Spooky Market Featuring Richard Chizmar and W. H. Chizmar
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What do you get when you mix horror authors, local vendors selling creepy crafts, and spooky-themed drinks?
A spooky market you won't want to miss!
Join us in the Kemper Center auditorium on Thursday, October 8th, for all things macabre. The spooky market will run from 5 to 9 p.m. with a conversation between horror authors Richard Chizmar, W. H. Chizmar, and Mathilda Zeller starting at 6:30 p.m.
The authors will be discussing "Killing the Boogeyman", Richard's newest release and final book in the Boogeyman trilogy, W. H.'s solo debut "Them", a post-apocalyptic survival novel, and Mathilda's debut, "It Looks Like You in the Dark", a propulsive Indigenous horror novel. Following the presentation, there will be time for a Q&A with the audience and book signing.
The event is free, but registration is required to save your seat for the author conversation. Get all the details and RSVP here: https://withfriends.co/event/28735935
ABOUT KILLING THE BOOGEYMAN:
The terrifying horror trilogy finale to the "New York Times" and USA TODAY bestselling series that includes "Chasing the Boogeyman" and "Becoming the Boogeyman" from “one of horror’s indispensable writers” (Paste).
Notorious serial killer Joshua Gallagher—dubbed “the Boogeyman” by the media—has vanished from prison. One moment, he was locked inside a maximum-security cell; the next, he was gone, leaving behind on the wall a crude hangman puzzle and two chilling words: IT’S TIME.
Now, days later, the world is coming apart again. Bodies are turning up near writer and Gallagher confidante Richard Chizmar’s home, echoing the Boogeyman’s signature horrors. The news frenzy reignites while the police chase shadows...even as Gallagher’s twisted true crime fanbase celebrates online, acknowledging that he’s something more than human now.
To everyone else, it’s a desperate hunt for answers. To Chizmar, it’s more like destiny closing in. The evidence, the sightings, the voices in the dark all point to one unthinkable conclusion: the Boogeyman never left. And very soon, Chizmar must come face-to-face with the thing wearing Gallagher’s skin, and learns all too quickly that some nightmares don’t return—they evolve.
ABOUT RICHARD CHIZMAR:
Richard Chizmar is the author of "New York Times" bestselling novels "Chasing the Boogeyman", "Becoming the Boogeyman", "Memorials", and "Widow’s Point: The Complete Haunting" (cowritten with son, W.H. Chizmar), and coauthor (with Stephen King) of the New York Times bestselling novella "Gwendy’s Button Box", the novel "Gwendy’s Final Task", and the solo novella "Gwendy’s Magic Feather". His short fiction has appeared in dozens of publications, most recently, the bestselling anthology, "The End of The World as We Know It: New Stories of Stephen King’s The Stand". He is the founder and publisher of the specialty press publisher of horror and dark suspense, Cemetery Dance. He has won two World Fantasy awards, four International Horror Guild awards, and the HWA’s Board of Trustees award. Chizmar’s work has been translated into more than fifteen languages throughout the world, and he has appeared at numerous conferences as a writing instructor, speaker, panelist, and guest of honor.
ABOUT THEM:
The solo debut from the "New York Times" bestselling coauthor of "Widow's Point: The Complete Haunting", a post-apocalyptic/survival horror novel written in the bestselling traditions of Stephen King’s "The Mist" and Josh Malerman’s "Bird Box".
A top-secret government project hits upon a revolutionary idea for transporting matter across the vast reaches of the universe, and it succeeds in bringing something back. Something alive. Soon, mankind’s reign comes to an abrupt halt when a truck hauling a very special shipping container overturns and rolls off the highway, unleashing an otherworldly horror upon an unsuspecting New England countryside, where it cannot be contained…
Several years later, an unidentified man emerges from the rubble of humanity, seeking other survivors and a shred of hope amid an eerie and lonely landscape. He travels by night up the rural East Coast, discovering Americana ruins and encountering monsters the likes of which no one has survived. Scarred and molded by the cruel horrors of this new natural order, he must face his own dwindling humanity and pray that any others out there have not become monsters themselves…
ABOUT W. H. CHIZMAR:
W. H. Chizmar is the "New York Times" bestselling coauthor (with Richard Chizmar) of "Widow’s Point: The Complete Haunting", as well as numerous short stories and essays. He lives in Maryland with his Bernese Mountain Dog, J.J. (short for James Joyce).
ABOUT IT LOOKS LIKE YOU IN THE DARK:
"It Looks Like You in the Dark" is a propulsive Indigenous horror debut, expertly blending Alaskan Native folklore and supernatural thrills, from Mathilda Zeller, author of the acclaimed short story "Kushtuka" featured in the bestselling horror anthology, "Never Whistle at Night".
The only people who know are the people who have gone. Those people no longer have throats to tell us.
Tapeesa is newly out of high school and working in a fish processing plant in the Inupiat village, Chukchi, where she’s lived her whole life. Maybe that’s why people tend to assume she isn’t that bright—or maybe her mama is right and she does have bad blood. Either way, she knows the legend, and she knows the history. Her Ahna told her that the hungry creature—the kushtuka—appears to us in the form of someone we love. It will try to get us to follow it. Follow it where? Those who have gone no longer have throats to tell us.
The Kobuk River Valley of remote Alaska draws greedy white men time and time again. But whenever they come, death comes too. This time the white men are here for the long term, to create an open pit, a rare earths mine just north of the village. When her sister Esther goes missing, Tapeesa will do anything to get her back. Seeking justice, Tapeesa must track down the kidnapper in the darkening Arctic. What awaits beyond the warmth of her village is more horrible than she could imagine and closer to her than she knows.
I"t Looks Like You in the Dark" is a fast-paced, grab-you-by-the-throat story about love, loyalty, and all the fearsome monsters that emerge when we turn our backs on the land and each other.
ABOUT MATHILDA ZELLER:
Mathilda Zeller writes horror and fantasy. She is of Inuit descent and her family and roots extend deep into the Kobuk River Valley, which inspires and informs her writing. Mathilda Zeller is a pen name, honoring two of her resilient great-grandmothers.
A spooky market you won't want to miss!
Join us in the Kemper Center auditorium on Thursday, October 8th, for all things macabre. The spooky market will run from 5 to 9 p.m. with a conversation between horror authors Richard Chizmar, W. H. Chizmar, and Mathilda Zeller starting at 6:30 p.m.
The authors will be discussing "Killing the Boogeyman", Richard's newest release and final book in the Boogeyman trilogy, W. H.'s solo debut "Them", a post-apocalyptic survival novel, and Mathilda's debut, "It Looks Like You in the Dark", a propulsive Indigenous horror novel. Following the presentation, there will be time for a Q&A with the audience and book signing.
The event is free, but registration is required to save your seat for the author conversation. Get all the details and RSVP here: https://withfriends.co/event/28735935
ABOUT KILLING THE BOOGEYMAN:
The terrifying horror trilogy finale to the "New York Times" and USA TODAY bestselling series that includes "Chasing the Boogeyman" and "Becoming the Boogeyman" from “one of horror’s indispensable writers” (Paste).
Notorious serial killer Joshua Gallagher—dubbed “the Boogeyman” by the media—has vanished from prison. One moment, he was locked inside a maximum-security cell; the next, he was gone, leaving behind on the wall a crude hangman puzzle and two chilling words: IT’S TIME.
Now, days later, the world is coming apart again. Bodies are turning up near writer and Gallagher confidante Richard Chizmar’s home, echoing the Boogeyman’s signature horrors. The news frenzy reignites while the police chase shadows...even as Gallagher’s twisted true crime fanbase celebrates online, acknowledging that he’s something more than human now.
To everyone else, it’s a desperate hunt for answers. To Chizmar, it’s more like destiny closing in. The evidence, the sightings, the voices in the dark all point to one unthinkable conclusion: the Boogeyman never left. And very soon, Chizmar must come face-to-face with the thing wearing Gallagher’s skin, and learns all too quickly that some nightmares don’t return—they evolve.
ABOUT RICHARD CHIZMAR:
Richard Chizmar is the author of "New York Times" bestselling novels "Chasing the Boogeyman", "Becoming the Boogeyman", "Memorials", and "Widow’s Point: The Complete Haunting" (cowritten with son, W.H. Chizmar), and coauthor (with Stephen King) of the New York Times bestselling novella "Gwendy’s Button Box", the novel "Gwendy’s Final Task", and the solo novella "Gwendy’s Magic Feather". His short fiction has appeared in dozens of publications, most recently, the bestselling anthology, "The End of The World as We Know It: New Stories of Stephen King’s The Stand". He is the founder and publisher of the specialty press publisher of horror and dark suspense, Cemetery Dance. He has won two World Fantasy awards, four International Horror Guild awards, and the HWA’s Board of Trustees award. Chizmar’s work has been translated into more than fifteen languages throughout the world, and he has appeared at numerous conferences as a writing instructor, speaker, panelist, and guest of honor.
ABOUT THEM:
The solo debut from the "New York Times" bestselling coauthor of "Widow's Point: The Complete Haunting", a post-apocalyptic/survival horror novel written in the bestselling traditions of Stephen King’s "The Mist" and Josh Malerman’s "Bird Box".
A top-secret government project hits upon a revolutionary idea for transporting matter across the vast reaches of the universe, and it succeeds in bringing something back. Something alive. Soon, mankind’s reign comes to an abrupt halt when a truck hauling a very special shipping container overturns and rolls off the highway, unleashing an otherworldly horror upon an unsuspecting New England countryside, where it cannot be contained…
Several years later, an unidentified man emerges from the rubble of humanity, seeking other survivors and a shred of hope amid an eerie and lonely landscape. He travels by night up the rural East Coast, discovering Americana ruins and encountering monsters the likes of which no one has survived. Scarred and molded by the cruel horrors of this new natural order, he must face his own dwindling humanity and pray that any others out there have not become monsters themselves…
ABOUT W. H. CHIZMAR:
W. H. Chizmar is the "New York Times" bestselling coauthor (with Richard Chizmar) of "Widow’s Point: The Complete Haunting", as well as numerous short stories and essays. He lives in Maryland with his Bernese Mountain Dog, J.J. (short for James Joyce).
ABOUT IT LOOKS LIKE YOU IN THE DARK:
"It Looks Like You in the Dark" is a propulsive Indigenous horror debut, expertly blending Alaskan Native folklore and supernatural thrills, from Mathilda Zeller, author of the acclaimed short story "Kushtuka" featured in the bestselling horror anthology, "Never Whistle at Night".
The only people who know are the people who have gone. Those people no longer have throats to tell us.
Tapeesa is newly out of high school and working in a fish processing plant in the Inupiat village, Chukchi, where she’s lived her whole life. Maybe that’s why people tend to assume she isn’t that bright—or maybe her mama is right and she does have bad blood. Either way, she knows the legend, and she knows the history. Her Ahna told her that the hungry creature—the kushtuka—appears to us in the form of someone we love. It will try to get us to follow it. Follow it where? Those who have gone no longer have throats to tell us.
The Kobuk River Valley of remote Alaska draws greedy white men time and time again. But whenever they come, death comes too. This time the white men are here for the long term, to create an open pit, a rare earths mine just north of the village. When her sister Esther goes missing, Tapeesa will do anything to get her back. Seeking justice, Tapeesa must track down the kidnapper in the darkening Arctic. What awaits beyond the warmth of her village is more horrible than she could imagine and closer to her than she knows.
I"t Looks Like You in the Dark" is a fast-paced, grab-you-by-the-throat story about love, loyalty, and all the fearsome monsters that emerge when we turn our backs on the land and each other.
ABOUT MATHILDA ZELLER:
Mathilda Zeller writes horror and fantasy. She is of Inuit descent and her family and roots extend deep into the Kobuk River Valley, which inspires and informs her writing. Mathilda Zeller is a pen name, honoring two of her resilient great-grandmothers.
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