Adam Cesare


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.

Novels and novellas

  • Bound By Jade
  • Tribesmen
  • Video Night
  • The Summer Job
  • The First One You Expect
  • Jackpot
  • Exponential
  • Bottom Feeders
  • Zero Lives Remaining
  • Mercy House
  • Crawling Darkness
  • The Con Season
  • Clown in a Cornfield
  • Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives
  • Influencer
  • ''Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo''

    Short story collections

  • Bone Meal Broth
The book was expanded in 2016 with two new stories from the author.
The two additional stories are:
  • All-Night Terror
The book was expanded in 2016 with two new stories from each author.
For Adam Cesare, they were:
  • ''The Blackest eyes''

    Comics

  • The morning ritual in Adventure Time 2017 SPOookTACULAR #1, short comics story, BOOM! studios
  • Power rangers: in space in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers 2018 Annual Shattered Grid , short comics story, BOOM! studios
  • Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance #5-8, comics story, BOOM! studios.
  • Dead Mall #1-4, comics story, Dark Horse Comics.

    Screenplays

  • Last Night at Terrace Lanes
  • Ghost Game
  • ''Clown in a Cornfield''

    Other works

  • Leprechaun in the Hood: The Musical: A Novel
  • So bad in original edition of Zero Lives Remaining, short story, Shock Totem
  • In the flat light in Giallo fantastique, short story, World Horde
  • Starting early in Dark gallows: 10 Halloween haunts , short story, Scarlet galleon publications LLC
  • Readings off the charts in Year's Best Hardcore Horror Volume 1, short story, Comet Press
  • Killing time in the Off-season in The Healing Monsters , short story, Despumation Press
  • The missing years in The gruesome tensome , short story, Novello publishers
  • Please subscribe in Splatterpunk's not dead, short story, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Player agency in Screaming cacti, short story, Thunderstorm Books.
  • Moist Air in Clickers Forever, short story, Thunderstorm Books
  • The southern thing in Welcome to the show, short story, Crystal Lake Publishing.
  • A certain kind of forest sound in Centralia: Epicenter, short story, Hustle & Heart Films.
  • "The Dark Crystal Bestiary: The Definitive Guide to the Creatures of Thra", tie-in book, Insight Editions
  • In the Church and Through the House in Beyond the Book of Eibon, short story, Death Wound Publishing.
  • The dogs in my neighborhood in Razorblades issue 4, short story, Tiny Onion Studios.
  • Disc Rot in Obsolescence, short story, Shortwave Media LLC.