Tor Nightfire Presents: Fright Night!

Name: Tor Nightfire Presents: Fright Night!
Start: 2024-09-10T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-09-10T20:00:00-04:00
Location: 4209-100 Lassiter Mill Road,Raleigh,27609,US

Schedule

Tue Sep 10 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

4209-100 Lassiter Mill Road,Raleigh,27609,US | Raleigh, NC

Join us for a chilling conversation between three of our favorite Tor Nightfire horror authors!
ABOUT THE EVENT
Join us for a chilling conversation between three of our favorite Tor Nightfire horror authors: T. Kingfisher , Nathan Ballingrud and Sarah Pinsker ! The panel will be hosted by Quails from the Crypt Book Club Moderator Jon Carroll Thomas . One ticket per one person includes a signed copy of one of the three authors books (to be selected at checkout), entry to the event and a seat in the reserved section. You will choose one book to come with your ticket, but the other authors' titles will be available for purchase at the event. The authors will sign books and chat with attendees after the program.
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ABOUT THE BOOKS
WHAT FEASTS AT NIGHT by T. Kingfisher
Enter a cold, silent forest and find out what feasts at night in this new gothic tale from bestselling and award-winning author T. Kingfisher, set in the world of What Moves the Dead .
After their terrifying ordeal at the Usher manor, Alex Easton feels as if they just survived another war. All they crave is rest, routine, and sunshine, but instead, as a favor to Angus and Miss Potter, they find themself heading to their family hunting lodge, deep in the cold, damp forests of their home country, Gallacia.
In theory, one can find relaxation in even the coldest and dampest of Gallacian autumns, but when Easton arrives, they find the caretaker dead, the lodge in disarray, and the grounds troubled by a strange, uncanny silence. The villagers whisper that a breath-stealing monster from folklore has taken up residence in Easton’s home. Easton knows better than to put too much stock in local superstitions, but they can tell that something is not quite right in their home. . . or in their dreams.
CRYPT OF THE MOON SPIDER by Nathan Ballingrud
Crypt of the Moon Spider is a dark and dreamy tale of horror, corruption, and identity spun into the stickiest of webs.
Years ago, in a cave beneath the dense forests and streams on the surface of the moon, a gargantuan spider once lived. Its silk granted its first worshippers immense faculties of power and awe.
It’s now 1923 and Veronica Brinkley is touching down on the moon for her intake at the Barrowfield Home for Treatment of the Melancholy. A renowned facility, Dr. Barrington Cull’s invasive and highly successful treatments have been lauded by many. And they’re so simple! All it takes is a little spider silk in the amygdala, maybe a strand or two in the prefrontal cortex, and perhaps an inch in the hippocampus for near evisceration of those troublesome thoughts and ideas.
But patients aren’t the only ones with trouble on their minds, and although the spider’s been dead for years, its denizens are not. Someone or something is up to no good, and Veronica just might be the cause.
HAUNT SWEET HOME by Sarah Pinsker
On the set of a kitschy reality TV show, staged scares transform into unnerving reality in this spooky ghost story from multiple Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Sarah Pinsker.
When aimless twenty-something Mara lands a job as the night-shift production assistant on her cousin’s ghost hunting/home makeover reality TV show Haunt Sweet Home, she quickly determines her new role will require a healthy attitude toward duplicity. But as she hides fog machines in the woods and improvises scares to spook new homeowners, a series of unnerving incidents on set and a creepy new coworker force Mara to confront whether the person she's truly been deceiving and hiding from all along—is herself.
Eerie and empathetic, Haunt Sweet Home is a multifaceted, supernatural exploration of finding your own way into adulthood, and into yourself.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
T. KINGFISHER writes fantasy, horror, and occasional oddities, including Nettle & Bone , What Moves the Dead , and A House with Good Bones . Under a pen name, she also writes bestselling children's books. She lives in North Carolina with her husband, cats, and a large garden full of suspicious mushrooms.
NATHAN BALLINGRUD , winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, is the author of The Strange , Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell , and North American Lake Monsters , which was adapted into the Hulu series Monsterland. His work has been shortlisted for the World Fantasy, British Fantasy, and Bram Stoker awards. He lives in Asheville.
SARAH PINSKER is the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K Dick Award winning author o f A Song For A New Day , We Are Satellites , Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea , Lost Places , and over sixty works of short fiction. Her stories have appeared in Asimov's , Strange Horizons , Fantasy & Science Fiction , and Uncanny , and in numerous anthologies and year’s bests. She is also a singer/songwriter with four albums on various independent labels. She lives in Baltimore with her wife and two weird dogs.