Christina Henry in Conversation with Cynthia Pelayo

We are so excited to welcome back Christina Henry for an evening at Three Avenues Bookshop, where she'll be in conversation with another horror author, Cynthia Pelayo, to celebrate the launch of her newest horror novel: Pinfeathers. The event will feature a conversation and audience Q&A moderated by Cynthia Pelayo. An author meet & greet and book signing will follow.

When: Tuesday, November 17th at 6:00 pm (doors open at 5:45 pm)

Where: Three Avenues Bookshop - 3009 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL 60657

Copies of and other books by Christina Henry will be available for purchase during the event! Additionally, we'll have the anthology edited by Cynthia Pelayo on hand. Participants will have the opportunity to get their books signed by Christina Henry and Cynthia Pelayo!

A tense, gripping novel about a mother whose child begins to change in ways she can't explain, from the national bestselling author of The Place Where They Buried Your Heart.

Nora Pacetti is a new stay-at-home mother--she's tired but coping while caring for her happy, healthy baby, Olivia. But then one morning, something that looks like a feather starts growing out of Olivia's arm. Or at least, that's what Nora's mother, Giulia, thinks. Nora thinks her mother has probably spent too much time watching conspiracy videos on YouTube.

Nora's husband thinks Olivia needs tests, specialists, hospitals. But Nora senses that whatever is happening to her daughter needs to be concealed--and a mother's intuition is never wrong. Soon sinister people begin asking questions about Olivia, and Nora starts to wonder if there really is something wrong with her baby. But she's determined to discover the truth about her daughter . . . no matter the cost.

Christina Henry is a horror and dark fantasy author whose works include The Place Where They Buried Your Heart, The House That Horror Built, Good Girls Don’t Die, Horseman, Near the Bone, The Ghost Tree, The Girl in Red, The Mermaid, Lost Boy, The Chronicles of Alice series (Alice, Red Queen and Looking Glass) and the seven-book urban fantasy Black Wings series.
Her short stories have been featured in the anthologies Elemental Forces, Cursed, Twice Cursed, Giving the Devil His Due and Kicking It.
She enjoys running long distances, reading anything she can get her hands on and watching movies with samurai, zombies and/or subtitles in her spare time. She lives in Chicago with her husband.

Cynthia Pelayo is a Bram Stoker Award and International Latino Book
Award-winning author and poet. She writes fairy tales that blend genre and explore concepts of grief, mourning, and cycles of violence. She is the author of Loteria, Children of Chicago, The Shoemaker’s Magician, It Came From Neverland and more, as well as dozens of standalone short stories and poems. Something Followed Us Home: Tales of Latiné Horror is a 2026 multi-author anthology she edited available September 29 from Atria/Primero Sueno Press.

Three Avenues Bookshop's goal is to be a safe, accessible, and inclusive space for all. Please email us at [email protected] to let us know if you need any accommodations for this event, and we'll do our best to meet them. Accommodations can include but are not limited to the following: space for a wheelchair or other mobility device, masks, answering questions about the space over the phone or email ahead of time, etc.

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