The Columbus Book Festival is July 11th and 12th and we are very excited to share that I am back moderating a panel this year!
Horror That Haunts You is on Saturday July 11th at 4pm on Author Stage 1 and it is free to attend with book signings to follow. I am joined by three authors whose books will do what the panel title promises.
Sarah Gailey’s Make Me Better is a slow burn folk horror about Celia, a woman so desperate to belong somewhere that she accepts an invitation to Kindred Cove, a remote island community that promises healing and transformation. Sarah is a Hugo Award winning author and this one is being compared to Shirley Jackson and Ari Aster for good reason. The horror here is not about what jumps out at you. It is about how easily you can be convinced to let something consume you when you are lonely enough. Perfect for the timeline we are living in.
Jen Julian’s Red Rabbit Ghost is Southern Gothic at its most atmospheric. Jesse Calloway was found as an infant on a riverbank next to his mother’s body in a small North Carolina town. Eighteen years later someone is promising him answers, but only if he comes home. The Night House is waiting.
Neena Viel’s I’ll Watch Your Baby is a dual timeline horror novel built around one of America’s most weaponized myths: the welfare queen. Lottie Turner in 1974 is running schemes and crossing lines nobody else will cross. Bless in 1994 has finally found the family she deserved, until a robbery goes terrifyingly wrong and something from Lottie’s past catches up to them both. Sharp, suffocating, and socially precise in a way that makes the horror land even harder.
Gothic Appalachia, an isolated island cult, a ghostly reckoning with the welfare queen myth. Come find out what haunts us. Saturday July 11th at 4pm, Columbus Book Festival, Author Stage 1. Free to attend. See you there!
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