Some more book mail arrived yesterday by two of my favourite ghost story authors: Tina Vantyler and Juliette Harrisson. With the end of term coming up in less than a month, these books arrived just in time for the summer horrordays. Spooky beach reading for me, yes please.

Two of my favourite authors: Tina Vantyler and Juliette Harrisson

I’ve read quite a few of Tina Vantyler’s ‘True tales of the Supernatural’ series and I’m really excited for this ‘Haunted House’ edition. She has a very bingeable writing style and her books are a combo of eerie source material (Vantyler is an English journalist who goes around the UK documenting real ghostly cases from members of the public) and suspenseful writing. Here are the links for her books:

Tina Vantyler – Amazon UK
Tina Vantyler – Amazon US

Juliette Harrisson’s books are a recent find for me. I happened upon her book ‘Creepy Classics: Ghost stories from ancient Rome’ and I loved it so much I just had to jump on the next in the series: ‘Creepy Classics: Ghost stories from ancient Greece’ which came out in April this year. Harrison is a Historian as well as author, and these historically inspired stories are both spooky and engaging. Here are the links for her books:

Juliette Harrisson – Amazon UK
Juliette Harrisson – Amazon US

I highly recommend both authors if you are a ghost horror fan like me who is looking for excellent writing and original stories. As for me, I’ll be spending the remainder of my weekend chilling in the garden with my new spooky bookys.

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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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