About this Event
Featuring:
M. Jane Worma (Brooklyn NY), Drew Huff (Seattle, WA), Kayli Scholz (Florida), Brandon Perras-Sanchez (Providence, Rhode Island), Matt Forgit (Boston, MA), Vincent Endwell (Brooklyn NY), Bee Michael (Brooklyn NY) & Jarrod Campbell (Herndon, VA), hosted by Dre R. Spooky (NYC).
Enjoy a night of readings & drinks as we wind down the day of celebrations!
M. Jane Worma is a queer horror writer with a fascination for the sadistic and horrifying. After escaping from their birthplace of San Antonio Texas, and spending a decade in the haunted desert of New Mexico before making the move to the colder northeast, they now happily reside in Brooklyn.
Drew Huff: If you want to be enthralled and excited, read Drew Huff. Their fiction is pure action, filled with unique concepts, worlds, and characters. They're the author of several horror and sci-fi books, including LGBTQ sci-fi novella Landlocked In Foreign Skin (Jan 2025), cosmic horror novel The Divine Flesh (Dark Matter INK, March 2025), forthcoming cosmic horror novella My Name Isn’t Paul (Nov. 2025) and forthcoming horror novel, The Exodontists (Nefarious Bat, Fall 2026). Drew's short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies. By day, they’re a freelance illustrator and graphic designer.
Kayli Scholz lives and writes in the wilds of Florida. She is the author of Saint Grit, Black Rain Season, and Yeehaw Junction. Kayli is also the author of several short stories and currently working on her next novel.
Brandon Perras-Sanchez is a writer, musician, filmmaker and actor who is inspired by 80s horror, folklore, fantasy, mythology, metal and noise rock. He grew up as a queer Cuban kid in a conservative part of Vermont but now resides in Providence, RI. What drives Perras-Sanchez as a writer are the sasquatch that lurk in the woods, the sea monsters that rule the deep, and the ghosts that haunt the abandoned house at the end of the street. These fantastical creatures are at the center of his artistic practice because they embody themes of feeling “unnatural” and ostracism.
Matt Forgit lives and writes in New England. He is the author of It’s Always Halloween Here, How to Be a Professional Mourner, The Felicitous, and You Better Watch Out. His short story “Do You Fear What I Fear?” is featured in the Christmas House anthology from Bludgeoned Girls Press.
Vincent Endwell is an androgyne writer and artist originally from unceded Onondaga territory (Central New York). Vincent’s work has been published previously in Campfire Press, Dark Horses Magazine, Corvid Queen, and others. They have a deep love for touristy ghost books.
Bee Michael (xe/xir) is a chronically online pervert who writes what xe knows. Xe has an unrelenting fascination with filth and horror, both of the real world and the online world, and lives right in the musky crevice where those worlds intersect. Xir current project, NEWFAG RUNS THE GAUNTLET, is a web novel exploring the depravity of edgelord internet culture.
Jarrod Campbell is a writer living in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington DC. His fiction, CNF, poetry, and reviews have appeared in Heavy Feather Review, Northwest Review, Modern Literature, Wicked Gay Ways, and others. His collection of short stories, The Reason I’m Here, (Stalking Horse Press, June 2023, listed as an anticipated LGBTQIA+ read by Lambda Literary the month of its release), departs from standard expectations of queer behavior to subvert these limited perceptions in favor of honest, explorations of desire, amnesia, voyeurism, betrayal, physicality, grief, faith, and uncertainty.
Dre R. Spooky is a Horror Bookstagrammer and event host residing in NYC. When Dre isn’t feverishly moving thru his TBR, he’s an actor.( I know…groundbreaking). Broadway: Diana The Musical. Off Broadway: House of Telescopes. TV/Fim: Diana The Musical(Netflix), Law and Order(NBC), The Queens Project(Youtube). Instagram: @Drereadsspooky
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Twisted Spine, 306 Grand Street, Brooklyn, United States
USD 13.64
