It’s the best time of year; at least, if you’re a ghoul as I am. Halloween is finally here, hurray!
Happy Halloween to all you witches, and Samhain blessings to all you spooks (like me). I’ve been up to some Irish traditional festivities here in Northern Ireland, what with turnip carving and Irish mummer masks at the Ulster Folk museum in Cultra, and a haunted ghost train ride on a Guinness steam train at Whitehead; of course in my various witches hats. But I’ve been missing the Q Radio hosted Thriller dance mob at Writer’s Square Belfast, and some grisly cannibalistic body horror at Carrickfergus castle that took place last year.
Anyway, this is a short and (not so) sweet post, since I’ve got lots planned for tonight, rather than wasting my life (er, pun intended, lol) online. So let me love you and leave you (to death, ha ha) and I’ll see you on the other side of the veil in November.
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.
