Hughes, Emily C.

Nominations:

Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You’re Too Scared to Watch (Quirk Books), Non-fiction, 2024

BIO: Emily C. Hughes (she/her) wants to scare you. Formerly the editor of Unbound Worlds and TorNightfire.com, she writes about horror and curates a list of the year’s new scary books at her website, readjumpscares.com. Her first book, the Bram Stoker Award®-nominated Horror For Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You’re Too Scared to Watch, is out now from Quirk Books. You can find her writing elsewhere in the New York Times, Vulture, Reactor Magazine, Electric Literature, Nightmare Magazine, Thrillist, and more. Emily lives in crunchy western Massachusetts with her husband and four idiot cats.