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Leah Reads “The Knocking: A Novel” by Laura Lee Bahr

Soaked and weather-weary, journalist Edith Anne Howe (E. A.) arrives at an erratic rural home in disarray that remains hesitant to receive her. A sickly matron suspects her doctor of poisoning her, yet demands the constant spiritual presence of her deceased children, and in so, refuses to complete the grief process. This is cemented by her husband, the father of these children, who is a respected publisher of a successful newspaper. He encourages and enables this constant con

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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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The Knocking

Who is the Liar

Angel Meat

Long-Form Religious Porn

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

Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart is a Chainsaw

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Laura Lee Bahr

author | filmmaker | performer