Welcome to a world of shadows and mist. We have coffee (and chickens).
Hi. I’m Jean Marie Bauhaus. Yes, like the band—which, for the record, is about 30% of the reason I married into the name.
I’m a GenX storyteller, a “Bible nerd,” and a homesteader living deep in the Arkansas Ozarks. I spent my formative years in the foothills of Northeast Oklahoma, where I developed a healthy suspicion of what might be lurking in the woods and a lifelong obsession with the unseen world.
In 2018, I decided my life needed more isolation and significantly more ticks, so I moved deeper into the mountains. Now, I spend my days navigating the thin places between the physical and the spiritual, usually while trying not to trip over a chicken.
Why “Through a Glass, Darkly”?
I’ve spent over a dozen years as a professional writer, but my true passion lies in the intersection of dark speculative fiction and biblical truth.
I don’t write about the darkness because I enjoy being unsettled. I write about it because I’m aware of the “Divine Council” and the principalities and powers we’re warned about in scripture. I believe that peering “through a glass, darkly” is often the only way to see the light clearly.
What You’ll Get Here
This Substack is the “home base” for my readers. It’s where you’ll find:
My fiction: Genre-blending stories that convey hope and a sense that there’s something beyond us — both good and evil — guiding and influencing human events. Worlds where angels, faeries and ghosts are real and superstitions have their purpose.
Real talk: the occasional blog post about my process, the things that fire up my imagination, real-life encounters with the things we don’t like to think about after dark, glimpses into my homesteading journey and life in the Ozarks.
Recommendations: What I’m reading and my favorite free fiction finds from around Substack, where you might find your next favorite author.
News and updates: You’ll stay apprised of what I’m working on, what I’m publishing, where you can get my books, and when they’re on sale.
And more: Music, essays, microficiton, free books … you just never know.
Join the Darklings
I’m an indie author, which means I don’t have a massive corporate machine behind me. I just have you.
Free Subscribers: Get access to everything posted here for a limited window of time, as well as to the community features.
Paid Members: You’re the ones keeping the lights on (and the chickens fed). You get exclusive access to the fiction archives, downloadable e-books, and my eternal gratitude.
If you’re a seeker, a cynic, or just someone who loves a good story, you’re in the right place.
Step out of the mundane. Let’s see what’s waiting in the shadows.
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About Jean
Jean Marie Bauhaus is both a traditionally-published and indie author of seven novels and counting, as well as a number of novellas and short stories. She also writes freelance articles about dogs and cats for a living.
Born and raised in Oklahoma, she currently makes her home in the middle of the woods deep in the Ozark mountains with her husband and best friend of 19 years, a velociraptor in the guise of a German shepherd named Dixie, and a little black meowing fluffball named Olive, along with a pet rabbit, two box turtles and a flock of fluffbutts.
When she’s not writing about ghosts, zombies, vampires and other things that go bump in the night, she can usually be found hiking the side of the mountain or trading her keyboard for knitting needles and curling up with a mug of tea and a podcast.
Or at the microwave, re-heating her tea because she forgot to drink it before it got cold. #writerproblems
Jean has a Bachelor of Science in Social Science, Psych/Soc emphasis, which means she’s smart enough to finish college but not smart enough to choose a major that’s actually useful. But it comes in handy for building psychological character profiles and developing post-apocalyptic societies.
Easily spooked by ghost stories as a child, teen Jean faced her fears by forcing herself to watch horror movies and read Stephen King until she fell in love with the genre. As a grown-up (more or less, depending on who you ask), her tastes expanded to include a broader range of speculative fiction and romance, but she keeps coming back to the supernatural and paranormal. She has a strong affection for all things zombie-related, which is a good thing considering she wrote an entire trilogy in that genre.
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