Oh, the Horror! The Book Stall joins fellow lovers of all things that go bump in the night as we partner with the Arlington Heights Memorial Library to welcome four local authors of the macabre on Friday the 13th! Horror lover, organizer and teacher Nora Flanagan will lead a panel conversation which plumbs the depths of the strange and terrifying.

Bring your questions for this incredible panel: 

Cynthia Pelayo, Bram Stoker Award winning and International Latino Book Award winning author and poet. Pelayo writes fairy tales that blend genre and explore concepts of grief, mourning, and violence. She is the author of Loteria, Santa Muerte, The Missing, Poems of My Night, Into the Forest and All the Way Through, Children of Chicago, Crime Scene, and The Shoemaker’s Magician

Gus Moreno, fiction writer and the author of This Thing Between Us. His stories have appeared in Southwest Review, Aurealis, Pseudopod, and the Burnt Tongues anthology. He lives in the suburbs with his wife and two dogs, but never think that he's not from Chicago.

Juan M. Martinez, author of Extended Stay and the story collection, Best Worst American. He lives near Chicago and is an associate professor at Northwestern University. His work has appeared in McSweeney's, NIGHTMARE, NPR's Selected Shorts, and elsewhere.
 
Maryse Meijer is the author of the story collections Heartbreaker, which was one of Electric Literature's 25 Best Short Story Collections of 2016, and Rag, which was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Pick and a finalist for the Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction, as well as the novella Northwood. She lives in Chicago.

Event date: 

Friday, October 13, 2023 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm

Event address: 

Arlington Heights Memorial Library

500 N. Dunton Avenue

Arlington Heights, IL 60004