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Do you believe in ghosts? Kick off spooky season at the Ashaway Free Library on Sunday, October 5, at 2PM, with award-winning authors Leanna Renee Hieber ("America's Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger Than Fiction") and Christa Carmen ("How to Fake a Haunting") as they discuss their newest books and explore the shadowy corners of what it means to be haunted. Both authors will have their new and backlist titles available for purchase and signing. Frighteningly delicious refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to the public but space is limited so registration is required. Please email [email protected] to sign up. --------------------------------
Leanna Renee Hieber is a professional actress, playwright, audiobook narrator and an award-winning, bestselling author of fiction and non-fiction for Tor and Kensington Books. A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America’s Ghosts, co-authored with Andrea Janes, was a Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction and their follow-up, America’s Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger than Fiction, releases from Kensington in 2025. A 4-time Prism award winner for her Gothic Strangely Beautiful saga and a Daphne du Maurier finalist for Darker Still, Leanna’s novels have received translations into multiple languages, national book club editions and her short stories have been featured in notable anthologies while her non-fiction essays have appeared in Apex Magazine, The Deadlands, Haunted Magazine and more. Featured in film and television on shows like Mysteries at the Museum and Beyond the Unknown discussing Victorian Spiritualism, she lives in New York and lectures around the country on Gothic themes, ghost stories and Spiritualism’s connection to women’s rights. https://leannareneehieber.com
Christa Carmen is the author of Beneath the Poet’s House; The Daughters of Block Island, winner of the Bram Stoker Award and a Shirley Jackson Award finalist; Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked, an Indie Horror Book Award winner; and numerous short stories, including the Bram Stoker Award–nominated “Through the Looking Glass and Straight into Hell.” She has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA from Boston College, and an MFA from the University of Southern Maine. Christa lives in Rhode Island with her husband, daughter, and bloodhound–golden retriever mix. When she’s not writing, Christa keeps chickens and uses a Ouija board to ghost-hug her dear, departed beagle. 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. For more information, visit www.christacarmen.com
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15 Knight St, Ashaway, RI, United States, Rhode Island 02804