Tucson Festival of Books

Creeping Dread: Atmospheric Horror


In this session, authors Alisa Alering, Kay Chronister and Alex Grecian will explain how they craft atmosphere that gets under readers' skin and lingers long after the last page. How do they build tension? All three are masters at weaving psychological and supernatural elements into their narratives. (Unfortunately, Jonathan Maberry will no longer be able to participate in this session as originally planned.)


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....


Books:
Smothermoss
Alisa Alering
Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Horror
Tin House Books, LLC
January 2024
ISBN 9781959030584
264 pages

The Bog Wife
A Novel
Kay Chronister
Fiction / Literature
Catapult
October 2024
ISBN 9781640096622
336 pages

Rose of Jericho
Alex Grecian
Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Horror
Tor Publishing Group
March 2025
ISBN 9781250874719
352 pages