{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"A Conversation with Author Cynthia Pelayo","description":"In this special epsiode, we have a conversation with Cynthia Pelayo, author of the recently released novel Vanishing Daughters. Cynthia Pelayo is the Bram Stoker Award\u2013winning author of Forgotten Sisters, Children of Chicago, and The Shoemaker\u2019s Magician. In addition to writing genre-blending novels that incorporate fairy-tale, mystery, detective, crime, and horror elements, Pelayo has written numerous short stories, including the collection Loter\u00eda, and the poetry collection Crime Scene. The recipient of the 2021 International Latino Book Award, she holds a master of fine arts in writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She lives in Chicago with her family. For more information, visit www.cinapelayo.com. Vanishing Daughters is a breathtaking novel of psychological suspense about a haunted woman who is stalked by a serial killer and confronts the horrors of fairy tales and the nightmares of real life . It started the night journalist Briar Thorne\u2019s mother died in their rambling old mansion on Chicago\u2019s South Side. The nightmares of a woman in white pleading to come home, music switched on in locked rooms, and the panicked fear of being swallowed by the dark . . . Bri has almost convinced herself that these stirrings of dread are simply manifestations of grief and not the beyond-world of ghostly impossibilities her mother believed in. And more tangible terrors still lurk outside the decaying Victorian greystone. A serial killer has claimed the lives of fifty-one women in the Chicago area. When Bri starts researching the murders, she meets a stranger who tells her there\u2019s more to her sleepless nights than bad dreams\u2014they hold the key to putting ghosts to rest and stopping a killer. But the killer has caught on and is closing in, and if Bri doesn\u2019t answer the call of the dead soon, she\u2019ll be walking among them.   We\u2019re @knowfearcast on X and Instagram, and we have a Facebook page. Our email is knowfearcast@gmail.com. If you love what we are doing, consider supporting us on Patreon. We also have merchandise available at our website knowfearcast.com. Or simply rate and review us, which is entirely free and helps other listeners find us. Theme Music by Nicholas Gasparini. Mixed and edited by Matt. ","author_name":"The Know Fear Cast","author_url":"http:\/\/knowfearcast.libsyn.com\/podcast","html":"