Adam Cesare is an American author of horror novels and short stories. 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.
In 2026 his novelisation of the Toxic Avenger film won a Scribe Award for best adapted novel.
Bibliography Novels and novellas Bound By Jade (2012) Tribesmen (2012) Video Night (2013) The Summer Job (2014) The First One You Expect (2014) Jackpot (2014, with David Bernstein, Shane McKenzie and Kristopher Rufty) Exponential (2014) Bottom Feeders (2015, with Cameron Pierce) Zero Lives Remaining (2015) Mercy House (2015) Crawling Darkness (2016, with Cameron Pierce) The Con Season (2016) Clown in a Cornfield (2020) Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives (2022) Influencer (2023, originally released as an Audible Exclusive Audiobook, Temple Hill entertainment) Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo (2024) Clown in a Cornfield 4: Lights! Camera! Frendo! (2026)
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 The book was expanded in 2016 with two new stories from the author.
The two additional stories are:
Bringing Down The Giants So Bad
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) Ghost Game (2024) Clown in a Cornfield (2025, 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) 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).
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