Midwestern Gothic
Published on 17. September 2024
978-1-950301-66-9 (ISBN)
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2024 SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD WINNER
Four gothic novellas from the novelist of Kill Creek and Violet, praised by the New York Times, National Public Radio, and the American Library Association.
In The Door in the Field, a construction worker's bad day becomes a far worse night when drinks at an off-the-books bar send him down an unforeseeably bloody path.
In The Boy in the Woods, something evil has infected the counselors at a summer camp, and a young boy will have to do anything he can to survive the night.
In One Half of a Child's Face, a woman spying on her daughter and ex-husband notices an odd painting hanging in an empty apartment . . . one that seems to call to the building's children.
In Wear Your Secret Like a Stone, a big-box clerk discovers that her book pick for a Halloween display echoes a dark secret hidden beneath the idyllic facade of her hometown.
With this collection, Scott Thomas digs his hands into the soil of the American heartland and establishes himself as a master of Midwestern Gothic.
Four gothic novellas from the novelist of Kill Creek and Violet, praised by the New York Times, National Public Radio, and the American Library Association.
In The Door in the Field, a construction worker's bad day becomes a far worse night when drinks at an off-the-books bar send him down an unforeseeably bloody path.
In The Boy in the Woods, something evil has infected the counselors at a summer camp, and a young boy will have to do anything he can to survive the night.
In One Half of a Child's Face, a woman spying on her daughter and ex-husband notices an odd painting hanging in an empty apartment . . . one that seems to call to the building's children.
In Wear Your Secret Like a Stone, a big-box clerk discovers that her book pick for a Halloween display echoes a dark secret hidden beneath the idyllic facade of her hometown.
With this collection, Scott Thomas digs his hands into the soil of the American heartland and establishes himself as a master of Midwestern Gothic.
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Scott Thomas is the Shirley Jackson Award-winning and Stoker-nominated author of Kill Creek, which was selected by the American Library Association's reader committee as the top horror book of 2017, and of Violet, which was praised by NPR. Originally from Coffeyville, Kansas, Scott attended the University of Kansas where he earned degrees in English and Film. He is the Executive Producer/Showrunner of Disney Channel's Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja, Best Friends Whenever and Raven's Home, Netflix's Malibu Rescue and Syfy's Day of the Dead. Scott has been nominated for Emmys for his work on R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour and Raven's Home. He lives in Sherman Oaks, California with his wife and two daughters. Midwestern Gothic is his third book.
