worthy of a life, and love, beyond her curse—or if she’s going to succumb to instinct and ravage the world.