Pay the Piper by Daniel Kraus and George A. Romero

Pay the Piper by Daniel Kraus and George A. Romero a brand new novel.

A terrifying tale of supernatural horror set in a cursed Louisiana bayou, from the minds of legendary director George Romero and bestselling author Daniel Kraus.

In 2020, while sifting through University of Pittsburgh Library’s System’s George A. Romero Archival Collection, novelist Daniel Kraus turned up a surprise: a half-finished novel called Pay the Piper, a project few had ever heard of. In the years since, Kraus has worked with Romero’s estate to bring this unfinished masterwork to light.
    

Alligator Point, Louisiana, population 141: Young Renée Pontiac has heard stories of “the Piper”—a murderous swamp entity haunting the bayou—her entire life. But now the legend feels horrifically real: children are being taken and gruesomely slain. To resist, Pontiac and the town’s desperate denizens will need to acknowledge the sins of their ancestors—the infamous slave traders, the Pirates Lafitte. If they don’t . . . it’s time to pay the piper.

Daniel Kraus, the prolific New York Times bestselling author of Whalefall, The Shape of Water, and more, is known, beyond his work, for his long, close relationship with the famed horror filmmaker, writer, and editor George A. Romero and his estate. He was chosen to complete The Living Dead, the book Romero was working on when he passed away, which was published posthumously in 2020 and thought to be Romero’s final work.

Pay the Piper by Daniel Kraus and George A. Romero On Sale September 3, 2024

DANIEL KRAUS is an award-winning, New York Times bestselling horror writer and coauthor of both the Trollhunters series and The Shape of Water with Guillermo del Toro. Kraus has won a Scribe Award and two Odyssey Awards, has been a Library Guild selection, a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults recipient, a Bram Stoker finalist, and more. His work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Daniel lives in Chicago. Visit him at danielkraus.com.

George A. Romero’s classic zombie movie cycle begins with the groundbreaking Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead, which are followed by four sequels. Romero directed two Stephen King projects, Creepshow and The Dark Half, and created the TV series Tales From the Darkside. Originally from New York City, Romero attended Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh. He and his wife, Suzanne, lived in Toronto for over 10 years. George A. Romero died in 2017.

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