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The Knocking by Laura Lee Bahr - Available!

IT'S HERE!! 🖤✨ I am SO excited about this book. Ghosts. Journalism. Spiritualism. 1850 New York. It's spooky, it's fun, it's a little bit occult-y, and I cannot wait for you to read it. Order now in hardback, paperback, or audio — #TheKnocking #CoverReveal #GothicFiction #HistoricalFiction #Preorder #Spiritualism #Ghosts #AuthorLife #BookCommunity

And That's Research, Folks! A Weekend in the Only Town in America Founded by Mediums

When you write historical fiction, you don't just research from a desk — sometimes you have to go stand where it happened. For The Knocking — out July 14th — that meant a trip to Lilydale, New York. Founded in the early 1900s, Lilydale is a real, still-active hamlet where the residents are Spiritualists — mediums, healers, and their families. It's not a theme or an aesthetic there. You actually have to be a Spiritualist to live in the town. I happened to visit during a medium

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ABOUT LAURA LEE BAHR

Laura Lee Bahr is an award-winning indie author / performer / filmmaker with a gift for the hilariously, tragically absurd.

She is the screenwriter for the multi-award winning feature films Jesus Freak and the little Death. She is the author of the novels Haunt (winner of the Wonderland Book Award, Best Novel) and Long-Form Religious Porn, and the short-story collection Angel Meat (winner of the Wonderland Book Award, Best Collection). Laura's debut feature as writer/director, Boned, won “Best Micro-Budget Feature” at the Toronto Independent Film Festival and is currently distributed through Gravitas (available everywhere). She was the Spring 2018 writer-in-residence at the Kerouac house.

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Who is the Liar

Angel Meat

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Haunt

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Laura Lee Bahr writes masterpiece fiction. Oh my God, we're witnessing the beginning of a brilliant canon and career.”

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(Long-Form Religious Porn is) a funny, sexy, weird, scary book about vampire cults, murder, kinky sex, quack therapy and making movies in Los Angeles, all told with Laura Lee Bahr’s blend of pants-offing charm and wicked genius.”

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The world is full of grace and horror and laughter and blood, and I thank Laura Lee Bahr for using these stories to remind all of us.”

Josh Malerman, author of Bird Box

Francesca Lia Block author of Weetzie Bat and House of Hearts

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Laura Lee Bahr

author | filmmaker | performer