Today's mini-interview for BIG BAD BOOK OF KAIJU anthology ( @titanbooks.bsky.social 9/22) is with award-winning author LEE MURRAY. Here's the link: bit.ly/3V3V2aC Scroll for OTHER interviews. #Kaiju #bigbadbookofkaiju #anthology @leemurraywriter.bsky.social @henryherz.bsky.social

Just recorded virtual panel, Necronomicon presents ANTIPODEAN WEIRD & HORROR FICTION: VOICES OF AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND with @leemurraywriter.bsky.social , @aarondries.bsky.social , @geneveflynn.bsky.social , @kaaronwarren.bsky.social & @genni.bsky.social Links in comments!

We celebrate SILK & SINEW contributors with a look at the inspiration behind @leemurraywriter.bsky.social Lee Murray’s story, “The Poppy Cloud” and Australasian Shadows Award nominated poem, “Charcoal Skies”! #badhandbooks #silkandsinewantho #folkhorror #authors #bramstokeraward

THE LIBRARY OF THE UNDEAD is quickly taking shape, so more announcements soon. Today I have the pleasure of revealing the anthology will include @leemurraywriter.bsky.social with a story called "The Fantail's Tale."

Starting book #53 of 2026: Into the Ashes by @leemurraywriter.bsky.social A cataclysmic series of quakes and eruptions in In New Zealand's Tongariro National Park are not what they seem: behind these are ancestral Māori mountain warriors, the legendary Kāhui Tupua. The Māori background is terrific!

New prose poem up for #WomenInHorrorMonth: this one’s for @leemurraywriter.bsky.social. I’m still thinking about Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud. Read it for free here: www.patreon.com/posts/women-in-horror-153542368

Reading book #50 of 2026, Into the Mist by @leemurraywriter.bsky.social & I’m feeling the mist of Te Urewera as a group of scientists and NZDF enter the bush; the scientists for research, the soldiers because 14 people have recently gone missing. Why? Seems something mythic, a taniwha, is real…

#WiHM Found poem is for @carolgyzander.bsky.social, someone I was delighted to meet in the flesh (along with @leemurraywriter.bsky.social) at Brighton last year! #booksky #horrowriting #fiction #horror #specfic

A lot goes in to the StokerCon Anthology. We are delighted to share those creatives who have lent their talent to this year's offering. especbooks.com/2026/03/24/t... @cybergodwrites.bsky.social @leemurraywriter.bsky.social @datlow.bsky.social @kcgrifant.bsky.social

TABLE OF CONTENTS REVEAL – STOKERCON 2026 SOUVENIR ANTHOLOGY

Whew! It has taken a lot to get to this point! I love these projects, but they are a challenge. So many moving parts to coordinate, particularly this year, with it being the tenth anniversary and a…

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😍 🔥🔥🔥 CONGRATULATIONS @geneveflynn.bsky.social & @leemurraywriter.bsky.social! Ecstatic to see TWO of SILK & SINEW's contributors nominated for Australian Shadows Awards in the Poetry, Short Fiction, and Non-Fiction categories! ♥️AND congrats to wonderful friend & cheerleader @ledaniels.bsky.social♥️

Also delighted to share the @australasianhorror.bsky.social 2025 Shadows poetry shortlist with Katya de Becerra & dear friends, @ledaniels.bsky.social & @leemurraywriter.bsky.social! "A Pocket of Soil," from SILK & SINEW, ed. @garnetonwinter.bsky.social, pub. @badhandbooks.bsky.social.

For #WiHM I'll be creating some of these, something a little different to lists and things. First up is this as a thank you to @leemurraywriter.bsky.social for all her support and her genuine friendship. #foundpoetry #booksky #poetry

Today for Women in Horror Month, @candacenola.bsky.social and I are shouting out the one and only @leemurraywriter.bsky.social, ONZM, whose OVERSIGHT: ERASURE POETRY, coauthored with @carinabissett.bsky.social, is out today! See what she has to say about it … open.substack.com/pub/eliza392...

Women in Horror: Lee Murray, ONZM

Writing horror and speculative fiction from New Zealand

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On my website, @leemurraywriter.bsky.social talks in her guest article about erasure of women in history to even now, and her new poetry collection with @carinabissett.bsky.social, Oversight: Women’s Erasure. Join us for women’s appreciation and celebration on Hook of Book. 🫶🏼 Link below!

So thrilled to appear on Hook of a Book’s Women in History series! hookofabook.wordpress.com/2026/03/14/o...

Thanks to @carinabissett.bsky.social & @leemurraywriter.bsky.social for this insightful guest post on their experience crafting erasure poems from writings by women from history. buff.ly/jixqJkV #erasurepoetry #foundpoetry #poetrycommunity

Oversight: Erasure Poetry – guest post by Carina Bissett & Lee Murray

“Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women.” —Virginia Woolf In the famous, book-length essay “A Room of One’s Own” (1929), Virginia Woolf comments …

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Super excited to appear in aL Washington's Mystical Loft horror podcast talking about This Way Lies Madness -- and other things. Free to listen. Available on YouTube and Spotify. 30 mins so perfect for a weekend coffee pause. open.spotify.com/episode/7J9b....

Best Books of the Year Author Talk: Join Silk & Sinew Editor Kristy Park Kulski and Author @leemurraywriter.bsky.social for an insightful discussion on the anthology Register here: www.nypl.org/events/progr... #nypl #silkandsinewantho #leemurray #kristyparkkulski #besthorror #bestbook

#nowreading this way lies madness, a really beautiful little anthology of horror tales centering mental health issues, curated by @leemurraywriter.bsky.social and @davebjeffery.bsky.social via flame tree publishing. as a lifelong sufferer, i'm really looking forward to this.

My debut collection includes stories that have garnered 13 awards and shortlistings as well as new stuff. @leemurraywriter.bsky.social said lovely things about it and it’s out now - order here! books2read.com/drowninginth...

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New Review - some truly chilling tales await you in the highly recommend collection Drowning In The Dark And Other Stories by @mktighewrites.bsky.social out now! www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2025/10...

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...

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Fiction Podcast · Thrill to the adventures of the past and visions of the future. Featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror and the supernatural, short stories, ancient tales, myth and folklore from ...

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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...

Welcome Two New Contributors to OF DREAD, DECAY, AND DOOM!

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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-... 💙📚 🩸📚

When Horror Meets Mental Health: This Way Lies Madness An Interview With Lee Murray And Dave Jeffery - The Ginger Nuts Of Horror Review Website

"This Way Lies Madness" delivers empathetic horror on anxiety, grief, and more. Editors explain its role in destigmatizing mental health via global stories.

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“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

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New Episode! Pace and Emily sit down with authors Sara Larner, Alan Baxter, and Callum Rowland to talk about the upcoming horror anthology THIS WAY LIES MADNESS. Such a great conversation about horror, mental health, and much more. Preorder and listen to our episode here: 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...

This Way Lies Madness: When Horror Meets Mental Health

Challenging mental health stigma, "This Way Lies Madness" delivers. Read the Ginger Nuts of Horror take on this thought-provoking anthology.

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