I wrote a short story about her for the Cemetery Riots anthology a couple years ago. What part of the cemetery’s history or legend intrigued you the most?ĮVERSON: I am always fascinated by ghost stories, so I love the stories of the Madonna of Bachelor’s Grove, a ghostly woman sometimes seen walking with a child, and sometimes on her own. HA: You set The House by the Cemetery in Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery, one of the most haunted sites in Illinois and near where you grew up. That is the first time I’ve ever had a publisher do all versions of a novel, so… it’s a big release for me! After four books with them, I am now with Flame Tree Press, which is issuing The House By The Cemetery in hardcover, paperback, e-book, and audiobook. Then after the dissolution of Leisure, my sixth novel NightWhere debuted on Samhain Publishing, which was my second “paperback” home. Both of those debuts were big because – first book ever, and then first book ever in bookstores. My first couple novels debuted in hardcover on Delirium Books, a small independent press, and then made their big “mass market” paperback debut a couple years later on Leisure Books, which put them in bookstores across the country. Does this release personally feel any different than your previous releases in terms of anticipation and excitement? Or do all of them feel the same?ĮVERSON: They’re all a little different, but this one is special because it’s the debut release on my fourth major publisher. HORROR ADDICTS: Your 10th novel, The House by the Cemetery, arrived October 18th from your new publisher Flame Tree Press. In an exclusive interview with, Everson discusses his new novel, his past works, and what scares him. Check out Everson’s website by clicking here. His sixth novel, Nightwhere, was a Bram Stoker Award finalist in 2013. The Illinois author won the Bram Stoker Award for a First Novel in 2005 for Covenant. Because while the witch may have been dead … she doesn’t intend to stay that way.”Įverson’s novels are dark and visceral, often blending horror with the occult and taboo sex. There’s a dark, horrible ritual to fulfill. She needs people to fill her house on Halloween. And behind the rumors is a real ghost who will do whatever it takes to ensure the house reopens. There are noises in the walls, and fresh blood on the floor: secrets that would be better not to discover.

Soon he’ll learn that fresh wood and nails can’t keep decades of rumors down. But rumors won’t stop carpenter Mike Kostner from rehabbing the place as a haunted house attraction. The teaser for the book hints at a perfect read for autumn: “Rumor has it that the abandoned house by the cemetery is haunted by the ghost of a witch. The teaser for the book hints at a perfect autumn read: Flame Tree Press released Bram Stoker Award-winning horror author John Everson’s 10th novel, The House by the Cemetery, on October 18th.

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