Frendo lives… again! Following this year's Clown in a Cornfield film adaptation, author Adam Cesare is heading back to the town of Kettle Springs for a fourth instalment of the slasher novel series, titled Clown in a Cornfield 4: Lights! Camera! Frendo!.
Hitting shelves on August 18, 2026, Clown in a Cornfield 4: Lights! Camera! Frendo!‘s plot synopsis, revealed exclusively by Bloody Disgusting earlier today, reads as follows:
Let the killing continue in Lights! Camera! Frendo! It’s the fourth installment of Adam Cesare’s Bram Stoker Award-winning series, and this time Frendo goes Hollywood – with all the blood, guts, and mayhem you’d expect from the series that spawned the blockbuster motion picture.
Sabrina Alvarez is pretty much a nobody—until she lands the starring role in the big budget film based on the Kettle Springs Massacre. Sabrina knows she should be on top of the world. She’s going to be THE Quinn Maybrook, Final Girl of Final Girls, national hero and certified badass.
But as soon as Sabrina gets to Kettle Springs, she just can’t quite shake the feeling that something’s off. A spate of deaths, an out-of-control director, a town decimated by loss and divided by anger, and a movie designed to glorify it all. Something bad is brewing, and this time, it’s all on film.
The award-winning coulrophobic series started back in 2020 with the best-selling Clown in a Cornfield, with Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives and Clown in a Cornfield 3: The Church of Frendo follow in 2022 and 2023 respectively. Speaking with Bloody, Cesare teased more of what we can expect from Lights! Camera! Frendo!, especially that “there’s a bunch of returning characters in this installment (for all the readers who missed these specific guys, as they mostly sat part 3 out).”
Pre-orders for Clown in a Cornfield 4: Lights! Camera! Frendo! are now live on Amazon, and you can also pre-order copies signed by Cesare via his local bookstore, Children’s Book World. Check out the official artwork for the fourth novel, by Matt Ryan Tobin, below. For more horror fiction goodness, here's 9 iconic creepypasta stories we think deserve a big screen adaptation – and who should direct.
