Tucson Festival of Books

Creeping Dread: Atmospheric Horror


Authors Alisa Alering, Kay Chorister, Alex Grecian, and Jonathan Maberry discuss how they craft atmosphere that gets under readers' skin and lingers long after the last page. They'll discuss their techniques for building tension, creating memorable settings, and weaving psychological and supernatural elements into their narratives.


Panelists
Alisa Alering

Alisa Alering is the author of the novel "Smothermoss," an Appalachian gothic that the New York Times Book Review calls "deliciously weird...a compulsive journey through a wild, unknowable landscape and the wilder hearts of young girls....

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Kay Chronister

Kay Chronister is the author of "Thin Places" and "Desert Creatures." Her newest book is "The Bog Wife." Her short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Dark, and elsewhere, and has been nominated for the Shirley Jackson and World Fantasy awards....

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Alex Grecian

Alex Grecian is the New York Times bestselling author of "Red Rabbit," "The Yard," "The Black Country," "The Devil’s Workshop," "The Harvest Man," "Lost and Gone Forever," and "The Saint of Wolves and Butchers," as well as the critically acclaimed graphic novels "Proof" and "Rasputin....

Jonathan Maberry

JONATHAN MABERRY is a NYTimes bestselling author, #1 Audible bestseller, 5-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, 4-time Scribe Award winner, Inkpot Award winner, comic book writer, and producer. He is the author of 52 novels, 16 short story collections, 28 graphic novels, 170 short stories, 14 nonfiction books, and has edited 26 anthologies....

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Books:
Smothermoss
Alisa Alering
Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Horror
Tin House Books, LLC
January 2024
ISBN 9781959030584
264 pages
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The Bog Wife
A Novel
Kay Chronister
Fiction / Literature
Catapult
October 2024
ISBN 9781640096622
336 pages
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Rose of Jericho
Alex Grecian
Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Horror
Tor Publishing Group
March 2025
ISBN 9781250874719
352 pages

Burn to Shine
A Joe Ledger and Rogue Team International Novel
Jonathan Maberry
Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Horror
St. Martin's Publishing Group
March 2025
ISBN 9781250892669
512 pages