What is it about the Northeast corner of the country that attracts monsters, magic, and superheroes? Find out from five Northwest authors reading fantastic, strange, and even cozy horror fiction set in New England.

• Amanda Cherry and Erik Scott de Bie read from “Bad Intentions” as a super-powered love affair gets messy with magic and revenge.
• Rosemary Jones presents Arkham Horror’s first Christmas novel “The Bootlegger’s Dance” where time travel goes awry in a town haunted by monsters past and present.
• Dawn Vogel reads from “Brother’s Keeper,” where a team of superheroes stops a threat far bigger than any of them alone.
• Jeremy Zimmerman reads from “Kensei 3,” the continuing adventures of Kensei as she navigates life as a superhero and young adult.
• The founder of the Cobalt City series, Nathan Crowder, will read from a new release.

Learn more about upcoming fiction from local publisher DefCon One and find out how a Seattle author ended up writing for Aconyte Books in Nottingham, England.