![]() ![]() With no advance plan for Clown in a Cornfield 2 in place, Cesare suddenly had to ask himself: Did he want to discard his original characters in favor of entirely new protagonists, or did he want the survivors from the first killer clown story to fight another battle. Then Clown in a Cornfield did prove to be a hit, earning Cesare a Bram Stoker Award for Best Young Adult Novel and clearing the way for a follow-up story. And then there will be two, and three, and four.' It just was part and parcel of that slasher experience." ![]() It wasn't 100% written to be like, 'Oh, yeah. ![]() "That kind of final little shocker, that final little tag. ![]() They're probably never going to do a sequel,' I was kind of like, 'OK, well, let me end this book the way a slasher would maybe traditionally end,'" Cesare tells Popverse. "The slasher sequel is so much a part of the experience that I think even though I was like, 'Well, this book is called Clown in a Cornfield. For Cesare, a lifelong fan of slashers himself, throwing in a tease for a potential sequel wasn't a promise of more to come. The horror author's bestselling 2020 novel about a Midwest town terrorized by killers in clown masks functions perfectly well as a standalone story, with enough resolution to satisfy readers and plenty of lingering dread to please longtime fans of the subgenre. Adam Cesare didn't set out to make the prose horror novel Clown in a Cornfield into a multi-part slasher epic. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |