About this Event
Join us for a guided discussion of our monthly book selection, paired with delicious food, drinks, and the company of a wonderful reading community.
Book & Dinner Ticket: $60
Includes the book of the month (physical or audio copy), 2 drinks, an appetizer, family-style main course, and light dessert. Limited to 40 seats. Additional food and drink available for purchase at Stems & Skins.
- October Book Club Pick: Fiend by Alma Katsu
- Where: Stems & Skins, 1070 E Montague Ave, North Charleston, SC
- When: October 20, 2026, at 7 p.m.
Book Fulfillment
- During order confirmation, you will select either a physical copy or audiobook version of the month's book.
- Please provide an email address for your audiobook token to be sent to. It will come as an email from Libro.fm within 24 hours of purchase with the subject line "Fiend by Alma Katsu on Libro.fm" and may go to your promotions folder.
- If you opt for the print book and would like it shipped to your address of choice, please add the $5 shipping add-on to your order.
- All other print books can be picked up at book club or at the bookstore.
Dietary Restrictions & Alcohol-Free Options
Select the "Special Diet" or "Non-Alcoholic Drink Pairings" Dietary Restrictions at checkout.
Parking
Street parking is available around Stems & Skins. There are also several public parking lots nearby, such as on Cougar Way behind DIG, Stone's Ally in front of Itinerant Literate, off Colie Morse Lane there are two grass lots in front of Cooper River Baptist Church and one at Chateau Ave & Garco Street.
About the Book - Fiend by Alma Katsu
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Historical horror maven Alma Katsu turns her talents to the modern world for the first time, in this terrifying tale about an all-powerful family with an ancient evil under its thumb.
Imagine if the Sackler family had a demon at their beck and call.
The Berisha family runs one of the largest import-export companies in the world, and they’ve always been lucky. Their rivals suffer strokes. Inconvenient buildings catch on fire. Earthquakes swallow up manufacturing plants, destroying harmful evidence. Things always seem to work out for the Berishas. They’re blessed.
At least that is what Zef, the patriarch, has always told his three children. And each of them knows their place in the family—Dardan, as the only male heir, must prepare to take over as keeper of the Berisha secrets, Maris’s most powerful contribution, much to her dismay, will be to marry strategically, and Nora’s job, as the youngest, is to just stay out of the way. But when things stop going as planned, and the family blessing starts looking more like a curse, the Berishas begin to splinter, each hatching their own secret scheme. They didn’t get to be one of the richest families in the world without spilling a little blood, but this time, it might be their own.
Event venue & nearby stays
Stems & Skins, 1070 East Montague Avenue, North Charleston, United States
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