Katherine Kerestman first developed the persona of Creepy Cat in her book,听Creepy Cat's Macabre Travels: Prowling around Haunted Towers, Crumbling Castles, and Ghoulish Graveyards听(WordCrafts Press, 2020), a nonfiction literary- and historically-oriented travel memoir that placed on the Preliminary Ballot for the 2020 Bram Stoker Awards, in the nonfiction category. Other publications include 鈥淢arkovia,鈥 (in S. T. Joshi鈥檚 Penumbra No. 2, August 2021); 鈥淭o Necrophilia,鈥 (in the Horror Writers Association Poetry Showcase, Vol. 8); 鈥淟enore,鈥 (in Mensa Bulletin Fiction Issue, October 2021); 鈥A Gothic Heroine in Her Ancestral Manor鈥 (in Our Shadowed Past, ed. Bob Issel, October 2021); "Breaking the Shackles of the Great Chain of Being and Liberating Compassion in the Eighteenth Century" (in the journal听1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era);听and various movie and book reviews in forums such as听Buddy Hollywood听(online blog) and听Voices听(the newsletter for the Dracula Society).听Several additional works are pending publication in the near future.
听听听听听 Katherine is educated in English and History, with a B.A. from 糖心logo在线入口, and an M.A. from Case Western Reserve University. She is a member of the Jane Austen Society of North America, Mensa, the Horror Writers Association and the Dracula Society, and is wild about Dark Shadows.听She loves to travel, especially to places with macabre associations. She can be found frolicking in the cemeteries of Salem most Halloween nights. You can keep up with her at .