Tatiana Schlote-Bonne | What Feeds Below

Tatiana Schlote-Bonne will be at The King's English Bookshop on Thursday, November 12, to celebrate the release of her new YA horror novel, What Feeds Below. It's a conversation rather than a reading, and she'll be joined by local fantasy author Alexandra Kennington. The two will talk through the book, and the night is open to all ages, so it works as a family outing or a solo trip if you're just there for the horror.

What Feeds Below is described as The Descent meets Annihilation, so it sits in that claustrophobic, unsettling territory where the environment is as much of a threat as whatever is actually hunting you. If those two titles ring a bell, you've got a good handle on the kind of atmosphere Schlote-Bonne is working with here. It's YA horror, but the comparison suggests it's leaning more toward the psychological and the atmospheric than the jump-scare side of things.

Kennington isn't just filling the second chair, either. She's a local fantasy writer who's also celebrating a release: her New Adult romantasy, Drown the Bones. Having two authors on the same stage gives the night a bit more to chew on than a standard book talk, and it's a good chance to hear from two different ends of the speculative fiction spectrum in one go.

Signed copies of both books will be available to purchase at the shop, and you can pre-order them by phone or online if you want to make sure you've got your copy ready before the night starts. The event runs from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM, with doors opening at 6 PM, so you've got plenty of time to get settled before they start. Tickets are $5, with all proceeds going to the partner non-profit Brain Food Book, or $29.95 if you want a copy of the book included. The King's English is at 1511 South 1500 East in Salt Lake City.