As a reader as well as a writer, I try to read widely across a variety of genres, but I always find myself gravitating back to my favourite ghost horror reads. You’re probably going to find this odd, but nothing comforts me more than lying in bed snuggled up with a scary story. I can’t think of a better way to drift off to sleep.
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 
If I was reading a scary story in bed I wouldn’t want to drift off to sleep, lol. 🙂 Each to their own; enjoy!