Philip Fracassi is the USA Today bestselling author of The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre and a Bram Stoker Award and British Fantasy Award nominee. His other novels include A Child Alone With Strangers, Gothic, The Third Rule of Time Travel, Sarafina, and short story collections No One Is Safe!, Beneath a Pale Sky and Behold The Void.
He is also a screenwriter and his feature films have been distributed by Disney Entertainment and Lifetime TV, with several projects in various stages of development. His short story “Altar” has been adapted by film studio A24 for a feature film, as well as his story “Fail Safe,” which is being adapted by Sony Pictures, starring Oscar Winner Brie Larson. You can connect with him on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (@philipfracassi).
Fracassi sat down with Cemetery Dance to discuss his recently released short story collection Traps and Specters: Stories and the art form of building a collection of diverse short stories that is impactful and well-balanced.Continue Reading
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I Know A Place: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours from powerhouse Nat Cassidy (USA Today bestselling author) is not your traditional short story collection. It is more like being handed a map with certain locations circled in blood-red ink. These are the places you are warned not to visit, yet you cannot resist. Each story has its own setting, but they are not just mere backdrops. They are pressure points, spaces where something has gone wrong in ways that feel surreal yet deeply human. Cassidy understands that horror is not just about what lurks in the shadows. It is about why those shadows exist in the first place.