THIS WAY LIES MADNESS is a new antho edited by @leemurraywriter.bsky.social @davebjeffery.bsky.social that present fictional depictions of madness. Hear more about the collection at Flame Tree Press podcasts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f...

Ahead of tomorrow's World Mental Health Day, @laurenwrites.bsky.social caught up with @leemurraywriter.bsky.social & @davejeffery.bsky.social, editors of Flame Tree anthology This Way Lies Madness, to chat about stigmas & how horror can actually help us. britishfantasysociety.org/this-way-lie...

Delighted to be joint winner of the Shadows Award for Poetry with @leemurraywriter.bsky.social! My poem, "You Swallowed Your Tongue," (BESTIARY OF BLOOD: MODERN FABLES & DARK TALES, @crystallake.bsky.social, ed. Jamal Hodge) was honoured alongside Lee's collection, FOX SPIRIT ON A DISTANT CLOUD.

My contributor copy for THIS WAY LIES MADNESS arrived. I could cry! It's beautiful. Absolutely stunning. Thank you so much to @leemurraywriter.bsky.social and @davebjeffery.bsky.social. "Bangs" is perhaps the most personal short story I've ever written. Honored to have it featured in this anthology.

Welcome two new contributors to OF DREAD, DECAY, AND DOOM, the @starsandsabers.bsky.social #horror anthology: @leemurraywriter.bsky.social and @vincentvenacava.bsky.social! ko-fi.com/post/Welcome...

Featuring stories from @jonathanmaberry.bsky.social @emilyrverona.bsky.social @amandacecelia.bsky.social @timwaggoner.bsky.social @saralarner.bsky.social @marieoregan.bsky.social @alanbaxter.bsky.social

Here it is, my lovelies. A massive in-depth interview with @davebjeffery.bsky.social and @leemurraywriter.bsky.social about creating an anthology that tackles mental health in horror. It's a brilliant anthology and dare I say a brillaint interview gnofhorror.com/when-horror-... 💙📚 🩸📚

“Featuring a historic tale which blends seamlessly into the contemporary narrative like a traditional zhiguai, Yu’s white bone spirit beguiles and terrifies.” Thank you @leemurraywriter.bsky.social for your lovely blurb of DEMON SONG!! 🥰🖤 Out in 13 days from @titanbooks.bsky.social!! 🎭🎶🕯️💀

Fantastic discussion on horror and mental health by the kind folks at HNaC and contributors to This Way Lies Madness. Make this your weekend listening. Free to listen. linktr.ee/HNACPod

Flame Tree Press are renowned for publishing fascinating anthologies and @davebjeffery.bsky.social and @leemurraywriter.bsky.social have created a powerhouse of an anthology with This Way Lies Madness gnofhorror.com/this-way-lie...

We have an exclusive cover reveal for THE RACK II! Check out this great work by @lynnehansenart.bsky.social! Edited by @horrortom.bsky.social, authors include @cybergodwrites.bsky.social, @leemurraywriter.bsky.social, @tamikathompson.bsky.social, & more! #booksky www.horrordna.com/news/the-rac...

Absolutely thrilled to appear with my friends Tiffany and Nikky on Horror in the Margins podcast about horror and Grafted. Free to listen. www.horrorinthemargins.com/2103702/epis...

Ping @leemurraywriter.bsky.social - and #newzealand -sky! You might be interested in this essay... #nz

@emilyrverona.bsky.social talks about BANGS, her powerful story in This Way Lies Madness! Read the full blog, including a story excerpt, here: blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-gothic @flametreepress @flametreepublishing @leemurraywriter.bsky.social @gregchapman.bsky.social

@leemurraywriter.bsky.social wrote a wonderful, personal essay for the July collection of essays, about her journey to being the multiple award-winning author she is today (including ONZM!). She frames it around the idea of the fox spirit...

@leemurraywriter.bsky.social wrote a beautiful biographical essay about being a fox girl for the Jan-June collection of SI essays. You can read it by subscribing to the journal (getting the ebook for free), or just by buying the book (e- or paper). www.speculativeinsight.com/buy-collections

SILK & SINEW authors @leemurraywriter.bsky.social, @sabarazvi.bsky.social, @ayidashonibar.bsky.social, and I will be discussing: This Land of Milk and Blood: Asian Diaspora Relationships with Place and the Folk Horror Tradition! www.eventbrite.com/e/darkness-i...

Breathless with gratitude at this stunning review of Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud from Otago University Press's Robyn Maree Pickens in the latest edition of Landfall. landfallreview.com/villages-of-...

Many thanks to Jamal Hodge for these kind words for SILK & SINEW, edited by @garnetonwinter.bsky.social. Available NOW, this acclaimed anthology features @nadiabulkin.bsky.social, @aijiang.bsky.social, @leemurraywriter.bsky.social and more--plus a foreword by Monika Kim.

TODAY. Happy launch day to @garnetonwinter.bsky.social and all of our SILK & SINEW authors. This fantastic anthology is available NOW wherever books are sold. Contributions by @leemurraywriter.bsky.social @aijiang.bsky.social @nadiabulkin.bsky.social and more, plus a foreword by Monika Kim!

A Taine McKenna short story was released into the wild today from my friends at Squabbling Sparrows Press. You can get your copy here. books2read.com/intotheboney...

This little book that could. So thrilled to see FOX SPIRIT ON A DISTANT CLOUD nominated for the Australian Shadows Awards in Poetry. Congrats to all my colleagues who appear on the shortlist, and especially poets Monica Carroll, Geneve Flynn, Deborah Sheldon, Eugen Bacon, and Pauline Yates.

It’s the wonderful @leemurraywriter.bsky.social!

I've just deleted 9000 folks from my newsletter list. If you were one of those, and I’ve deleted you by mistake, you can read the latest missive and sign up again here. [Not spammy -- I never send more than 5 emails a year.] leemurray.info/so/03PP6F404...

Delighted to have a story in Flame Tree’s newest anthology, Robots: Past and Future, alongside some fabulous friends. blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

Achievement unlocked! Not only did I get a story in the latest volume (17) of Ellen Datlow's fabulous Best Horror of the Year, I MADE THE COVER! Art by Asya Yordanova.

In honor of National Poetry Month, we interviewed the prolific @leemurraywriter.bsky.social! Read on for a glimpse into her journey through the dark poetry space. HOWLS will be featuring all of the 2024 Bram Stoker Poetry Finalists so stay tuned! howlsociety.com/2025/04/12/l... #horrorlit

An in-depth interview for horror poetry month for the HOWL Bookclub. Free to read. howlsociety.com/2025/04/12/l...

Thrilled to make Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year Vol 17, with 'Summer Bonus' from Folk Horror: Beyond & Within. Many thanks to Flame Tree and editors Paul Kane and Marie O’Regan. Congrats to co-contributor Stephen Volk who also made the line up.

Delighted to have a story in Flame Tree’s newest anthology, Robots: Past and Future, alongside some fabulous friends. blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

Lovely surprise news! BLACK CRANES (co-ed. with @leemurraywriter.bsky.social, avail. from @rdspress.bsky.social) made the @carlbrandon.bsky.social's Parallax Award honours list, and Elaine Cuyegkeng's story, "The Genetic Alchemist's Daughter," won short form! rawdogscreaming.com/black-cranes...

We are pleased that BLACK CRANES ed. by @leemurraywriter.bsky.social and @geneveflynn.bsky.social has received more awards recognition! Elaine Cuyegkeng's story, “The Genetic Alchemist’s Daughter,” has received the Parallax Award, the antho made the honors list. rawdogscreaming.com/black-cranes...

BLACK CRANES (RDSP) has made the Carl Brandon Society's Parallax Award honours list, announced yesterday, receiving an honourable mention, & contributor Elaine Cuyegkeng won the Parallax Award for "The Genetic Alchemist's Daughter." Congratulations, Elaine! rawdogscreaming.com/black-cranes...

Thrilled to announce the release of this Taine McKenna short story by my friends at Squabbling Sparrows Press. books2read.com/intothegeyse...

Today, Benjamin Kurt Unsworth reviews Discontinue If Death Ensues, a new anthology from @carolgyzander.bsky.social Anna Taborska and Flame Tree Press Featuring stories from @leemurraywriter.bsky.social @kylaw.bsky.social @cindyoquinn.bsky.social gnofhorror.com/discontinue-...

SPFA colleagues, FOX SPIRIT ON A DISTANT CLOUD is eligible for this year’s Elgin Awards. I'd be grateful for your support. Mail nominations to [email protected] Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud by Lee Murray. The Cuba Press, Wellington, New Zealand. 136 pages. thecubapress.nz/shop/fox-spi...

Congrats to @leemurraywriter.bsky.social & @davebjeffery.bsky.social for horror antho THIS WAY LIES MADNESS, coming out in Sept w/Flame Tree Press. Thrilled to have THE FAMILIAR'S ASSISTANT reprinted here. blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

Official publisher announcement of the Table of Content for This Way Lies Madness (Flame Tree Press) and edited by the incredible @leemurraywriter.bsky.social and some bloke from the Black Country! Cover art by the brilliant Greg Chapman. blog.flametreepublishing.com/fantasy-goth...

Welcoming @leemurraywriter.bsky.social to Stars and Sabers! #horror #horrorwriters

A starter to follow. go.bsky.app/JXP5zEr

including but not limited to @tananarivedue.bsky.social @jennifermcmahon.bsky.social @silviamg.bsky.social @rachelharrison.bsky.social @sarahlangston.bsky.social @catrionaward.bsky.social @leemurraywriter.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social @cynthiapelayo.bsky.social

Anyone interested in an anthology of horror written by older female authors? @datlow.bsky.social @tananarivedue.bsky.social @badhandbooks.bsky.social @nettirw.bsky.social @leemurraywriter.bsky.social @delilahsdawson.bsky.social Oh, the things we've seen...

#WritingCommunity How about following these creatives? @daveheeley.bsky.social @mogadontrenchcoat.bsky.social @ndthompson-writer.bsky.social @geoquartz.bsky.social @shadowsbetween.bsky.social @davidalecknight.bsky.social @cohalloran.bsky.social @alysonhasson.bsky.social @leemurraywriter.bsky.social

If you enjoyed The Substance, might I recommend Grafted, written by @leemurraywriter.bsky.social on Shudder? I’m always drawn to stories about people who are othered and go to great lengths to belong. Lovely color palette that really spoke to the story. Also, the goop is so visceral and good !

Much more information here: Thanks to @ledaniels.bsky.social. @leemurraywriter.bsky.social, and @davebjeffery.bsky.social and a host of others on the committee for all their hard work

My Taine McKenna novella Into the Clouded Sky released today by my lovely friends at Squabbling Sparrows Press. You can pick up your copy here. books2read.com/intothecloud...

Thrilled to be judging the forthcoming New Zealand Poetry Society international poetry prize. Opens in March. www.poetrysociety.org.nz/announcing-o...

Congratulations to all nominees at this year’s Bram Stoker Awards, especially @leemurraywriter.bsky.social with this masterpiece. I’ve been shouting so long about this incredible book, I’m hoarse. Buy it. Read it. Vote for it.

Staci Layne Wilson interviews me about horror feature Grafted (currently streaming on Shudder). womeninhorror.com/reviews-%26-...

Nine tails. Nine tales. Nine mortal lives - Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud by @leemurraywriter.bsky.social, wonderfully conceived and executed. My review: tinyurl.com/yenvjwp6 #YeahNoir #aotearoabooks