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 (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)

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


 * 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 (TBA, 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).