Biography
Samantha Allen is a speculative fiction writer drawn to quiet magic, haunted histories, and the stories we inherit without meaning to. Her work explores the liminal spaces between past and present, life and death, memory and myth—often weaving real-world emotion through atmospheric, uncanny landscapes.
Her novels blend intimate character work with immersive settings, examining grief, legacy, identity, and the tension carried in the spaces between what is said and what is left behind. Whether she’s writing about ghosts, cursed land, or demons tethered to human hearts, her stories linger long after the final page.
When she isn’t drafting, Samantha can be found hiking forest trails, replaying her favorite video games, or trying a new hobby she will do for a few weeks and move on to the next.
Books
What Haunts Us
When a ghost appears on campus, a reluctant historian is pulled back into her family’s deadly legacy—thirteen bloodlines bound to Death itself, and a killer determined to claim their power.
The Curses We Inherit
To inherit her family’s land, Elouise must live a full year in a hollow that hungers for blood—where a witch’s soul is bound beneath the earth, and the townsfolk believe she, or another Henderson, must complete the trials of the seasons to keep the witch contained.
The Sins they Left Us
A dual-timeline mystery unspools when a journalist reopens her great-grandfather’s most infamous case, discovering the killer he never caught was an immortal woman tethered to a hungry demon—and still alive.
