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A career born in fairy tales with Bram Stoker Award-winning "quiet horror" author, Cynthia Pelayo.

A career born in fairy tales with Bram Stoker Award-winning "quiet horror" author, Cynthia Pelayo.

Update: 2024-03-25
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Join hosts JD Barker, Christine Daigle, Jena Brown and Kevin Tumlinson as they discuss the week's entertainment news, including Gabriel García Márquez’s sons publishing his final novel, Elon Musk releasing Chatbot Code, and US publishers filing a brief opposing internet archive’s appeal. Then, stick around for a chat with author Cynthia Pelayo!


Cynthia Pelayo is a Bram Stoker Award winning and International Latino Book Award winning author and poet.


Pelayo writes fairy tales that blend genre and explore concepts of grief, mourning, and cycles of violence. She is the author of LoteriaSanta MuerteThe MissingPoems of My NightInto the Forest and All the Way ThroughChildren of ChicagoCrime SceneThe Shoemaker’s Magician, as well as dozens of standalone short stories and poems.


Her forthcoming novel, The Forgotten Sisters, will be released by Thomas and Mercer in 2024 and is an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid.”


Her works have been reviewed in The New York TimesChicago TribuneLA Review of Books, and more.



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A career born in fairy tales with Bram Stoker Award-winning "quiet horror" author, Cynthia Pelayo.

A career born in fairy tales with Bram Stoker Award-winning "quiet horror" author, Cynthia Pelayo.

J.D. Barker, Christine Daigle