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How to Fake a Haunting Author Talk & Book Signing In-Person
Join award-winning horror author Christa Carmen for an evening of gothic suspense and psychological terror as she discusses her novel How to Fake a Haunting. Carmen, a Bram Stoker Award winner and three-time Shirley Jackson Award nominee, will talk about her writing process, inspiration, and the dark themes that haunt her work.
In How to Fake a Haunting, Lainey Taylor is desperate to escape her volatile husband, Callum. With the help of her friend Adelaide, she devises a plan to stage a haunting terrifying enough to drive him away for good. But as strange events begin to spiral beyond their control, Lainey realizes they may have awakened something far more dangerous than they ever intended.
Perfect for fans of atmospheric horror and supernatural suspense, this author talk will include a discussion, audience Q&A, and book signing.
Otis Library was designed to accommodate people of all abilities. To request an accommodation, please contact Kari Wall at kwall@otislibrarynorwich.org.
About the Author:
Christa Carmen lives in Rhode Island. She is the Bram Stoker Award-winning and three-time Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of The Daughters of Block Island, How to Fake a Haunting, and Beneath the Poet's House, as well as the Indie Horror Book Award-winning Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked, the Bram Stoker Award-nominated "Through the Looking Glass and Straight into Hell" (Orphans of Bliss: Tales of Addiction Horror), and co-editor of the Aurealis Award-nominated We Are Providence and the Australasian Shadows- and Ditmar Awards-nominated Monsters in the Mills. She has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA from Boston College, and an MFA from the University of Southern Maine.
When she's not writing, she keeps chickens; uses a Ouija board to ghost-hug her dear, departed beagle; and sets out on adventures with her husband, daughter, and bloodhound-golden retriever mix. Most of her work comes from gazing upon the ghosts of the past or else into the dark corners of nature, those places where whorls of bark become owl eyes, and deer step through tunnels of hanging leaves and creeping briars only to disappear.