Join fellow lovers of all things that go bump in the night as the library welcomes four Chicago-area authors on Friday the 13th. Horror lover, organizer and teacher Nora Flanagan will lead a panel conversation. Then stay to mingle with our guest authors: 

Maryse Meijer, author of Heartbreaker, Rag, Northwood, and The Seventh Mansion. She lives in 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.

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.

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
 

Register with up to three guests. Refreshments will be provided. Books for sale and signing courtesy The Book Stall
 

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