We’re on the other side of the solstice now, but the nights are still long, the days are still short and the shadows dark. The veil between the living and the dead is traditionally thin on the solstice as it is on Samhain. Can you tell I’m pining for Halloween? How did you guess, lol.

Here’s a short, spooky excerpt from my Christmas ghost novel, The Fairy Lights. What happens when you fall in love with the ghost haunting your house? In Aisling’s case, a kiss from beyond:

Romance with a ghost – an excerpt from my Christmas ghost novel, The Fairy Lights

You can grab a copy of The Fairy Lights here, if you fancy some fantastical yuletide fun that is more metaphysical than spooky:

If you like a little spectral loving, get ready for some more ethereal~corporeal romance coming your way in 2025. Love you to Death, my ghost story collection for Valentine’s Day, will have plenty of paranormal liaisons between the living and the dead. No necrophilia needed…only ectoplasm orgasms, lol. The question remains: how does a living human get it on with a spectre? Find out on 1st February 2025…

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About Leilanie Stewart

Leilanie Stewart is an award-winning author and poet from Belfast, Northern Ireland. She writes ghost and psychological horror, as well as experimental poetry. Her writing confronts the nature of self; her novels feature main characters on a dark psychological journey who have a crisis and create a new sense of identity. She began writing for publication while working as an English teacher in Japan, a career pathway that has influenced themes in her writing. Her former career as an Archaeologist has also inspired her writing and she has incorporated elements of archaeology and mythology into both her fiction and poetry. In addition to promoting her own work, Leilanie runs Bindweed Anthologies, a creative writing publication with her writer husband, Joseph Robert. Aside from publishing pursuits, Leilanie enjoys spending time with her husband and their lively literary lad, a voracious reader of sea monster books.

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