Six Bridges Book Festival

Neena Viel & Alex Grecian

PRESENTERS: Neena Viel & Alex Grecian
BOOKS: Listen to Your Sister & Rose of Jericho
MODERATOR: Carl Napolitano

About the authors:

Neena Viel is a horror writer who lives in a cabin in the Washingtonian woods with her husband and the best dog on the planet. Her passion for philanthropy (almost) rivals her love for ghost stories. Listen to Your Sister is her debut novel.

Alex Grecian is the nationally bestselling author of Red Rabbit, The Yard, The Black Country, The Devil’s Workshop, The Harvest Man, Lost and Gone Forever, and The Saint of Wolves and Butchers, as well as the critically acclaimed graphic novels Proof and Rasputin, and the novellas The Blue Girl and One Eye Open. He lives in the Midwest with his wife, his son, their dog, and a tarantula named Rosie.

About the books:

For fans of Jordan Peele’s films, Stranger Things, and The Other Black Girl, Listen to Your Sister is a laugh-out-loud, deeply terrifying, and big-hearted speculative horror novel. Twenty-five-year-old Calla Williams is struggling since becoming guardian to her brother, Jamie. Jamie, full of good-natured teen recklessness, is usually off fighting for what matters to him or getting into mischief, often at the same time. Dre, their brother, promised he would help raise Jamie—but now in classic middle-child fashion, he’s off doing his own thing. And through it all, The Nightmare never stops haunting Calla: recurring images of her brothers dying that she is powerless to stop.

In supernatural horror novel Rose of Jericho, the USA Today bestselling follow-up to Red Rabbit, ghosts and ghouls are the least of a witch’s problems in nineteenth-century New England. Something wicked is going on in the village of Ascension: the dead are not dying. When Rabbit and Sadie Grace accompany their friend Rose to Ascension to help take care of her ailing cousin, they immediately notice that their new house, Bethany Hall, is occupied by dozens of ghosts. And something is waiting for them in the attic.