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Leila Siddiqui

Biography

Leila Siddiqui

Leila Siddiqui is a Chicago-born Texan who calls New York home. She is currently the co-host of "Come Play With Us," a spooky storytelling podcast, and also works in publishing in the marketing department.

Leila spent a childhood fascinated by history and horror, and how intricately both can be entwined, and now wants to write the kind of fantastical and strange fiction she loved to read growing up, by shedding light on pieces of history the rest of the world tends to forget or write off.

She is a horror film devotee and when not writing, spends her time crafting and fawning over her very floofy cats. She lives with her partner in Queens.

Leila Siddiqui

Books by Leila Siddiqui

The Glowing Hours
by Leila Siddiqui - Fiction, Gothic, Horror

Summer 1816: London is a hostile place for the newly disembarked Mehrunissa Begum, who’s come to deliver her brother’s letter of inheritance before returning to her comfortable life in Lucknow, India. But she can’t find her brother anywhere and has no money for the return trip. With nowhere else to go, Mehr finds refuge in a boardinghouse for Indian maids. She is soon hired at the English estate of Mary and Percy Shelley. Mary asks Mehr to accompany the Shelleys and her stepsister, Claire --- as well as the eccentric Lord Byron and his physician, John Polidori --- to Lake Geneva for the summer. Almost immediately, she notices strange, ghostly events at the villa. As Mary begins work on what will become her earth-shattering literary phenomenon, Mehr finds herself trapped in the villa as the rest of its inhabitants descend into madness.