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Matthew John is an English language arts teacher and employee of Monolith Games (Conan, Batman: Gotham City Chronicles). When time allows, he likes to write short fiction, waste time at the gaming table, and chat sword and sorcery on the Rogues in the House Podcast. His work has been published in Grimdark Magazine, Skelos (SkelosPress), Weirdbook (Wildside Press), and Robert E. Howard’s Conan the roleplaying game (Modiphius Games).

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Average rating: 4.19 · 399 ratings · 120 reviews · 24 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Savage Sword of Conan (2024-) #6 by Jason Aaron, Geof Isherwood (artist), Piotr Kowalski (artist) 4.08 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2024	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
	To Walk on Worlds (The Maxus Cycle, #1) 4.32 avg rating — 59 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
	The Savage Sword of Conan Vol. 2 by Jim Zub (Goodreads Author), Patrick Zircher (artist), Fernando Dagnino (artist) 3.89 avg rating — 56 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
	Skelos I (The Journal of Weird Fiction and Dark Fantasy 1) by Mark Finn (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Chris Gruber (Editor), Jeffrey Shanks (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.89 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2016	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
	Robert E. Howard Changed My Life: Personal Essays about an Extraordinary Legacy by Jason M. Waltz (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Robert E. Howard, Todd B. Vick (Contributor) 4.52 avg rating — 29 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
	New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine: Issue #3 by Oliver Brackenbury (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Matthew John (Goodreads Author), Premee Mohamed (Goodreads Author) 4.30 avg rating — 23 ratings — 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
	Swords Against Cthulhu by Gavin Chappell (Editor), Damir Salkovic (Goodreads Author), Matt Sullivan (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2015 — 6 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
	Weirdbook #36 by Douglas Draa (Editor), D.C. Lozar (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), L.F. Falconer (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2017 — 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
	Within the Weeping Eye (The Maxus Cycle, #2) 4.44 avg rating — 16 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
	Knife Fight 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings	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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Matthew John and 4 other people liked James T's review of Conan: Spawn of the Serpent God: A Scourge of the Serpent Men Novel: "Of Titan’s Conan books I like this most beside John C. Hocking’s Conan and the Emerald Lotus. It doesn’t have quite as high ambitions as the others, and is pretty meat and potatoes, but it’s cooked just right. Blood of the Serpent was a cool idea as a" Read more of this review »
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Matthew John and 1 other person liked Riccardo Ball's review of Within the Weeping Eye (The Maxus Cycle, #2): "Matt John has delivered again. A collection of tales that together build a world with one of S&S best villains (or is it anti hero), let’s say the lesser of two evils. Maxus is a brilliant creation and dominates this work more than the Conan figure I" Read more of this review »
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Matthew John and 1 other person liked Dustin Covan's review of To Walk on Worlds (The Maxus Cycle, #1): "The best modern sword and sorcery The best modern Sword and Sorcery I have found. Very creative and atmospheric, pulsing with dark and dangerous magic and characters. I really like the way the overarching story is told through separate stories. It's " Read more of this review »
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Matthew John and 7 other people liked Derek's review of Within the Weeping Eye (The Maxus Cycle, #2): "The Maxus cycle is turning into a shambling beast of a series, but that is the design. There's a looseness to the setting that reflects both the world's tipping-point of decay and apocalypse and the fact that the axis character Maxus may in each stor" Read more of this review »
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Matthew John made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — My Books Assigned to the Wrong Author(s) topic " Hello, I hope I have the right place. I'm going to link a few books that are attributed other authors with same/similar names. The following books sho ...more "
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Matthew John made a comment in the group Goodreads Librarians Group — Book atrributed to wrong author topic " Hi There, Apologies if I'm doing this wrong or am not in the right spot. This book is assigned to someone else, but it should be assigned to me. https ...more "
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