Christa Carmen🌘🦉🔮
@christaqua.bsky.social
Bram Stoker Award-winning & 2x Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author. She/her.
Pre-Order How to Fake a Haunting:
https://www.christacarmen.com/books-how-to-fake-a-haunting.aspx
Substack: Horror Homesteading:
https://christacarmen.substack.com/
Pre-Order How to Fake a Haunting:
https://www.christacarmen.com/books-how-to-fake-a-haunting.aspx
Substack: Horror Homesteading:
https://christacarmen.substack.com/
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!
December 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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!
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?
November 29, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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?
...Island and Poe's time here... and who knows, a taxidermy raven may make an appearance (again!)! 2/2
November 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
...Island and Poe's time here... and who knows, a taxidermy raven may make an appearance (again!)! 2/2
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
November 4, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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
Check it out to learn about work from @kristinoffiler.bsky.social, Vanessa Lillie, @tsierraauthor.bsky.social, Deborah Goodrich Royce, @leannareneehieber.bsky.social, Thomas D'Agostino, @claymcleod.bsky.social, Levi Lionel Leland, @victoriadalpe.bsky.social, and many more!!!
October 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Check it out to learn about work from @kristinoffiler.bsky.social, Vanessa Lillie, @tsierraauthor.bsky.social, Deborah Goodrich Royce, @leannareneehieber.bsky.social, Thomas D'Agostino, @claymcleod.bsky.social, Levi Lionel Leland, @victoriadalpe.bsky.social, and many more!!!
A little note to rev me into writing more later this evening...
September 30, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A little note to rev me into writing more later this evening...
With release just two weeks out, it’s time to unveil the final blurb for How to Fake a Haunting.
Did a part of me die with gratitude every time one of these amazing authors, @natcassidy.bsky.social included, agreed to read HtFaH early? Yes, 100%. Was receiving these thoughtful and humbling blurbs…
Did a part of me die with gratitude every time one of these amazing authors, @natcassidy.bsky.social included, agreed to read HtFaH early? Yes, 100%. Was receiving these thoughtful and humbling blurbs…
September 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
With release just two weeks out, it’s time to unveil the final blurb for How to Fake a Haunting.
Did a part of me die with gratitude every time one of these amazing authors, @natcassidy.bsky.social included, agreed to read HtFaH early? Yes, 100%. Was receiving these thoughtful and humbling blurbs…
Did a part of me die with gratitude every time one of these amazing authors, @natcassidy.bsky.social included, agreed to read HtFaH early? Yes, 100%. Was receiving these thoughtful and humbling blurbs…
Attention all you lovely spooky season readers!!! If you have pre-ordered How to Fake a Haunting, please join me & @sadiehartmann.bsky.social for a virtual launch party, Friday at 6:30 PM. Link below to sign up, after which you’ll receive the Zoom invite! Looking forward to seeing you there! 🏠🪰🕯️🪞👻🏚️
September 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Attention all you lovely spooky season readers!!! If you have pre-ordered How to Fake a Haunting, please join me & @sadiehartmann.bsky.social for a virtual launch party, Friday at 6:30 PM. Link below to sign up, after which you’ll receive the Zoom invite! Looking forward to seeing you there! 🏠🪰🕯️🪞👻🏚️
No, but seriously, my next post will be all about the wonderful authors whom I’m doing readings or events with over the next two months (and another will be about some spooky RI/NE locations to visit this October). Stay tuned.
September 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
No, but seriously, my next post will be all about the wonderful authors whom I’m doing readings or events with over the next two months (and another will be about some spooky RI/NE locations to visit this October). Stay tuned.
I think I’m getting the hang of this substack thing (link in replies). Or, not, who knows. At any rate, I promise the next one will be about something other than How to Fake a Haunting… at least, mostly not about that. Kind of hard to avoid it completely since release is LESS THAN 1 MONTH AWAY.
September 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I think I’m getting the hang of this substack thing (link in replies). Or, not, who knows. At any rate, I promise the next one will be about something other than How to Fake a Haunting… at least, mostly not about that. Kind of hard to avoid it completely since release is LESS THAN 1 MONTH AWAY.
Part II: Unboxing video for the finished copies of How to Fake a Haunting. Viewer discretion is advised: SFX/FAKEBLOOD
#howtofakeahaunting #ChristaCarmen #unboxing #NewHorrorBook #WomenInHorror
#howtofakeahaunting #ChristaCarmen #unboxing #NewHorrorBook #WomenInHorror
September 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Part II: Unboxing video for the finished copies of How to Fake a Haunting. Viewer discretion is advised: SFX/FAKEBLOOD
#howtofakeahaunting #ChristaCarmen #unboxing #NewHorrorBook #WomenInHorror
#howtofakeahaunting #ChristaCarmen #unboxing #NewHorrorBook #WomenInHorror
Part I: Unboxing video for the finished copies of How to Fake a Haunting. Viewer discretion is advised: SFX/FAKEBLOOD
#howtofakeahaunting #ChristaCarmen #unboxing #NewHorrorBook #WomenInHorror
#howtofakeahaunting #ChristaCarmen #unboxing #NewHorrorBook #WomenInHorror
September 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Part I: Unboxing video for the finished copies of How to Fake a Haunting. Viewer discretion is advised: SFX/FAKEBLOOD
#howtofakeahaunting #ChristaCarmen #unboxing #NewHorrorBook #WomenInHorror
#howtofakeahaunting #ChristaCarmen #unboxing #NewHorrorBook #WomenInHorror
This is my ambitious, exhilarating, and utterly insane tour schedule for the fall, gearing up for the release (and beyond!) of How to Fake a Haunting.
September 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This is my ambitious, exhilarating, and utterly insane tour schedule for the fall, gearing up for the release (and beyond!) of How to Fake a Haunting.
Little sneak peek of our fun trip to the Breakers this afternoon, where part of How to Fake a Haunting takes place.
#HauntedHouse #GhostStory #NewBookAlert #HorrorFiction #ChristaCarmen #bookstagram #SpookySeasonReads
#HauntedHouse #GhostStory #NewBookAlert #HorrorFiction #ChristaCarmen #bookstagram #SpookySeasonReads
September 2, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Little sneak peek of our fun trip to the Breakers this afternoon, where part of How to Fake a Haunting takes place.
#HauntedHouse #GhostStory #NewBookAlert #HorrorFiction #ChristaCarmen #bookstagram #SpookySeasonReads
#HauntedHouse #GhostStory #NewBookAlert #HorrorFiction #ChristaCarmen #bookstagram #SpookySeasonReads
They faked a haunting to escape him. But the house had other plans.
💀 #HowtoFakeaHaunting is a story of fear, fury, & the things that live in the dark corners of our lives. Pre-order now to get access to my virtual launch with @mother.horror!
#HauntedHouse #GhostStory #NewBookAlert #HorrorFiction
💀 #HowtoFakeaHaunting is a story of fear, fury, & the things that live in the dark corners of our lives. Pre-order now to get access to my virtual launch with @mother.horror!
#HauntedHouse #GhostStory #NewBookAlert #HorrorFiction
August 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
They faked a haunting to escape him. But the house had other plans.
💀 #HowtoFakeaHaunting is a story of fear, fury, & the things that live in the dark corners of our lives. Pre-order now to get access to my virtual launch with @mother.horror!
#HauntedHouse #GhostStory #NewBookAlert #HorrorFiction
💀 #HowtoFakeaHaunting is a story of fear, fury, & the things that live in the dark corners of our lives. Pre-order now to get access to my virtual launch with @mother.horror!
#HauntedHouse #GhostStory #NewBookAlert #HorrorFiction
Beyond grateful to 3x Stoker winner and all-around powerhouse of a writer Sarah Langan for her blurb of HOW TO FAKE A HAUNTING! Sarah’s latest, Pam Kowalski Is a Monster!, is out now from Raw Dog Screaming Press, and How to Fake a Haunting will release 10/7 from Thomas & Mercer. Thanks again, Sarah!
August 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Beyond grateful to 3x Stoker winner and all-around powerhouse of a writer Sarah Langan for her blurb of HOW TO FAKE A HAUNTING! Sarah’s latest, Pam Kowalski Is a Monster!, is out now from Raw Dog Screaming Press, and How to Fake a Haunting will release 10/7 from Thomas & Mercer. Thanks again, Sarah!
Request!
I’m working on a fun presentation for a soon-to-be-announced event & need your feedback! If you’ve been influenced or inspired by a poem by Emily Dickinson, or even gone so far as to have your very life changed by the poet’s work, please DM me if you’re comfortable sharing your experience.
I’m working on a fun presentation for a soon-to-be-announced event & need your feedback! If you’ve been influenced or inspired by a poem by Emily Dickinson, or even gone so far as to have your very life changed by the poet’s work, please DM me if you’re comfortable sharing your experience.
August 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Request!
I’m working on a fun presentation for a soon-to-be-announced event & need your feedback! If you’ve been influenced or inspired by a poem by Emily Dickinson, or even gone so far as to have your very life changed by the poet’s work, please DM me if you’re comfortable sharing your experience.
I’m working on a fun presentation for a soon-to-be-announced event & need your feedback! If you’ve been influenced or inspired by a poem by Emily Dickinson, or even gone so far as to have your very life changed by the poet’s work, please DM me if you’re comfortable sharing your experience.
She thought she could control it.
She was wrong.
And now… the nightmare is real.
🔥 Domestic drama meets supernatural terror in #HowtoFakeaHaunting. Pre-order and get ready to read with the lights on!
#ChristaCarmen #NewHorrorBook #WomenInHorror #PsychologicalThriller #CreepyBooks #BookTrailer
She was wrong.
And now… the nightmare is real.
🔥 Domestic drama meets supernatural terror in #HowtoFakeaHaunting. Pre-order and get ready to read with the lights on!
#ChristaCarmen #NewHorrorBook #WomenInHorror #PsychologicalThriller #CreepyBooks #BookTrailer
August 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
She thought she could control it.
She was wrong.
And now… the nightmare is real.
🔥 Domestic drama meets supernatural terror in #HowtoFakeaHaunting. Pre-order and get ready to read with the lights on!
#ChristaCarmen #NewHorrorBook #WomenInHorror #PsychologicalThriller #CreepyBooks #BookTrailer
She was wrong.
And now… the nightmare is real.
🔥 Domestic drama meets supernatural terror in #HowtoFakeaHaunting. Pre-order and get ready to read with the lights on!
#ChristaCarmen #NewHorrorBook #WomenInHorror #PsychologicalThriller #CreepyBooks #BookTrailer
How am I supposed to write newsletter content when the only thing in my brain is K-pop Demon Hunters songs!!!???!!!
August 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
How am I supposed to write newsletter content when the only thing in my brain is K-pop Demon Hunters songs!!!???!!!
The unstoppable phenom, Lindy Ryan (I am SO excited for her novel, Dollface, coming in 2026!) had this to say about HOW TO FAKE A HAUNTING, and I couldn't be more grateful. THANK YOU, Lindy (I'm also super psyched to be part of Lindy & Stephanie Wytovich’s anthology, HOWL🐺, coming Nov. 4th)!
August 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The unstoppable phenom, Lindy Ryan (I am SO excited for her novel, Dollface, coming in 2026!) had this to say about HOW TO FAKE A HAUNTING, and I couldn't be more grateful. THANK YOU, Lindy (I'm also super psyched to be part of Lindy & Stephanie Wytovich’s anthology, HOWL🐺, coming Nov. 4th)!
New Substack today… subscribe for New England lore and legend tripping, thoughts on the creative process, and general horror-related commentary from yours truly!
Link in the first comment.
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Link in the first comment.
👻🏚️🪦🦇
August 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
New Substack today… subscribe for New England lore and legend tripping, thoughts on the creative process, and general horror-related commentary from yours truly!
Link in the first comment.
👻🏚️🪦🦇
Link in the first comment.
👻🏚️🪦🦇
I’m about to make the jump from first draft writing to second draft rewrites and edits on a new novel and needed to get into a suitably dark headspace…
July 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I’m about to make the jump from first draft writing to second draft rewrites and edits on a new novel and needed to get into a suitably dark headspace…
Time for another blurb for HOW TO FAKE A HAUNTING…
So many thanks to the amazing @tsierraauthor.bsky.social for these generous and thoughtful words. And if you haven’t read Tracy’s debut, Nightwatching, what are you waiting for?!? And keep an eye out for her next novel, Warning Signs, coming 2026.
So many thanks to the amazing @tsierraauthor.bsky.social for these generous and thoughtful words. And if you haven’t read Tracy’s debut, Nightwatching, what are you waiting for?!? And keep an eye out for her next novel, Warning Signs, coming 2026.
July 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Time for another blurb for HOW TO FAKE A HAUNTING…
So many thanks to the amazing @tsierraauthor.bsky.social for these generous and thoughtful words. And if you haven’t read Tracy’s debut, Nightwatching, what are you waiting for?!? And keep an eye out for her next novel, Warning Signs, coming 2026.
So many thanks to the amazing @tsierraauthor.bsky.social for these generous and thoughtful words. And if you haven’t read Tracy’s debut, Nightwatching, what are you waiting for?!? And keep an eye out for her next novel, Warning Signs, coming 2026.
So excited for you to learn just how one goes about faking a haunting after all. 👻
Link to preorder in my bio!!!
#howtofakeahaunting #hauntedouijaboard #rhodeislandhorror #newenglandhorror #gothichorror #horrorhomesteading
Link to preorder in my bio!!!
#howtofakeahaunting #hauntedouijaboard #rhodeislandhorror #newenglandhorror #gothichorror #horrorhomesteading
July 15, 2025 at 11:47 AM
So excited for you to learn just how one goes about faking a haunting after all. 👻
Link to preorder in my bio!!!
#howtofakeahaunting #hauntedouijaboard #rhodeislandhorror #newenglandhorror #gothichorror #horrorhomesteading
Link to preorder in my bio!!!
#howtofakeahaunting #hauntedouijaboard #rhodeislandhorror #newenglandhorror #gothichorror #horrorhomesteading
Ahhhh! I am SO excited to dive into America’s Most Gothic, by the unparalleled @leannareneehieber.bsky.social and @andreajanes.bsky.social!!! I already read the chapter for which Andrea interviewed me on Mercy Brown and ALL the research and writing is so compelling and in-depth! 🖤👻📜🖋️🏚️
July 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Ahhhh! I am SO excited to dive into America’s Most Gothic, by the unparalleled @leannareneehieber.bsky.social and @andreajanes.bsky.social!!! I already read the chapter for which Andrea interviewed me on Mercy Brown and ALL the research and writing is so compelling and in-depth! 🖤👻📜🖋️🏚️