Samantha Bryant

Author

Stories from Shadow Hill: 13 Weird Suburban Tales

Beware Cheap Houses: A Shadow Hill Story

Dread Mondays: A Whisper House Press Horror Anthology

Friend of Foe: A Menopausal Superheroes Novella

Dark Spores: Stories We Tell After Midnight Volume 4

Change of Life (Menopausal Superheroes Book 2)

Face the Change (Menopausal Superheroes Book 3)

The Good Will Tour: A Menopausal Superhero Novella

Latest Updates

February 3, 2026

Acid Reign now available on NetGalley!

If you'd like to get a review copy of Acid Reign, my GenX romance in which a punk rock princess and a politician find love, you can get it on NetGalley during the month of...

January 27, 2026

Punkin now on Audible, Kobo, and Spotify

"Beware Cheap Houses" is one of the short stories from Stories from Shadow Hill, narrated by Punkin-the-Cat. Charlotte Chiew portrayed him in the audiobook, and boy did she...

January 22, 2026

Stories from Shadow Hill is on the Stokers Reading List

Just gotta brag a little…w00t! https://horror.org/awards/currentreadinglist.php#fictioncollection

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Series

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Menopausal Superheroes

It began with soap, tea, skin cream, and supplements. No one predicted the side effects would include super-strength, flight, bulletproof skin, and the ability to wield fire, not even the mad scientist who created the products.

The Menopausal Superhero series by Samantha...

Going Through the Change, Friend of Foe: A Menopausal Superheroes Novella, Change of Life (Menopausal Superheroes Book 2), Face the Change (Menopausal Superheroes Book 3), and 5 more

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Gen X romances

These low-tension GenX romances spotlight love in the third act of life, with characters in their 50s and 60s finding new partners. These sandwich generation characters have a lot going on in their lives, but there's still room for love!

Not Too Late: A GenX Romance, Acid Reign, and Ready or Not

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Horror Stories

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Deadman Humour: Thirteen Fears of a Clown

Off the Beaten Path 3: Eight More Tales of the Paranormal

Short Fiction and Nonfiction

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Breaking Free: Stories of Escape and Survival

The Insecure Writer’s Support Group Writing for Profit

The Insecure Writer’s Support Group Guide to Publishing and Beyond

Books

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Going Through the Change

A Menopausal Superhero Novel: Book One

From the series: Menopausal Superheroes

The first book in the Menopausal Superheroes series is the origin story! Find out where it all began:

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Back of book blurb: Going through “the change” isn’t easy on any woman. Mood swings, hot flashes, hormonal imbalances, and itchy skin are par for the course. But for these four seemingly unrelated women, menopause brought...

Stories from Shadow Hill: 13 Weird Suburban Tales

For fans of programs like Twilight Zone and Tales from the Darkside,13 weird tales set in a seemingly normal suburban neighborhood, with a hidden underbelly of supernatural happenings.

Why is the guy across the street always mowing his lawn? (“Lawn Wars”)
How about the house that always seems to be for sale again? (“The Bad Luck House”)
What’s...

Not Too Late: A GenX Romance

From the series: Gen X romances

AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER NOW, RELEASING APRIL 28, 2026.

Amanda Deaton left her hometown right after high school, looking for adventure. But now, thirty-five years later, her mom needs her, and this GenX nomad has come home. Bellevue, Kentucky has changed--they even have a Thai restaurant! And here where Amanda least expected it, a new kind of...

Other Writing

Patricia Saves the Beauty Queen

A short story that eventually became a chapter in Going Through the Change, the first of the Menopausal Superheroes series.

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Rorscharch's Ceiling

A little domestic slice of life story.

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Wonderboy's Last Flight

A heroic ending.

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Blog

February 11, 2026

Going Indie: Month One

2026 is my year of living dangerously, by which I mean I’m becoming my own publisher. I did some foundational work for that in 2025, which I wrote about here, but the real push started with the beginning of the new year.

Now that we’ve flipped the first month of the calendar, I thought it was time for an update. I want to document this for myself and as a help to others.

Read the rest on my new Substack.

February 4, 2026

Early Works by Young Samantha: an IWSG post

Welcome to the first Wednesday of the month. You know what that means! It's time to let our insecurities hang out. Yep, it's the Insecure Writer's Support Group blog hop. If you're a writer at any stage of career, I highly recommend this blog hop as a way to connect with other writers for support, sympathy, ideas, and networking. If you're a reader, it's a great way to peek behind the curtain of a writing life.

Our Twitter handle is @TheIWSG and hashtag is #IWSG. The awesome co-hosts for the...

January 7, 2026

2026: The Year of Living Dangerously

2025 in my writing life was in some ways a year of endings.

I finished my Menopausal Superheroes series, which has been my major focus as a writer for the past decade, bringing that vision to a close. The last novel (Change for the Better) came out nearly exactly ten years after the first novel (Going Through the Change), which had a nice feeling of perfect timing.

I've been on this roller coaster a long time, and while it's been a great ride, I'm excited about moving on to other projects and...

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Events

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Feb

Upcoming Event

Fizzwerks Brewery Book Event

Fizzwerks Brewery

618 Ramseur St #103, Durham, NC 27701

1:00-4:00

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Feb

Upcoming Event

Nevermore Film Festival

I'll be onsite throughout the Nevermore Film Festival at the Carolina Theatre in downtown Durham, NC, selling my horror stories and other books. Come by to watch some excellent indie film, the Triangle's best popcorn, and a chance to talk with me, Michael G. Williams, and other area creators.

February 27-March 2, 2026

Ret-con is a small, diverse convention at the Doubletree Hotel Raleigh-Durham Airport at Research Triangle Park, 4810 Page Creek Ln, Durham, NC 27703, March 6-8, 2026.

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Samantha Bryant

If you’re looking for Samantha Bryant, check the woods first. She likes to get lost there and she’s probably near the water. Samantha writes about what scares her, and the results are multi-genre, including her beloved Menopausal Superhero series, her GenX romances, and a variety of short fiction that leans dark.