Leanna Riley

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

#published #spookyszn #scarystories #horror #womeninhorror #author #shortstory #readindie

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. 🖤

✨ 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

🖤 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. ✍🏼🕸️

🖤 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. 🕊️

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🖤 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. 🖤🥜

🖤 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

GWZ#30: Midnight Hour — NEW ZINES & USED BOOKS Ghostwatch Zine #30 “Midnight Hour” features stories and artwork themed in summertime horror, including campfire tales, summer camp horror and urban legends. The content included was hand selected fro...

Get your copy from @thepapercult on instagram or find their link below! And if you haven’t yet, follow my author’s page @LeannaFromSavannah My story ‘SouthView Cemetery’ is just one of many terror-filled tales written very talented authors.

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💀🌛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! ⏳💀

Four magazine covers all together. Each says "The Skull and Laurel" in a color that matches the art and each displays the tenebrous logo.

Today is the official release of The S&L #4— and the completion of the set of four we'd originally funded!
With it, we celebrate how much we've learned and all the excellent artists and readers who made it possible.
Congratulations, team. They're perfect.🖤💀

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“She tries one of the saintly pop-culture candles—with David Bowie printed over rainbow angel wings—and grips only her own knuckles through its flame.”

👁️👁️👁️👁️👁️• There is nothing to celebrate when millions of people are about to lose healthcare and snap benefits and when h*locaust-esque detention camps are being built with political figures joking about feeding immigrants to alligators. It is sickening to be an *merican.

#wakeupandopenyoureyes

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

The Spooky Chris Podcast – Author Kathe Koja on Inspiration Join me for a discussion about inspiration with author Kathe Koja. Kathe just saw her seminal novel “Skin” relreleased in a beautiful new edition, had her book “Catherine the Ghos…

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Chris Ringler and I think about and talk about inspiration, and what turns the wheels that make the work.

🍃 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! 🖤🥜

🐄 Short story on submission (Word count: 5,274)
🐺 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

🪦 Novel-in-progress (Current word count: 77,600 / Goal: 120,000)
👻 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

Plot: Married couple Celia and Martin are brutally attacked on their drive through the Irish countryside. The attack leaves Celia with a violent schism in her mind, seemingly existing in two places at once: one the “real” world, the other a howling maelstrom of abstract monstrosity. Of her husband, there is no trace…until weeks later, when Martin is discovered in a hospital for rare and abnormal diseases, his body spliced together with that of an unknown woman. And they are very pregnant. PUPPET'S BANQUET by Valkyrie Loughcrewe The cover art of PUPPET'S BANQUET by Donna A. Black, featuring a terrifying baby-doll-headed centipede, and archival photos of a cemetery and a looming old institute. PRAISE FOR VALKYRIE LOUGHCREWE'S PUPPET'S BANQUET: "A blissful injury upon the readers psyche" - Clay McLeod Chapman "Gory, trippy and Weird as Fuck" - Todd Keisling May 2025

Who's up for some fringe occult medical research at the Bannican Institute today?!

@goresorcerer.bsky.social has cited An Axis of Perdition's music as an influence on PUPPET'S BANQUET; but for whatever reason I hear Ethel Cain's Perverts when I'm reading it.

How about you?
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A mother’s warning to her daughter from the grave. Some nightmares are too vivid to ignore. 🖤🥜

#amwriting #womenwriting #newstory #HWA #HorrorCommunity #WomenInHorror #Supernatural

Dear Daughter: A Short Story of Love, Legacy, and Letting Go<br/> — Killer Nashville A powerful and poignant epistolary short story about a dying mother’s final message to her daughter. Dear Daughter explores illness, memory, and maternal love through vivid dream imagery and heartfelt...

𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐃𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫,
𝘉𝘺 𝘓𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘙𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘺

I’m thrilled to share that my debut story has been published in Killer Nashville Magazine. You can read 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘋𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘳, now! 📝🪦

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#HorrorWriting #PublishedAuthor #NewRelease #WritersOfBluesky

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

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

Plot: Married couple Celia and Martin are brutally attacked on their drive through the Irish countryside. The attack leaves Celia with a violent schism in her mind, seemingly existing in two places at once: one the “real” world, the other a howling maelstrom of abstract monstrosity. Of her husband, there is no trace…until weeks later, when Martin is discovered in a hospital for rare and abnormal diseases, his body spliced together with that of an unknown woman. And they are very pregnant. PUPPET'S BANQUET by Valkyrie Loughcrewe The cover art of PUPPET'S BANQUET by Donna A. Black, featuring a terrifying baby-doll-headed centipede, and archival photos of a cemetery and a looming old institute. PRAISE FOR VALKYRIE LOUGHCREWE'S PUPPET'S BANQUET: "A blissful injury upon the readers psyche" - Clay McLeod Chapman "Gory, trippy and Weird as Fuck" - Todd Keisling May 2025

Cover art for BRAVE NEW WEIRD Vol. 3 by Matt Blairstone: a Monster Cereal style homage of a toxic green skeleton with corals sprouting from its skull, eating a bowl of Weird cereal: slugs, hardware, severed fingers, green sludge. TEXT: BRAVE NEW WEIRD: THE BEST NEW WEIRD HORROR VOLUME 3 Hardcover Edition Signed Bookplate Preorder now Limited to 50 copies store.tenebrouspress.com

Cover art for WE LIKE IT CHERRY designed by Alex Woodroe; a silhoutted man stands in the shadow of a massive glacier; the scene is electric blue and feels cold AF. Text: THERE ARE FEW PLEASURES GREATER THAN THE HUNT. "A harrowing tale of identity and redemption through violence. Wicked!" Tim McGregor, author of LURE and EYNHALLOW "Darkly atmospheric, bloody, frozen, full of heart" Laurel Hightower, author of THE DAY OF THE DOOR

Cover art by Becca Snow; illustration of a phantasmagoria of corals exploding from an upside down human skull, networking into a human figure like neural links. Text: WE NEVER SUSPECTED IT HAD A PLAN. "With tendrils, polyps and tender flesh, Zorn has stitched together a future unburdened by petty desire--there's a greater power pulsing eerily beneath the prose. Andrew F. Sullivan, author of THE MARIGOLD Text: WE NEVER SUSPECTED IT HAD A PLAN. “Unfolds with terror and hypnotic beauty. Shows how difficult existence is for both man and nature and opens us up to strange new possibilities. Fans of Jeff VanderMeer will love this.” Ivy Grimes, The Ghosts of Blaubart Mansion Out this September

2025 Things to Come:
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COVER REVEAL: Issues with Authority by
@nadiabulkin.bsky.social releases 9/18/25 from
@ghoulish.bsky.social
I am the biggest fan of Nadia's first collection, She Said Destroy, I mean it. Fight me. Number one fan. So excited!
ghoulish.rip/product/issu... (and get an author sticker!) This cover! 🔥

cover of Teenage Girls Can Be Demons by Hailey Piper, with cover art by Julia Lloyd depicting an adolescent girl morphing into a creature with horns and sharp teeth. Beneath that is a kind quote from Eric LaRocca calling Piper "one of the most spectacularly fierce talents working in horror fiction today"

Cover reveal! Presenting the cover of TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS, art by Julia Lloyd!

13 coming-of-rage stories twisting out most difficult years of transformation into new and terrifying shapes 😈 coming September 16 from @titanbooks.bsky.social

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Cover of Gemma Amors ITCH!, a folk horror novel, in bright pink showing a frightened eye with neon green ants falling from the tear duct and strange shadows in the pupil

ARGH! I have been ITCHING to share this INCREDIBLE cover for my weird, uncomfortable, antsy folk horror novel ITCH!

AND NOW I CAN! ISN'T SHE A ZINGER? SO PINK! SO SCRATCHY! SO ITCHY!

OUT FROM HODDER & STOUGHTON, October 2025

Cover design: Saffron Stocker

PREORDER: shorturl.at/ybN1z

Thank you so much!