Take a seat at the table with Nicole M. Wolverton, horror scholar and author of the YA horror novel A Misfortune of Lake Monsters and the forthcoming Meat Sweats (2027). Nicole talks about why horror consumers tend to be better prepared to face the terrors of real life, how her childhood “doomed” her to a life as a writer of dark fiction, and the inspiration behind her novel about a character who becomes, in her words, “an accidental cannibal.”