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Samantha Kolesnik

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Fiction, Horror, Crime

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Samantha Kolesnik is an award-winning fiction author, filmmaker, and film festival programmer.

She is most known for her two books, True Crime (2020) and Waif (2021), which were originally published by Grindhouse Press. Second editions of both works are available from Off Limits Press. A Spanish language edition of True Crime is also available from La Biblioteca de Carfax.

Kolesnik also has several works of published short fiction, including a small chapbook from Tales From Between called Lonesome Haunts, as well as short stories in the horror anthologies Orphans of Bliss (WickedRun Press) and The Bad Book (Bleeding Edge Books).

Her anthology Worst Laid Plans (now out of print) originally published by Grindhouse Press, was nominated for a Br ...more

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	Waif 3.55 avg rating — 2,976 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	True Crime 3.62 avg rating — 2,786 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Worst Laid Plans: An Anthology of Vacation Horror by Samantha Kolesnik (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sadie Hartmann (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), Hailey Piper (Goodreads Author) 3.79 avg rating — 448 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Matter Presents Human Monsters: A Horror Anthology by Sadie Hartmann (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ashley Saywers (Editor), Christopher Golden (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.23 avg rating — 397 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Orphans of Bliss: Tales of Addiction Horror by Mark Matthews (Goodreads Author), Kealan Patrick Burke, S.A. Cosby (Goodreads Author) 4.02 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Far From Home by Samantha Kolesnik (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ali Seay (Goodreads Author), Cynthia Pelayo (Goodreads Author) 3.68 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moonflowers and Nightshade: An Anthology of Sapphic Horror by Samantha Kolesnik (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Christina Ladd, G.E. Woods (Goodreads Author) 4.30 avg rating — 50 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elogona 4.07 avg rating — 46 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Samantha Kolesnik's Lonesome Haunts by Samantha Kolesnik (Goodreads Author), Matthew Stott (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.22 avg rating — 27 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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New Book: Elogona

Hi All,

I'm rarely on Goodreads (though I very much appreciate all who review here!), and I believe this is my first author post here.

I have a new book coming out from Weirdpunk Books on December 15th. The cover art was created by the artist Evangeline Gallagher.

You can add it on Goodreads here: Elogona

You can also pre-order the paperback directly from Weirdpunk Books: https://weirdpunkbooks.squ Read more of this blog post »

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“The older I became, the more convinced I was that no one escaped this earth unscathed by human suffering.”
― Samantha Kolesnik, Waif

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“I call it “The Time Before Men,” a version of myself I can never get back. I guess, you could say, some might also call it Innocence.”
― Samantha Kolesnik, Waif

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“There was no evil in the world that was not man’s work.”
― Samantha Kolesnik, True Crime

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