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Geneve Flynn @geneveflynn.bsky.social · 46m

Fancypanters! Join Ricky Grove, @paultremblay.bsky.social, Grady Hendrix, @christaqua.bsky.social, @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social, Kourtnea Zinov'yevna, Andromeda Ruins, @michaelkingram.bsky.social, @garnetonwinter.bsky.social, Greg Greene & me to support the International Institute of Akron!

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Penzler Publishers @penzlerpublishers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Up next is Providence, RI, one of the many East Coast cities with a strong claim on Poe. Lyndsay Faye will be in conversation with fellow author and Poe-enthusiast @christaqua.bsky.social on Tuesday, October 6 at Books on the Square.

Author Event Lyndsay Faye in conversation with Christa Carmen. Tuesday, October 6th, 6pm. RSVP on EventBrite. Books on the Square, 471 Angell Street, Providence, RI, booksq.com, @booksonthesq.
"[A] haunting, queer homage to Edgar Allan Poe’s life and works . . . Readers searching for a twist on Poe’s themes and sensibilities will find them in Raven, where dread and passion dwell hand in hand within each page."--Booklist

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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I could not be more pleased to have a new collection on the horizon. @shortwavebooks.bsky.social @rapturepublishing.bsky.social! More to come on this project soon. In the meantime... any guesses on the author writing the introduction? #newbook #newbooks #shortstories #shortstory #horror

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Bill Gauthier @billgauthier.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Daughters of Block Island by @christaqua.bsky.social is a terrific read that throws back to the gothic horror novels of the past but with a modern approach that heightens the entertainment. Carmen’s prose recreates the feel of those gothic novels while also being current. I recommend this book.

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Geneve Flynn @geneveflynn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

ARMY OF DARKNESS charity watch party! With: @paultremblay.bsky.social, Richard Grove, @christaqua.bsky.social, me, @garnetonwinter.bsky.social, Andromeda Ruins, @pronouncedlahra.bsky.social, Greg Greene, Kourtnea Zinov'yevna, Michael K. Ingram. 16 OCT 8pm (EST) www.tickettailor.com/events/reelc...

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David Boop @denverauthor.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Just a week to support the New England Horror Writers Wicked West anthology. It's full of talented horror authors doing their best (worst?) to the Old West. Featuring @kradec.bsky.social, @christaqua.bsky.social, and @brennanlafaro.bsky.social, and more! If you can't Please share! kck.st/3R9EVqw

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Wicked Westerns

The Eleventh Anthology of the New England Horror Writers

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Keith R.A. DeCandido @kradec.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

6 DAYS LEFT! Please consider supporting WICKED WESTERNS, with a new Calamity Jane/Wild Bill story by me, plus weird West tales by @christaqua.bsky.social @brennanlafaro.bsky.social & more! Ed. by Trisha J. Wooldridge & @denverauthor.bsky.social, illos by @artbyogmios.bsky.social. kck.st/3R9EVqw

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Wicked Westerns

The Eleventh Anthology of the New England Horror Writers

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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Big thanks to Keith for this nice shoutout, and you should definitely check out this Kickstarter!!!

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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

“Contributing essayists include Bram Stoker Award winners @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social…, Christa Carmen…& @missmurdermercedes.bsky.social. Their presence matters. This is not a nostalgia project…It is a serious engagement with a major horror work, written by people who understand the genre...”🤡🎈🖤

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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

So excited to be a part of Still Floating: 40 Years of Pennywise. Check out the cover reveal and all about the book below!!! 🤡🎈🩸

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Gwendolyn Kiste @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I'm also scheduled to present the award for Superior Achievement in a Novel at the Stokers banquet, and I'm on a fantastic virtual panel on Women & Werewolves, moderated by Stephanie M. Wytovich & featuring @srosewriter.bsky.social, @christaqua.bsky.social, Shannon Kearns, & Lindy Ryan! 🐺🖤🐺

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Katharine Isabelle as Ginger Fitzgerald

ALT: Katharine Isabelle as Ginger Fitzgerald

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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I wrote 6k words today. Far and away, a personal record. In other, possibly related news, my arms have fallen off at the elbows. Goodnight, everyone.

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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Trying to be normal at my daughter’s tennis lesson, since apparently my reputation as horror writer precedes me, but I open my laptop to get writing done, and The VVitch soundtrack immediately blares from YouTube, accompanied by photos of interconnected deer carcasses, so yah, I’m doing great.

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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Nell woke a few mins before the end of my 5-7 am writing session this morning, sat on my lap, & asked me to read her "the scariest part." I read her what I thought was an intensely creepy scene from the start of my new novel, to which she responded, "When does it get to the scary part?"

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Dana @thatdana.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Currently reading 📚💙 @christaqua.bsky.social

Beneath the Poet's House by Christa Carmen

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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Reading this again because it’s perfect.

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Nicholas KaufMONSTER @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

The Eldritch Winter online reading is now archived on YouTube! Come listen to me, @casskhaw.bsky.social, Jeffrey Thomas, @christaqua.bsky.social, and other amazing horror authors read chilling tales just for you! (I'm the second reader in the video.)

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Fiction Impossible Presents: Eldritch Winter, an Afternoon of Horror

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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

@bookmonstergeorge.bsky.social, always immensely grateful for your kind words and support. 🙏🖤📖

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Brennan LaFaro @brennanlafaro.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

When the snow stops and you’ve dug yourself out, why not treat yourself to a bookstore trip? Join myself and the uber-talented @christaqua.bsky.social at Barnes & Noble in North Smithfield, RI from 2-4 pm while we nerd out about horror and sign books.

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C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Heads up, horror-lickers! Sun 2:30 EST: virtual reading w/ ELDRITCH GENIUSES: @mythicdelirium.bsky.social, @casskhaw.bsky.social, @sarahhans.bsky.social, @christaqua.bsky.social, @spmiskowski.bsky.social, @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social, Jeffrey Thomas & Haralambi Markov! Join us: twitch.tv/csecooney

A poster for "Eldritch Winter: An Afternoon of Horrors"--a virtual reading hosted by C. S. E. Cooney and Carlos Hernandez. Featuring authors Cassandra Khaw, Nicholas Kaufmann, Sarah Hans, Haralambi Markov, Christa Carmen, S.P. Miskowski, Jeffrey Thomas, and Mike Allen. Sunday February 22, 2:30-4:30 EST. "Eight Horror Authors read from their Newest Work." Join us on Twitch.tv/csecooney. Included in two columns to the left and right of the text are the authors bio pics. The background is slate gray. There is a graphic of a gloomy tree in the center of the poster.

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Mike Allen (Mythic Delirium Books📚) @mythicdelirium.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

SAVE THE DATE! This Sunday (2/22, 2:30pm EST) gather ‘round to watch/hear @csecooney.bsky.social @christaqua.bsky.social @sarahhans.bsky.social @nicholaskaufmann.bsky.social @casskhaw.bsky.social @spmiskowski.bsky.social @punktowner.bsky.social plus Carlos & Harry & me on twitch.tv/csecooney!

No one needs longer than a week’s notice to make plans for an event, right?

I’ve had health-related distractions, and so have the hosts, but I want to do my part and use my social media megaphone to shout that this amazing reading is on the horizon, happening Sunday, Feb. 22, 2:30 p.m. EST, and what a lineup: C.S.E. Cooney & Carlos Hernandez (hosts), Christa Carman, Sarah Hans, Nicholas Kaufmann, Cassandra Khaw, Haralambi Markov, S.P. Miskowski, Jeffrey Thomas &, um, me!

Mark your calendars, folks, it’ll be a helluva ride. More info coming very soon.

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Brennan LaFaro @brennanlafaro.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Less than three weeks until the denizens claw their way out of the woods. Just because they’re dead doesn’t mean they’re allowed to rest. 02.17.26 Thank you to the immensely talented @christaqua.bsky.social for these kind words.

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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Thank you so much for this amazing shoutout, @solarisbooks.bsky.social and Lindy!!! 🖤👻🖤👻🖤👻

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Corey Farrenkopf @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Had an awesome time reading spooky stories at the haunted Loring Greenough House last night with @maeisafraid.bsky.social, @christaqua.bsky.social, and @alyssaalessi.bsky.social :)

A photo of the four of us standing in front of a Christmas tree in a hanged house.

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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

So looking forward to being a part of this event tonight!!!

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Gwendolyn Kiste @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I'm back at The Lineup with my biggest list yet: the Best Horror Books of 2025! So many fantastic horror books this year! 🖤☠️😱 the-line-up.com/best-horror-...

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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Massive thanks to @gwendolynkiste.bsky.social and The Lineup for this list of 2025’s Best Horror Books, including How to Fake a Haunting! Honored to be featured among such stellar titles!

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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Horror fans, what are your best recs for films in the same vein as Dark Skies and The Fourth Kind, i.e., alien encounter/abduction films more horror than sci-fi with a creepy atmosphere, lots of uncanniness, and a heavy dose of conspiracy theories?

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🪱💀mindy💀🪱 [exorcism bondage era] @garbagesauce.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

new & restocked horror now available at b&n sioux falls!

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🪱💀mindy💀🪱 [exorcism bondage era] @garbagesauce.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

new & restocked horror now available at b&n sioux falls!

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C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Coming up at 7PM EST TONIGHT! The Queen of Haunting herself @christaqua.bsky.social stars in her own episode of FICTION: IMPOSSIBLE! Tune in at twitch.tv/csecooney!

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Patricia Flaherty Pagan @pfpwrites.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Currently reading "How to Fake a Haunting," and am really enjoying it. @christaqua.bsky.social was also very nice when she signed my copy at the Merrimack Valley Halloween Book Festival. #booksky #currentread #horror

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C. S. E. Cooney @csecooney.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

DEAR FRIENDS! Tonight on FICTION: IMPOSSIBLE, Carlos Hernandez and I are featuring GUEST STAR Christa Carmen (@christaqua.bsky.social). Tune in at 7 PM EST on twitch.tv/csecooney! Let us entertain you while you are making dinner! Or washing up after!

Author pic of Christa Carment: an Italian-American woman with brown hair and brown eyes, wearing a black shirt, and white-and-red patterned skirt, looking off into the distance against a backdrop of a green graveyard.

The cover art for Christa Carmen's horror novel HOW TO FAKE A HAUNTING. Yellow handwriting on a dark gray and black background, with a hand holding a melting, lit taper candle in its bare palm.

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Anthony Cardno @anthonycardno.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Today over on the blog I chat with @christaqua.bsky.social about How To Fake A Haunting, her writing process, editing anthologies, and more. www.anthonycardno.com/blog/2025/11...

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Interview: Christa Carmen — ANTHONY R. CARDNO

Today for Writer Wednesday, I chat with author Christa Carmen.

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Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮 @christaqua.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

This Saturday! Lionel Leland and I will be at Symposium Books! We'll be talking Poe, Beneath the Poet's House, Levi's amazing walking tour of Poe's Providence, How to Fake a Haunting, and more! Hope you can swing by for the gothic vibes and sure-to-be-intriguing conversation about spooky Rhode...1/2

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Robert Catinella @bobcat-writer.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I got to hang out with some of my favorite Horror Authors tonight! Thank you all for being amazing! Happy Halloween! 🎃 @paultremblay.bsky.social @cgolden.bsky.social @brackenmacleod.bsky.social @tanyapell.bsky.social @christaqua.bsky.social #BalinBooksNashua @campnecon.bsky.social

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Bluehairbookwitch @bluehairbookwitch.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

I am truly blessed. THREE horror events at my local bookstore next month. Forget the turkey... gimme that cranberry sauce!

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