Leanna Riley
@leannafromsavannah.bsky.social
Emerging author ✍🏼
Known for spinning twisted tales of hauntings, tragedy, and the unexplained. 🖤🥜
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! ⚡️
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
🎃 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! ⚡️
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! ⚡️
🕯️✍🏼 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! 🖤🥜
Please enjoy these lines *without context* of my current WIPs! 🖤🥜
October 23, 2025 at 9:43 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! 🖤🥜
Please enjoy these lines *without context* of my current WIPs! 🖤🥜
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
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
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
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
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. 🖤
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
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. 🖤
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. 🖤
✨ 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
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
✨ 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
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
🖤 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. ✍🏼🕸️
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
🖤 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. ✍🏼🕸️
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. ✍🏼🕸️
🖤 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...
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
🖤 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...
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...
🖤 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. 🖤🥜
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
🖤 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. 🖤🥜
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. 🖤🥜
🖤 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
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
🖤 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
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
💀🌛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! ⏳💀
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
💀🌛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! ⏳💀
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! ⏳💀
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
#amwriting #author #shortstories #religion #southerngothic #publication
July 1, 2025 at 7:21 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
#amwriting #author #shortstories #religion #southerngothic #publication
🍃 Short story on submission (Word count: 2,618)
🕸️ Cursed folk horror
🖤 Generational curses
🖤 Inversion of the Maiden, Mother, Crone
🖤 Body-snatching mommies
Which one are you most excited to read? 📕
And fellow authors: where have you found publishing success? I’d love to read your work! 🖤🥜
🕸️ Cursed folk horror
🖤 Generational curses
🖤 Inversion of the Maiden, Mother, Crone
🖤 Body-snatching mommies
Which one are you most excited to read? 📕
And fellow authors: where have you found publishing success? I’d love to read your work! 🖤🥜
May 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
🍃 Short story on submission (Word count: 2,618)
🕸️ Cursed folk horror
🖤 Generational curses
🖤 Inversion of the Maiden, Mother, Crone
🖤 Body-snatching mommies
Which one are you most excited to read? 📕
And fellow authors: where have you found publishing success? I’d love to read your work! 🖤🥜
🕸️ Cursed folk horror
🖤 Generational curses
🖤 Inversion of the Maiden, Mother, Crone
🖤 Body-snatching mommies
Which one are you most excited to read? 📕
And fellow authors: where have you found publishing success? I’d love to read your work! 🖤🥜
🐄 Short story on submission (Word count: 5,274)
🐺 Rural-set creature feature
🖤 Isolated and nostalgic
🖤 Slow burn into lunacy
🖤 Deeply character-driven
🐺 Rural-set creature feature
🖤 Isolated and nostalgic
🖤 Slow burn into lunacy
🖤 Deeply character-driven
May 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
🐄 Short story on submission (Word count: 5,274)
🐺 Rural-set creature feature
🖤 Isolated and nostalgic
🖤 Slow burn into lunacy
🖤 Deeply character-driven
🐺 Rural-set creature feature
🖤 Isolated and nostalgic
🖤 Slow burn into lunacy
🖤 Deeply character-driven
🌨️ Novelette in second draft (Current word count: 13,767)
🔪 Alien-style survival slasher
🖤 Final girl energy
🖤 Original creatures forced from their habitat
🖤 Motherhood
🖤 The abusive asshole gets what’s coming
🔪 Alien-style survival slasher
🖤 Final girl energy
🖤 Original creatures forced from their habitat
🖤 Motherhood
🖤 The abusive asshole gets what’s coming
May 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
🌨️ Novelette in second draft (Current word count: 13,767)
🔪 Alien-style survival slasher
🖤 Final girl energy
🖤 Original creatures forced from their habitat
🖤 Motherhood
🖤 The abusive asshole gets what’s coming
🔪 Alien-style survival slasher
🖤 Final girl energy
🖤 Original creatures forced from their habitat
🖤 Motherhood
🖤 The abusive asshole gets what’s coming
🪦 Novel-in-progress (Current word count: 77,600 / Goal: 120,000)
👻 Savannah, Georgia–based ghost story
🖤 Female rage
🖤 Historical lore
🖤 Death, sex, and revenge
👻 Savannah, Georgia–based ghost story
🖤 Female rage
🖤 Historical lore
🖤 Death, sex, and revenge
May 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
🪦 Novel-in-progress (Current word count: 77,600 / Goal: 120,000)
👻 Savannah, Georgia–based ghost story
🖤 Female rage
🖤 Historical lore
🖤 Death, sex, and revenge
👻 Savannah, Georgia–based ghost story
🖤 Female rage
🖤 Historical lore
🖤 Death, sex, and revenge
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
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
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
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
A mother’s warning to her daughter from the grave. Some nightmares are too vivid to ignore. 🖤🥜
#amwriting #womenwriting #newstory #HWA #HorrorCommunity #WomenInHorror #Supernatural
#amwriting #womenwriting #newstory #HWA #HorrorCommunity #WomenInHorror #Supernatural
May 14, 2025 at 2:49 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
#amwriting #womenwriting #newstory #HWA #HorrorCommunity #WomenInHorror #Supernatural
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
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
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
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
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
I want to know, where did you get that first story published?
#writingcommunity #writersky #authors
May 10, 2025 at 1:13 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
I want to know, where did you get that first story published?
#writingcommunity #writersky #authors
What a line for this word count 😈 #666 #horrorwriter #workinprogress
January 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
What a line for this word count 😈 #666 #horrorwriter #workinprogress
Hey ya’ll!” I’m Leanna Riley, an emerging writer in the pursuit of authorship. Like fresh meat— I’m raw, unseasoned, and unpublished. At the altar of a new religion, my arms are wide for advice and wisdom. In the meantime I continue to lurk and learn. Here’s to a new year filled with new stories!
December 31, 2024 at 11:05 PM
Hey ya’ll!” I’m Leanna Riley, an emerging writer in the pursuit of authorship. Like fresh meat— I’m raw, unseasoned, and unpublished. At the altar of a new religion, my arms are wide for advice and wisdom. In the meantime I continue to lurk and learn. Here’s to a new year filled with new stories!