Unraveling the Dark: Stories of Mystery and the Uncanny
Date: Tue, Apr 21, 2026
Time: 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Venue: Main Library – Main Auditorium, Durham
Price: Free
Category: Community
<p class="ydp16b0dfc0yiv8904775905"><span style="font-size:18px;"><span aptos=""><span arial=""><span style="color:#26282a">Join Durham County Library for a dialogue with acclaimed mystery novelist Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier and award-winning horror author P.M. Raymond exploring the storytelling impulse behind both fear and curiosity. From the clues that illuminate human motive to the darkness that conceals it, their work reminds us that every revelation carries its own chill. Ideal for readers who love fiction that lingers long after the last page. </span></span><span helvetica=""><span style="color:#26282a"></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="ydp16b0dfc0yiv8904775905"> </p> <p class="ydp16b0dfc0yiv8904775905"> </p> <p class="ydp16b0dfc0yiv8904775905"><img alt="" height="259" src="https://d2jv02qf7xgjwx.cloudfront.net/accounts/272821/images/PM_Raymond_21.jpg" width="251" /></p> <p class="ydp16b0dfc0yiv8904775905"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span aptos="" style="font-family:"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span arial="" style="font-family:"><span style="color:#26282a"><strong>P.M. Raymond</strong> is an award-winning author and aspiring screenwriter from New Orleans who knows a thing or two about good gumbo, grits, and café au lait. She is a 2026 Killer Shorts Screenplay Semifinalist, the Sisters in Crime 2024 Eleanor Taylor Bland Award Winner, and 2024 Claymore Award and Killer Shorts Screenplay Finalist. She was named to the 160 Black Women in Horror in 2023. Her inter­connected short story collection, Things Are as They Should Be and Other Words to Die For, will be released April 2026 from Uncom­fortably Dark Horror. She teaches the course Masters of Dark Fiction at North Carolina State University and Duke University in the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute program. Her work has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Writer's Digest, Punk Noir, Flash Fiction Magazine, Kings River Life Magazine, The Furious Gazelle,