Samantha Henderson

A woman is plagued by disturbing dreams, after which she wakes, draws a picture, and mails that picture to an address in Arizona. It slowly emerges what the pictures are of, and what happens when she doesn’t send them, and the answers are brutal and creepy and horrifying. The ending is slightly ambiguous, which in this case I didn’t entirely like. It’s hard to say whether or not I liked the story as a whole, given the subject matter, but I can absolutely say that it was effective as hell; even weeks later, thinking about it is still creeping me out.… (meer)

A girl survives a shipwreck, only to discover that mermaids are real. The mermaids take her to an island, where a fellow castaway has been living for years, and scheming how to escape from "those fishy bitches". I think there are a lot of elements in this story that are designed to make readers uncomfortable, particularly the grown man who's been alone for a long time suddenly being thrown into contact with a pre-pubsecent girl. And boy howdy, they did their job - there's nothing explicit, but this story still made me kind of squeamish. Really interesting plot, though.… (meer)