We could not be more excited to celebrate the launch of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by one of the authors “shaping the horror’s next golden age” (Esquire Magzine, 2023), Clay McLeod Chapman.  Clay has been haunting Charm City Books since 2019 when he visited for the launch of The Remaking (watch the reading here).  Joining Clay again will be is compatriot in curses, Ronald Malfi (Small Town Horror, They Lurk, GhostWritten).

FREE TO ATTEND: RSVP AT THE EVENT LINK ON THIS PAGE. Both authors will be on hand to sign books and answer questions after a couple of readings, and a moderated book talk with Charm City Books own Joe!

Clay McLeod Chapman is the author of novels What Kind of Mother, Ghost Eaters, Whisper Down the Lane, The Remaking, and miss corpus, story collections nothing untoward, commencement and rest area, as well as The Tribe middlegrade series: Homeroom Headhunters, Camp Cannibal and Academic Assassins. His new novel, Wake Up and Open Your Eyes, arrives on January 7, 2025. Upcoming projects include the novelette Stay On The Line (Shortwave Books), the novella Kill Your Darling (Bad Hand Books) and the creator-owned comic limited series Seance in the Asylum (Dark Horse Comics). Quiet Part Loud, a 12-part horror podcast from Jordan Peele/Monkeypaw Productions, written by Chapman and Mac Rogers, is available on Spotify.

 Ronald Malfi is an award-winning author of several horror novels, mysteries, and thrillers. He is the recipient of two Independent Publisher Book Awards, the Beverly Hills Book Award, the Vincent Preis Horror Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award for Popular Fiction, and he is a Bram Stoker Award nominee. Most recognized for his haunting, literary style and memorable characters, Malfi’s dark fiction has gained acceptance among readers of all genres. When he’s not writing, he’s fronting the rock band VEER.