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About Me

Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar is a horror/suspense writer and associate English professor in Pennsylvania. She previously worked for fifteen years as a secondary English teacher in Delaware public schools. She holds a Doctorate of Education with a Literacy Specialization from the University of Delaware and an MFA in Creative Writing with a focus on horror from Wilkes University. Her creative work has appeared in more than forty literary journals, magazines, and anthologies including The Horror Zine, Tales from the Moonlit Path, Corvus Review, and Quagmire Literary Magazine. A member of the Horror Writers Association and Pennwriters, she has worked as the fiction editor of River and South Review and will soon begin as the creative prose editor of Pennsylvania English. Her dark suspense novel, Darkness There but Something More, was released from Wicked House Publishing in March 2024, and her short horror story collection, Keeper of Corpses and Other Dark Tales, is forthcoming from Velox Books. When she’s not traveling the world with her husband, she enjoys watching horror movies and hanging out at home with her rescue dog and cats.

Cassandra with Poe in Boston
Cassandra at Poe’s Memorial Grave in Baltimore
Cassandra at Dracula’s Castle (Bran Castle) in Transylvania

Novel: Darkness There but Something More

After the loss of her baby and subsequent divorce, Edgar Allan Poe scholar Marissa Owens leaves her tenured job as an English professor for a fresh start at her alma mater, Blackthorn University. As she begins to feel like herself again, one of her favorite students goes missing.

Then, the police find the body.

The investigation descends upon the campus, and familiar clues begin to surface. This triggers a disturbing memory from Marissa’s own dark past at Blackthorn—one she has attempted to keep buried.

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