Tor Nightfire 5th Anniversary Party!

Join us to celebrate with a listening party, pumpkin painting, and swag. Featuring author Mathilda Zeller (IT LOOKS LIKE YOU IN THE DARK)! Join us to celebrate Tor Nightfire's 5th Anniversary at The Twisted Spine with Mathilda Zeller, author of It Looks Like You in the Dark. The party includes: • Postcards with QR code for a free playlist containing audio excerpts of Nightfire’s greatest hits • Nightfire swag- tote bags, tattoos, stickers, pins, and keychains • A PAINT-YOUR-OWN-PUMPKIN craft activity (limited supplies, first come, first serve). About It Looks Like You in the Dark: A propulsive Indigenous horror debut, expertly blending Alaskan Native folklore and supernatural thrills, from Mathilda Zeller, author of the acclaimed short story "Kushtuka" featured in the bestselling horror anthology, Never Whistle at Night. The only people who know are the people who have gone. Those people no longer have throats to tell us. Tapeesa is newly out of high school and working in a fish processing plant in the Inupiat village, Chukchi, where she’s lived her whole life. Maybe that’s why people tend to assume she isn’t that bright—or maybe her mama is right and she does have bad blood. Either way, she knows the legend, and she knows the history. Her Ahna told her that the hungry creature—the kushtuka—appears to us in the form of someone we love. It will try to get us to follow it. Follow it where? Those who have gone no longer have throats to tell us. The Kobuk River Valley of remote Alaska draws greedy white men time and time again. But whenever they come, death comes too. This time the white men are here for the long term, to create an open pit, a rare earths mine just north of the village. When her sister Esther goes missing, Tapeesa will do anything to get her back. Seeking justice, Tapeesa must track down the kidnapper in the darkening Arctic. What awaits beyond the warmth of her village is more horrible than she could imagine and closer to her than she knows. About the Author: Mathilda Zeller writes horror and fantasy. She is of Inuit descent and her family and roots extend deep into the Kobuk River Valley, which inspires and informs her writing. Mathilda Zeller is a pen name, honoring two of her resilient great-grandmothers. Ticket Information: Free RSVP, with optional It Looks Like You in the Dark hardcover add-on. Additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.