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Christa Carmen

3 Series • 18 Books

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🎯 Where Should I Start?

Best Starting Point
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Start with: Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked (2018)
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Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Start with: Through the Looking Glass and Straight into Hell (2022)
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Publication Order of Anthologies
Start with: The Book of the Macabre (2016)

ⓘ About Christa Carmen

When she’s not busy writing, she uses a Ouija board to ghost-hug her dear, departed beagle, keeps chickens, and goes off on adventures with her daughter, husband, and bloodhound-golden retriever mix. Most of her work comes from gazing upon the ghosts of the past or else into the dark corners of nature, those places where whorls of bark become owl eyes and deer step through tunnels of hanging leaves and creeping briars just to disappear. Christa has been writing in one capacity or another for as long as she can remember. Painstakingly bound and hilariously illustrated short stories as a kid, emo journal entries as an adolescent and while she was in treatment for substance abuse, impassioned nonfiction essays and these decidedly weak efforts at memoir.

All Book Series by Christa Carmen

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Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked book cover

Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked

Series opener · book 1 of 4 · published 2018

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2018
2
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The Daughters of Block Island

Book 2 of 4 · published 2023

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2023
3
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Beneath the Poet’s House

Book 3 of 4 · published 2024

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2024
4
How to Fake a Haunting book cover

How to Fake a Haunting

Latest in the series · book 4 of 4 · published 2025

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2025
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Through the Looking Glass and Straight into Hell book cover

Through the Looking Glass and Straight into Hell

Single-title series · published 2022

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2022
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The Book of the Macabre

Series opener · book 1 of 13 · published 2016

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2016
2
Just Desserts book cover

Just Desserts

Book 2 of 13 · published 2016

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2016
3
Year's Best Hardcore Horror, Volume 2 book cover

Year's Best Hardcore Horror, Volume 2

Book 3 of 13 · published 2017

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2017
4
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Strange Beasties

Book 4 of 13 · published 2017

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2017
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Only the Lonely

Book 5 of 13 · published 2017

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2017
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Dark Voices

Book 6 of 13 · published 2018

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2018
7
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Behold the Undead of Dracula

Book 7 of 13 · published 2019

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2019
8
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Night Frights Issue #2

Book 8 of 13 · published 2021

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2021
9
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Orphans of Bliss

Book 9 of 13 · published 2022

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2022
10
We Are Providence: Tales of Horror from the Ocean State book cover

We Are Providence: Tales of Horror from the Ocean State

Book 10 of 13 · published 2022

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2022
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Vastarien: Vol. 6, issue 1 book cover

Vastarien: Vol. 6, issue 1

Book 11 of 13 · published 2023

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2023
12
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Monsters in the Mills

Book 12 of 13 · published 2024

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2024
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13 Possessions

Latest in the series · book 13 of 13 · published 2025

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2025

? Frequently Asked Questions

Who is Christa Carmen?

When she’s not busy writing, she uses a Ouija board to ghost-hug her dear, departed beagle, keeps chickens, and goes off on adventures with her daughter, husband, and bloodhound-golden retriever mix. Most of her work comes from gazing upon the ghosts of the past or else into the dark corners of nature, those places where whorls of bark become owl eyes and deer step through tunnels of hanging leaves and creeping briars just to disappear. Christa has been writing in one capacity or another for as long as she can remember.

Which Christa Carmen series should I start with?

Christa Carmen's books stand alone rather than forming a numbered series, so there is no reading order to follow. The natural first pick is Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked (2018).

How many books has Christa Carmen written?

Christa Carmen has 18 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2016 and 2025. They are filed under 3 categories rather than in numbered series — chiefly Anthologies, Standalone Novels and Short Stories/Novellas.

In what order should Christa Carmen's series be read?

No reading order is needed: none of the 18 books catalogued here do not form a numbered series, so any title can be picked up first. Within each category they are listed by publication year.

How are Christa Carmen's books organised into series?

This guide splits Christa Carmen's 18 books into categories rather than numbered series: Anthologies (13 books); Standalone Novels (4 books); Short Stories/Novellas (1 book).