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Adam Cesare




Awards: Stoker (2024)  see all

Genres: Horror, Young Adult Fantasy
 
New and upcoming books
September 2025

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The Toxic Avenger
 
Series
Clown in a Cornfield
   1. Clown in a Cornfield (2020)
   2. Frendo Lives (2022)
   3. The Church of Frendo (2024)
   4. Lights! Camera! Frendo! (2026)
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Novels
   Tribesmen (2012)
   Video Night (2013)
   The Summer Job (2014)
   Leprechaun in the Hood: The Musical (2014) (with Shane McKenzie and Cameron Pierce)
   Jackpot (2014) (with others)
   Exponential (2014)
   Bottom Feeders (2015) (with Cameron Pierce)
   Mercy House (2015)
   Zero Lives Remaining (2016)
   The Con Season (2016)
   Influencer (2024)
   The Toxic Avenger (2025)
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Collections
   Bone Meal Broth (2012)
   All-Night Terror (2013) (with Matt Serafini)
   The Blackest Eyes (2016)
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Novellas and Short Stories
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Books containing stories by Adam Cesare
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Fear of Clowns (2024)
A Horror Anthology: Coulrophobia Stories
edited by
Kenneth W Cain
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Bound in Blood (2024)
Stories of Cursed Books, Damned Libraries and Unearthly Authors
edited by
Johnny Mains

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Awards
2024 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel : The Church of Frendo
2020 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel : Clown in a Cornfield

Award nominations
2025 ITW Award for Best Young Adult Novel (nominee) : Influencer


Adam Cesare recommends
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Teenage Girls Can Be Demons (2025)
Hailey Piper
"Teenage Girls Can Be Demons is Hailey Piper at her best. In a publishing world where the novel reigns supreme, here a collection is the only way to really get to know the multiplicity of Piper's work. Harrowing, scary, and raw, most often all in the same story, with topics that range from the surreal, to the nostalgic, to the all-too-real. Terrific."
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Play Nice (2025)
Rachel Harrison
"Play Nice is Harrison at her best. Creepy, paranoid, and full of heart. A nuanced, humanistic take on the supernatural. How our lives and relationships are haunted by our past... sometimes literally. A home possession thriller that sits on the same block as Amityville, but has significantly higher resell value."
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The October Film Haunt (2025)
Michael Wehunt
"Intelligent, emotional, and very very scary. One of the best books I've read in years. The October Film Haunt begins personal, zooms out to epic, and then ends with you and the book curled alone, in the dark, with someone or something standing, unwelcome, in the corner. Wehunt's prose is beautiful and his observations about horror film fandom and horror filmmaking... hit a little too close to home. But maybe that's just a me thing."

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