A Kaleidoscope View

"Samantha Watson is a daring writer with uncanny insight into the human soul- the darker side. She mines the impulsive, dangerous parts of the psyche, the tendencies that make good people do bad things. In stories thatexplore the boundaries of love and hate, she tosses ordinary people into crucibles of extreme conflict. The result is sometimes violent, sometimes tragic, always inevitable. At the same time, the talent shines in everysentence: Watson's dialogue is crisp, her description delicate as a new flower. She's given us the closeted cousins of Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King whose bizarre lives simultaneously thrill and repulse. You will shake your head in amazement from the first page, and by page three, you'll be sweating. I kid you not." Sean Scapellato