BIOGRAPHY

BIOGRAPHY


Writer, editor, radio host, actress, singer, motivational speaker and educator, with over ten years experience in writing and publishing, agents, book sales and marketing. 

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
PGCE English/Drama
MA (Creative Writing)
BA (Hons) English/Writing for Performance


CURRENT ROLES
  • Commissioning Editor for Telos Moonrise (An Imprint of Telos Publishing Ltd)
  • Freelance Author/Playwright/Screenwriter/Editor
  • Radio Show Host for Siren FM. THE STONE TAPES.


SAMANTHA LEE HOWE began her professional writing career in 2007 and has been working as a freelance writer for small, medium and large publishers, predominately writing horror and fantasy under the pen name SAM STONE. This body of work includes 13 novels 5 novellas, 3 collections, over 40 short stories, an audio drama and a Doctor Who spin-off drama, THE WHITE WITCH OF DEVIL’S END, that went to DVD.
Samantha has now turned her hand to thriller writing with her first novel in this genre due out in 2020.
A former high school English and Drama teacher, Samantha has a BA (Hons) in English and Writing for Performance, an MA in Creative Writing and a PGCE in English.
Before teaching she had many careers from running her own drama, dance and singing school to mobile hairdressing. All of which she feels give her a wealth of experience in various roles and good communication skills.
Samantha lives in Lincolnshire with her husband, Doctor Who historian and writer, David J Howe, and their two cats Leeloo and Skye. She is the proud mother of a lovely daughter called Linzi.
Her works can be found in paperback, hardback, ebook, screen and audio.


WRITING CREDITS

NOVELS
Posing for Picasso, (Wordfire Press - Jan 2018)
Jinx Bound - Book 3 ˗ The Jinx Chronicles, (Telos Publishing - TBA 2018)
Jinx Magic - Book 2 - The Jinx Chronicles, (Telos Publishing – May 2016)
Jaded Jewel: Book 6 The Vampire Gene Series (Telos Publishing, May 2016)
Kat of Green Tentacles, (Telos Publishing ˗ Aug 2015)
Jinx Town - Book 1 - The Jinx Chronicles, (Telos Publishing - Jan 2015)
The Darkness Within - Final Cut, (Telos Publishing - Feb 2014)
Kat On A Hot Tin Airship¸ (Telos Publishing – Aug 2013)
Silent Sand: Book 5 The Vampire Gene Series (The House of Murky Depths – Sept 2012. Republished, Telos Publishing - 2016)
Hateful Heart: Book 4 The Vampire Gene Series (The House of Murky Depths – Sept 2011. Republished, Telos Publishing - 2016)
Demon Dance: Book 3 The Vampire Gene Series (The House of Murky Depths – Sept 2010. Republished, Telos Publishing - 2016)
Futile Flame: Book 2 The Vampire Gene Series (The House of Murky Depths – July 2009. Republished, Telos Publishing - 2016)
Killing Kiss: Book 1 The Vampire Gene Series (The House of Murky Depths – Sept 2008, Republished, Telos Publishing - 2016)

NOVELS IN TRANSLATION
Gabriel: Memoiren eines Vampirs Band 1. (SLH Publishing - Oct 2016)
Todeskuss (Killing Kiss) (Verlag Bucheinband lnes Neumann, Germany - Dec 2013)

NOVELLAS
And Then There Was Kat, (Telos Publishing,  2019)
Kat and the Pendulum, (Telos Publishing, Nov 2016)
What’s Dead Pussy Kat, (Telos Publishing, Sept 2014)
The Darkness Within, (AudioGo, Oct 2013) Ebook and Large Print Hardback
Zombies at Tiffany’s, (Telos Publishing – Sept 2012)

COLLECTIONS
Legends of Cthulhu, (Telos Publishing, Oct 2019)
The Complete Lightfoot, (Telos Publishing, Jan 2019)

Cthulhu and Other Monsters, (Telos Publishing, Mar 2017)
Zombies in New York and Other Bloody Jottings (Telos Publishing, Feb 2011)

AUDIO
Freya, The Confessions of Dorian Grey, Audio Play (Big Finish, Nov 2015)
Zombies At Tiffany’s, (Spokenworld Audio, Oct 2013)
The Darkness Within, Novella (AudioGo, Sept 2013) And (Audible, Feb 2014)
Zombies in New York and Other Bloody Jottings, Short Story Collection (AudioGo Oct 2012) and (Audible, Feb 2014)
Walking the Dead, Bonus Short Story in Audio on Zombies in New York, (AudioGo Oct 2012)

SCREENPLAYS
Zombies At Tiffany’s, (Available)
Script editor – White Witch of Devil’s End, (Reeltime Pictures, Nov 2017)
Writer – Prologue/The Inheritance, White Witch of Devil’s End, (Reeltime Pictures, Nov 2014)

STAGE PLAYS
Gingerbread House (Available)

SHORT FICTION
Peeling the Layers, (Short Fiction Contribution) Terror Tales of Northwest England, (Telos Publishing, Oct 2019)
The Dead Can't Die Twice, (Short Fiction Contribution) Baen, TBC
The Bastet Society (Short Fiction Contribution) Tails of Terror, (Golden Goblin, Dec 2018
Prologue, The Inheritance, Epilogue, (Short Fiction Contributions and Editor) The Daemons of Devil’s End, (Telos Publishing, Nov 2017)
Sacrifice, (Short Fiction Contribution), Through A Mythos Darkly, (PS Publishing, 2017 TBA)
The Curse of the Blue Diamond, (Short Fiction Contribution), The Further Associates of Sherlock Holmes, (Titan Books – 2017)
Tell Me No Lies, (Short Fiction Contribution), Heroes of Red Hook, (Golden Goblin Press – 2016 TBA)
Three Sisters, (Short Fiction Contribution), The Black Room Manuscripts 2, (Sinister Horror Company – May 2016)
Breaking Point, (Short Fiction Contribution), The Return of the Old Ones, (Dark Regions Press, 2016 TBA)
The Gold of Roatán, (Short Fiction Contribution) Dread Shadows in Paradise, (Golden Goblin Press May 2016)
Sabellaed, (Short Fiction Contribution) Night’s Nieces, (Immanion Press, Dec 2015)
The Puppet Master, (Short Fiction Contribution) Edge Of Sundown (Chaosium,) Feb 2016.
Survival of the Fittest, (Short Fiction Contribution - with David J Howe) Flesh Like Smoke (April Moon Press, Jul 2015)
Fallout, (Short Fiction Contribution) Atomic Age Cthulhu, (Chaosium, May 2015)
Cecile, (Short Fiction Contribution), Tales from the Female Perspective, (Chinbeard Books, May 2015.
The Curse of Guangxu, (Short Fiction Contribution) The Mammoth Book of Sherlock Holmes Abroad (Constable and Robinson, April 2015)
Acluaphobia: The Promise, (Short Fiction Contribution) Phobophobias (Western Legends, Dec 2014)
The Book of the Gods, (Short Fiction Contribution), Wicked Women, (Fox Spirit Books, Oct 2014)
The Vessel, (Short Fiction Contribution) The Dark Rites of Cthulhu (April Moon Press, April 2014)
Sonar City, (Short fiction Contribution) Eldritch Chrome (Chaosium, Dec 2013)
The Jealous Sea, (Short Fiction Contribution) Terror Tales of The Seaside, (Gray Friar Press, Oct 2013)
The Last Resort, (Short Fiction Contribution) Fear the Reaper (Crystal Lake Publishing, Oct 2013)
Urban Wolf, ¬(Short Fiction Contribution) Demonologia Biblica (Western Legends Publishing, Feb 2013)
Imogen, (Short Fiction Contribution) The Best of British Fantasy 2013, (Salt Publishing, June 2013)
Imogen, (Short Fiction Contribution) Siblings Collection (Hersham Horror, Sept 2012)
Chillers and Breathers, (Short Fiction Contribution) The Hammer Out Book of Ghosts (Fantom Films, Jan 2012)
Immortal Monster, (Short Fiction Contribution) The Hammer Out Book of Ghosts (Fantom Films, Jan 2012)
The Toymaker’s House (Short Fiction Contribution) Full Fathom Forty (British Fantasy Society, Sept 2011)
Walking the Dead (Short Fiction Contribution) BFS Journal Spring 2011 (British Fantasy Society, March 2011)
Fool’s Gold (Short Fiction Contribution) The Bitten Word (NewCon Press – March 2010)

NON FICTION


Tanith By Choice, Tribute to Tanith Lee's story Jedella Ghost, (NewCon Press 2017)
Tanith Lee Tribute, Night’s Nieces, (Immanion Press Nov 2015)
Book Club The Many Colored Land, (SFX Magazine, Issue No 253) Autumn 2014
The Boxes, (Childhood Memory Piece) Welsh Celebrity Ghost Stories (Bradwell Books, Sep 2014)