Leanna Renee Hieber is an actress, playwright, ghost tour guide, and an award-winning author of Gaslamp Fantasy novels such as The Spectral City and Strangely Beautiful series. A Haunted History of Invisible Women: True Stories of America’s Ghosts, co-authored with Andrea Janes, explores women’s history through ghost stories and was a Bram Stoker Award finalist for Superior Achievement in Non-fiction. Her Strangely Beautiful saga garnered three Prism Awards for excellence in Fantasy Romance and she was a Daphne du Maurier Award finalist for Darker Still. Featured in film and television on shows like Mysteries at the Museum and Beyond the Unknown, discussing Victorian Spiritualism, she is a guide for NYC’s Boroughs of the Dead and lectures nationwide on Gothic themes, 19th century women’s history, Spiritualism and the Paranormal. Find her on the web at leannareneehieber.com
Shakespeare joins dreams and death in the haunting, oft-quoted line from Hamlet: “To die, to sleep—To sleep, perchance to dream—ay...
