Skip to main content
Sam Reader on Muck Rack

Sam Reader

(They/Them)
West Orange
As seen in: Reactor, Medium, Barnes and Noble, Flipboard, GamerJournalist, The Advance-Titan, Nightfire, The Gamers Lounge, The Boss Rush Network, johansen.se
Covers:  Culture, media, fandom
Doesn't Cover: Science, technical, medical, hard news
Writer for @tornightfire and @tordotcom. they/them. Former weird shit desk, @bnscifi. Inquiries caiuscaligula@strangelibrary.com ko-fi.com/readerwrites

Get in touch with Sam

Contact Sam, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Sam Reader’s Biography

Read Full Bio →

Sam Reader is a literary critic and book reviewer currently haunting the northeast United States. Their writing can be found at Tor Nightfire. They have also written for The Barnes and Noble Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Blog, Tor.com and their personal site, strangelibrary.com. In their spare time, they drink way too much coffee, hoard secondhand books, and try not to upset people too much.

Sam Reader’s Journalist Portfolio

See all →
Tales From the Backlist: Anno Dracula is a Whole Introductory Course on Gothic Horror - Tor Night...

Tales From the Backlist: Anno Dracula is a Whole Introductory Course on Gothic Horror - Tor Night...

If you want a guided tour through Gothic horror, read Anno Dracula by Kim Newman. While many authors have bee…

View article →
Let's Go Play At The Adams' Is The Book You Were Warned About - Tor Nightfire

Let's Go Play At The Adams' Is The Book You Were Warned About - Tor Nightfire

Mendal W. Johnson's Let's Go Play At The Adams' has a reputation. It's been called vile, evil, and harrowing.…

View article →
Frank Herbert's Dune: Science Fiction's Greatest Epic Fantasy Novel

Frank Herbert's Dune: Science Fiction's Greatest Epic Fantasy Novel

Frank Herbert's is rightfully considered a classic of science fiction. With its expansive worldbuilding, intr…

View article →
Red X is a Relentless Urban Nightmare Full of Heart and Righteous Fury - Tor Nightfire

Red X is a Relentless Urban Nightmare Full of Heart and Righteous Fury - Tor Nightfire

Red X, the new horror novel by David Demchuk, is unflinching. While it traces the story of Toronto's Gay Vill…

View article →
Whatever Happened to Mark Z. Danielewski's The Familiar?

Whatever Happened to Mark Z. Danielewski's The Familiar?

The Familiar was supposed to be a magnum opus: an ambitious serial novel told in twenty-seven massive volumes…

View article →
Running Up Those Stairs, or An Investigation Into Why Slasher Victims Make a Break for the Second...

Running Up Those Stairs, or An Investigation Into Why Slasher Victims Make a Break for the Second...

This article is meant for semi-humorous purposes. If you ever find yourself cornered by a masked killer, use …

View article →

Articles

Seven of the Worst Workplaces in Weird Fiction - Reactor

|
By Sam Reader
| Reactor Verified
Large corporations are fertile ground for weird fiction. With their labyrinthine rules and bureaucracy, grim offices and headquarters, habit of turning the average person into a cog in their machines—not to mention the terror that is institutional air conditioning—they’re already pretty weird places here in the real world.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Seven Deeply Unsettling Nautical Horror and Fantasy Novels - Reactor

|
By Sam Reader
| Reactor Verified
The seas are dark, deep, and full of mystery. Older than much of the surrounding land (the Appalachian Mountains might be older, but that’s a different article), older than all life on Earth, oceans exert a primal allure over everyone who dares to explore the watery depths. Writers have always been drawn to the briny deep as well, finding inspiration for everything from high-seas adventure to terrifying stories of what lurks beneath the tides.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Tiny Bookshop Review — The Gamer's Lounge

|
By Sam Reader
| The Gamers Lounge
Tiny Bookshop has all the right ideas to be cozy. It’s a game where you play the owner of a bookmobile, selling books to the people of Bookstonbury. The colorful inhabitants of the town are rendered in something similar to pastel drawings, the locales where you sell books are all done in a style that makes them look idyllic even when they’re not always that way, and you meet a variety of quirky characters who all have their own needs as you and your bookmobile become more involved in the town.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 276 articles

Interview

See all →

What was your first job as a journalist?

Game reviews and fandom articles for The Geek Initiative

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes! I used to type short, incoherent stories on it. That was fun.

How is social media changing news?

For the worse. Everything's about eye-catches and starting a brawl now. No finesse. No content.