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Laura Keating

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Laura Keating is a horror writer from St. Andrews, New Brunswick.

Her short fiction has been published by Grindhouse Press, Cemetery Gates, Ghost Orchid Press, and others. She authors stories about monsters both human and unnatural, traditional creep-fests, and contemporary quiet horror filled with dread.

Her debut novella, AGONY'S LODESTONE is available now. A collection of her short fiction, THE TRUEST SENSE, is out June 11, 2024.
She Lives in Nova Scotia with her husband, son, and two cats.

To learn more, please follow her on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. ...more

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I'm very happy your here. This is an incredibly interesting time for me, and it's nice I get to share all those incredibly interesting things with you.

For starters, I'm having a book published. A book with just my name on the cover. I could tell you how excited I was, but to get it right it would just be one long pterodactyl shriek - and that doesn't seem very polite, as we've just met (that Read more of this blog post »

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Published on February 19, 2023 07:29 • Tags: agony-s-lodestone, debut-book, fred-s-dead, horror-author, moving-day, writer, writing

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	Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror by Samantha Kolesnik (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sadie Hartmann (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), Hailey Piper (Goodreads Author) 3.74 avg rating — 475 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Agony's Lodestone by Laura Keating (Goodreads Author), Trevor Henderson (Illustrator) 3.96 avg rating — 255 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Found 2: More Stories of Found Footage Horror by Andrew Cull (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gabino Iglesias (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Laura Keating (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 198 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Deep by A.R. Ward (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Abi Marie Palmer (Goodreads Author), Adrian David 4.02 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Truest Sense: A Collection of Horrors by Laura Keating (Goodreads Author), Chad Wehrle (illustrator) 3.93 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2024 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rock Band: An Anthology of Music-Inspired Dark Microfiction by A.R. Ward (Goodreads Author), Scarlett Lake (Contributor), Jacqueline Mitchell (Contributor) 3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Compendium of Creeps: World Folklore, Haunted Locales, and Original Fiction by Jeff Provine (Goodreads Author), Joe Koch (Goodreads Author), R.J. Joseph (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dracula Beyond Stoker Issue 2 by Kai Holmwood (Goodreads Author), Laura Keating (Goodreads Author), John Kiste 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Monsters Hiding in Your Closet by Madeline Smoot (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lisa Timpf (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Hope Erica Schultz (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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4.5 rounded up to 5 While very different from the author's stellar (and incredibly dark) debut, this is a gripping piece of fiction. Michallon's turn-of-phrase and eloquent prose has made her an instant-buy author for me. She knows when to show her ha ...more
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Laura Keating made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — This book is not mine, please move it (part 18) topic " Hello Librarians, Could you please remove " OMG! Oh My God!: Memories from Classrooms and Beyond" from my profile? It is not mine, I did not write it. Li ...more "
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