Stephen Graham Jones & Paul Tremblay: In Conversation

828 Broadway,New York NY 10003

09 February, 2023

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Join us for an in-person event with New York Times bestselling author, Stephen Graham Jones, and award-winning author, Paul Tremblay, for the release of their new horror novels, Don’t Fear the Reaper (the second novel in the Indian Lake Trilogy) and The Cabin at the End of the World, with a special introduction by fellow horror author, Michael J. Seidlinger. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street. Can't make the event? Purchase a signed copy of Don’t Fear the Reaper here. Purchase a signed copy of The Cabin at the End of the World here. STRAND IN-PERSON EVENT COVID-19 POLICY: Per the request of the author, masks and vaccination checks are not required for entry at this event. Attendees are welcome to wear a mask if they choose. If you do not have a mask and would like one, The Strand will provide masks at the door. -------------------------------------------------------------------- About Don’t Fear the Reaper “Stephen Graham Jones is a star when it comes to melding horror with literary fiction, exploring themes of colonialism and racisms alongside Indigenous experiences. He hasn’t been described as the Jordan Peele of horror fiction for nothing... A masterpiece” —Book Riot Four years after her tumultuous senior year, Jade Daniels is released from prison right before Christmas when her conviction is overturned. But life beyond bars takes a dangerous turn as soon as she returns to Proofrock. Convicted Serial Killer, Dark Mill South, seeking revenge for thirty-eight Dakota men hanged in 1862, escapes from his prison transfer due to a blizzard, just outside of Proofrock, Idaho. Dark Mill South’s Reunion Tour began on December 12th, 2019, a Thursday. Thirty-six hours and twenty bodies later, on Friday the 13th, it would be over. Don’t Fear the Reaper is the page-turning sequel to My Heart Is a Chainsaw. About The Cabin at the End of the World Paul Tremblay’s terrifying twist to the home invasion novel—originally published as The Cabin at the End of the World—soon to be a major motion picture. “Tremblay’s personal best. It’s that good.” — Stephen King Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road. One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen, but he is young, friendly, and he wins her over almost instantly. Leonard and Wen talk and play until Leonard abruptly apologizes and tells Wen, “None of what’s going to happen is your fault.” Three more strangers then arrive at the cabin carrying unidentifiable, menacing objects. As Wen sprints inside to warn her parents, Leonard calls out: “Your dads won’t want to let us in, Wen. But they have to. We need your help to save the world.” Thus begins an unbearably tense, gripping tale of paranoia, sacrifice, apocalypse, and survival that escalates to a shattering conclusion, one in which the fate of a loving family and quite possibly all of humanity are entwined. Knock at the Cabin is a masterpiece of terror and suspense from the fantastically fertile imagination of Paul Tremblay. Stephen Graham Jones is the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians. He has been an NEA fellowship recipient and been recipient of several awards including: the Ray Bradbury Award from the Los Angeles Times, the Bram Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Jesse Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, and the Alex Award from American Library Association. He is the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder. Photo credit: Gary Isaacs Paul Tremblay has been the recipient of the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and Massachusetts Book Awards and is the author of Survivor Song, Growing Things and Other Stories, The Cabin at the End of the World, Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts, and the crime novels The Little Sleep and No Sleep Till Wonderland. He lives outside Boston with his family. Michael J. Seidlinger is a Filipino American author of Anybody Home?, Scream (Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series), and other books. He has written for Wired, Buzzfeed, Thrillist, Goodreads, The Observer, Polygon, The Believer, Publishers Weekly, amoung others. He teaches at Portland State University and has led workshops at Catapult, Kettle Pond Writer's Conference, and Sarah Lawrence. He is represented by Lane Heymont at The Tobias Literary Agency. You can find him at michaeljseidlinger.com.