Sam Gafford

Sam Gafford has been published in a wide variety of anthologies and publications. His fiction has appeared in such collections as BLACK WINGS Volumes I, III and V, as well as FLESH LIKE SMOKE, THE LEMON HERBERTS, WICKED TALES and in magazines like WEIRD FICTION REVIEW, DARK CORRIDOR, NAMELESS and others. A lifelong Lovecraftian, he has written critical articles that have appeared in LOVECRAFT STUDIES, CRYPT OF CTHULHU, WEIRD FICTION REVIEW, NAMELESS and more. An expert on the life and work of pioneering science fiction writer William Hope Hodgson, Gafford is currently working on a book length critical biography of Hodgson. Recently, he wrote SOME NOTES ON A NON-ENTITY: THE LIFE OF H. P. LOVECRAFT which is a 120 page graphic novel biography of HPL and is currently being drawn by Jason Eckhardt with PS Publishing set to release it in 2017. Gafford has a collection of short horror fiction, THE DREAMER IN FIRE AND OTHER TALES, coming from Hippocampus Press in 2017. A pop culture junkie, Gafford has probably watched far more TV than recommended. He lives in Rhode Island with his long-suffering wife and three ambivalent cats.