Jo Salazar’s If We Survive the Night started out as The Dead Weight, released by the author herself, and arrives from Sourcebooks Fire in 2026. In this interview, the YA zombie writer talks about building a protagonist you follow but never trust, writing institutional damage without a diagnosis, and why Quinn will never get the redemption arc readers keep waiting for.
St Andrew’s Eve: The Carpathian Night You Had to Keep Talking
In Romanian folklore, St Andrew’s Eve is the night the strigoi begin to walk. Corben Vale, author of the Carpathian Chronicles and The Village of the Hanged, looks at the garlic, the unnamed wolf and the oldest defence in Carpathian folk horror: keep telling stories until dawn.












