Start the holiday season off the traditional way - by enjoying a scary story!

Join us on Friday, December 13th at 7pm as horror author Marc Abbott launches his newest novel, Sinister Ascension, with a reading and conversation with fellow NY Horror Writer Association member Alp Beck.

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About the book:

Bruckner University senior, Carmen Guerra learns from her grandmother that being a medium run in her family. Carmen assumes the ability skipped her as she can't commune with the dead. But an evil presence rouses her abilities and she goes through a painful awakening that torments her physically, mentally, and emotionally. Todd Anderson, the transfer grad student, is a vampire. He has come to campus in search a host body to possess once he has completed an arcane spell- one that will allow him to ascend into a demon. When he sets his sights on Carmen's roommate as his potential host body, she must quickly learn her abilities and how to control them.

With aide from her long-distance grandmother, a lost spirit, and an unexpected ally, Carmen struggles to cope with new abilities while finding her the strength to battle Todd from completing the sinister ascension.

About the authors:

Marc L Abbott is a Brooklyn native horror author. He is the co-author of Hell at Brooklyn Tea and the two-time African American Literary Award-winning horror anthology, Hell at the Way Station. His horror short stories are featured in the anthologies Blackened Roots, A Woman Unbecoming, Soul Scream, Even in the Grave, and the Bram Stoker Nominated horror anthologies New York State of Fright and Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign. Look for his newest horror novel, Sinister Ascension from Mocha Memoirs Press, due out Fall 2024. He is a 2015 Moth Story Slam and Grand Slam Storyteller winner and an award- winning actor. When he is not curating workshops for the Center for Fiction, he teaches writing to students at Dr. Izquierdo Health and Science Charter School. Find out more about him at www.whoismarclabbott.com

Alp Beck lives in New York City. She writes in all genres but prefers horror. Her essays have been featured in the NY Times and NY Blade. She loves the challenge of writing short stories. As she states, to anyone who will listen: “A well-told, tightly written story is my personal Everest. I continue to write them, hoping to reach my personal story-telling summit.” You can find her work in Hell’s Grannies: Kickass Tales of the Crone, by Lafcadio Press; A New York State of Fright, by Hippocampus Press; Hell’s Mall, by Lafcadio Press, Even in the Grave, by NeoParadoxa and A Woman Unbecoming, by Crone Girls Press—a charity horror anthology benefitting Reproductive Health and Care.

She continues to work on her horror novel, FRESH, along with a series of short stories, including THE UNDERRIDE, with her co-author, Laurie Jones.