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• Additional copies of the panelists’ books, and Peter Straub’s books, will be available for purchase at the event.

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Join us for an evening of remembering, celebrating, and dissecting the work of famed horror writer Peter Straub, author of The Hellfire Club, Mr. X, Shadowland, Ghost Story, and co-author with Stephen King of The Talisman and Black House.

Straub’s award-winning work has had a massive influence on today’s growing generation of horror novelists, including Stephen Graham Jones, Grady Hendrix, and Nat Cassidy. This panel includes a handful of those writers who were admirers, mentees, and dear friends.

Nat Cassidy is a USA Today bestselling and Bram Stoker Award-nominated author whose acclaimed works include Mary (“One of the Best Horror Novels of All Time” – Audible), Nestlings, and Rest Stop. Esquire described him as one “of the best horror writers of this generation” and among the writers “shaping horror’s next golden age.” His award-winning plays have been produced across the country, including Off-Broadway and the Kennedy Center. You’ve also maybe seen Nat guest-starring on shows like Law & Order: SVU, Blue Bloods, Bull, Quantico, FBI, and many others … but that’s a topic for a different bio. His newest novel, When the Wolf Comes Home, hit shelves in April 2025 and was called “a classic” by Stephen King. www.natcassidy.com

Dan Chaon is the author of eight books of fiction, including his latest, One of Us, newly released in Fall, 2025.Other works include Ill Will, a national bestseller, named one of the ten best books of 2017 by Publishers Weekly anda finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award; the short story collection Stay Awake (2012), a finalist for the Story Prize;the New York Times Bestseller Await Your Reply; and Among the Missing, a finalist for the National Book Award. He lives in Cleveland.

Kelly Link is the author of the collections Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, Pretty Monsters, Get in Trouble, and White Cat, Black Dog. Her short stories have been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Best American Short Stories, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. She was a 2018 MacArthur Fellow and has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She and Gavin J. Grant have co-edited a number of anthologies, including multiple volumes of The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror and, for young adults, Steampunk! and Monstrous Affections. She is the co-founder of Small Beer Press and co-edits the occasional zine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet. She is the owner of Book Moon, an independent bookshop in Easthampton, MA.

Emma Straub is the New York Times bestselling author of six books for adults: the novels This Time Tomorrow, All Adults Here, The Vacationers, Modern Lovers, Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures, and the short story collection Other People We Married. She is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and her work has been published in more than 20 languages. Emma and her husband own Books Are Magic, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn, New York.