Matthew M. Bartlett

“Hallucinatory, charcoal-dark, populated with ghosts, demons, and spiders, Mike Allen’s Trail of Shadows is a violent fantasy-horror that pulses with atmosphere and atavistic terror.” (Matthew M. Bartlett, author of Gateways to Abomination and The Obsecration)

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I'm so honored that @mattmbartlett.bsky.social, creator of some of the most twisted tales I've ever read, had this to say about TRAIL OF SHADOWS!

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Dilatando Mentes @dilatandomentesed.bsky.social publicará en las próximas semanas la obra ONDAS DIFRACTADAS de Matthew M. Bartlett @mattmbartlett.bsky.social, una nueva colección de sus relatos de terror weird tras PORTALES A LA ABOMINACIÓN: distopolis.com/dilatando-me...

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I have available 24 full-color illustrated copies of The Latham-Fielding Liaison. Story collaborations by Matthew M. Bartlett and Jon Padgett. Illustration collaborations by Aeron Alfrey and Harry O. Morris. Introduction by S.P. Miskowski.

Wheeee!

The 2024 WXXT chapbook omnibus, entitled CORPSE-WORM CARNIVAL, is available for preorder NOW.

Limited to 50 copies; fewer than 30 remain!

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The Leeds Transmission: Matthew M. Bartlett’s Chthonic Grotesque Broadcasts from the Rotting Town “The things in Leeds are never quite dead. They only fester.” —Matthew M. Bartlett There are certain towns in weird fiction that are more than setting. Arkham, Inns…

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Can’t even sleep anymore because woke

Holy cow, @mattmbartlett.bsky.social has a story in @heavymetalofficial.bsky.social Issue #2?! Oh man, I cannot freaking wait to check this out!

I shall be working on an Oasis insult. Will contain the following phrases:
'Social cohesion experiment'
'Angry farmer'
'Victorian canal pox'
As usual there will be a coded warning before the insult 'drops'.

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Sold out and ultra-rare, I have a hardcover copy of Vistas of Carrion on offer for $250, signed, and personalized if you’d like. DM to claim.

Now available on my site: 3rd Quarter subscription of the WXXT Program Guide 2025 - I Hear Bad Things

Also more copies of the limited 2023 hardcover omnibus are now available!

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Now available on my site: 3rd Quarter subscription of the WXXT Program Guide 2025 - I Hear Bad Things

Also more copies of the limited 2023 hardcover omnibus are now available!

Your handy guide to not sharing horse shit

-He really was shot in the ear
-The election wasn’t rigged
-Bob Woodward didn’t tweet that
-Pope Leo XIV didn’t say that
-Pope Leo XIV didn’t say *that* either
-That Pope Francis dog story isn’t true
-That pic is AI

Get more from Matthew M. Bartlett on Patreon creating Horror fiction and weird fiction.

I’m starting to chronicle the writing of my novel (tentatively titled What a Rotten Song) on my Patreon.

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Katie and the new additions.

Tomorrow! I’ll have books to sell too! Salem Horror Fest! I’m excited! Exclamation points!

Chapbook subscribers! The April book has been at the printer for a few days, so it should go out within the next few days. Sorry for the delay.

The SECRET GATEWAYS books have arrived!!!
Thank you to Matthew and Jon for working tirelessly to get these to their fans!
Thank you to Sam @ Dim Shores for pitching in to get these organized and mailed out.
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With this fundraiser, we’re nearing the point we’ve been aiming for all along: people receiving the books they paid for so long ago.

Donate to Shipping Secret Gateways Box Set, organized by Matthew Bartlett Hi all, Matthew M. Bartlett here. A lot of you have been following this saga… Matthew Bartlett needs your support for Shipping Secret Gateways Box Set

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A good book mail day. New @mattmbartlett.bsky.social and Blake Butler's Scorch Atlas, which seemed to have been unavailable for years

Price drop. DM if interested.