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FLY
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Expected 1 Apr 2696 pages, Kindle Edition
Expected publication April 1, 2026
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About the author
Lee Stackhouse
3 books16 followersLee's mind has always wandered toward the darker corners of storytelling. With a background in advertising, decades of experience crafting creative narratives, and a lifelong fascination with what makes people tick (and snap), Lee channels their love of true crime, thrillers, horror, mythology, and psychology into stories that blur the line between beauty and brutality.
Lee’s work combines the cinematic polish of their advertising years with the raw emotional grit of personal truth, exploring how trauma, identity, power, control and psychopathy intertwine to form the monsters we hide behind closed doors.
Influenced by an upbringing marked by loss and resilience, Lee writes from a deeply personal place—where pain meets satire, and tragedy is dressed in daydreams. Their writing is sharp, emotional, darkly funny, and unapologetic. They're inspired by creators who explore the psychology of monstrosity, but always through a lens of compassion for the damaged souls behind the mask.
In their personal life, you can find them blasting heavy metal, doting on their pets, attending circus spectaculars with their fiancé, or plotting their next story over coffee strong enough to wake the dead.
Lee’s work combines the cinematic polish of their advertising years with the raw emotional grit of personal truth, exploring how trauma, identity, power, control and psychopathy intertwine to form the monsters we hide behind closed doors.
Influenced by an upbringing marked by loss and resilience, Lee writes from a deeply personal place—where pain meets satire, and tragedy is dressed in daydreams. Their writing is sharp, emotional, darkly funny, and unapologetic. They're inspired by creators who explore the psychology of monstrosity, but always through a lens of compassion for the damaged souls behind the mask.
In their personal life, you can find them blasting heavy metal, doting on their pets, attending circus spectaculars with their fiancé, or plotting their next story over coffee strong enough to wake the dead.
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Review of advance copy received from Author
Thanks to the author for the ARC. It's not 5 stars, rather 4.75, only because it was too short and I'd love for it to have more character development. It was absolutely thrilling to read. It is fast paced, scary, hopeful and not. Can't wait to go read her other work.
Review of advance copy received from Author
Thank you to the author for a copy of this short story. Wow this story was so wild. I had absolutely no idea where it was going and that ending, just great.
Review of advance copy received from Author
ARC Review
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
ARC Review
Fly by Lee Stackhouse
A Deadly Silence Story
Release date: April 1st, 2026
First of all: thank you for this ARC. Truly. I didn’t realize silence still had new ways to mess with me, but here we are.
Fly is a short story that takes sound—something harmless, automatic, comforting—and turns it into a threat. Not the loud kind. The subtle kind. The kind you don’t even notice until it’s already too late. This is a story about what isn’t said. About listening instead of reacting. About moving carefully, hesitating, second-guessing every instinct you’ve ever trusted.
There are rules. You think you understand them. You think you’re safe if you follow them. You’re not. Because once silence is broken, there’s no undo button. No escape route. No second chance wrapped in mercy.
I can’t tell you more without ruining it—and honestly, ruining the quiet would be a crime. So instead, I’ll leave you with the line that lodged itself somewhere uncomfortable and refused to leave:
“Quiet did not mean safety. Quiet meant distance.”
Four and a half quietly disturbing stars. The only reason it’s not a full five is the first chapter—I wanted to fly straight into the dread, and instead I hesitated. Maybe that hesitation was the point. Or maybe I just missed something important. Either way, the unease stayed.
If you want to understand what not being silent can truly cost you, don’t skip this one.
Fair warning: don’t read it on a train. Hold your breath at night. Leave the light on.
Silence doesn’t protect you here—it watches you.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
ARC Review
Fly by Lee Stackhouse
A Deadly Silence Story
Release date: April 1st, 2026
First of all: thank you for this ARC. Truly. I didn’t realize silence still had new ways to mess with me, but here we are.
Fly is a short story that takes sound—something harmless, automatic, comforting—and turns it into a threat. Not the loud kind. The subtle kind. The kind you don’t even notice until it’s already too late. This is a story about what isn’t said. About listening instead of reacting. About moving carefully, hesitating, second-guessing every instinct you’ve ever trusted.
There are rules. You think you understand them. You think you’re safe if you follow them. You’re not. Because once silence is broken, there’s no undo button. No escape route. No second chance wrapped in mercy.
I can’t tell you more without ruining it—and honestly, ruining the quiet would be a crime. So instead, I’ll leave you with the line that lodged itself somewhere uncomfortable and refused to leave:
“Quiet did not mean safety. Quiet meant distance.”
Four and a half quietly disturbing stars. The only reason it’s not a full five is the first chapter—I wanted to fly straight into the dread, and instead I hesitated. Maybe that hesitation was the point. Or maybe I just missed something important. Either way, the unease stayed.
If you want to understand what not being silent can truly cost you, don’t skip this one.
Fair warning: don’t read it on a train. Hold your breath at night. Leave the light on.
Silence doesn’t protect you here—it watches you.
Review of advance copy received from Author
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Masterclass in Atmospheric Horror
Lee Stackhouse's F L Y is a short story that lingers far after you've finished reading. What begins as a tale of a college dropout's flight home transforms into a relentless psychological horror that had me holding my breath.
The premise is simple yet terrifying: Maude finds herself trapped in a mysterious building where silence is mandatory. Make a sound, and you're dead!
Stackhouse's prose is hauntingly elegant, creating an atmosphere that was so tense that I caught myself reading more quietly, as if the force might somehow ear me through the pages.
The pacing is immaculate. Stackhouse knows exactly when to let tension simmer and when to strike with visceral horror. Suffocating in the best possible way. And that ending, gut-wrenching and shocking.
Stackhouse proves that the most terrifying monsters don't always make noise, they stalk it.
If you love horror that's equal parts psychological and primal, F L Y is essential reading. Just remember, be quiet!
Lee Stackhouse's F L Y is a short story that lingers far after you've finished reading. What begins as a tale of a college dropout's flight home transforms into a relentless psychological horror that had me holding my breath.
The premise is simple yet terrifying: Maude finds herself trapped in a mysterious building where silence is mandatory. Make a sound, and you're dead!
Stackhouse's prose is hauntingly elegant, creating an atmosphere that was so tense that I caught myself reading more quietly, as if the force might somehow ear me through the pages.
The pacing is immaculate. Stackhouse knows exactly when to let tension simmer and when to strike with visceral horror. Suffocating in the best possible way. And that ending, gut-wrenching and shocking.
Stackhouse proves that the most terrifying monsters don't always make noise, they stalk it.
If you love horror that's equal parts psychological and primal, F L Y is essential reading. Just remember, be quiet!
Review of advance copy received from Author
FLY is a fast and thrilling read that delivers until the very end and beyond! Stackhouse weaves a variety of horror tropes into a truly unique tale of terror. With expert plotting, spot-on dialogue, and cut-to-the-quick prose, Stackhouse’s FLY is the perfect read for a lazy afternoon, a rainy weekend, or a few lunch breaks. No matter how or when you read it, once FLY has you in its clutches, it won’t let go.
Review of advance copy received from Author
FLY is claustrophobic, brutal, and relentlessly tense. Every page tightens the vice, turning sound, connection, and instinct into deadly liabilities. Lee Stackhouse delivers a chilling reminder that sometimes the most terrifying thing isn’t what’s chasing you—it’s what you’re forced to give up to survive.
Review of advance copy received from Author
Loved it! The writing to this story is intense! You can also feel the vibe of what’s happening within yourself! I will say that it is scary in a sense that people don’t know what they can stir up going to old unknown places. This story definitely kept me intrigued all the way! Well done!!! ❤️
Review of advance copy received from Author
This book is hauntingly beautiful it captures the way in this world people keep quiet to feel safe the ones who are loud create the chaos everyone else lives in! she turned this into horror story and it was an incredible read!
Review of advance copy received from Author
Lee Stackhouse knows exactly how to build tension without overexplaining, and that restraint is what makes the fear really creep up on you.
I will be reading more of her work. Easy five stars.
I will be reading more of her work. Easy five stars.
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