LAUNCH PARTY: The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own by Gwendolyn Kiste

Join us to celebrate the release of the new gothic short story collection, The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own!

The Twisted Spine is so excited to welcome author Gwendolyn Kiste to the shop for the first time! Joining Gwendolyn in conversation will be author M. Jane Worma!

About THE HAUNTED HOUSES SHE CALLS HER OWN:

Enter a world possessed by recriminations from bygone eras, where the regrets and malice of years past still reverberate and shape our doom. Here, morally complex women and queer antiheroines swim against the current of a social structure that serves as a spectral prison in these layered stories of the weird and the Other.

Known for crafting bold metafictional narratives that grapple with challenging social issues, Kiste’s unwavering voice deftly weaves a siren’s song of resilience and survival. Included among the short stories in this collection are the Bram Stoker Award-winning “The Eight People Who Murdered Me (Excerpt From Lucy Westenra’s Diary),” “The Girls From the Horror Movie,” “The Sea Witch of the World’s Fair,” and other riveting new gothic tales of body horror, the supernatural, and unapologetic resistance.

About the speakers:

Gwendolyn Kiste is the four-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens, Reluctant Immortals, The Haunting of Velkwood, And Her Smile Will Untether the Universe, Pretty Marys All in a Row, The Invention of Ghosts, and Boneset & Feathers. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in outlets including Lit Hub, Nightmare, Tor Nightfire, Titan Books, Vastarien, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, and The Dark among others. She's a Lambda Literary Award winner, and her fiction has also received the This Is Horror award for Novel of the Year as well as nominations for the Shirley Jackson, Premios Kelvin, Ignotus, Dragon, and Ohio Book Awards. Originally from Ohio, she now resides on an abandoned horse farm outside of Pittsburgh with her husband, their calico cat, and not nearly enough ghosts. You can also find her online at Facebook and Instagram.

M. Jane Worma is a horror obsessed queer with a BA in creative writing from a place that no longer exists. They hail from the southwest and is steadily infecting Brooklyn. Of Beasts is their debut novella.

Event guidelines:

Each ticket includes either a copy THE HAUNTED HOUSES SHE CALLS HER OWN or a $15 Twisted Spine gift card.

Limited additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.

A signing will follow the discussion.

If you have any questions about the guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations, please contact info@twistedspinebooks.com.