Rumor has it that the abandoned house by the cemetery is haunted by the ghost of a witch. For more information on his fiction, art and music, visit John Everson: Dark Arts at House by the Cemetery involves everything that a horror aficionado could ever want-an undead witch, comic relief, a haunted house dedicated to obscure and not-so obscure horror films, and lots and lots of gore.Indeed, The House by the Cemetery could easily be transcribed into an action-packed screenplay - The New York Journal of Books His short story collections include Cage of Bones & Other Deadly Obsessions, Needles & Sins, Vigilantes of Love and Sacrificing Virgins. In addition to his own twisted worlds, he has also written stories in shared universes, including The Vampire Diaries and Jonathan Maberry's V-Wars series, as well as for Kolchak: The Night Stalker and The Green Hornet.
His story 'Letting Go' was a Bram Stoker Award finalist in 2007 and 'The Pumpkin Man' was included in the anthology All American Horror: The Best of the First Decade of the 21st Century. Over the past 25 years, his short fiction has appeared in more than 75 magazines and anthologies and received a number of critical accolades, including frequent Honorable Mentions in the Year's Best Fantasy & Horror anthology series.
Other novels include The Pumpkin Man, Siren, The 13th, the spider-driven Violet Eyes and his latest, The House By The Cemetery. John Everson describes himself as "a staunch advocate for the culinary joys of the jalapeno and an unabashed fan of 1970s European horror cinema." He is also the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Covenant and its two sequels, Sacrifice and Redemption, as well as seven other novels, including the erotic horror tour de force and Bram Stoker Award finalist NightWhere and the seductive backwoods tale of The Family Tree. “Growing up, my favorite TV shows were ‘The Twilight Zone,’ ‘The Outer Limits’ and ‘Night Gallery’, so while most of the books I read as a kid were science fiction, I guess it shouldn’t be a big surprise that when I started writing, all of my stories came out dark!” “I love tales of the supernatural,” Everson says. The only catch is… the house is already haunted! The novel centers around an old abandoned house near the cemetery that is turned into a haunted house attraction for Halloween. Rather than recount the ghost stories of the south suburban cemetery which has been done in many books and television shows already, the author chose to create a fictional story set in the famous location. Everson grew up in Tinley Park, just a few miles from Bachelors Grove, and frequently heard stories of hitchhiking ghosts and strange lights and ghostly orbs in the woods while growing up. A longtime Naperville resident, Everson’s 10th novel takes place in Bachelors Grove Cemetery, reputedly one of the “most haunted places” in Illinois.
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