Preston Fassel

Preston Fassel is an award-winning novelist and journalist whose work has appeared in Fangoria, Rue Morgue, and Screem Magazine. His debut novel, Our Lady of the Inferno, and debut novella, The Despicable Fantasies of Quentin Sergenov, each won the Independent Publisher’s Gold Medal for Horror in 2019 and 2022, respectively. His debut nonfiction book, Landis: The Story of a Real Man on 42nd Street, the first published biography of film critic and magazine founder Bill Landis, was nominated for the 2022 Rondo Hatton Award for Book of the Year. His second novel, Beasts of 42nd Street, will be published in March of 2023. He graduated Cum Laude from Sam Houston State University in 2011 with a BS in psychology.