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Adam Cesare

Awards: Stoker (2024) see all

Genres: Horror, Young Adult Fantasy

New and upcoming books

August 2026

Lights! Camera! Frendo!
(Clown in a Cornfield, book 4)

January 2027

Bloodsick

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)

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)
   Bloodsick (2027)

Collections

   Bone Meal Broth (2012)
   All-Night Terror (2013) (with Matt Serafini)
   The Blackest Eyes (2016)

Novellas and Short Stories

The First One You Expect (2014)
Crawling Darkness (2016) (with Cameron Pierce)

Books containing stories by Adam Cesare

101 Horror Stories (2025)

Fear of Clowns (2024)
A Horror Anthology: Coulrophobia Stories
edited by
Kenneth W Cain

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
	2025 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel (nominee) : The Church of Frendo

Adam Cesare recommends

Tell the Ghosts I'm Gone (2026)
Kalynn Bayron
"A supremely satisfying supernatural mystery packed with ghost-hunting, ectoplasm-conjuring, secret societies, and likeable teens (who are also supernatural). Enjoyable not just for its heart and thrills, but the amount of authentic spiritualist lore it pulls into its twisty narrative."

I Know a Place (2026)
Nat Cassidy
"Somewhere between SAW and Sartre, there's a detour. Nat Cassidy's Rest Stop is that roadside attraction, a funny, beautiful, and scary novella that leavens its introspection with blood-spatter and a dusting of spider legs. It's great!"

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."

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."

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."

Honeysuckle and Bone (2025)
(Honeysuckle and Bone, book 1)
Trisha Tobias
"When folk magic and unquiet spirits are the least of your worries, that's good horror. Tobias has crafted a debut that's a bit of a miracle: a gothic that has its (honeysuckle-scented) cake and eats it too. Sweeping and foreboding, but never stuffy thanks to its vibrantly realized setting, likable characters, and a narrator who'd be her own worst enemy, if not for all her actual enemies and the swirling mystery she's dug herself into."

Coup De Grace (2024)
Sofia Ajram
"The ultimate bummer of publishing is you're asked to compare books to other, similar books and movies in order to help sell them, and while you can do that with Coup de Grace ("It's part Cronenberg, part Danielewski, part Greek myth!") those 'comps' don't really get at how vital and new and achingly now the novella is in its story, its melancholy... and its scares. A true achievement."

Delicious Monsters (2023)
Liselle Sambury
"Scary, complex, emotional, lived-in, ambitious, Liselle Sambury's Delicious Monsters is a can't miss. A Canadian gothic epic (northern gothic?) that has a lot to say about the stories and lies we tell ourselves about our own families. Oh, and did I mention it's scary?"

Breakup from Hell (2023)
Ann Dávila Cardinal
"Buffy with a demonic twist, Breakup from Hell is a refreshing, fun, funny and (emotionally) warm romp filled with monsters, boyfriends, and...monstrous boyfriends."

Manhunt (2022)
Gretchen Felker-Martin
"Manhunt provokes in the best possible ways. Humane and pissed off and funny and real and acerbic and tragic. It does everything a book can do, but still has time to be a full-on horror novel with some of the most grueling sequences I've ever read, ever."

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