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The Darkest Night – A Bookish Solstice
The Darkest Night: A literary solstice event
Join us as we gather in the warmth of the historic Loring Greenough House as three talented authors share the tradition of telling ghost stories on the longest night of the year. Take in the beautiful setting as they read excerpts from their favorite haunting holiday tales.
Stay for book signings and a complimentary hot cocoa bar! (We will have both boozy and non-alcoholic options!)
Authors Bram stoker award winning Christa Carmen, Cat Scully and Corey Farrencopf
Books will be available for purchase from Rozzie Bound Co-op Bookstore (rozziebound.com)
About Our Authors
Christa Carmen is the two-time Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of The Daughters of Block Island, Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked, and the forthcoming Beneath the Poet’s House. Additional work can be found in Vastarien, Nightmare, Orphans of Bliss, Year’s Best Hardcore Horror, and the Stoker-nominated anthologies, Not All Monsters and The Streaming of Hill House. 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.
Corey Farrenkopf is a Cape Cod based writer. His debut novel, Living in Cemeteries, was released from JournalStone in April of 2024. His debut short story collection, Haunted Ecologies, was released from JournalStone in February of 2025. He is the Fiction Editor for the Cape Cod Poetry Review. His work has appeared in Electric Literature, Strange Horizons, The Southwest Review, The Deadlands, Nightmare, SmokeLong Quarterly, Tiny Nightmares, Catapult, Flash Fiction Online, Bourbon Penn, and elsewhere. He works as a librarian.
Cat Scully is a queer author-illustrator, passionate about writing horror and dark fantasy for all ages. She is the author of the upcoming horror novel BELOW THE GRAND HOTEL (2025) and she is the author-illustrator of young adult horror series JENNIFER STRANGE (2020), which author Paul Tremblay called “a promising debut.” She’s best known for her intricate illustrations, including world maps for the BROOKLYN BRUJA series by Zoraida Cordova, KAGAN THE DAMNED by Jonathan Maberry, and GIVE THE DARK MY LOVE by Beth Revis. Her first picture book, THE MAYOR OF HALLOWEEN IS MISSING, was written by Emily S. Sullivan. When she’s not writing and illustrating books, Cat works in concept art and video game development. She was a developer on the title Romancelvania with part of the team that made Bioshock and Bioshock Infinite. Originally from Atlanta, GA, she now lives outside of Salem, MA.
