Sam K Horton

Against a background of yellow Gorse, the book cover for GORSE, the first book in the Eythin Legacy trilogy by Sam K. Horton. The white Solaris logo is in the top right corner.

Against a background of yellow Gorse, the book cover for RAGWORT, the second book in the Eythin Legacy trilogy by Sam K. Horton. The white Solaris logo is in the bottom right corner.

"There are places, where the join between worlds is so thin a person, if they pressed their ears to the moss, could hear the dead talking in their sleep."

This October, @samkhorton.bsky.social's Eythin Legacy continues in RAGWORT!

GORSE geni.us/gorse
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Welcome to Weird Kernow Folk horror is enjoying a new burst of popularity in 2025—particularly its Cornwall-set variant

For the new issue of @prospectmagazine.co.uk, out this week, I've been discussing Cornish folk horror with some excellent writers including @samkhorton.bsky.social, @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social, Jodie Matthews and @ronnieturner8702.bsky.social

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Against a gold silk background, surrounded by skulls, crowns, swords, gold objects and crystals: a hardback copy of GORSE by Sam K. Horton. The white Solaris logo is in the bottom left corner.

The cover for RAGWORT by Sam K. Horton against a yellow spiky flowered background with the white Solaris logo in the bottom left corner.

@samkhorton.bsky.social‬ 's deliciously dark folkloric fantasy series THE EYTHIN LEGACY began with GORSE & continues this October in RAGWORT!

In 18th century Cornwall, Nancy Bligh is still fighting to keep the balance against the dark...

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THE DOOR ON THE SEA by Caskey Russell, THE WITNESS FOR THE DEAD by Katherine Addison, QUEEN OF NONE by Natania Barron, NORTHERN WRATH by Thilde Kold Holt, THE POMEGRANATE GATE by Ariel Kaplan, THE VENGEANCE by Emma Newman, THE HIDDEN LEGION by Snorri Kristjansson, SAVAGE COMPANY by Matt Wallace, CHARMING by Jade Linewood, BLACK SUN by Rebecca Roanhorse, GORSE by Sam K. Horton and SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER by C. S. E. Cooney.

In our ongoing attempts to *support* your TBR efforts, here's some Solaris Fantasy series starters!

Including @natania.bsky.social @emmanewman.bsky.social‬ @mattfnwallace.bsky.social‬ @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social‬ @csecooney.bsky.social‬ @samkhorton.bsky.social‬ @pennyvixen.bsky.social‬ and more!

All of our new releases (revealed so far) for June - December 2025!

Ft. new titles from @natania.bsky.social‬ ‪@mkhardywrites.com‬ @aptshadow.bsky.social‬
‪@voidcricket.bsky.social‬ ‪@isabelcanas.bsky.social‬ @rainewilson.bsky.social‬ @shoutoutmapes.bsky.social‬ @samkhorton.bsky.social‬ and more!

I’d love to! Just say the word ✨

What company! Thanks Robin, a pleasure chatting to you

Against a gold silk background, surrounded by skulls, crowns, swords, gold objects and crystals: a hardback copy of GORSE by Sam K. Horton. The white Solaris logo is in the bottom left corner.

The cover for RAGWORT by Sam K. Horton against a yellow spiky flowered background with the white Solaris logo in the bottom left corner.

@samkhorton.bsky.social‬ 's deliciously dark folkloric fantasy series THE EYTHIN LEGACY began with GORSE & continues this October in RAGWORT!

In 18th century Cornwall, Nancy Bligh is still fighting to keep the balance against the dark...

Buy now geni.us/gorse
Preorder geni.us/ragwort

Had a brilliant weekend at @cymerafestival.co.uk! Huge thanks to the organisers and volunteers for all their hard work. 👏🏻

And shout out to @solarisbooks.bsky.social gems @emmanewman.bsky.social, @samkhorton.bsky.social, @rainewilson.bsky.social and @roannelau.bsky.social for their fab events!

Reviewers, Librarians and booksellers: snap up these Solaris titles on Netgalley this summer!

New titles from @mkhardywrites.com @ymresnik.bsky.social‬ @samkhorton.bsky.social‬ @artofelaineho.bsky.social‬ @shoutoutmapes.bsky.social‬ @voidcricket.bsky.social‬ & more!

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Very excited to be in Edinburgh this weekend for the always fantastic @cymerafestival.co.uk! This year's programme is fantastic, and includes Solaris gems @emmanewman.bsky.social, @samkhorton.bsky.social, @rainewilson.bsky.social, and @roannelau.bsky.social 🔥

Sam K. Horton. Saturday 7th June 7pm. In person. What Blood Buys with Sam K. Horton and Erin E. Adams. There is an author of Sam on the left with the book covers for GORSE and RAGWORT.

Emma Newman. Friday 6th June. 5pm in-person. Magic, Mayhem and Murder with Emma Newman, T. L. Huchu and J. J. Marr. There is an author photo of Emma on the left with the book cover for THE VENGEANCE.ERCY.

Lorraine Wilson. Saturday 7th June 12:15pm in-person. Workshop: Generating Ideas. Sunday 8th June 1:45pm In-Person. Future Tellers with Lorraine Wilson, Helen Marshall and Marian Womack. There is an author photo of Lorraine on the left with the book covers for WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST and THE SALT ORACLE.

Roanne Lau. Sunday 8th June 10am online. Epic legacies with Roanne Lau, Gourav Mohanty and Maithree Wisjesekara. On the left is an author photos of Roanne with the book cover for THE SERPENT CALLED MERCY.

Starting tomorrow, Solaris goes north for #Cymera! Scotland's festival of SciFi, Fantasy & Horror writing is back, & we're delighted to have Solaris authors participating once again!

Book to see @emmanewman.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social & @roannelau.bsky.social!

Sam K. Horton. Saturday 7th June 7pm. In person. What Blood Buys with Sam K. Horton and Erin E. Adams. There is an author of Sam on the left with the book covers for GORSE and RAGWORT.

Emma Newman. Friday 6th June. 5pm in-person. Magic, Mayhem and Murder with Emma Newman, T. L. Huchu and J. J. Marr. There is an author photo of Emma on the left with the book cover for THE VENGEANCE.ERCY.

Lorraine Wilson. Saturday 7th June 12:15pm in-person. Workshop: Generating Ideas. Sunday 8th June 1:45pm In-Person. Future Tellers with Lorraine Wilson, Helen Marshall and Marian Womack. There is an author photo of Lorraine on the left with the book covers for WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST and THE SALT ORACLE.

Roanne Lau. Sunday 8th June 10am online. Epic legacies with Roanne Lau, Gourav Mohanty and Maithree Wisjesekara. On the left is an author photos of Roanne with the book cover for THE SERPENT CALLED MERCY.

Next week, Solaris goes north for #Cymera! Scotland's festival of SciFi, Fantasy & Horror writing is back, & we're delighted to have Solaris authors participating once again.

Book to see @emmanewman.bsky.social @rainewilson.bsky.social @samkhorton.bsky.social & @roannelau.bsky.social!

We are taking a trip into the substratum with talks from Philip Marsden & Dr Ruth Allen.
There will be conversation with photographers Sally Barton & Serena Burgis exploring their work for Echoes: Stone Circles, Community and Heritage & a screening of Still Out.
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If anyone is going alone tomorrow and would like to meet some new folks first, comment below!

A blue background, with colourful cartoons of Leeds buildings along the bottom, two teal dragons in the sky and the words "IT'S STRANGE UP NORTH, A Y Chao, Yvonne Battle-Felton, Richard Swan, Nicholas Binge, Annabel Campbell, Dan Hanks, Genevieve Cogman, Stark Holborn, Eliza Chan, Genoveva Dimova, Sam K Horton, David Wragg, Mark Lawrence, David Barnett, Emma Newman, An evening of fantastical fiction with fantastic scifi & Fantasy authors, 5:30-8:30pm, Sat 24th May 2025, Waterstones, Leeds"

Against a navy background white text reads "Solaris authors at" next to the It's Strange Up North Logo. The white Solaris logo is in the top right corner. Below this are two author photos of Sam K. Horton and Emma Newman. Beneath these are the book covers for their respective Solaris titles: GORSE and Ragwort for Sam and THE VENGEANCE for Emma.

Next week, @strangeupnorth.bsky.social returns to Leeds Waterstones!

Grab your ticket and the chance to meet fantastic authors - including our very own @samkhorton.bsky.social and @emmanewman.bsky.social! bit.ly/4iT1QPD

(And keep an eye out for some Solaris treats in your goodie bag 😜)

A light grey background with the following publisher logos: Angry Robot, Solaris, Harper Voyager, Orbit, Hodderscape, Rebellion Publishing, Pan Macmillan, Canelo, Headline, Hachette UK, Titan Books

A blue background, with colourful cartoons of Leeds buildings along the bottom, two teal dragons in the sky and the words "IT'S STRANGE UP NORTH, A Y Chao, Yvonne Battle-Felton, Richard Swan, Nicholas Binge, Annabel Campbell, Dan Hanks, Genevieve Cogman, Stark Holborn, Eliza Chan, Genoveva Dimova, Sam K Horton, David Wragg, Mark Lawrence, David Barnett, Emma Newman, An evening of fantastical fiction with fantastic scifi & Fantasy authors, 5:30-8:30pm, Sat 24th May 2025, Waterstones, Leeds"

5 days to go and we want to thank the incredible publishers that are sponsoring this event, without which there would be no tote bags, no swag, no food or drink, no books!

Please join us in thanking them & let us know which of their fabulous authors you're looking forward to seeing this Saturday!

It’s coming!

The cover of Gorse by Sam K Horton, featuring a bird with a skeleton head and spine, feathers on tale and wings, and gorse poking out from its bones

The cover of Ragwort by Sam K Horton, featuring a skull with horns and ragwort bursting out from it

A white background with the text: Cornwall, 1786. For years, the villagers of Mirecoombe have turned to their Keeper, the old and battle-scarred Lord Pelagius Hunt, mediator between the worlds of men and fey, for help. But this is a time of change. Belief in the old ways, in the piskies and spriggans, has dimmed, kindled instead in the Reverend Cleaver’s fiery pulpit. His church stands proud above the mire; God’s name is whispered, hushed, loved. And now, death stalks Mirecoombe on the moor. There are corpses in the heather. There is blood in the gorse. Nancy Bligh is determined to do what Pel will not: maintain the balance between the fey and the human world, be the Keeper that he refuses to be. Blessed with natural sight, friend to spriggans, piskies and human locals of Mirecoombe, Nancy has power that Pel never had and never lets her use. But as Mirecoombe falls into darkness, perhaps her time has come. A poignant and lyrical examination of faith, love and grief, Gorse asks what do we choose to believe, and how does that shape who we are?

And we also have the brilliant @samkhorton.bsky.social

Sam's debut, Gorse, is a historical fantasy that focuses on the battle between folklore and faith in 18th-century Cornwall.

The sequel, Ragwort, will be out later this year!

The Dispatch #6 – On Greenland, What to Do Next & Resisting GenAi May 2025's monthly update from Jordan Acosta, a British speculative fiction writer.

The latest edition of my monthly newsletter, the Dispatch, dropped in subscribers’ inboxes — some brief updates from me, breaking ground on book #2, and short reviews of books by @mlrio.bsky.social, @samkhorton.bsky.social and @robertjbennett.bsky.social

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Cannot wait to be a part of this! Such an incredible line up

Against a black cloth background, an illustration of Gorse on the right, the white Solaris logo at the bottom and white text on the left. "She loves Pel's book, his flowers. Each flower bound to a spell or ritual, the spidery writing around each a lock to their key."

A flatlaid hardback copy of GORSE by Sam K. Horton. The white Solaris logo is in the bottom left corner.

@samkhorton.bsky.social's THE EYTHIN LEGACY began with the deliciously dark, folkloric GORSE. In October 2025, the story continues in RAGWORT!

In 18th century Cornwall, Nancy Bligh must fight to keep the balance against the dark.

Buy GORSE: geni.us/gorse
Preorder RAGWORT: geni.us/ragwort

A blue background, with colourful cartoons of Leeds buildings along the bottom, two teal dragons in the sky and the words "IT'S STRANGE UP NORTH, A Y Chao, Genoveva Dimova, Richard Swan, Nicholas Binge, Annabel Campbell, Dan Hanks, Genevieve Cogman, Yvonne Battle-Felton, Stark Holborn, Sam K Horton, David Wragg, Mark Lawrence, David Barnett, Eliza Chan, An evening of fantastical fiction with fantastic scifi & Fantasy authors, 5:30-8:30pm, Sat 24th May 2025, Waterstones, Leeds"

After last year's fantastic event, @strangeupnorth.bsky.social is returning to Leeds @waterstones.bsky.social!

Grab your ticket for Saturday 24th May to see @samkhorton.bsky.social, author of GORSE, alongside a host of fabulous SciFi, Fantasy and Horror authors. bit.ly/4iT1QPD

Once again drafting a book is going to require me to start a new religion

UK-based authors who have registered with @alcs.co.uk - statements are available in the web portal. Very chuffed to have something in my first ever distribution!

This draft has been a nightmare (a fun one, of my own creation) to write. I've had the barest grip on the plot throughout and it's drip feeding me answers. Progress feels like slowly solving a rubik cube. Finally though, the sides are almost all the same colour.
This is why people plan first, huh...

This is, by a good measure, the best way to spend Saturday evening

A screenshot of a video chat. The window is divided into four. A brooding young man with glasses, big headphones and a cat tree behind him. Penny, the best cat, is lounging with just the tip of her ear visible. Panel 2, a grinning woman with glasses and excellent wavy hair shaved on one side rests her chin on her hand in an intelligent looking pose. It is clear she took the screenshot because she looks best in it. It is light outside for her, because she is in Australia. In another panel two middle aged women with glasses short hair sit on battered leather couches under blankets in a dim room. One is wearing an excellent skeleton hoodie and gazing off into the middle distance. The other is pouring campari into an already full champagne flute. In the final panel, a smiling man with blue hair is dwarfed by his backdrop, which is a large, chaotic bookshelf disappearing off the frame into the distance. Atop it are all manner of objects from funkopops to tophats, and on the bookshelves hangs a button covered military jacket that no longer fits him. He is the only person not wearing glasses.

Nothing like an evening chat with with writer friends to remind you what's important in life: human connection. Mutual support. Creativity. Gossip.

w/ @benedictanning.bsky.social, @sorrynotbori.bsky.social, @samkhorton.bsky.social

Thank you Sadie!