Fiction
By S K Horton
Books, Stories, poetry and occasional non-fiction
Fiction
GORSE
Gorse (The Eythin Legacy Book 1): Amazon.co.uk: Sam K. Horton: 9781837860715: Books
A whole dang book.
(Amazon link given, but do buy from a friendly local bookseller if you’re able, or go and see your librarian!)
Short Fiction Available Online
CATCH A FALLING STAR
https://www.graniteandglitter.com/blog/catch-a-falling-star
A short story about stardust. Highly Commended at the 2021 Hammond House International Short Story Prize. First published in ‘Stardust’ from Hammond House, 2022.
OUT with the ebb tide
https://www.fullhouseliterary.com/issue-3-pieces/out-with-the-ebb-tide-by-sam-horton
Estuaries, longing and hopefulness, of a sort.
BUCCA
https://crowcrosskeys.com/2023/02/25/bucca-sam-horton/
Holiday homes, Cornish Folklore, a warning to the incurious.
GOODNIGHT MOON
Support Hexagon, and Myriad for only a £1 to read. A story of lunar punks and blue-tint futures.
EVER/MOOR
https://www.brokenantlermag.com/issue-two-cnf/evermoor-by-sam-k-horton
A love letter to Bodmin Moor
Short Fiction In Print
“Phantoms for the Festive Season” from Crowvus
https://www.crowvus.com/product-page/phantoms-for-the-festive-season
Ghost stories for christmas
“MODERN POETRIES 1: CORNISH MODERN POETRIES” From broken Sleep Books
https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/modern-poetries-1-cornish-modern-poetries
Poetry from Cornwall.
SMOKE AND MIRRORS INC.
A short story about the trouble with superstition, in the first volume of Smoke and Mirrors and Cats.
Non-Fiction
Five (terrible) ways to enter an underworld
Five (terrible) ways to enter an underworld (scifinow.co.uk)
historical novel society interview
Launch Interview: Sam K. Horton's Gorse - Historical Novel Society
picking clean the bones of the moor
Picking Clean the Bones of the Moor — History Through Fiction
Visual Art
A Selection.
Work created by granite and glitter between 2017-2023