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Leanna Riley
@leannafromsavannah.bsky.social
Emerging author ✍🏼
Known for spinning twisted tales of hauntings, tragedy, and the unexplained. 🖤🥜
🎃 𝐇𝐄𝐄𝐄𝐄𝐑𝐑𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐄𝐄’𝐒 𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐄𝐄𝐍!!! 🪦✨

My contributor copy of The Paper Cult’s 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 has arrived just in time for our favorite holiday! 💀

Y’all, this issue is a steroid shot of Halloween nostalgia straight to my cold, dead heart… bringing my corpse back clawing from its grave.

𝐈𝐓’𝐒 𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐕𝐄! ⚡️
October 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
🕯️✍🏼 Horror writing isn’t always about finding the darkness or creating the monsters. Sometimes, they’re already there. Our job is to shine a light into the shadows and catch what moves with our blackened ink. 🔦💀

Please enjoy these lines *without context* of my current WIPs! 🖤🥜
October 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Y’all! Y’ALL!! My contributor copy of Smitten Land: Televangelism is here!! 🔥

The Laughing Man House has curated some incredible (and unholy) talent for this issue! 🙏🏼
Read my story “Bury The Tithes, Burn The Tares” among these religious tales of terror. 🖤🥜

#horrorauthor #published #religioushorror
October 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
𝗦𝗣𝗢𝗢𝗞𝗬 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦! 💀

𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 is a cover-to-cover tribute to Halloween, brimming with haunting tales and wickedly talented artists. I’m thrilled to share my story 𝘐𝘛 𝘞𝘖𝘕’𝘛 𝘊𝘖𝘔𝘌 𝘖𝘍𝘍 among them! This curation is sure to fright, excite, and delight your strange and wonderful blackened hearts. 🖤
October 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
✨ New Publication ✨

Thrilled to share my short story ‘Bury The Tares, Burn The Tithes’ is out now in Smitten Land: Televangelism! Huge thanks to The Laughingman House for including my work in their latest issue of religious horror. 📺💀

#religioushorror #amwriting #southerngothic #published
September 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM
🖤 My start of September offerings 🍂 opening lines from selected short stories.

Which jar will you pull from the shelf? What first line draws you in? Be warned: it’s not always wise to get lost in the mind of a madwoman. ✍🏼🕸️
September 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
🖤 New Publication 🖤

My story, GOD, BLESS YOU, is published in The Medley by Hansraj College, University of Delhi.

The theme, #Daag —a stain or mark of disgrace—for me, meant a return to plaid skirts, morning prayers, and quiet rituals of #confession and #communion. 🕊️

themedley.in/issues/10/go...
August 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
🖤 On-Submission Sunday 🖤

Much of my writing is inspired by motherhood—the traumas of childbirth, the oppressions and expectations and lactations that come with the title. Horror is nothing, if not a way to personify trauma—a way to place a fightable face against our indefinable fears. 🖤🥜
August 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
🖤 WIP Wednesday! 🖤

Enjoy some lines from my current projects with no context. The slow unwinding southern summer has grown deep roots into my creative process lately. 🍃🪦✍🏼

#wipwednesday #amwri̇ti̇ng #southerngothic #horrorpublisher #horrorcommunity #published
July 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
💀🌛IT’S SUMMERWEEN!🌞🎃

I am elated to be featured in GWZ’s 30th issue: The Midnight Hour! 🖤🥜

There’s nothing quite like the chill that tingles your spine when the moon is high, the cicadas scream, and the campfire flickers—at the Midnight Hour.

This issue will keep you up until the sun rises! ⏳💀
July 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Today is the official release of The S&L #4— and the completion of the set of four we'd originally funded!
With it, we celebrate how much we've learned and all the excellent artists and readers who made it possible.
Congratulations, team. They're perfect.🖤💀

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July 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️• There is nothing to celebrate when millions of people are about to lose healthcare and snap benefits and when h*locaust-esque detention camps are being built with political figures joking about feeding immigrants to alligators. It is sickening to be an *merican.

#wakeupandopenyoureyes
July 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
SNEAK PEEK: These are the opening lines to one of my upcoming publications. I can’t wait to share this story with you all very soon! 🙏🏼🍷🤧

#amwriting #author #shortstories #religion #southerngothic #publication
July 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Chris Ringler and I think about and talk about inspiration, and what turns the wheels that make the work.
The Spooky Chris Podcast – Author Kathe Koja on Inspiration
Join me for a discussion about inspiration with author Kathe Koja. Kathe just saw her seminal novel “Skin” relreleased in a beautiful new edition, had her book “Catherine the Ghos…
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May 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Works in progress! ✍🏼🪦🌨️🐄🍃

My work sprawls across the horror genre like blood seeping into white bedsheets—psychological, character-driven, and raw. From slashers to slow creeps, I aim to unnerve. And I can’t wait to keep you up at night.

Here’s a sneak peek:

#amwriting #WIP #horrorwriter #WiHW
May 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Who's up for some fringe occult medical research at the Bannican Institute today?!

@goresorcerer.bsky.social has cited An Axis of Perdition's music as an influence on PUPPET'S BANQUET; but for whatever reason I hear Ethel Cain's Perverts when I'm reading it.

How about you?
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May 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
A mother’s warning to her daughter from the grave. Some nightmares are too vivid to ignore. 🖤🥜

#amwriting #womenwriting #newstory #HWA #HorrorCommunity #WomenInHorror #Supernatural
May 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐃𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫,
𝘉𝘺 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘙𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘺

I’m thrilled to share that my debut story has been published in Killer Nashville Magazine. You can read 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘋𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘳, now! 📝🪦

www.killernashville.com/short-storie...

#HorrorWriting #PublishedAuthor #NewRelease #WritersOfBluesky
Dear Daughter: A Short Story of Love, Legacy, and Letting Go<br/> — Killer Nashville
A powerful and poignant epistolary short story about a dying mother’s final message to her daughter. Dear Daughter explores illness, memory, and maternal love through vivid dream imagery and heartfelt...
www.killernashville.com
May 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Happy Mother’s Day! 🖤

I want to celebrate female identifying women, especially on this day! Leave me a comment so we can connect on all things horror and southern gothic! ✍🏼

#WomenOfHorror #FemaleAuthors #WiHM #WritersOfBluesky #HorrorRecs #amwriting
May 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Just received my first acceptance email! I’m about to be a published author for the first time! Y’all, I am thrilled! My only disappointment is that I can no longer be your writer virgin sacrifice.

I want to know, where did you get that first story published?

#writingcommunity #writersky #authors
May 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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2025 Things to Come:
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April 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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COVER REVEAL: Issues with Authority by
@nadiabulkin.bsky.social releases 9/18/25 from
@ghoulish.bsky.social
I am the biggest fan of Nadia's first collection, She Said Destroy, I mean it. Fight me. Number one fan. So excited!
ghoulish.rip/product/issu... (and get an author sticker!) This cover! 🔥
March 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Cover reveal! Presenting the cover of TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS, art by Julia Lloyd!

13 coming-of-rage stories twisting out most difficult years of transformation into new and terrifying shapes 😈 coming September 16 from @titanbooks.bsky.social

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/790249...
March 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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ARGH! I have been ITCHING to share this INCREDIBLE cover for my weird, uncomfortable, antsy folk horror novel ITCH!

AND NOW I CAN! ISN'T SHE A ZINGER? SO PINK! SO SCRATCHY! SO ITCHY!

OUT FROM HODDER & STOUGHTON, October 2025

Cover design: Saffron Stocker

PREORDER: shorturl.at/ybN1z
March 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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MIDNIGHT!

The Cover Reveal & Submission call for WET SCREAMS, an anthology of Monster Erotica, goes live!

We’re looking for stories that’ll have us sleepless and breathing heavy. We want to be disturbingly turned on.
Details Feb. 14th

Happy Valentine’s Day, Monster Lovers.
👹🖤👻📚
February 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM