Leanna Renee Hieber is an actress, playwright, ghost tour guide and the award-winning, bestselling author of Gothic, Gaslamp Fantasy novels such as the Strangely Beautiful, Eterna Files and Spectral City series for Tor and Kensington Books. She writes and narrates speculative novellas for Scribd’s Everand imprint. A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America’s Ghosts, co-authored with Andrea Janes, examines the intersection of women’s history and ghost stories and was a Bram Stoker Award nominee for Superior Achievement in Non-fiction. Her short fiction has appeared in Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells (Tor Books), the Castle of Horror Anthologies, on Tor.com and more. Her non-fiction essays have appeared in Apex Magazine and The Deadlands. Leanna has been featured in film and television on shows like Mysteries at the Museum and Beyond the Unknown, discussing Victorian Spiritualism. She lectures around the country on themes of Gothic fiction, 19^th Century women’s history and the paranormal.