In the latest from Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of THE DEVIL TAKES YOU HOME, a group of young
men seek vengeance after one of their mothers is murdered in a Puerto Rican neighborhood.
Gabino Iglesias is heading to Tombolo Books! We are thrilled to welcome the award-winning author for a celebration of his latest horror novel, House of Bone and Rain!
Blurring the boundaries between myth, mysticism, and the grim realities of our world, House of Bone and Rain is a harrowing coming of age story; a doomed tale of devotion, the afterlife of violence, and what rolls in on the tide.
Iglesias will be in conversation with Tombolo’s Horror Book Club Co-Host Ryan Whitley!
Gabino Iglesias is the author of the Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker award-winning novel, The Devil Takes You Home, as well as author of the critically acclaimed and award-winning novels Zero Saints and Coyote Songs. He is a writer, journalist, professor, and literary critic living in Austin, Texas. He is the horror columnist for the New York Times Book Review.
Ryan Whitley has loved horror since he first heard a ghost story around a campfire. In the second grade he acquired a copy of “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” and the affair was on. From there he discovered the young reader novels of John Bellairs and then it was only a short hop to Stephen King. He read “The Mist” in the fifth grade when his teacher gave him a copy after discovering his passion. His mother had words with the teacher about that but Ryan has always been grateful. In the ninth grade he discovered the works of H.P. Lovecraft and thus began an abiding passion for the early weird that includes Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen, Robert E. Howard, M.R. James, and many others. Currently he is a co-host for the Whiskey and the Weird podcast, which explores the British Library’s Tales of the Weird series, story by story. He believes in the power of horror to explore human emotion and trauma as a path toward healing and positive life change. He also likes the scary bits. When he’s not reading, and even sometimes when he is, he fights evil as an Episcopal priest, leading the congregation of St. Thomas’ Episcpal Church in St. Petersburg. He shares this life with his wife, two children, and a peevish rescue pup.