Vintage Horror and Twisty Timelines with Emily Ruth Verona

Emily Ruth Verona is the author of the novel Midnight on Beacon Street, a 90's set home invasion thriller published by Harper Perennial in January 2024. In this discussion, she shares all things Beacon Street, including her inspiration, the writing journey that led to its publication, and the joy of injecting her love of horror movies into it.

 

Emily received her Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing and Cinema Studies from the State University of New York at Purchase. In 2014 she won the Pinch Literary Award in Fiction. She is a Bram Stoker Award nominee, a Rhysling Award Finalist, a Jane Austen Short Story Award Finalist, and a Luke Bitmead Bursary Finalist. Previous publication credits include fiction and poetry featured in several anthologies as well as magazines such as The Pinch, Lamplight Magazine, Mystery Tribune, Black Telephone Magazine, The Ghastling, and Nightmare Magazine. Her essays/articles have appeared online for Tor, Bookbub, Litro, BUST, and Bloody Women. In 2023, she founded the horror book blog Frightful. She lives in New Jersey with a very small dog. 

 

Find Emily's work via the links below:

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