It’s Friday the 13th. How about a frightening book fest?
Happy Friday the 13th, horror fans! Anyone superstitious out there and freaking out about the need to tie up their long hair, lest it fall out, avoiding the 13th floor of a building today, or hastily renaming room 13 of their house/school/hotel today? If so, you’re in good company. I love learning about folk superstitions, almost as much as I love a good scary story to read.
It’s too bad the full moon – a strawberry moon, no less – happened on Wednesday 11th June, rather than today. A full moon for Friday the 13th would’ve been a spooktacularly celestial treat.
Anyhoo, if you’re looking for a fright fest of books to read for the occasion, check out my Belfast Ghosts series, a trilogy of standalone ghost novels that will surely leave you haunted…
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.
Leilanie Stewart 