TERRIFYING TALES FOR TEENS

10:00 am - 11:00 am
| Location of Session: Coates Chapel
Young Adult (YA) Sessions

Start of Signing: 11:15 AM
| Signing Location: Young Readers Signing Tent

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About the Event

This session is perfect for fans of the supernatural and for teen readers who love dark and scary stories. In Xan Kaur’s When Devils Sing, four unlikely allies investigate a local teen’s disappearance—and find themselves entangled in a messy web of secrets and lies. In Ann Dávila Cardinal’s You’ve Awoken Her, horror geek Gabi visits his best friend in the Hamptons, witnesses a woman being pulled under the water… and realizes that maybe monsters might be real.

About the Authors

Photo Credit: Courtesy of the Author

Ann Dávila Cardinal

Ann Dávila Cardinal is a Nuyorican polygenre author and educator. Her young-adult horror novels include Five Midnights (winner of an International Latino Book Award and a Bram Stoker finalist), Category Five, and Breakup from Hell. She has had short stories in many horror anthologies, including Other Terrors, Our Shadows Have Claws, Combat Monsters, and the forthcoming Ghosts of Where We Are From. She is founding faculty in the University of San Francisco’s MFA in Writing for Young Readers. Ann lives in a little house in Vermont with a very creepy basement. Her latest young-adult horror novel is You’ve Awoken Her.

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Xan Kaur

New York Times bestselling author Xan Kaur grew up in rural Georgia, where there were more gnats than people. When she’s not writing, you can find her behind a camera or swimming in the nearest ocean. When Devils Sing is her debut novel.

Moderator

Celso Hurtado

A native of San Antonio, Celso Hurtado is the author of The Ghost Tracks, which received praise from NPR and won an International Latino Book Award. His second novel, The Devil’s Promise, continues his exploration of San Antonio’s rich culture and hidden shadows.