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SUMMARY:Wordfest Presents Shane Hawk & Jessica Johns
DESCRIPTION:Need to cool down this August? We’ve got horror at its most i
 maginatively blood-chilling. Wordfest presents an evening with Indigenous f
 right-liters Shane Hawk and Jessica Johns (Bad Cree) to celebrate the launc
 h of Back for Blood\, the follow-up to 2023-‘s “un-settling” bestsell
 er Never Whistle At Night (which spent 60 weeks on the ABA Indies bestselle
 r list). The lively conversation\, hosted by Wordfest’s Creative Ringlead
 er Shelley Youngblut\, includes an audience Q & A and book signing. Nocturn
 e Books\, Calgary’s indie horror bookseller\, will be on site\, stocked w
 ith both authors’ delightfully creepy backlists. Want to beat the signing
  line? Pre-order your copy of Back for Blood (which comes out on Aug. 18) h
 ere for pick-up at the show.\n\nShane Hawk\nShane Hawk is a horror writer\,
  editor\, and creator of the Native Horror Index. He serves as a contributi
 ng editor at Counterpoint Press\, where he exclusively acquires and edits w
 orks by Indigenous North American writers. Hawk is the coeditor of the best
 selling anthology series Never Whistle at Night and cowriter of the horror 
 stage play The Land Has Spoken. He lives in San Diego\, California\, with h
 is wife and daughter\, and is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapah
 o Tribes of Oklahoma.\n\nWebsite:shanehawk.com\n\nJessica Johns\nJessica Jo
 hns is a queer nehiyaw aunty and a member of Sucker Creek First Nation. Her
  debut novel\, Bad Cree\, was a Canada Reads finalist\, and won the WGA Fic
 tion Prize\, Alex Award\, and MacEwan Book of the Year Prize.\n\nBack for B
 lood: Never Whistle at Night Part II\nEdited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. 
 Van Alst Jr\n\nThe bestselling Indigenous dark fiction anthology returns wi
 th a new selection of even more daring and sinister stories. From monsters 
 to mutilation\, Never Whistle at Night is back for revenge.\n\nAs any savvy
  horror fan knows: the monster never truly dies. The team that brought you 
 the bestselling dark fiction anthology Never Whistle at Night has risen\, h
 ungry\, from the grave to summon more dark delicacies for your delectation.
  In these twenty-one brand-new\, groundbreaking\, gruesome stories—author
 ed by both established and newly unearthed Indigenous talent and illustrate
 d by renowned Cheyenne and Arapaho painter Brent Learned—the contributors
  are fully embracing horror: both supernatural horrors and the everyday hor
 ror of living under colonialist rule.\n\nFeaturing stories of unspeakable y
 et satisfying terror\, from twisted psychological tales to gore-filled mons
 ter hunts\, this new selection of sinister stories will sate your darkest a
 ppetites and leave you slavering for more. Never Whistle at Night\, Part II
 : Back for Blood is a further celebration of Indigenous survival and the en
 during tradition of transforming adversity into art.\n\nNever Whistle At Ni
 ght\nEdited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.\n\nMany Indigenous p
 eople believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief takes man
 y forms: for instance\, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the Hukai’po\
 , the spirits of ancient warriors\, and Native Mexicans say it calls Lechuz
 a\, a witch that can transform into an owl. But what all these legends hold
  in common is the certainty that whistling at night can cause evil spirits 
 to appear—and even follow you home.\n\nThese wholly original and shiver-i
 nducing tales introduce readers to ghosts\, curses\, hauntings\, monstrous 
 creatures\, complex family legacies\, desperate deeds\, and chilling acts o
 f revenge. Introduced and contextualized by bestselling author Stephen Grah
 am Jones\, these stories are a celebration of Indigenous peoples’ surviva
 l and imagination\, and a glorious reveling in all the things an ill-advise
 d whistle might summon.\n\nhttps://www.visitcalgary.com/events/wordfest-pre
 sents-shane-hawk-jessica-johns\n\nhttps://wordfest.com/2026/show/wordfest-p
 resents-backforblood/?_u=bce17b93
LOCATION:Memorial Park Library\, 2nd Floor\, 1221 2 St SW\, Calgary
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