Adam Cesare Explained

Adam Cesare
Birth Date:	January 27, 1988
Nationality:	American
Alma Mater:	Boston University
Occupation:	Author
Known For:	Video Night

Adam Cesare is an American author of horror novels and short stories.^[1] He attended Boston University, where he studied English and film.

In 2020 Cesare's Clown in a Cornfield won the 2020 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Young Adult Novel.^[2]

Bibliography

Novels and Novellas

• Bound By Jade (2012)
• Tribesmen (2012)^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}
• Video Night (2013)^{[7] [8] [9] [10]}
• The Summer Job (2014)^{[11] [12] [13]}
• The First One You Expect (2014)^{[14] [15] [16]}
• Jackpot (2014, with David Bernstein, Shane McKenzie and Kristopher Rufty)^[17]
• Exponential (2014)^{[18] [19]}
• Bottom Feeders (2015, with Cameron Pierce)
• Zero Lives Remaining (2015)
• Mercy House (2015)
• Crawling Darkness (2016, with Cameron Pierce)
• The Con Season (2016)^[20]
• Clown in a Cornfield (2020)^{[21] [22]}
• Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives (2022)
• Influencer (2023, originally released as an Audible Exclusive Audiobook, Temple Hill entertainment)

Short story collections

• Bone Meal Broth (2012)

Short stories collected:

• The still

• Flies in the Brain

• Rollin & Jeanie

• Pink Tissue

• Border Jumper

• Trap

• The New Model

• The Girls in the Wood

• The White Halloween
• All-Night Terror (2013, with Matt Serafini)

Short stories collected:

• Gore Galore

• Bringing Down The Giants

• Killing time in the Off-Season

The book was expanded in 2016 with two new stories from each author.

For Adam Cesare, they were:

• A New Kind of Image

• Savior Girl in Philly Hell
• The Blackest eyes (2016)

Short stories collected:

• The Blackest eyes

• Me, Debased: A The First One You Expect Side-Story

First short story The Blackest eyes was later added to the 2018 short stories collection Dead Bait 4, Severed Press

Comics

• The morning ritual in Adventure Time 2017 SPOookTACULAR #1, short comics story, BOOM! studios (2017)
• Power rangers: in space in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers 2018 Annual Shattered Grid , short comics story, BOOM! studios (2018)
• Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance #5-8, comics story, BOOM! studios (2020).

reprinted as the hardcover graphic novel "Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance Vol. 2: The Ballad of Hup & Barfinnious"

• Dead Mall #1-4, comics story, Dark Horse Comics (2022-2023).

Screenplays

• Last Night at Terrace Lanes (2024, with Jenna St. John)^{[23] [24] [25]}
• Ghost Game (2024)
• Clown in a Cornfield (TBA, with Carter Blanchard and Eli Craig)

Other works

• Leprechaun in the Hood: The Musical: A Novel (serialized online during 2014, with Cameron Pierce and Shane McKenzie)^[26]
• So bad in original edition of Zero Lives Remaining, short story, Shock Totem (2015)

Later added to the 2016 expanded edition of Bone meal Broth, Black T-Shirt Books

• In the flat light in Giallo fantastique, short story, World Horde (2015)
• Starting early in Dark gallows: 10 Halloween haunts , short story, Scarlet galleon publications LLC (2015)

Also included in the 2017 edition of Zero Lives Remaining, Black T-Shirt Books.

• Readings off the charts in Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume 1, short story, Comet Press (2016)
• Killing time in the Off-season in The Healing Monsters (Volume 2), short story, Despumation Press (2016)
• The missing years in The gruesome tensome , short story, Novello publishers (2016)
• Please subscribe in Splatterpunk's not dead, short story, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2016)

Also included in Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume 2, short story, Comet Press (2017)

• Player agency in Screaming cacti, short story, Thunderstorm Books (2017).
• Moist Air in Clickers Forever, short story, Thunderstorm Books (2018)
• The southern thing in Welcome to the show, short story, Crystal Lake Publishing (2018).
• A certain kind of forest sound in Centralia: Epicenter, short story, Hustle & Heart Films (2020).
• "The Dark Crystal Bestiary: The Definitive Guide to the Creatures of Thra", tie-in book, Insight Editions (2020)
• In the Church and Through the House in Beyond the Book of Eibon, short story, Death Wound Publishing (2021).
• The dogs in my neighborhood in Razorblades issue 4, short story, Tiny Onion Studios (2021).
• Disc Rot in Obsolescence, short story, Shortwave Media LLC (2023).

Notes and References

1. Web site: Gilliand. Blu. Adam Cesare on the Video Nasties Behind 'Video Night'. Fearnet. 13 December 2013.
2. Web site: Templeton . Molly . 2021-06-01 . Announcing the 2020 Bram Stoker Awards Winners . 2024-04-13 . Reactor . en-US.
3. Web site: Book Review: Tribesmen (Adam Cesare). Brutal as Hell. 13 December 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20140416180004/http://www.brutalashell.com/2012/08/book-review-tribesmen-adam-cesare/. 16 April 2014. dead. dmy-all.
4. Web site: Serafini. Matt. Tribesmen (review). Dread Central. 15 April 2014.
5. Web site: Adam Cesare's ‘Tribesmen': A Debut with Guts. Fearnet. 15 April 2014.
6. Web site: An Interview with John Skipp. Fearnet. 15 April 2014.
7. Web site: Review: Video Night. Publishers Weekly. 13 December 2013.
8. Web site: DiVincenzo. Alex. Book Review: Video Night – Author Adam Cesare. HorrorNews.net. 13 December 2013.
9. Web site: Skipp. John. "VIDEO NIGHT" (Book Review). Fangoria. 13 December 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20140416182042/http://www.fangoria.com/new/video-night-book-review/. 16 April 2014. dead. dmy-all.
10. Web site: Video Night (review). Dread Central. 15 April 2014.
11. Web site: Gilliand. Blu. Book Review: 'The Summer Job' by Adam Cesare. Fearnet. 13 December 2013.
12. Web site: Daley. Ryan. [Book Review] Adam Cesare Earns A Raise With 'The Summer Job']. Bloody Disgusting. 13 December 2013.
13. Web site: Book Review: The Summer Job – Author Adam Cesare. HorrorNews.net. 13 December 2013.
14. Web site: Skipp. John. "THE SUMMER JOB" / "THE FIRST ONE YOU EXPECT" (Book Review). Fangoria. 15 April 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140416175916/http://www.fangoria.com/new/the-summer-job-the-first-one-you-expect-book-review/. 16 April 2014. dead. dmy-all.
15. Web site: Gillian. Blu. Book Review: 'The First One You Expect' by Adam Cesare. Fearnet. 15 April 2014.
16. Web site: Book Review: The First One You Expect – Author Adam Cesare. HN.n. 15 April 2014.
17. Web site: Book Review: Jackpot – Authors: Various. HorrorNews.net. 23 March 2015.
18. Web site: AICN HORROR looks at AN AMERICAN TERROR! BIND! DON’T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT! AT THE DEVIL’S DOOR! LIVE-IN FEAR! LONG HAIR OF DEATH! CAM2CAM! DEVIL’S HAND! AMERICAN BURGER! THE DEVICE! LORD OF ILLUSIONS! EXPONENTIAL Novel! & I HATE RACCOONS!. AICN. 23 March 2015.
19. Web site: Book Review: Exponential – Author Adam Cesare. HorrorNews.net. 23 March 2015.
20. Web site: Vote for Adam Cesare's The Con Season on Kindle Scout; Get a Free Book. 2016-07-29. Dread Central. en-US. 2016-08-06.
21. Web site: Feuerbach. Kyle. 2020-07-27. Clown in a Cornfield By Adam Cesare. 2020-08-22. Signal Horizon Magazine. en-US.
22. Web site: Sigler. Gabriel. 2020-08-26. ‘Clown in a Cornfield’ review: Adam Cesare pushes the limits of YA fiction with his brutal horror novel. 2020-09-23. Bad Feeling Magazine. en-CA.
23. Web site: Last Night at Terrace Lanes . Rotten Tomatoes . 13 May 2024.
24. Web site: Lipsett . Joe . 2024-01-19 . ‘Last Night at Terrace Lanes’ Review – Bowling Slasher Lands Somewhere Between Strike and Gutterball . 2024-05-13 . Bloody Disgusting! . en-US.
25. Web site: Neary . Dawn Morgan . 2024-01-23 . ‘Last Night at Terrace Lanes’ premiere: a party in a growing film town? . 2024-05-13 . The Frederick News-Post . en.
26. Web site: Serafini. Matt. Leprechaun in the Hood: The Musical: A Novel Makes its Online Debut!. Dread Central. 15 April 2014.