Adam Cesare

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]

• 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)
• Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo (2024)

• 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

• 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).

• Last Night at Terrace Lanes (2024, with Jenna St. John)^[23][24][25]
• Ghost Game (2024)
• Clown in a Cornfield (2025, with Carter Blanchard and Eli Craig)

• 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).

• Official website
• Adam Cesare at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database