So when a murderous clown attacks Quinn at a frat party while another goes after her father in Kettle Springs at the same time, Quinn realizes that the facts alone are never going to save her. It's a deranged but relentless fantasy, and there's nothing Quinn can do to get people to hear the truth-not even on her own campus or in her own dorm room. All she wants is to be normal again.īut instead, Quinn finds that her past won't leave her alone when she becomes the focus of online conspiracy theories that claim the Kettle Springs Massacre never happened. Cesare knows how to make his cast flawed and likable, so when Frendo puts them under threat, the reader is on the edge of their seat terrified of what may happen to them.Īdd in excellent meta-commentary on what happens when the identity of a killer surpasses the person of a killer and the danger involved in making symbols of monsters and you have an excellent story.It's an all-new horror classic about what happens when the truth is the last thing we want to believe, from Bram Stoker Award–winner and master of thrills and chills, horror legend Adam Cesare.Īfter barely making it out of the Kettle Springs cornfields alive, Quinn's first year away at college should be safe and easy. He's been through more than anyone can imagine.Ĭlown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives is scary for a good reason: we care about the characters under threat. Cole lives with absolute trauma and fear because of the events in Clown in the Cornfield. He never forgets that despite everything they have endured they’re still traumatized teenagers trying to do their best in a very difficult and uncaring world. After the events of Kettle Springs in the first novel, Frendo is more than a mask, but a symbol of counterculture by people online who believe themselves too important to buy the ‘official’ story.Ĭesare writes skillfully, with empathy for his leads.

When a slasher is depersonalized and made into a symbol, anyone can take up the legacy. Cesare is an excellent writer and he understands the men and women behind the mask of Frendo the Clown are far less important than the legacy of the mask itself. After being attacked by a new clown, Quinn must reunite with her friends to uncover a conspiracy targeting them. The Kettle Springs Three who survived the murderous rampage of Kettle Springs’ adult conspiracy, the trio are plagued by conspiracy theories as to what really happened. It is also a story of Cole Hill and his boyfriend Russ, along with Quinn Maybrook. Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives is a story of Frendo the Clown and all the dark slasher legacy that brings. Slashers must be about the killer, but about the survivors as well.

Adam Cesare knows what makes slashers work.

Frendo lives