Dawson, Samuel F. (b. 1987) is an American horror writer and former maritime archivist whose work explores coastal folklore, memory, and the uncanny. Raised in Rockland, Maine, he studied history and folklore at the University of New Hampshire and earned an MFA from Emerson College. His short fiction has appeared in venues including Nightmare, The Dark, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and his novella The Drowned Index was a Shirley Jackson Award finalist. He has taught community workshops on narrative and oral tradition, volunteers with lighthouse preservation groups, and lives in Providence, Rhode Island, where he collects out-of-circulation nautical charts and insists on walking the shore during storms.
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