October Queer Book Club: The Most Unusual Haunting of Edgar Lovejoy

Name: October Queer Book Club: The Most Unusual Haunting of Edgar Lovejoy
Start: 2025-10-10T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-10T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Old Town Books

Schedule

Fri Oct 10 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Old Town Books | Alexandria, VA

Join us at Old Town Books as we discuss our October Queer Book Club pick: The Most Unusual Haunting of Edgar Lovejoy by Roan Parrish
About this Event

Join a community of LBGTQIA2S+ readers meeting monthly to discuss stories by queer authors, centered on queer life!

Old Town Books' Queer Book Club is free and open to the public. While buying the book at OTB is not required to attend, we would greatly appreciate it to help keep our free literary programming sustainable! Buy your copy of The Most Unusual Haunting of Edgar Lovejoy by Roan Parrish at the shop or online and note "book club" to get 10% off.

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About the Book

Jamie Wendon-Dale may design haunted houses, but they don't actually believe in ghosts—until they meet Edgar Lovejoy, who is tall, clever, beautiful…and 100% haunted.

A COZY, GHOSTLY LGBTQIA+ ROMANCE

Jamie Wendon-Dale (transmasc they/them) creates haunted houses for a living. Haunting is their life—but nobody working New Orleans' spooky circuit actually believes in ghosts.

Edgar Lovejoy (cis he/him) is 100% haunted. No, really. Ghosts have tormented him since childhood and he's organized his life around attempts to avoid them.

Opposites? Get ready to attract. But while Jamie's biggest concern is that Edgar sometimes seems a bit distracted, Edgar's fears are much greater. Not only is he scared of encountering the dearly departed whenever he leaves the house, but he's terrified of making himself vulnerable to Jamie. After all, how do you tell someone who believes ghosts only exist as smoke and mirrors that you see them everywhere you go? And how can you trust in a happy future when you can't even believe in yourself?

A little spooky, a little magical, and a whole lot cozy: The (Most Unusual) Haunting of Edgar Lovejoy will leave you feeling like you've found a brand new bookish family of your own.