People are going to be talking about this novel all year. Also consider it's already received blurbs from people like Clive Barker, Stephen Graham Jones, and Paul Tremblay? Triple holy crap. This is thrilling, old school horror for a new generation.' - Madeleine Roux, author of the Asylum series 'There's a lot to love about Adam Cesare's new novel, Clown in a Cornfield. Rejoice horror fans new and old, and be terrified of Adam's everyday clowns.' - Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World 'Tense, modern and gory, Cesare's Clown in a Cornfield is simultaneously classic and fresh. 'This party starts early, and it does not stop until all the bodies have hit the floor.' - Stephen Graham Jones, author of Mongrels and The Only Good Indians 'Adam Cesare's CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD starts as a fun and scary retro-slasher but then cleverly twists and bloodies its way into being a very new kind of beast. YALSA's Best Fiction for Young Adults Nominee Until Frendo, the Baypen mascot, a creepy clown in a pork-pie hat, goes homicidal and decides that the only way for Kettle Springs to grow back is to cull the rotten crop of kids who live there now.

It's a fight that looks like it will destroy the town.

Kettle Springs is caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress. On one side are the adults, who are desperate to make Kettle Springs great again, and on the other are the kids, who want to have fun, make prank videos, and get out of Kettle Springs as quick as they can. But what they don't know is that ever since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory shut down, Kettle Springs has cracked in half.

Quinn Maybrook and her father have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs, to find a fresh start. Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel In Adam Cesare's terrifying young adult debut, Quinn Maybrook finds herself caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress-that just may cost her life.

Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare