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Author · Storyteller
Leah Wells
@leahwells
Writer of horror with a particular interest in believable people, strong settings and stories that earn their endings.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Leah Wells writes across horror and gothic, with a particular interest in character, atmosphere, revision and the details that turn a manuscript into a finished book.
Readers notice more than writers sometimes give them credit for.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Leah Wells
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Later first draft
The House at Blackwater Quay
When Mara Keane returns to a crumbling house on the Cork coast to clear out her dead aunt’s papers, she finds letters from women who vanished from the same place over the last century. The house seems to keep its own records, and the rooms begin to shift around Mara as if they are deciding what kind of story she is meant to be part of. What starts as an inheritance problem turns into a slow, ugly argument with the past.
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