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Lee Murray
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ONZM. USA Today bestselling author, 5-time Bram Stoker Award winner, Shirley Jackson, and New Zealand Prime Minister's Award winner. Monster lover from Aotearoa. Represented by Becky LeJeune at Bond Literary.
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THIS WAY LIES MADNESS is a new antho edited by @leemurraywriter.bsky.social @davebjeffery.bsky.social that present fictional depictions of madness. Hear more about the collection at Flame Tree Press podcasts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...
Flame Tree Myth & Fiction
Fiction Podcast · Thrill to the adventures of the past and visions of the future. Featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror and the supernatural, short stories, ancient tales, myth and folklore from ...
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October 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Ahead of tomorrow's World Mental Health Day, @laurenwrites.bsky.social caught up with @leemurraywriter.bsky.social & @davejeffery.bsky.social, editors of Flame Tree anthology This Way Lies Madness, to chat about stigmas & how horror can actually help us.

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October 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Delighted to be joint winner of the Shadows Award for Poetry with @leemurraywriter.bsky.social! My poem, "You Swallowed Your Tongue," (BESTIARY OF BLOOD: MODERN FABLES & DARK TALES, @crystallake.bsky.social, ed. Jamal Hodge) was honoured alongside Lee's collection, FOX SPIRIT ON A DISTANT CLOUD.
October 8, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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My contributor copy for THIS WAY LIES MADNESS arrived. I could cry! It's beautiful. Absolutely stunning. Thank you so much to @leemurraywriter.bsky.social and @davebjeffery.bsky.social. "Bangs" is perhaps the most personal short story I've ever written. Honored to have it featured in this anthology.
October 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Welcome two new contributors to OF DREAD, DECAY, AND DOOM, the @starsandsabers.bsky.social #horror anthology: @leemurraywriter.bsky.social and @vincentvenacava.bsky.social! ko-fi.com/post/Welcome...
Welcome Two New Contributors to OF DREAD, DECAY, AND DOOM!
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September 27, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Featuring stories from

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September 5, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Here it is, my lovelies. A massive in-depth interview with @davebjeffery.bsky.social and @leemurraywriter.bsky.social about creating an anthology that tackles mental health in horror.

It's a brilliant anthology and dare I say a brillaint interview

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When Horror Meets Mental Health: This Way Lies Madness An Interview With Lee Murray And Dave Jeffery - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website
"This Way Lies Madness" delivers empathetic horror on anxiety, grief, and more. Editors explain its role in destigmatizing mental health via global stories.
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September 30, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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“Featuring a historic tale which blends seamlessly into the contemporary narrative like a traditional zhiguai, Yu’s white bone spirit beguiles and terrifies.”

Thank you @leemurraywriter.bsky.social for your lovely blurb of DEMON SONG!! 🥰🖤

Out in 13 days from @titanbooks.bsky.social!! 🎭🎶🕯️💀
September 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Fantastic discussion on horror and mental health by the kind folks at HNaC and contributors to This Way Lies Madness. Make this your weekend listening. Free to listen. linktr.ee/HNACPod
September 12, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Flame Tree Press are renowned for publishing fascinating anthologies and @davebjeffery.bsky.social and @leemurraywriter.bsky.social have created a powerhouse of an anthology with This Way Lies Madness

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This Way Lies Madness: When Horror Meets Mental Health
Challenging mental health stigma, "This Way Lies Madness" delivers. Read the Ginger Nuts of Horror take on this thought-provoking anthology.
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September 5, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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We have an exclusive cover reveal for THE RACK II! Check out this great work by @lynnehansenart.bsky.social! Edited by
@horrortom.bsky.social, authors include @cybergodwrites.bsky.social, @leemurraywriter.bsky.social, @tamikathompson.bsky.social, & more! #booksky

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The Rack II: More Stories Inspired by Vintage Horror Paperbacks Cover
Tom Deady is back with a new anthology loaded with amazing authors, and we have the cover!
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August 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Absolutely thrilled to appear with my friends Tiffany and Nikky on Horror in the Margins podcast about horror and Grafted. Free to listen.
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August 25, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Ping @leemurraywriter.bsky.social - and #newzealand -sky! You might be interested in this essay... #nz
June 29, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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@emilyrverona.bsky.social talks about BANGS, her powerful story in This Way Lies Madness! Read the full blog, including a story excerpt, here: blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-gothic @flametreepress @flametreepublishing @leemurraywriter.bsky.social @gregchapman.bsky.social
June 26, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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@leemurraywriter.bsky.social wrote a wonderful, personal essay for the July collection of essays, about her journey to being the multiple award-winning author she is today (including ONZM!). She frames it around the idea of the fox spirit...
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Lee Murray reads from her essay "Fox Girl: A Speculative Journey" - which can be found in the July collection of essays at www.speculativeinsight.com/buy-collections . Get the ebook or a paper copy - or subscribe to the journal and get the ebook included! (And the December one too!)
June 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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@leemurraywriter.bsky.social wrote a beautiful biographical essay about being a fox girl for the Jan-June collection of SI essays. You can read it by subscribing to the journal (getting the ebook for free), or just by buying the book (e- or paper).

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Purple background, white text, which says I am a fox spirit of sorts, although it has only recently been revealed to me in my latest iteration as an Asian diaspora writer of speculative fiction living in the urban wilds of Aotearoa New Zealand. "Fox Girl: A Speculative Journey" -- Lee Murray ONZM
June 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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SILK & SINEW authors @leemurraywriter.bsky.social, @sabarazvi.bsky.social, @ayidashonibar.bsky.social, and I will be discussing: This Land of Milk and Blood: Asian Diaspora Relationships with Place and the Folk Horror Tradition!
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Darkness in the Fields - Midsummer 3
A 5-day online festival of folk horror, with author interviews, talks and writing workshops, taking place just after Summer Solstice.
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June 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Breathless with gratitude at this stunning review of Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud from Otago University Press's Robyn Maree Pickens in the latest edition of Landfall.

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Villages of Grandmothers
Robyn Maree Pickens on Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud by Lee Murray, Manuali’i by Rex Letoa Paget and Spoiled Fruit: Queer poetry from Aotearoa edited by Damien Levi and Amber Esau
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June 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Many thanks to Jamal Hodge for these kind words for SILK & SINEW, edited by @garnetonwinter.bsky.social. Available NOW, this acclaimed anthology features @nadiabulkin.bsky.social, @aijiang.bsky.social, @leemurraywriter.bsky.social and more--plus a foreword by Monika Kim.
“Silk & Sinew is a transcendent collection of horror and identity that engages all the primal emotions rooted in our shared humanity. Many times you will be brought to the verge of tears, many times you will learn the cost of survival, many times you will be made to experience the deepest scars, folklore, and beauty of the Asian diaspora. I learned and felt so much.” —-Jamal Hodge, Bram Stoker Award Nominee The Dark Between The Twilight
May 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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TODAY. Happy launch day to @garnetonwinter.bsky.social and all of our SILK & SINEW authors. This fantastic anthology is available NOW wherever books are sold. Contributions by @leemurraywriter.bsky.social @aijiang.bsky.social @nadiabulkin.bsky.social and more, plus a foreword by Monika Kim!
Blurb text reads: "Visceral, poignant, unforgettable. The stories in this haunting collection made me weep. This book is eternal; a classic addition to every self-respecting library." --Nuzo Onoh, "Queen of African Horror" & Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award recipient
May 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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A Taine McKenna short story was released into the wild today from my friends at Squabbling Sparrows Press. You can get your copy here.

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Available now at your favorite digital store!
Into the Boneyard by Lee Murray
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April 30, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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This little book that could. So thrilled to see FOX SPIRIT ON A DISTANT CLOUD nominated for the Australian Shadows Awards in Poetry. Congrats to all my colleagues who appear on the shortlist, and especially poets Monica Carroll, Geneve Flynn, Deborah Sheldon, Eugen Bacon, and Pauline Yates.
April 29, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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It’s the wonderful @leemurraywriter.bsky.social!
garnetonwinter.bsky.social Kristy Park Kulski @garnetonwinter.bsky.social · Apr 29
What is Asian diaspora folk horror?

SILK & SINEW contributing author, the always exceptional @leemurraywriter.bsky.social, on understanding the #Asiandiaspora perspective in the #folkhorror subgenre.

COMING MAY 6 from @badhandbooks.bsky.social
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April 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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I've just deleted 9000 folks from my newsletter list. If you were one of those, and I’ve deleted you by mistake, you can read the latest missive and sign up again here. [Not spammy -- I never send more than 5 emails a year.]
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Tales from the Underworld
Hey everyone, Welcome to Lee Murray’s second writerly newsletter of 2025, and a special welcome to my new subscribers. Today's episode includes all the usual book news, community updates, appearances,...
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April 19, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Delighted to have a story in Flame Tree’s newest anthology, Robots: Past and Future, alongside some fabulous friends.
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Gothic Fantasy | Successful Submissions | Robots Past & Future
We’re delighted to present the authors featured in our new anthology: Robots Past & Future! Publishing August 2025 and available from September in North America.
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April 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM