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Award History
| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shirley Jackson Award for Novel | 2011 | Winner | “Sheri Holman's multi-generational American horror won for its atmospheric evocation of 1950s television horror culture, its buried family secrets, and its meditation on performance and authenticity.” |
About This Book
A multi-generational American novel weaving together a horror movie host's career in 1950s television, his strange encounter with a mountain witch decades earlier, and the daughter who discovers his terrible secret.
About the Author
Sheri Holman is an American author of literary historical fiction. She won the Shirley Jackson Award for Novel for Witches on the Road Tonight (2011), a multi-generational novel interweaving a horror film host's career in the 1950s with family secrets. She is also the author of The Dress Lodger, a Victorian Gothic novel that was a critically acclaimed bestseller. Read more →
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