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Lauren Bolger

@renbolger.bsky.social

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Horror writer startled by most sounds. Kill Radio out now with Malarkey Books. The Barre Incidents out Oct 2025! My website: https://www.laurenbolger.com/ Jewish / Free Palestine

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 8d

Today, The Barre Incidents is officially released upon the world. A Horror book about grieving the “easy” parent (who is undead), falling for your best friend, learning cryptids are real, and banished, embittered gods. Happy born day TBI! You can order here! malarkeybooks.com/store/barre-...

Cover for The Barre Incidents by me (Lauren Bolger). A statue’s face with a graveyard superimposed behind it. Cover art is by Matt Revert!

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 6h

I still have copies of The Barre Incidents at my house before I run out. After that, it'll be filled with @malarkeybooks.bsky.social stock. These last five will get signed, get a bookmark, and the spinach pie recipe. Sharing my blurbs again from two very cool people to hopefully encourage ya.

"Bolger excels at weaving familial relationships, trauma, and existential dread with the kinds of creatures that will haunt your dreams."

-Michael Bettendorf, author of Trve Cvlt

The Barre Incidents
Out October 2025

"Lauren Bolger's The Barre Incidents is a thrilling mystery about family, love and grief blended with a deep dive into world mythology. The book delightfully interweaves the voices of friendly residents of a small town alongside ancient and otherworldly voices. A strange and thrilling tale!"

-Ivy Grimes, author of The Ghosts of Blaubart Mansion

The Barre Incidents
Out October 2025

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 11h

Idk what to post lately. My brain is full of Kpop music and Simpsons quotes. Which is a good thing but still idk what to post lately

Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 11h

Hell yeah! Really looking forward to having this in hand!!

David Corse @itsmedavidcorse.bsky.social · 12h

Coming this November!

Cerulean Sky is a story about absolution set in an America that’s been ravaged by a disease that turns people incorporeal.

It’s my love letter to The Stand!

polymathpress.com/products/cer...

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K. A. Roy @kayleigharoy.bsky.social · 14h

Spotted Red Line: Chicago Horror Stories at my local Barnes & Noble. First time seeing something my work is a part of in the wild! @frombeyondpress.bsky.social

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Wild Hunt Books @wildhuntbooks.bsky.social · 23h

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY TO GOOD BOY BY @talkscaredpod.bsky.social

Order from our bookshop or your favourite retailer.

After a boy vanishes on the outskirts of a small town, a woman spies a mysterious man digging a grave in the exact spot of the disappearance.

www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/books/p/good...

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 17h

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Lazy & Entitled @lazyandentitled.bsky.social · 17h

last night’s reading was incredible! Thank you to everyone who came out, and thank you to @renbolger.bsky.social and @tvayyyy.bsky.social for joining us!

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Michael Bettendorf @beardedbetts.bsky.social · 18h

Some of my favorite people on our miserable little planet are gonna be there. Go hang out. Go be weird (weird, not creepy). Go be kind. Have a fucking blast and lean into the void 💀💜🤘

VOIDCON @voidcon.bsky.social · 1d

VOID
TOMORROW

SEE YOU SOON

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B & the Nothingness @bnothing.bsky.social · 7d

This is one of the few times I have ever interacted with @yoadrianididit.bsky.social in real life and it did not disappoint!

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 1d

Chris and Brendan sure know how to throw a reading. This was fun as heckkkkk

chris-ture from the black lagoon @thecorlew.bsky.social · 1d

HELL of a good night reading with @renbolger.bsky.social @tvayyyy.bsky.social and of course The Devil’s Bastard himself @bnothing.bsky.social

lotta monster stories, lotta bloody death

it is well within my soul

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 1d

This was so much fun! You guys rock!!!

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 1d

This is why I love Chicago so much. Their “we will fuck with you” reserves are BOTTOMLESS.

NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 1d

This is amazing.

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 1d

Heheh

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a kitten standing on its hind legs on a carpet

ALT: a kitten standing on its hind legs on a carpet

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 1d

This is a great book, folks. get ittttt

Eric Williams @geoliminal.bsky.social · 1d

the free shipping bookshop dot org sale is a good time to buy my collection of original weird fiction which i guarantee you'll love
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Toadstones

Check out Toadstones - <p>Bloody haruspicy as an archeological technique. The violent premier of a film star's lost noir masterpiece. A housekeeper's final job for her late employer. An exhumation to ...

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chris-ture from the black lagoon @thecorlew.bsky.social · 1d

hey if you want to take public transit you can get off at the Loyola red line stop

or you can take the 22, 36, 147, 151, or 155 busses

whatever you do we wanna see you tonight

a flyer reading Lazy & Entitled Presents Scary Stories To Tell In Rogers Park October 8th 7 PM celebrating new books from Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. Lauren Bolger additional readings by Chris Corlew and Brendan Johnson Rivers & Roads Cafe espresso bar and snacks available 1259 W Devon Ave

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 1d

For tonight I’ve chosen to read a passage that includes a lot of dialog from an older, blue collar gentleman. This is going to go really great. Nothing at all can go wrong

Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 1d

I keep reading “color temperature” in this LED light fixture copy I’m working on and having Homer Simpson’s voice pop in my head and say “core tem-per-ature: Normal.” from the ep where he’s working from home

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 1d

Of course I'll recommend @eveninghouse.bsky.social, the fledgling bookstore my partner and I run, with our beautiful website and great selection of high-quality literature, focusing on small presses, books in translation and bangers new and old (which ship anywhere in the US:)
eveninghousebooks.com

Evening House Books

Buffalo's downtown bookstore, a parlor-style cove for deep cut indie literature and bold, diverse, voices.

eveninghousebooks.com

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John Chrostek @johnchrostek.com · 1d

there's also @asterismbooks.bsky.social which is a treasure trove of indie presses, run by extremely sweet and talented booksellers. Great place to pick up the latest @malarkeybooks.bsky.social releases like @renbolger.bsky.social, @vikhinao.bsky.social + @abasketofcraig.bsky.social

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 1d

Come see us tonight!

chris-ture from the black lagoon @thecorlew.bsky.social · 1d

in an attempt to not have bags under my eyes at the reading I slept all the way to 6:23

come see a “rested” me, @bnothing.bsky.social @renbolger.bsky.social & @tvayyyy.bsky.social at Rivers & Roads on Devon tonight!

a flyer reading Lazy & Entitled presents scary stories to tell in rogers park 9ctober 8th 7 pm celebrating new books from Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. and Lauren Bolger additional readings and music by Chris Corlew & Brendan Johnson Rivers & Roads Cafe espresso bar & snacks available 1259 w Devon Ave

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I meant like pushin’ daisies :P but also lol

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 2d

I feel bad for judging looks too but idk. They just un-weirdified or un-damaged the characters or put a glossy sheen over a lot of things that made the books so incredible. They were so imperfect and you loved them too and it was hard to watch them mess up and hurt

Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 2d

Like, the dad is huge in the book! Big square shoulders. Square chin. Awful haircut. Dark orange hair. And they cast what looks like a beautiful boxer brief model to play him with medium long brown hair

Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 2d

The cast of Locke & Key looks too normal, like they were casting a Lifetime movie instead of a gritty creepy dark quirky magical great series with larger than life characters

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Lauren Bolger @renbolger.bsky.social · 2d

Man he coulda fertilized those flowers for ya, if ya know what I mean just kidding

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