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Here is the table of contents:
- Introduction by Sadie Hartmann
- Why Ask Why by Becky Spratford
- Brian Keene’s Giant-Size Man-Thing by Brian Keene
- The Giant Footprint of Horror by Hailey Piper
- In the Bermuda Triangle with Sasquatch, Flesh Smoldering by John Langan
- What You Can Learn from Horror: Don’t Run From Darkness; It’s Trying to Teach You a Lesson by Alma Katsu
- Horror is Life: A Blood-soaked Love Letter by Gabino Iglesias
- My Long Road to Horror by Tananarive Due
- Monster Girl: How Horror Gave Me a Place to Belong by Jennifer McMahon
- On the Amtrak, Heading Home by Josh Malerman
- Why Horror? by Paul Tremblay (drawings by Emma Tremblay)
- Why I Love Horror by Grady Hendrix
- My Mother Was Margaret White by Cynthia Pelayo
- Why I Am Horror by Clay McLeod Chapman
- A Day in My Psychedelic World by Nuzo Onoh
- Permission to Scream by Rachel Harrison
- Horror Saved My Life by Victor LaValle
- Tales From My Crypt by Mary SanGiovanni
- Of Men and Monsters by David Demchuk
- Why Horror by Stephen Graham Jones
You can click here for all of the wonderful blurbs by so many horror authors, including Silvia Moreno-Garcia whose words grace the cover and Daniel Kraus whose quote is on the back!
I will be celebrating Rosh Hashanah for most of the day today, but then after sundown we have a big party planned at the La Grange Public Library where I just recently retired as a trustee after 24 years of service to the taxpayers. It is in conversation with Cynthia Pelayo! Anderson's books is handling the sales of Why I Love Horror and will be donating 20% of those sales to the library. There is still room to join us if you are able.
Please click here to signup for that event and to see my entire book tour. That post now includes photos. Parnassus photos are here, but on that tour page, I will be adding a link to a folder with photos for every event.
For today's post here on the blog, in celebration of the book's release, I wanted to take a moment to go back to the early days of Why I Love Horror. Here is the post from when the book deal was announced back in May of 2024. In that post I write about how the idea began as part of my 31 Days of Horror blog-a-thon:
However, in 2017, I tried something new. I began an invite only series, inviting authors to write me a post with the prompt, “Why I Love Horror.” I give them no further direction other than a word limit (1,500 for the blog) and encouragement for them to share why they love this genre as a fan and creator.
What began very small has turned into a much heralded series with over 125 posts and counting. Authors eagerly await my invitations each year as I send them out in July and August, library workers celebrate the access they have received into the minds of authors, and I have been invited to curate larger conversations around this “Why I Love Horror” framework for libraries and publishers. The number of invited authors and posts has grown exponentially, and by 2023, my 31 Days of Horror blog series became more of a “Why I Love Horror” series that happened to post over the course of 31 Days.
Click here to read the full post from May 2024. Also, Why I Love Horror is up to 140 posts (and counting).
Speaking of 31 Days of Horror, the 2025 version begins next week on the horror blog. And I have all new Why I Love Horror essays from authors you know well, others you have heard of, and some who will be new to you. As well as at least 16 books to give away, including finished copies of my book to end the month.
But first, let's launch this book.
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