Leanna Renee Hieber
@leannareneehieber.bsky.social
Gothic novelist + ghost-filled non-fiction celebrating women's history. Actress. Goth. Narrator. Playwright. NYC Ghost Tour Guide. A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN, AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC (USA Today Bestseller, Kensington), STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL (Tor)
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America’s Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger than Fiction
Haunted History Stranger than Fiction
bookshop.org
2025 Awards Eligibility! 🖤
Horror/Paranormal/Speculative short: "Frau Perchta Comes for the Count" in CASTLE OF HORROR v. 12: RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Book-length Non-Fiction: AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION, co-authored with Andrea Janes
bookshop.org/p/books/amer...
Horror/Paranormal/Speculative short: "Frau Perchta Comes for the Count" in CASTLE OF HORROR v. 12: RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Book-length Non-Fiction: AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION, co-authored with Andrea Janes
bookshop.org/p/books/amer...
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i don't think this is even a real statistical anomaly anymore. it seems like there's someone in the crowd at every mass shooting who has been through it before. this doesn't have to be our shared cultural experience.
Two survivors of Brown University attack escaped other school shootings
Mia Tretta was shot in the abdomen in 2019 at a school near LA and Zoe Weissman witnessed a Florida shooting in 2018
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
i don't think this is even a real statistical anomaly anymore. it seems like there's someone in the crowd at every mass shooting who has been through it before. this doesn't have to be our shared cultural experience.
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Writers who use genAI for illustrations are class traitors. We all have to fight this beast TOGETHER. We are not just trying to save SOME of our livelihoods.
Self-published authors are unfortunately very rapidly becoming my most-blocked demographic on here due entirely to the rampant use of hideous AI generated book covers
Just in case it wasn't clear: If I click on your profile and see that you've used AI to make something, you get blocked.
April 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Writers who use genAI for illustrations are class traitors. We all have to fight this beast TOGETHER. We are not just trying to save SOME of our livelihoods.
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For REAL Ghost Stories to chill your Yuletide, please RSVP for our free AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC book talk! @boroughsofthedead.bsky.social & I team up w/ @morbidanatomy.bsky.social to share some of our favorite haunted histories paired with tropes from Gothic lit: www.morbidanatomy.org/events-ticke...
Free Online Book Talk · Haunted Histories for Yuletide · Tales from America's Most Gothic with Authors Andrea Janes and Leanna Renee Hieber — Morbid Anatomy
Monday, December 22, 2025 7pm ET (NYC time) Free! RSVP with email at checkout PLEASE NOTE: Video playback of free events is only available to Patreon members. Become a Member HERE ...
www.morbidanatomy.org
December 13, 2025 at 2:13 AM
For REAL Ghost Stories to chill your Yuletide, please RSVP for our free AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC book talk! @boroughsofthedead.bsky.social & I team up w/ @morbidanatomy.bsky.social to share some of our favorite haunted histories paired with tropes from Gothic lit: www.morbidanatomy.org/events-ticke...
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How about eerie vibes in a Gothic, Gaslamp Fantasy second-chance Romance (Romantasy before that was a word), check out A CHRISTMAS CARROLL: A STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL Novella. Series favorites Vicar Carroll & Headmistress Thompson are put through Dickensian paces: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-christma...
A Christmas Carroll: A Strangely Beautiful Novella|Paperback
London, 1888. An ancient Prophecy has just been fulfilled, leaving Rebecca Thompson, Headmistress of the mysterious Athens Academy utterly heartbroken. Having long served as second in command of The G...
www.barnesandnoble.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:04 AM
How about eerie vibes in a Gothic, Gaslamp Fantasy second-chance Romance (Romantasy before that was a word), check out A CHRISTMAS CARROLL: A STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL Novella. Series favorites Vicar Carroll & Headmistress Thompson are put through Dickensian paces: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-christma...
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"Not More Lovely Than Full of Glee" first appeared in the @crutledge.bsky.social-edited A WINTERS TALE: HORROR STORIES FOR THE YULETIDE anthology! I love this anthology and the follow-up, LONELY HOLLOWS: 15 TALES OF FOLK HORROR, which is also a great end-of-year read. www.amazon.com/Winters-Tale...
A Winter's Tale: Horror Stories for the Yuletide
A Winter's Tale: Horror Stories for the Yuletide - Kindle edition by Biggers, Cliff, Rutledge, Charles, Tuck, James, DeWees, Amanda, Hieber, Leanna Renee, Meikle, William, Strand, Jeff, Reynolds, Josh, Burke, Kealan Patrick, Moore, James A.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading A Winter's Tale: Horror Stories for the Yuletide.
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December 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
"Not More Lovely Than Full of Glee" first appeared in the @crutledge.bsky.social-edited A WINTERS TALE: HORROR STORIES FOR THE YULETIDE anthology! I love this anthology and the follow-up, LONELY HOLLOWS: 15 TALES OF FOLK HORROR, which is also a great end-of-year read. www.amazon.com/Winters-Tale...
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Getting into seasonal SPIRIT: telling Ghost Stories.
What a great time to remind you of holiday-themed haunts amidst my entire *career* of ghostly tales.
"Not More Lovely Than Full of Glee" is my Christmas Eve sequel to Poe's "Oval Portrait", free via @pseudopod.org: pseudopod.org/2022/12/23/p...
What a great time to remind you of holiday-themed haunts amidst my entire *career* of ghostly tales.
"Not More Lovely Than Full of Glee" is my Christmas Eve sequel to Poe's "Oval Portrait", free via @pseudopod.org: pseudopod.org/2022/12/23/p...
PseudoPod 844: Gothic Duo: The Oval Portrait & Not More Lovely than Full of Glee | PseudoPod
The chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the open air, was one of those piles of…
pseudopod.org
December 13, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Getting into seasonal SPIRIT: telling Ghost Stories.
What a great time to remind you of holiday-themed haunts amidst my entire *career* of ghostly tales.
"Not More Lovely Than Full of Glee" is my Christmas Eve sequel to Poe's "Oval Portrait", free via @pseudopod.org: pseudopod.org/2022/12/23/p...
What a great time to remind you of holiday-themed haunts amidst my entire *career* of ghostly tales.
"Not More Lovely Than Full of Glee" is my Christmas Eve sequel to Poe's "Oval Portrait", free via @pseudopod.org: pseudopod.org/2022/12/23/p...
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I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC.
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
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December 13, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I am a student at Brown in communication with a friend at RIBC.
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
There is an urgent need for blood donations to support RI. Donations in NY, NJ, MN, NB, DE or NJ can help supply RI.
Spread the word.
www.ribc.org/donate-blood/
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sometimes the weight of it all just hits so hard - what the USA, my country, is doing to fellow humankind & the environment all over, what, avarice, political fighting & the coddling of bigots & bullies for reasons we know better than to allow.
December 14, 2025 at 1:49 AM
sometimes the weight of it all just hits so hard - what the USA, my country, is doing to fellow humankind & the environment all over, what, avarice, political fighting & the coddling of bigots & bullies for reasons we know better than to allow.
Found one more in my stock! This IS available across retailers in various formats, but if you'd like one signed, 1 left via the link below!
Check out my Gothic, Gaslamp Fantasy 2nd-Chance Romance where I put Vicar Carroll & Headmistress Thompson through ghostly, Dickensian paces! #Romancelandia 💖
Check out my Gothic, Gaslamp Fantasy 2nd-Chance Romance where I put Vicar Carroll & Headmistress Thompson through ghostly, Dickensian paces! #Romancelandia 💖
A CHRISTMAS CARROLL, a Gothic, Gaslamp Fantasy Second-Chance Romance novella, is available in eBook, paperback & audiobook (with me narrating)! Full of deep heart, I hope it can bring some seasonal sweetness your way. (I have 1 signed copy left via Etsy! torchandarrow.etsy.com/listing/4901...) 🖤
December 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Found one more in my stock! This IS available across retailers in various formats, but if you'd like one signed, 1 left via the link below!
Check out my Gothic, Gaslamp Fantasy 2nd-Chance Romance where I put Vicar Carroll & Headmistress Thompson through ghostly, Dickensian paces! #Romancelandia 💖
Check out my Gothic, Gaslamp Fantasy 2nd-Chance Romance where I put Vicar Carroll & Headmistress Thompson through ghostly, Dickensian paces! #Romancelandia 💖
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My regular wear lanyard that I am always happy about having.
December 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
My regular wear lanyard that I am always happy about having.
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👀 this could make me switch from belt clip to lanyard for my badge
And each time I post our 4th Doctor Doctor Who lanyards, someone new sees them! They make great little gifts for yourself & fellow fans! Thom meticulously translated pattern/color to a pixel level & we have them small-batch printed on high-quality, soft fabric. torchandarrow.etsy.com/listing/8227...
December 11, 2025 at 11:38 PM
👀 this could make me switch from belt clip to lanyard for my badge
Getting into seasonal SPIRIT: telling Ghost Stories.
What a great time to remind you of holiday-themed haunts amidst my entire *career* of ghostly tales.
"Not More Lovely Than Full of Glee" is my Christmas Eve sequel to Poe's "Oval Portrait", free via @pseudopod.org: pseudopod.org/2022/12/23/p...
What a great time to remind you of holiday-themed haunts amidst my entire *career* of ghostly tales.
"Not More Lovely Than Full of Glee" is my Christmas Eve sequel to Poe's "Oval Portrait", free via @pseudopod.org: pseudopod.org/2022/12/23/p...
PseudoPod 844: Gothic Duo: The Oval Portrait & Not More Lovely than Full of Glee | PseudoPod
The chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the open air, was one of those piles of…
pseudopod.org
December 13, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Getting into seasonal SPIRIT: telling Ghost Stories.
What a great time to remind you of holiday-themed haunts amidst my entire *career* of ghostly tales.
"Not More Lovely Than Full of Glee" is my Christmas Eve sequel to Poe's "Oval Portrait", free via @pseudopod.org: pseudopod.org/2022/12/23/p...
What a great time to remind you of holiday-themed haunts amidst my entire *career* of ghostly tales.
"Not More Lovely Than Full of Glee" is my Christmas Eve sequel to Poe's "Oval Portrait", free via @pseudopod.org: pseudopod.org/2022/12/23/p...
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It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
Blair Witch.
Opening night.
Little art house in middle-of-nowhere Ohio, surrounded by forest. No buzz or press. Just the stories they'd brilliantly "planted" as real reports. No film poster. No marquee.
Just 200 of the Witch's stick figures hanging in the lobby.
I was scared OUT OF MY MIND.
Opening night.
Little art house in middle-of-nowhere Ohio, surrounded by forest. No buzz or press. Just the stories they'd brilliantly "planted" as real reports. No film poster. No marquee.
Just 200 of the Witch's stick figures hanging in the lobby.
I was scared OUT OF MY MIND.
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Blair Witch.
Opening night.
Little art house in middle-of-nowhere Ohio, surrounded by forest. No buzz or press. Just the stories they'd brilliantly "planted" as real reports. No film poster. No marquee.
Just 200 of the Witch's stick figures hanging in the lobby.
I was scared OUT OF MY MIND.
Opening night.
Little art house in middle-of-nowhere Ohio, surrounded by forest. No buzz or press. Just the stories they'd brilliantly "planted" as real reports. No film poster. No marquee.
Just 200 of the Witch's stick figures hanging in the lobby.
I was scared OUT OF MY MIND.
Reminder, @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social & @hwany.org folks, if you need access to AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC for any 2025 recommendation consideration in Long Form Non-Fiction, access is in the Members-Only Forum online, don't hesitate to reach out to me if you have any questions / trouble accessing! 🖤
2025 Awards Eligibility! 🖤
Horror/Paranormal/Speculative short: "Frau Perchta Comes for the Count" in CASTLE OF HORROR v. 12: RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Book-length Non-Fiction: AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION, co-authored with Andrea Janes
bookshop.org/p/books/amer...
Horror/Paranormal/Speculative short: "Frau Perchta Comes for the Count" in CASTLE OF HORROR v. 12: RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Book-length Non-Fiction: AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION, co-authored with Andrea Janes
bookshop.org/p/books/amer...
America’s Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger than Fiction
Haunted History Stranger than Fiction
bookshop.org
December 12, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Reminder, @horrorwritersassoc.bsky.social & @hwany.org folks, if you need access to AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC for any 2025 recommendation consideration in Long Form Non-Fiction, access is in the Members-Only Forum online, don't hesitate to reach out to me if you have any questions / trouble accessing! 🖤
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3 signed copies of both AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC & A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN at @barnesandnoble.com Union Square! Upper floor in the Paranormal section!
Join our examination of *how* we talk about women, alive & dead, through the lens of Gothic lit and more.
Signed books = great gifts! 🖤
Join our examination of *how* we talk about women, alive & dead, through the lens of Gothic lit and more.
Signed books = great gifts! 🖤
December 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
3 signed copies of both AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC & A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN at @barnesandnoble.com Union Square! Upper floor in the Paranormal section!
Join our examination of *how* we talk about women, alive & dead, through the lens of Gothic lit and more.
Signed books = great gifts! 🖤
Join our examination of *how* we talk about women, alive & dead, through the lens of Gothic lit and more.
Signed books = great gifts! 🖤
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I usually renew my National Parks Pass in December anyway, but if you buy a 2025 pass this month, it is valid until the end of December 2026 and has a significantly more attractive Roseate Spoonbill.
December 11, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I usually renew my National Parks Pass in December anyway, but if you buy a 2025 pass this month, it is valid until the end of December 2026 and has a significantly more attractive Roseate Spoonbill.
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What if the American landscape itself is a character in our horrors?
America's Most Gothic by Hieber & Janes explores how our chilling tropes are ripped straight from our forgotten, unquiet history. It makes you rethink horror's attraction.
bit.ly/4gLvaXM
#AmericasMostGothic #NetGalley
America's Most Gothic by Hieber & Janes explores how our chilling tropes are ripped straight from our forgotten, unquiet history. It makes you rethink horror's attraction.
bit.ly/4gLvaXM
#AmericasMostGothic #NetGalley
The Blood and Soil: America’s Most Gothic
Gothic Week 2025
bit.ly
September 30, 2025 at 11:41 PM
What if the American landscape itself is a character in our horrors?
America's Most Gothic by Hieber & Janes explores how our chilling tropes are ripped straight from our forgotten, unquiet history. It makes you rethink horror's attraction.
bit.ly/4gLvaXM
#AmericasMostGothic #NetGalley
America's Most Gothic by Hieber & Janes explores how our chilling tropes are ripped straight from our forgotten, unquiet history. It makes you rethink horror's attraction.
bit.ly/4gLvaXM
#AmericasMostGothic #NetGalley
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You'll notice I post about books AND my Etsy: torchandarrow.etsy.com
I'm so, SO grateful to have a bestselling book! & More books ahead!
With traditional publishing schedules, $ on this book comes in fall 2026; hence the hustles in the meantime. THANKS for supporting all of it; you keep me going.🖤
I'm so, SO grateful to have a bestselling book! & More books ahead!
With traditional publishing schedules, $ on this book comes in fall 2026; hence the hustles in the meantime. THANKS for supporting all of it; you keep me going.🖤
Signed copies of our USA Today Bestseller AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC & A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN are back at @strandbooks.com! Thanks again, lovely Strand staff! Find AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC on 1st floor American History tables & A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN in the Paranormal section! 🖤
December 10, 2025 at 1:01 AM
You'll notice I post about books AND my Etsy: torchandarrow.etsy.com
I'm so, SO grateful to have a bestselling book! & More books ahead!
With traditional publishing schedules, $ on this book comes in fall 2026; hence the hustles in the meantime. THANKS for supporting all of it; you keep me going.🖤
I'm so, SO grateful to have a bestselling book! & More books ahead!
With traditional publishing schedules, $ on this book comes in fall 2026; hence the hustles in the meantime. THANKS for supporting all of it; you keep me going.🖤
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No quarter for glassholes, no matter the manufacturer. Point and scream. Hoot in their face. Use an air horn. Forbid them to look upon you. Evict them from public space through coordinated shaming. Screeeeeeam.
Glassholes were driven from polite society. It could happen again.
Google unveils plans to try again with smart glasses in 2026
It is a significant turnaround for the tech giant after its first attempt - Google Glass - was pulled in 2015.
www.bbc.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:24 AM
No quarter for glassholes, no matter the manufacturer. Point and scream. Hoot in their face. Use an air horn. Forbid them to look upon you. Evict them from public space through coordinated shaming. Screeeeeeam.
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And here's a starter pack containing all the @inn.org Newsrooms! go.bsky.app/AgZbvTK
December 14, 2024 at 6:54 PM
And here's a starter pack containing all the @inn.org Newsrooms! go.bsky.app/AgZbvTK
Bookmark this page of nonprofit newsrooms who aren't mouthpieces for billionaires!
3. Here's a page you should bookmark: It's the directory of nonprofit newsrooms that belong to the Institute for Nonprofit News. You can look for locality covered, including national newsrooms. It's so rich: explore! Find your niche!
findyournews.org/explore/
findyournews.org/explore/
December 12, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Bookmark this page of nonprofit newsrooms who aren't mouthpieces for billionaires!
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Meet my current side project, a short story with comps of The Magnus Archives, Ethel Cain’s “Inbred,” and the Biblical lore of Babylon the Great. It's an updated, more eldritch version of an unfinished short I started last year that has been on my mind every time I try to write something short.
December 10, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Meet my current side project, a short story with comps of The Magnus Archives, Ethel Cain’s “Inbred,” and the Biblical lore of Babylon the Great. It's an updated, more eldritch version of an unfinished short I started last year that has been on my mind every time I try to write something short.
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And each time I post our 4th Doctor Doctor Who lanyards, someone new sees them! They make great little gifts for yourself & fellow fans! Thom meticulously translated pattern/color to a pixel level & we have them small-batch printed on high-quality, soft fabric. torchandarrow.etsy.com/listing/8227...
December 10, 2025 at 12:32 AM
And each time I post our 4th Doctor Doctor Who lanyards, someone new sees them! They make great little gifts for yourself & fellow fans! Thom meticulously translated pattern/color to a pixel level & we have them small-batch printed on high-quality, soft fabric. torchandarrow.etsy.com/listing/8227...
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Reviews and also tell someone in your life who isn’t in online spaces about our books. So many people who read are not online reading reviews. Spread the word anyway you can, for free.
"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—"
Reviews.
Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)
Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
Reviews.
Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.)
Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
December 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Reviews and also tell someone in your life who isn’t in online spaces about our books. So many people who read are not online reading reviews. Spread the word anyway you can, for free.