Award-Winning Horror Novelist Signs New Book at Orland B&N Store

Bram Stoker Award-winning horror novelist and Tinley Park native John Everson will return to the south suburbs on Tuesday night, Aug. 27, 2019, for a book signing at the Orland Park Barnes & Noble store to celebrate the release of his 11th novel, The Devil's Equinox .

Released on June 27 by London's Flame Tree Press, the novel has been described as "so powerful, so terrifying, so implacable in the evil it describes, that I could not stop reading" by The Haunted Reading Room.

Everson's previous novel, The House By The Cemetery, was a critically acclaimed fictional haunted house story set in a location familiar to most south suburban residents, Bachelors Grove Cemetery near Oak Forest. In October, FOX-TV staged a live broadcast from Bachelors Grove with Everson for their morning "Good Day Chicago" show.

Everson will be signing copies of both The Devil's Equinox and The House By The Cemetery at Barnes & Noble, 160 Orland Park Pl., Orland Park, IL, on Tuesday night from 6-9 p.m.

Publisher’s Weekly called The Devil’s Equinox a “fast-paced narrative” with a hero “lured down a dark path paved with black magic and lust that proves to be as dangerous as it is disturbing."

Kendall Reviews said The Devil’s Equinox “brought to mind that very special time in the 70’s and 80’s, where the Devil had his claws in every reader’s mind…This is a homage to vintage ‘satanic panic’ fiction… Everson plays his cards evenly with this throwback to the heyday. For certain readers, we will smile devilishly because we know EXACTLY what cards they are, watching as the hapless protagonist struggles with his higher thinking skills and the ‘lower’ ones if you catch my meaning."

Publisher's Description of The Devil's Equinox:
Austin secretly wishes his wife would drop dead. He even says so one boozy midnight at the bar to a sultry stranger with a mysterious tattoo. When his wife later introduces that stranger as Regina, their newneighbor, Austin hopes she will be a good influence on his wife. Instead, one night he comes home to find his wife dead. Soon he’s entranced with Regina, who introduces him to a strange world of bloodletting, rituals and magic. A world that puts everything he loves in peril. Can Austin save his daughter, and himself, before the planets align for the Devil’s Equinox?

About the Author:
Described as "a staunch advocate for the culinary joys of the jalapeno and an unabashed fan of 1970s European horror cinema," Everson is also the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Covenant and its two sequels, Sacrifice and Redemption, as well as eight other novels, including the erotic horror tour de force and Bram Stoker Award finalist NightWhere and his latest, The Devil's Equinox.

Over the past 25 years, his short fiction has appeared in more than 75 magazines and anthologies and received a number of critical accolades, including frequent Honorable Mentions in the Year's Best Fantasy & Horror anthology series. His story 'Letting Go' was a Bram Stoker Award finalist in 2007 and 'The Pumpkin Man' was included in the anthology All American Horror: The Best of the First Decade of the 21st Century. In addition to his own twisted worlds, he has also written stories in shared universes, including The Vampire Diaries and Jonathan Maberry's V-Wars series which will appear as a Netflix series later this year. His short story collections include Cage of Bones & Other Deadly Obsessions, Needles & Sins, Vigilantes of Love and Sacrificing Virgins. For more information on his fiction, art and music, visit John Everson: Dark Arts at www.johneverson.com.