Frendo Lives by Adam Cesare

Frendo Lives

Adam Cesare

HarperCollins · Paperback · August 29, 2023

It’s an all-new horror classic about what happens when the truth is the last thing we want to believe, from Bram Stoker Award–winner and master of thrills and chills, horror legend Adam Cesare.

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Who it’s for
A tense, grisly horror story where online denial makes an already frightening past harder to escape.
Themes
Conspiracy theories and denial, Survival after trauma
Pacing
Fast

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It’s an all-new horror classic about what happens when the truth is the last thing we want to believe, from Bram Stoker Award–winner and master of thrills and chills, horror legend Adam Cesare. After barely making it out of the Kettle Springs cornfields alive, Quinn’s first year away at college should be safe and easy. All she wants is to be normal again.

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But instead, Quinn finds that her past won’t leave her alone when she becomes the focus of online conspiracy theories that claim the Kettle Springs Massacre never happened. It’s a deranged but relentless fantasy, and there’s nothing Quinn can do to get people to hear the truth—not even on her own campus or in her own dorm room. So when a murderous clown attacks Quinn at a frat party while another goes after her father in Kettle Springs at the same time, Quinn realizes that the facts alone are never going to save her. Her only option is to go back into the cornfields, back where the nightmare began, to set the record straight the only way she knows how. Because when the truth gets lost in the lies, that’s when people start to die. Clown in a Cornfield was 2020’s Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel. Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives is perfectly set to attract old and new fans to the series. - Perfect for Halloween Reading - For teens who love dark and scary stories

Truth Under Pressure

A tense, grisly horror story where online denial makes an already frightening past harder to escape.

Come here for

  • Conspiracy-fueled dread and murderous-clown menace
  • Horror where online denial meets physical danger

Expect

  • A return to Kettle Springs’ cornfields and an unresolved nightmare
  • Edgy suspense centered on truth, denial, and danger

Where it sits

YA Horror99%
YA LGBTQ+44%
Thrillers & Suspense40%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Holiday YA
  • YA Horror
  • YA LGBTQ+
  • Country Life for Teens
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  • YA Mysteries
  • YA Romance - LGBTQ+
  • Assimilation for Teens
  • Thrillers & Suspense
Authors
Adam Cesare
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
August 29, 2023
Format
Paperback
Theme
Conspiracy theories and denial · Survival after trauma
Reading lane
Holiday YA