Wendig’s new novel tells the story of five high school friends on a camping trip who come across a staircase that leads to nowhere. Credit: Courtesy Image / Del Rey

Before rising to prominence with his, let’s say, colorful social media presence, Gen-X speculative fiction author Chuck Wendig broke out with his 2019 novel Wanderers, which follows a web of characters whose lives are changed when those close to them get up and, in a trance-like state, begin staggering across the U.S. toward an unknown destination.

Accordingly, Wendig is no stranger to wide-ranging ensembles of characters and mind-bending, deliciously-premised plots with fundamental mysteries at their hearts. His latest novel, The Staircase in the Woods, is no exception: it tells the story of five high school friends on a camping trip who come across the titular staircase: one that leads to nowhere, disappears after one friend walks up it, then reappears 20 years later.

As part of a promotional tour for the novel, Wendig will make an appearance at San Antonio’s Nowhere Bookshop to do a reading and meet fans.

Included with each ticket is a copy of The Staircase in the Woods signed by the bespectacled, bearded Pennsylvanian himself.

$30, 6-7 p.m. Tuesday, April 29, Nowhere Bookshop, 5154 Broadway, (210) 640-7260, nowherebookshop.com.

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This article appears in Apr 16-29, 2025.