Leanna Renee Hieber

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

THIS is SCHOLARSHIP 😍

Tonight! Saratoga Springs, NY area! 6pm @ beloved @northshirebooks.bsky.social! A "Family Curse" can be transformed into beauty... The Trasks are a symbol of resilience in this wonderful town, I can't wait to discuss their chapter in AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC! 🖤 Find out more about this statue tonight!

Night crowd! Ghost stories + women's history isn't just for spooky-season! We examine how this lore presents women, alive and dead. The first book of its kind to engage in this sociological discussion. Real history, real women, real uncanny accounts. On digital sale across all platforms!

If you didn't know Muse had a new song out this year, you're welcome, I love you too.

WELCOME TO THE CHURCH OF MUSE

UNBROKEN SINCE 1999

*liturgical tone* CHECK OUT THIS FRESH BANGER
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXmU...

Their latest song, Unravelling, is SUPERB. I *love* a rock band that keeps reinventing. They make wild, sometimes absurd choices and I personally love every single one of them. (For an unexpected kick, check out their cover of Can't Take My Eyes Off You) www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYH2...

THEY ARE MY FAVORITE WHY IS THERE AN "OH NO" HERE.

I called my local indie rock music college station EVERY DAY in 1999 when their debut came out to hear Sunburn again, so you are late to the party but still welcome

Your Cheat Sheet to the 2025 General Elections - Bolts Four contests have come to largely define the 2025 elections this fall: the elections to lead New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City, plus California’s redistricting measure. But there’s so... Read More

There are three legislative chambers with the majority on the line Tuesday: Virginia’s House, New Jersey’s Assembly, Minnesota's Senate.

But Bolts is also watching legislative seats that may flip in Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, and Washington.

We all have buttons that can be pushed, no matter how rational and discerning we believe ourselves to be

Nothing good will come from getting worked up over videos of shit that didn't happen (even if "it feels like it could have happened")

Your default response to video should be skepticism

Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start

If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street

Tomorrow, Saratoga Springs, NY! See you at @northshirebooks.bsky.social to discuss the incredible, inspiring Trask family who, despite countless heartbreaks, still gave something beautiful to the world in the Yaddo Artist Retreat. Let's talk about turning Gothic tropes into resilience together! 🖤

As promised, I made an end-of-Oct donation to this great rescue based on Etsy sales of black-cat-themed items. I didn't sell much while on book tour, but I just donated to this lovely special-needs kitty's fundraiser anyway & you can too! Black cats are often passed over / last to leave shelters 🖤

Tomorrow, Saratoga Springs, NY! See you at @northshirebooks.bsky.social to discuss the incredible, inspiring Trask family who, despite countless heartbreaks, still gave something beautiful to the world in the Yaddo Artist Retreat. Let's talk about turning Gothic tropes into resilience together! 🖤

Night crowd! Ghost stories + women's history isn't just for spooky-season! We examine how this lore presents women, alive and dead. The first book of its kind to engage in this sociological discussion. Real history, real women, real uncanny accounts. On digital sale across all platforms!

Obtaining your NYC Tour Guide license is a study in:

And now I am *certain* this sport was invented by existential nihilism because the timeline is now very disappointed that a team named originally for people trying to dodge the certain death of being hit by a rail car (sole baseball fact I know as a NYC tour guide) has now evidently wrested control.

"on account of darkness" isn't refuting my understanding that this sport was invented by existential nihilism.

Oh no, not again... I only learned about the quirks of this sport solely through BlueSky's exploration of creeping but thorough Existential Nihilism across the timeline last week, is God still Dead?

Saratoga Springs, NY! I love you dearly & wrote a whole chapter about you in AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION! Let's discuss the incredible Trask family, 11/3 @ 6pm @northshirebooks.bsky.social! A perfect read for Non-Fiction November! www.northshire.com/event/norths...

Hearing her talk in person about her adventures and studies is fascinating, and she’s a very engaging speaker. My favorite part involved ghost ships, because my family has a connection to the Dash, Portland, Maine’s ghost ship.

A book cover, dark, with an illustration of a spooky Victorian house with one lighted window. The text, in white and yellow with decorative yellow curlicues, reads, “America’s Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger Than Fiction” and the authors’ names, Leanna Renee Hieber & Andrea Janes

My Halloween night entertainment is this excellent book. A little creepy, *very* thought-provoking, it asks the reader to consider the deeper meaning of the stories we tell about history, trauma and death.

Also, if you get the chance, go see @leannareneehieber.bsky.social in person.

Return of the Body Snatchers • Protean Magazine This Halloween, Kim Kelly digs into the history of medical graverobbing and desecration-for-profit—a long-buried symptom of the heedlessness and abject cruelty of centuries past. Right? Surely nothing...

The good doctors need our data and our bodies in order to learn, evolve, conquer, and most importantly for them, profit.

Ignore the warning signals your brain screams out when it encounters an undead creature that pretends to have a soul and urges you to trust it. proteanmag.com/2025/10/31/r...

Return of the Body Snatchers • Protean Magazine This Halloween, Kim Kelly digs into the history of medical graverobbing and desecration-for-profit—a long-buried symptom of the heedlessness and abject cruelty of centuries past. Right? Surely nothing...

My favorite Halloween tradition is writing a spooky history essay for @proteanmag.com, and 2025’s is a good one. This time, we’re heading back to the graveyard.

Bring a shovel.

proteanmag.com/2025/10/31/r...

You are so kind, Jennifer, I loved meeting you and this means the world, truly. I was so excited about your connection to the Dash, it's such special history, and I look forward to when our paths cross again. 🖤👻

Thank you so much!!! 🖤👻🖤

Faster-than-light travel is always better by bat... 🦇

Oh, *chuckle* I guess my beloved Tiptoe the rat Beanie Baby as plague rat is Graphic Media according to this site.

I FORGIVE YOU CAUSE YOU'RE RIGHT

A blue-ish black and white photo recreating a screenshot of Anna's dead body from Robert Eggers' Nosferatu where Leanna lays in an authentic 19th Century white nightgown on a hardwood floor, as if dead, a cute rat Beanie Baby perched on her chest, it's TY tag clearly visible, his name is Tiptoe and he is beloved. Leanna's long blonde hair is splayed out and her eyes stare out into nothingness.

Leanna is "at the window" in blue-tone black and white, in an authentic 19th century white nightgown open down the front, creating an imitation of the screenshot from Robert Eggers' Nosferatu where the character of Anna Harding goes to the window to breathe and scream. There are blood marks on Leanna's forehead to mirror those from the film.

I work Halloween, of course, as a career spooky-person, but that doesn't mean I don't plan a costume and photo shoot ahead of time because I am A PROFESSIONAL.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN from my take on Anna from Eggers' NOSFERATU, co-starring my beloved rat Beanie Baby Tiptoe. 📷 by @mr-s-crane.bsky.social.