Horror Stories

Samantha writes a variety of types of short horror from the eerie to the disturbing, with varying levels of gore. She especially enjoys exploring new subgenres and styles by writing for themed anthologies. 

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...

Dread Mondays: A Whisper House Press Horror Anthology

A collection of workplace horror to thrill and delight. My story "Say My Name" is about an icebreaker activity gone wrong.

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Back of book blurb:

From the fluorescent-lit boardroom to the desolate isolation of a lonely spacecraft, Dread Mondays collects stories transforming the abstraction of mundane repetition into...

Dark Spores: Stories We Tell After Midnight Volume 4

"The Mushroom Child" follows a woman off the path, into the woods, and into trouble.

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Back of book blurb:

Enter the dark, mycelia-laden world of mushroom horror:

  • A food blogger hunts for a killer recipe.
  • Ceaseless rain drives a lonely man into his fungus-covered town.
  • A grieving son purchases a kit to regrow his dead...

SLAY: Stories of the Vampire Noire

My story, "His Destroyer," is set during the 10th plague of Egypt. It's one of my favorite pieces I've ever written

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Mocha Memoirs Press is proud to present SLAY: Stories of the Vampire Noire — a revolutionary anthology celebrating vampires of the African Diaspora. SLAY is a groundbreaking unique collection and will be a must-have...

A Woman Unbecoming

"How Does Your Garden Grow?" is a story of vengeance…and carnivorous plants.

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A thwarted female defense attorney releases the baying of the hounds under a full moon, signaling the death of an era—and the birth of a new one under the Old Gods.

Most funerals are celebrations for the living—unless the guests decide to tempt fate...

Tangle & Fen: A Dark Fiction Anthology

"The Other Jack" has an urban legend feel and is about a case of mistaken identity.

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On the European front, there are worse things stalking the battlefield than enemy soldiers.

A laid-off ad exec’s second career takes a turn for the bloody.

The halls of Shy Rock High welcome the Class of 2005—but why so few attendees to this shadowy...

Stories We Tell After Midnight Volume 2

"The Cleaning Lady" might not sound like horror, but it's all in what you have to clean up.

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As a deadly scourge overwhelms the continent, four survivors race to find a last exit out of Australia.

Up in the attic, a bedtime story outlives its storyteller.

A city boy visits his country cousins and stumbles on a terrifying...

Deadman Humour: Thirteen Fears of a Clown

In a world of shadows, joyful colours are an act of heroism.

Modern tales are filled with clowns who invoke fear not laughter: painted grins covering fanged maws; baggy costumes concealing unspeakable horrors; malevolent parodies of nature.

But the tools of a clown work for good as well as ill: only a trickster could tweak a monster’s nose;...

Outsiders Within

We fear discovery when we should fear what there is to discover.

Lovecraft and his successors show a world where human civilisation is only a thin veneer over black seas of ignorance. A world where men exalted for their reason uncover logic-defying truths. A world where the marginalised discover uncaring horror on the fringes of a society that...

CORVID-19: A RavenCon Anthology

"If the Moon is Real" follows a young girl raised underground to the surface of her world for the first time.

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You’ll see all types of the family corvidae in here: Ravens (of course), blue jays, choughs, magpies, lots and lots of crows, and even some alien corvids. The corvids are main characters and supporting players; they’...

Hindsight’s 2020

"I Should Have Known" might all be in the narrator's head, or maybe her girlfriend really is becoming something else.

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2020.
In a year where nobody can go anywhere, nine authors take you to near futures, far-off worlds, the heights of passion and the depths of terror. But whether you’re stuck in a time loop, caught in a...

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

"The Girl in the Pool" is a daylight ghost story.

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Spooky ghost stories! Eight paranormal tales sure to keep you sleepless...