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New Release!

New Release!! Love Lies Bleeding, the sequel to Bluebells is finally here! Love Lies Bleeding is available from PS Publishing in ebook (kindle formats too), hardback and deluxe signed hardbacks. Want to dive back into the gothic world of โ€œIn the Devilโ€™s Gardenโ€? More here! New to the gothic world of โ€œIn the Devilโ€™s Gardenโ€… Continue reading New Release!

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The French Revolution

In celebration of the release of Love Lies Bleeding: In the Devilโ€™s Garden Book 2 from PS Publishing, the second in the trilogy that began with Bluebells. Love Lies Bleeding begins in the town of Laon, France during the French Revolution. For a detailed history of events that occurred during the several decades of the… Continue reading The French Revolution

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Reblog: Bluebells Review from Happy Goat Horror

Book review from Happy Goat Horror & Bluebells: In the Devilโ€™s Garden also makes the Top 10 Favourite Horror Novellas. Check them out! For the book review: https://happygoathorror.com/2025/09/09/bluebells-by-leanbh-pearson/ Andโ€ฆ For the booktube Top 10 Horror Novellas: https://youtu.be/xjVbIya7MpI?si=cmln5YOBGfFNF7nE

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The Leperโ€™s Garden and Other Contagions

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ ** I received an ARC for an honest review ** Description These eleven tales of historical dark romance and horror will guide through the teeming streets and markets of old Hong Kong, the listless heat of French Senegal and the fog of Victorian London. Step inside penny arcades, shadow theatres and freak shows. These… Continue reading The Leperโ€™s Garden and Other Contagions

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Dark Matter

โญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธโญ๏ธ ** I received an ARC for an honest review ** Description When the world ends, chaos beginsโ€“  โ€“for feral Bunny Graves, playing life like a high-stakes game, where the only way to win is to smash the board to bitsโ€“  โ€“for Max Caspar and Charmskool the scholar, chasing ancient myth all the way to… Continue reading Dark Matter

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Carmilla: Week 9

IX. The Doctor As Carmilla would not hear of an attendant sleeping in her room, my father arranged that a servant should sleep outside her door, so that she would not attempt to make another such excursion without being arrested at her own door. That night passed quietly; and next morning early, the doctor, whom… Continue reading Carmilla: Week 9

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Carmilla: Week 8

VIII. Search At sight of the room, perfectly undisturbed except for our violent entrance, we began to cool a little, and soon recovered our senses sufficiently to dismiss the men. It had struck Mademoiselle that possibly Carmilla had been wakened by the uproar at her door, and in her first panic had jumped from her… Continue reading Carmilla: Week 8

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HWA Halloween Haunts blog

I contributed to the Horror Writers Association โ€œHalloween Hauntsโ€ blog celebrating horror authors this spooky season. Check out my โ€œHalloween Haunts blog postโ€ on the inspiration behind my Australian gothic horror novella Bluebells (In the Devilโ€™s Garden, # 1) and the historic town of Berrima, Australia.

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Carmilla: Week 6

VI. A Very Strange Agony When we got into the drawing room, and had sat down to our coffee and chocolate, although Carmilla did not take any, she seemed quite herself again, and Madame, and Mademoiselle De Lafontaine, joined us, and made a little card party, in the course of which papa came in for… Continue reading Carmilla: Week 6

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Carmilla: Week 5

V. A Wonderful Likeness This evening there arrived from Gratz the grave, dark-faced son of the picture cleaner, with a horse and cart laden with two large packing cases, having many pictures in each. It was a journey of ten leagues, and whenever a messenger arrived at the schloss from our little capital of Gratz,… Continue reading Carmilla: Week 5