JOSIE'S TOP 3 WAYS TO PREORDER THIS BOOK:
3) From @bookshop.org thru this link: bit.ly/beck-heartleaf
2) Directly from @heartleafbooks.bsky.social, the author's favorite queer bookstore: heartleafbooks.com/book/9781668...
1) From YOUR OWN local indie bookstore: www.indiebound.org/indie-store-...
27.02.2026 07:40
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CAN CONFIRM!
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Americaโs Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger than Fiction
Instant USA Today Bestseller From the Bram Stoker nominated author team who penned A Haunted History of Invisible Women, the first book of its kind to investigate gothic tropes that define American lore. Here is the hidden, dark history of what frightens us - and why.The Gothic. Brooding, atmospheric, chilling, and not always the outpouring of a feverish imagination. Reality can be even stranger as borne out in this lush and ghostly look at real people who lived--and diedโamidst the trappings of the Gothic.Fog clinging to an isolated mansion. A dangerous patriarch or an overbearing matron. Locked doors and forbidden rooms. Whispers of murder and madness. And a woman shadowed by omnipresent threats. Youโve guessed it. Youโve stumbled into a Gothic tale, and it will haunt you like a ghost.We often think of the enduring tropes of the Gothic in terms of fiction and filmโbreath-catching escapes that tap into our fears, anxieties, forbidden desires, and unsettling dreams. But what if some of these chilly vibes are rooted in the experiences of real and tragic people who danced a macabre waltz with love and death? Thatโs why weโre here. Take the case of teenage Mercy Brown, victimโor was it predator?โof Rhode Islandโs vampire hysteria of the 1890s. Marguerite de la Roque, a French noblewoman condemned for โsexual crimesโ to Canadaโs long-lost Isle of Demons. What happened to her and the barren landscape itself is the stuff of legend. And โMad Lucyโ Ludwell, the decidedly peculiar eighteenth-century high-society hauteur driven mad in the Virginia estate she prowls to this day. President Helen Peabodyโs spirit still stringently watches over her Womenโs College, now part of Ohioโs Miami University. Ghosts of workers lost in horrific conditions while building the Hoosac Tunnel warn of imminent danger. Settle in. There are more.Welcome to the phantom ships, haunted academic halls, menacing landscapes, and family curses of Americaโs Most Gothicโa tour of true spectral sightings and disordered minds. But beware: itโs sure to get under your skin. The hauntedโand hauntingโfigures herein want it that way.
I'd dearly appreciate if folks could share the above sale alert link since Kindle Deal of the Day is today only!
BUT, if you'd rather pay a bit more & support an incredible independent bookstore, @heartleafbooks.bsky.social has had a slow 2026 & could use help: heartleafbooks.com/book/9780806...
21.02.2026 18:56
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Penny -- the in-store cat at Heartleaf Books in Providence -- atop a table of colorful books.
Stopped by @heartleafbooks.bsky.social earlier to buy some books and say hi to Ms. Penny.
I recommend both activities.
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More signed copies of AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC via the beloved @allshewrotebks.bsky.social & @wickedgoodbooks.bsky.social in MA, the great @heartleafbooks.bsky.social in RI, and TONIGHT, live & in-person awesome @eveninghouse.bsky.social in Buffalo, NY! TOMORROW I'll be @aadl.org in Ann Arbor, MI! ๐ป
09.10.2025 16:42
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Leanna Renee Hieber and Christa Carmen!
A desperate woman's plot to frighten her husband out of her life takes a nightmarish turn in a chilling novel of modern horror by a Bram Stoker Award-winning author.
NEXT: 10/3 5-7:30pm Providence, RI! Join me + awesomely talented buddy @christaqua.bsky.social as we celebrate our new Gothic books! An AMERICA'S MOST GOTHIC + HOW TO FAKE A HAUNTING / DAUGHTERS OF BLOCK ISLAND meet-&-greet at beloved @heartleafbooks.bsky.social! heartleafbooks.com/event/2025-1...
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donโt forget to buy your books from @heartleafbooks.bsky.social !!!
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we havenโt met our 100 book sales goal the past two weekends! (76 and 81 books, respectively) maybe you would like to buy a book? ๐ heartleafbooks.com/books ๐
13.05.2025 13:29
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just wanted to brag about this galley i got from tor :) itโs a manuscript!!
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just a reminder that indie bookstore day is this weekend! please try to resist the amazon and bn sales for a few days!!!!๐๐๐
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has anyone read sky daddy by kate folk I really wanna talk about sky daddy by kate folk
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I need someone to photoshop pope francis and donny meeting at the pearly gates!! i donโt have time today!!
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Cat, books, gay stuff and (book) lesbians for you!
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wow theyโre perfect
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hey Providence!! which bookstores are on your Indie Bookstore Day visit list? #IBD25
16.04.2025 18:34
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dear algorithm, please send me cats, books, martha stewart, memes, more books, gay stuff, lesbians
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haters they donโt really like PENNY
cause they could never ever be
P E N N Y โจ
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Indie Bookstore Day is Saturday, April 26!! ๐ check out some of the exclusives and freebies weโll have it store on the big day ๐๐ฏ๐ฏโโ๏ธ๐ฏโโ๏ธ
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any small irish towns want to adopt a co-op bookstore? ๐ฅบ freaking out frfr
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lmaoooo phoebe
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This not a St Patrickโs Day cover of HORROR MOVIE but a signed (and yes green!) exclusive edition that will only be available at your favorite indie stores. Coming on Independent Bookstore Day 4/26/25
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I BRAKE FOR GHOSTS ๐ป
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I'm smiling widely as I lean in next to Penny, an adorable gray kitty, whose face remains stoic and unimpressed. She is sitting on a table of books at Heartleaf Books in Providence, R.I.
I got to see one of my favorite cats today: Penny, the Store Cat at @heartleafbooks.bsky.social, on Federal Hill in Providence.
She seemed unimpressed, but I didn't take it personally.
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