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Lene MacLeod
@lenemacleod.bsky.social
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Quiet Horror/Dark Fiction author.
+sometimes editor (M.M. MacLeod) artist, poet
FRINGES of GREY now available https://books2read.com/u/4NVxA9
eic @frostzonestories.bsky.social

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Lene MacLeod @lenemacleod.bsky.social · Dec 29
𝘍𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘺 is a collection of dark stories that explores themes of aging, death, grief, the supernatural and spaces of liminality present on the fringes of the everyday.
Link in comments.
#quiethorror #shortstories #darkfiction #griefhorror #storycollection
Book cover: Fringes of Grey by Lene MacLeod. Image on cover: a figure with her back turned to viewer, long dark hair, she is wearing a long garment and is standing in the foggy or misty woods.
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Ghost to Ghost to Ghost
an anthology of Haunting Tales form Canada
available in eBook and Paperback.
Nineteen short stories and flash fiction by a wonderful gathering of Canadian authors.

books2read.com/u/3GkdOL
paperback book, Ghost to Ghost to Ghost: cover has title in large type (red and white) then smaller, an anthology of Haunting Tales from Canada, a tiny blue-hued translucent maple leaf, then edited by M.M. MacLeod. Behind wording is a dark-toned translucent maple leaf behind which is a winter scene of ice-covered trees. Surrounding the book are small maple and other leaves, and a few small river stones.
October 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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It's October 21... HAPPY RELEASE DAY!
Ghost to Ghost to Ghost - an anthology of 19 Haunting Tales from Canada.
Happy publication day to the authors of these wonderful short stories and flash fiction.
The paperback has been available for a while and today the eBook is here.

books2read.com/u/3GkdOL
paperback book, Ghost to Ghost to Ghost: cover has title in large type (red and white) then smaller, an anthology of Haunting Tales from Canada, a tiny blue-hued translucent maple leaf, then edited by M.M. MacLeod. Behind wording is a dark-toned translucent maple leaf behind which is a winter scene of ice-covered trees. Surrounding the book are small maple and other leaves, and a few small river stones.
October 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Today's story is "Down the Lane" by Lene Macleod.
#ratbag #ratbaglit #litmag #literarymagazine #micro #micros

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October 31, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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So much for an extra hour of sleep...
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November 2, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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My Substack Today: Canada's Year Without A Summer!
A volcano eruption created a very cold year for Canada.

Subscribe and receive these Canadian history stories in your e-mail three times a week (one for paid subscribers, two for free subscribers) 👇
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Canada's Year Without A Summer
A volcano half a world away stole our summer in 1816
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October 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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My daughter Ella is raising £500 for Thornton Rose RDA. Help her provide life-changing therapy for riders with disabilities. Every bit helps!

Please consider donating, and if you can't, please share the fundraiser wherever you can.

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Donate to Help Our Riders Soar at Thornton Rose RDA, organized by Ella McLeod
Today, we're reaching out to our wider community to help us raise £500 as a tru… Ella McLeod needs your support for Help Our Riders Soar at Thornton Rose RDA
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October 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Frost Zone Stories is open to submissions of short horror stories; quiet horror, dark fiction - tales of the unexpected, the chilling, the dreadful, and the strange. Token $ plus print copy, or 2 print copies. OPEN until Nov01.
For books 3&4 which will be published in spring & autumn 2026
October 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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It is Ghost to Ghost to Ghost's 2nd day alive (or dead?)
Thanks so much to everyone who gave a boo-out 👻 for its release yesterday - picking up a copy, liking, sharing 🖤
This is a fantastic group of authors, telling short, haunting stories.

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October 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Thank you Duotrope for selecting Frost Zone Stories as the listing of the day!

We are OPEN for submissions until November 01.
October 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Fancy reading a new book of Canadian ghost stories?
Two more days to grab the paperback of the Ghost to Ghost to Ghost anthology for reduced price of $9.99 on amzon dot CA

books2read.com/u/3GkdOL
October 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Hamiltonians doing the Time Warp this Halloween?
Frank-N-Furter and Rocky giant skeletons on someone's lawn.
(they had other props all around, too)
Larger than life-sized skeleton on a front lawn, wearing black underwear & corset, white pearl necklace, curly black wig, with eye shadow and lipstick and holding a hotdog in a bun with mustard (no...a frankfurter). There are playing cards arranged near the figure's feet. The Frank-N-Furter skeleton with a second skeleton - this one is wrapped in fraying bandages, wearing golden underwear, and has blond hair (wig) but no tan..also playing cards at his feet.
October 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Book Cover of the Day:
Vintage book cover: pale blue cover. Four owls perched on a bare tree branch under a crescent moon. The moon is depicted with a human-like face in profile. The cover has a textured, embossed appearance, with the owls, moon, and bats rendered in a gold. There is a short poem or verse written at the bottom of the image. The text appears to read: "Five wise little Owls sitting up a tree, / Up rose the fair Moon, wonderful to see, / 'Fly away! said she, 'fly away to me,' / 'Thank you very kindly we'll stay where we be’.
October 18, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Happy Birthday, 'Salem's Lot.
From the 79 TV adaptation to this prized hardback - 🖤
Cover of hardcover with book sleeve 'Salem's LOT - black cover with title, the 'O' has image insideof the town, church, and the Marsten House sitting high on a hill, Stephen King in orange type, below in smaller white type, BY THE AUTHOR OF CARRIE Front flap copy: title, then blurb. Book Club Edition at the bottom. back cover of the book, with cited excerpts of reviews...words like Brilliant, amazine, fine,eerie, haunting, a terrifying treat...etc. From The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal ... and so on.
October 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Fancy reading a new book of Canadian ghost stories?
Two more days to grab the paperback of the Ghost to Ghost to Ghost anthology for reduced price of $9.99 on amzon dot CA

books2read.com/u/3GkdOL
October 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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This anthology features such a wonderful group of writers. The final story:
"Haunted House on the Prairie" by EC Dorgan is an atmospheric, haunting tale that truly captures the spirit of the prairie setting - and the theme of this anthology.

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Red border on white with faint image of bare trees background. Left side: Ghost to Ghost to Ghost cover, title on top of a translucent dark-toned maple leaf, behind which are ice-covered winter trees. On the right: EC Dorgan "Haunted House on the Prairie" We navigate by thickening dragonflies and the hum of crickets. Sometimes a prairie dog runs in front of us, sometimes a coyote. The gravel thins. And the trees... Well, the trees are everything. We stay in dirty motels with bedbugs and broken furniture. Sometimes we're woken by mice... Ghost to Ghost to Ghost an anthology of haunting tales from Canada Release date: Oct 21, 2025
October 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Four more days...submissions open this Saturday 👀
frostzonestories.bsky.social Frost Zone Stories @frostzonestories.bsky.social · Oct 5
Submissions open soon! Oct18-Nov01. Stories 1200-4k, read anonymously so please remove identifying info from story and file name. See details in the submission guidelines on website.

#litmag #shortstories #quiethorror #darkfiction
image: top FROST ZONE in white, below this S T O R I E S in an oval shape with light green background, below that - Submissions open October 18 - November 01 for 2026 books 3&4. Bottom: four book covers displayed left to right: Frost Zone Stories Book 1, next black cover with words BOOK 3 spring 2026, then Black cover with BOOK 4 autumn 2026, last Frost Zone Stories Book 2.
October 15, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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When Hollywood Does Canada: The Devil's Brigade
A fun movie that most historians and veterans feel isn't historically accurate.
The worst thing it did was completely ignoring the most-decorated member of the Devil's Brigade, Tommy Prince.
October 13, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving, or simply happy long weekend fellow Canadians 🍂🍁
If you'd like to read a new anthology of Canadian ghost stories, there's a deal on Am*zn dot ca for the PAPERBACK $9.99 until Oct19, eBook pre-order Kobo, Amz, more..
#Canlit #ghoststories #Canadianauthors

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October 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Ghost to Ghost to Ghost will be here Oct 21 🍁
This anthology features 19 stories by authors who live in Canada.
Pre-order link for eBook (more retailers will be added)
Paperback to be available close to the same date.
books2read.com/u/3GkdOL

#Canlit #anthology #ghoststories #shortstories
The cover of Ghost to Ghost to Ghost is centred on a Canadian Flag Red banner. The cover has a translucent maple leaf in dark tones over a grey toned background of ice-coated winter trees. Large title text: Top GHOST (in same red), middle: To Ghost To (in white), below that is GHOST in red. Smaller type: an anthology of Haunting Tales from Canada followed by a small maple leaf in icy white and blue tones. Below in smaller type: Edited by M.M. MacLeod. To the left a small logo FZ.
October 1, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Submissions open soon! Oct18-Nov01. Stories 1200-4k, read anonymously so please remove identifying info from story and file name. See details in the submission guidelines on website.

#litmag #shortstories #quiethorror #darkfiction
image: top FROST ZONE in white, below this S T O R I E S in an oval shape with light green background, below that - Submissions open October 18 - November 01 for 2026 books 3&4. Bottom: four book covers displayed left to right: Frost Zone Stories Book 1, next black cover with words BOOK 3 spring 2026, then Black cover with BOOK 4 autumn 2026, last Frost Zone Stories Book 2.
October 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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We always got a laugh over Hyacinth. 📺
RIP Patricia Routledge. 🕊
October 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Today's the day, friends! #Pyres is unleashed!
Massive thanks to Beverley Lee for the shelfie and a wonderful blurb for the book:

See what the fuss is all about here: books2read.com/pyresnovel
#HorrorBooks #BookSky 📚😱
The Pyres book cover in ebook and paperback with a pull quote from author Beverley Lee about it
October 3, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Happy early 1st Birthday to my short story collection, Fringes of Grey 🎂📚

F-O-G spells FOG aka Fringes of Grey
There may even be fog in one story...
Published by @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social Sep23/24

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#quiethorror #Canlit #Hamont #darkfiction #shortstories #Canadianauthor
cover of Fringes of Grey on the left with title and author name, Lene MacLeod. Cover is tones of Grey and features a figure facing away into the foggy woods. Text on the right: Fringes of Grey is a collection of dark stories that explores themes of aging, death, grief, the supernatural, and spaces of liminality present on the fringes of the everyday.
September 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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The Autumn Equinox approaches

The Queen of Wind and Darkness, the Cailleach; she is the Veiled One who belongs to the hidden worlds, and personifies the cutting winds and the harshness of our northern winters

art: Naomi Cornock
Queen of Darkness by Naomi Cornock
September 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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So excited to announce the DarkWinter Press upcoming catalogue of authors we've signed for the rest of this year to next September! Some fantastic reads coming your way! www.darkwinterlit.com/post/announc...
Announcing Our Upcoming Catalogue Until Fall 2026!
DarkWinter Press is excited to announce the authors and their books that we've secured as of now for the remainder of 2025 until Fall 2026!
www.darkwinterlit.com
September 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM