Monday, March 17, 2025

Five top supernatural serial killers

Cynthia Pelayo is a Bram Stoker Award winning and International Latino Book Award winning author and poet. She is the first Latina in history to win a Bram Stoker Award. Pelayo writes fairy tales that blend genre and explore concepts of grief, mourning, and cycles of violence. She is the author of Loteria, Santa Muerte, The Missing, Poems of My Night, Into the Forest and All the Way Through, Children of Chicago, Crime Scene, The Shoemaker’s Magician, Forgotten Sisters, as well as dozens of standalone short stories and poems.

At CrimeReads Pelayo tagged five "novels that explore supernatural serial killers." One title on the list:
The Nightmare Man by J.H. Markert

Best-selling horror author Ben Bookman grew up on a dark and eerie estate known as Blackwood. He returns home to finish his latest novel, The Scarecrow. The events of that stay are mysterious, and Ben can’t really explain them, but the novel was completed. Before the novel is released, tragic events similar to those he wrote seem to be slipping off the page and taking place in real life. Detective Mills and Detective Blue begin investigating a series of murders known as the Scarecrow Crimes, and Ben becomes the primary target. This novel blends crime investigation and the supernatural to produce a fantastic horror experience that makes you wonder who, or what, is the killer.
Read about another entry on the list.

My Book, The Movie: The Nightmare Man.

The Page 69 Test: The Nightmare Man.

--Marshal Zeringue