Horror, Exported from Glenside

Local teacher turned horror writer launches novel

  It’s horrifying. Well, that was the goal, at least, for the Cheltenham-High-School-teacher-turned-author who penned “The Trail,” which was published and released last month. The author, Brian Francis, recently held a reading from his horror novel about a college reunion camping trip that turns deadly in Chestnut Hill at the Musehouse: Center for Literary Arts.   “I hope it scares the pants off everyone,” Francis said before the reading. “I’ve heard it’s a real page turner and people cannot legitimately put it down. I’ve structured it in a way where there are 136 short chapters, and everyone ends in a cliff hanger — it’s a lot of what I’ve learned of thinking visually and teaching a film class.” Horror is the oldest story there is, …

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