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Sam Rebelein

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Sam Rebelein writes (and teaches writing) in Poughkeepsie, NY. His short fiction has appeared in PseudoPod, The Deadlands, Press Pause Press, Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year, and elsewhere. His debut novel EDENVILLE was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award, and won a Wonderland Book Award for Best Novel. Sam's recent collection of interconnected short fiction, THE POORLY MADE AND OTHER THINGS, is set in the same fictional world as EDENVILLE; GALLOWAY'S GOSPEL (Sep 2025) is set in the same world as well.

For more about Sam's work, and pictures of his scruffy pooch Frodo, follow him on Instagram @rebelsam94. ...more

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	Edenville 3.19 avg rating — 2,083 ratings — published 2023 — 10 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
	The Poorly Made and Other Things 4.12 avg rating — 408 ratings — published 2025 — 7 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
	The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Twelve by Ellen Datlow (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Introduction), Paul Tremblay (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Kristi DeMeester (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.93 avg rating — 324 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
	Galloway's Gospel 4.07 avg rating — 72 ratings — 7 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
	A Pile of Bodies, A Pile of Heads (Let the Bodies Hit the Floor, #1) by R.E. Sargent (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Bridgett Nelson (Goodreads Author), Mike Marcus 4.34 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2021 — 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
	The Fourth Corona Book of Horror Stories by Lewis Williams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Florence Ann Marlowe (Contributor), Donna L. Greenwood (Contributor) 4.13 avg rating — 32 ratings — 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
	Winter in the City: A Collection of Dark Speculative Fiction by Ruadán Books (Goodreads Author), R. B. Wood (editor), Anna Koon (editor) 4.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — 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
	Bourbon Penn 24 by Erik Secker (Goodreads Author), A.C. Wise (Goodreads Author), Sam Rebelein (Goodreads Author) 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — 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
	Fifteen Smells for $12.99 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 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
	Dennis Needs A Cigarette: Some Sketches and Some Plays it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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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“—But the Spine isn’t like that. In the manyworld, you can always move up. Always a better world up there somewhere. But of course, you can always move further down, too. There’s always worlds…further down.”
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