![]() 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. ![]()
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