Island Horror with Christina Bergling and Marissa Yarrow at West Side Books
About this Event
Join us in welcoming horror authors Christina Bergling (Invisible Girls) and Marissa Yarrow (Island X) as we discuss their new books, both of which take place on an island. We'll also have a mini escape room experience hosted by the authors!
Invisible Girls:
Sometimes the future is to BURN the past to the ground.
On an island governed by a rigid hierarchy, where the orchards and the people belong to the estate, Zara and Nadina turn away from watchful eyes, leave their childhood in the past, and form a forbidden bond and fierce alliance. With secrets unraveling about their families and lies surfacing, the girls harden their friendship into a conspiracy and make impossible choices to protect what becomes a revolt.
Fierce, intimate, and devastating, Invisible Girls is a story of rage, love, and the dangerous hope of reconstructing a broken world.
Drawn to the monstrous and macabre, Christina Bergling has been weaving nightmares since childhood. Her horror tales slither from post-apocalyptic (Savages, Invisible Girls, Screechers) to monster (Red Walls) psychological (The Waning) to comedy (The Rest Will Come) to mystery (Followers) and anything in between (various anthologies and zines including The Horror Collection series, 96th of October, Graveyard Girls, Demonic Wildlife).
Island X:
One thousand lucky celebrities and influencers receive an email invite to an island music festival that no one has ever heard of, with a mere 24 hours to commit to the unknown or refuse what could be the opportunity of a lifetime. Among them are newly sober nepo baby Cassidy and a codependent model named Edie. It's the party of a lifetime.
Until a sudden death turns the festival on its head¿
Or it would, if anyone knew exactly what happened. Those who saw it firsthand suspect a cover-up, while those who didn't disregard it as a prank.
But shortly thereafter, things on the island start to change. Guests go missing, only to return acting off. Cassidy and Edie remember things that didn't happen.
Soon they realize their social media feeds are warping their surroundings, and the only way they can leave the island alive is by gaming the algorithm and uncovering the secrets behind its otherworldly power.
"Marissa Yarrow brings readers a beachy Coachella from Hell brimming with biting social commentary in her debut novel, Island X. A non-stop party of fun, tropical terrors!"
-Wendy Dalrymple author of Birthday Party Demon and Killer Summer
Marissa Yarrow is a horror author based in Colorado Springs, where she lives with her spouse and two cats. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, biking, rock climbing, and backpacking.
In the first grade, she picked up her first Stephen King book, and got in trouble for reading it in school. Ultimately, administrators agreed that she could read whatever she wanted as long as she didn’t tell the other kids about it. So began her secret love. In these shadows, her own stories of ghosts and family trauma took root. Now, fruited like fresh mushrooms, they are ready for others to enjoy – at their own risk.
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