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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 34m

THANKS! Feels surreal!!

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 1h

OH I WILL FIRST THING 🥯

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 1h

😭🥰💖😍👻🤩☕️

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Shveta Thakrar @shvetathakrar.com · 1h

My darling Leanna is a USA TODAY BESTSELLER!!!!!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! 😭😭😭 Hooray, @leannareneehieber.bsky.social and @boroughsofthedead.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉

If you don't have your copy yet, what are you waiting for???

Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 2h

AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION is an INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER!!! I'm SO GRATEFUL! Could not be more thrilled about this, I'm physically woozy with joy! Thank you to my co-author Andrea Janes of @boroughsofthedead.bsky.social & our @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social team!

USA TODAY BESTSELLER LIST with a heart around our title, out of 150 titles, AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC co-authored by Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes clocks in at 74 its release week, making it an instant BESTSELLER, Leanna drew a blue heart around their placement on the list 🖤

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 1h

THANKS, BUDDY 💖👻💖

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you, lovely! 😭👻 Will lift a glass to you when at Miami next week!

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Cat Treadwell @druidcat.bsky.social · 1h

Screaming for the amazing Leanna and Andrea! 🥰

Due to Illness, I haven't been able to sort my Promotional Plot for this amazing book, but it is coming. Oh yes.

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 2h

AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION is an INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER!!! I'm SO GRATEFUL! Could not be more thrilled about this, I'm physically woozy with joy! Thank you to my co-author Andrea Janes of @boroughsofthedead.bsky.social & our @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social team!

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you, friend!! 💖👻💖

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you!!! I am shaking with joy about this; it has been such a labor of love! 🖤👻🖤

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 2h

AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION is an INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER!!! I'm SO GRATEFUL! Could not be more thrilled about this, I'm physically woozy with joy! Thank you to my co-author Andrea Janes of @boroughsofthedead.bsky.social & our @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social team!

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Matthew Kressel @matthewkressel.net · 4h

TONIGHT! Join us with @leannareneehieber.bsky.social & @shvetathakrar.com, 7pm at the KGB Bar NYC, for our Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series. Subbing for @datlow.bsky.social will be the Marvelous @mercuriodrivera.bsky.social. Come one, come all!

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 16h

This is the whey.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

Ann Radcliffe eating hard cheese right before bed to give herself nightmares, Stoker claiming Dracula was the result of a nightmare induced by a “too generous helping of dressed crab,” let’s go back to the golden age of eating incredibly rich food before bed to create horror literature

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loarider @loarider.bsky.social · 16h

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 16h

TRUTH

Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 1d

THURSDAY! Buffalo, NY! Let's tell ghost stories!

AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION is not only your perfect spooky-season read BUT reading our book will also put you ahead for your #nonfictionnovember reading challenge!
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Evening House Books @eveninghouse.bsky.social · 1d

REMINDER:
This Thursday night in Downtown Buffalo, we've got a book signing & literary chat with @leannareneehieber.bsky.social for AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC! Come hang out, grab a book and set your October up right with gothic history & good vibes:
eveninghousebooks.com/event/leanna...

Leanna Renee Hieber Book Signing & Author Talk - Evening House Books

Come hear from haunted NYC guide and historian Leanna Renee Hieber, who will be discussing her latest nonfiction title, AMERICA’S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION. […]

eveninghousebooks.com

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 1d

For my friends in the UK, @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social also has AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION available, so let's collectively stick it to billionaires and support local shops across the pond!

Gothic Literature + Real Ghost Lore = 🖤

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/amer...

America’s Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger than Fiction

Haunted History Stranger than Fiction

uk.bookshop.org

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 1d

The wonderful @bookshop.org is hosting an Anti-Prime sale! What a great time for AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION! We are THE PERFECT Spooky-Season read and we'd love for you to join this examination of ghost lore through a Gothic lens! 🖤
bookshop.org/p/books/amer...

America’s Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger than Fiction

Haunted History Stranger than Fiction

bookshop.org

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Evening House Books @eveninghouse.bsky.social · 1d

REMINDER:
This Thursday night in Downtown Buffalo, we've got a book signing & literary chat with @leannareneehieber.bsky.social for AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC! Come hang out, grab a book and set your October up right with gothic history & good vibes:
eveninghousebooks.com/event/leanna...

Leanna Renee Hieber Book Signing & Author Talk - Evening House Books

Come hear from haunted NYC guide and historian Leanna Renee Hieber, who will be discussing her latest nonfiction title, AMERICA’S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION. […]

eveninghousebooks.com

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in her négligé of blood-stained lace @ladyofhouseoflove.bsky.social · 1d

I’m reading it right now and cannot put it down. It’s all the best parts of a gothic!

Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 2d

Friends! Last days of AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION release week!

In publishing, 1st week's sales are a *really* important metric for ongoing support, so if you haven't ordered yet, your support of our non-fiction book of Gothic lit + ghost lore would be such a help!

Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · Aug 5

Available for pre-order wherever books are sold!
Kensington/Penguin: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/781356...
Thank you for pre-orders & signal-boosts, it's a difficult time to promote right now but your support is *dearly* appreciated!

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The Deadlands @thedeadlands.com · 1d

it's here, The Deadlands fundraiser 💀

buy your very 2026 coin for the ferryman and help support us

we've got signed books, deadlands issues + psychopomp book bundles, and more coming soon!

please like + RT this to help spread the word

psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

behold!

Illustration of a white skull partially obscured by colorful mushrooms and plants. Different fungi sprout from and around the skull, including red mushrooms with white spots, yellow fan-shaped mushrooms, gray cluster mushrooms, and orange bulbous mushrooms, with green and purple plants filling the background. A ribbon at the bottom of the skull reads “ADMIT ONE.”

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 1d

LOVE hearing this, thank you so much! 🖤👻🖤

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 1d

As always, today is a good day to support artists, writers, creators. If you have the means, maybe consider signing up for a Patreon. Buy a book, a game, a painting. Commission a new piece. Tell a creator what they mean to you. Signal boost their work.

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 2d

Here's a thread of bookstores we have been involved with on tour so far, all of which have signed stock on site, so any/all are wonderful places to support AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC *and* the beloved independent bookstores who are pillars of local communities, win-win!
🖤👻 bsky.app/profile/lean...

Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · Aug 5

For AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC w/ both of our author signatures, we launch in-person with the great @leilataylor.bsky.social, 9/30 at @astoriabookshop.bsky.social!
RSVP:
astoriabookshop.com/events/32552...
If ordering, please note personalization in order notes & that you'd like it held for signatures!

AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC by Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes, in conversation w/ Leila Taylor | Astoria Bookshop

Books of all kinds for readers of all ages, located in central Astoria, Queens. Established 2013.

astoriabookshop.com

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Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · 2d

Friends! Last days of AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC: HAUNTED HISTORY STRANGER THAN FICTION release week!

In publishing, 1st week's sales are a *really* important metric for ongoing support, so if you haven't ordered yet, your support of our non-fiction book of Gothic lit + ghost lore would be such a help!

Leanna Renee Hieber @leannareneehieber.bsky.social · Aug 5

Available for pre-order wherever books are sold!
Kensington/Penguin: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/781356...
Thank you for pre-orders & signal-boosts, it's a difficult time to promote right now but your support is *dearly* appreciated!

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