Author Event with Victoria Dalpe and Christa Carmen: Selena Shade, Loving the Dead

In the second novel of the Resurrectionist Series from Victoria Dalpe, Loving the Dead, a city tears itself apart, a new serial killer arrives in town, and Selene Shade desperately needs a vacation.

A few months after the tumultuous and reality-shredding arrival of the Pale Ones, the world has been changed, and not necessarily for the better. Half-lifes now regard Selene and her ilk with fear, knowing their free will isn’t as free as it once was. With the growing backlash against the undead in society, religious hate groups have swelled. Add to that a vampire serial killer, a contentious election, a heap of personal problems and you have the makings of a perfect storm that might just wipe the city of Goat Hill right off the map.

Revenge conspiracies, resurrection, and romance—what’s a girl to do? Join Selene and friends as they reluctantly race the clock to stop those that would destroy the world… again.

$5 ticket is a deposit returned as store credit at the event. Books will be available for purchase at the event.

About the Author:

Victoria Dalpe is a Providence-based horror writer and painter. To date, her short fiction has appeared in over sixty anthologies. She has put out the collection Les Femmes Grotesques and the horror fantasy trilogy Selene Shade: Resurrectionist for Hire with CLASH Books. Book 2 Selene Shade: Loving the Dead will be released August 2026. In 2025, her short story "The Cleaner" was included in the Best Horror of the Year Volume 17 edited by Ellen Datlow and her short story "Because it was Worse Outside" was included in the Shirley Jackson winning anthology Why Didn't You Just Leave? edited by Nadia Bulkin and Julia Rios. Looking ahead to 2027, her second short story collection, I'll Break, You'll Break will be released with Lethe Press and her debut novel, the sapphic gothic novel Parasite Life will be reprinted with Mocha Memoirs Press.  Follow her on instagram @victorialdalpe