About me
Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar is a Pennsylvania writer, editor, and English professor who teaches creative writing, composition, and composition theory classes. A former secondary English teacher in Delaware public schools , she received her Doctorate of Education with a Literacy Specialization from the University of Delaware and her MFA in Creative Writing with a focus on horror fiction from Wilkes University. She has curated and edited the Bram Stoker Award-nominated multi-author volume on horror scholarship No More Haunted Dolls: Horror Fiction that Transcends the Tropes and the horror anthologies Wicked Universe: A Wicked House Publishing Anthology and Dark and Dreary: A Basement Horror Anthology. She has served as the fiction editor for River & South Review and is the co-editor-in-chief and creative prose editor of Pennsylvania English. Sachar has authored the Regal Summit Book Award-winning dark suspense novel Darkness There but Something More, the short horror story collections Keeper of Corpses and Other Dark Tales and Prepare the Coffin: Tales of the Macabre, the middle-grade mystery The Hidden Diary, the horror novella Close the Door, and the young adult mystery Lake of Secrets. A member of the Horror Writers Association, she has written dozens of short horror stories and essays that have appeared in publications including The Horror Zine, Wyldblood Magazine, HorrorAddicts.net, The Angry Gable, The Chamber Magazine, and Tales from the Moonlit Path. Read her work at https://cassandraosullivansachar.com/.
