BIOGRAPHY
Award winning author Sam Stone began writing aged 11 after reading her first adult fiction book, The Collector by John Fowles. "I'd never read anything like it. It was terrifying - but so exciting ... that's when I realised I liked to be scared," she admits.
Her love of horror fiction began soon afterwards when she stayed up late one night with her sister to watch Christopher Lee in the classic Hammer film, Dracula. Since then she's been a huge fan of vampire movies and novels old and new.
The youngest of seven children, Sam struggled to find her own space and is a self-confessed bookworm. "I always have a book on the go," says Sam. "It's my time. Life wouldn't be the same if I couldn't chill sometimes with a good book. It's where I learnt about life, long before I lived it."
Sam's writing has appeared in nine anthologies for poetry and prose. Her first novel was the fulfilment of a lifelong dream. Like all good authors she drew on her own knowledge and passions to write it. The novel won the Silver Award for Best Horror Novel in ForeWord Magazine's book of the year awards in 2007.
In September 2008 the novel was re-edited and republished by The House of Murky Depths as Killing Kiss. The sequels, Futile Flame and Demon Dance went on to become finalists in the same awards for 2009/2010. Both novels were later Shortlisted for The British Fantasy Society Awards for Best Novel and Demon Dance won the award for Best Novel in 2011. Sam also won Best Short Fiction for her story Fool's Gold which first appeared in the NewCon Press Anthology The Bitten Word.
An eclectic and skilled prose writer Sam also has a BA (Hons) in English and Writing for Performance and an MA in Creative Writing, which means that she is frequently invited to talk about writing in schools, colleges and universities in the UK. She is said to be an 'inspirational' speaker.
WRITING CREDITS
Novels
Killing Kiss, Book 1 The Vampire Gene, (The House of Murky Depths - Sept 2008)
Futile Flame, Book 2 The Vampire Gene, (The House of Murky Depths - July 2009)
Demon Dance, Book 3 The Vampire Gene, (The House of Murky Depths - September 2010)
Hateful Heart, A Vampire Gene Novel, (The House of Murky Depths - September 2011)
Collections
Zombies in New York & Other Bloody Jottings, (Telos Publishing Feb 2011)
Short Ficton
Fool's Gold (Short Fiction Contribution) The Bitten Word (NewCon Press - March 2010)
Walking the Dead (Short Fiction Contribution) BFS Journal Spring 2011, (British Fantasy Society - March 2011)
The Toymaker's House (Short Fiction Contribution) Full Fathom Forty, (British Fantasy Society - August 2011)
Immortal Monster (Short Fiction Contribution) Hammer Out Book of Ghosts (Fantom Films Jan 2012)
Chillers and Breathers (Short Fiction Contribution) Hammer Out Book of Ghosts (Fantom Films Jan 2012)
Editorial Credits:
*Editor - Rules of Duel by Graham Masterton with William S Burroughs (Telos Publishing -July 2010)
*Editor - Hines Sight (The autobiography of one of Britain's Favourite Sons) by Frazer Hines. (December 2009)
*Editor - Dark Horizons, BFS Journal Winter 2010 (British Fantasy Society - December 2010)
*Editor - Talespinning, David J Howe, (Telos Publishing September 2011)
