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Matt Drabble

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Born

in Bath, The United Kingdom

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http://www.mattdrabble.co.uk

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Genre

Horror, Mystery & Thrillers

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Born in Bath, England in 1974, a self-professed "funny onion", equal parts sport loving jock and comic book geek.

Awards & Achievements:

"ABRA-CADAVER" is the 2017 Readers Favorite Silver Medal Winner for Horror Fiction. It is also a 2015 Kindle Book Review Finalist, an Indie Book of the Day winner and the 2016 Book Excellence Award Winner for Horror Fiction.

"GATED" is the 2015 Readers Favorite Gold Medal Winner. It is also a UK & US Horror Chart Top Ten Best Seller & winner of the Full Moon Awards 2014 Horror Book of the Year.

"ASYLUM - 13 TALES OF TERROR" was a US Horror Chart #5. It was also voted #5 on The Horror Novel Review's Top 10 Books of 2013 & was the Readers Favorite 2014 Gold Medal Winner for Anthology Fiction.

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	Asylum - 13 Tales of Terror 3.64 avg rating — 1,083 ratings — published 2013 — 7 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
	Abra-Cadaver 3.99 avg rating — 626 ratings — published 2013 — 5 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
	Gated 3.73 avg rating — 599 ratings — published 2012 — 5 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
	Full Moon 4.20 avg rating — 452 ratings — 3 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
	Double Visions 4.27 avg rating — 326 ratings — published 2015 — 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 Last Resort 4.01 avg rating — 282 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	The Cure 4.41 avg rating — 174 ratings — 3 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
	Full Moon II: Silver Bullet 4.44 avg rating — 163 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 Gated Trilogy 3.99 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 2017	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
	Asylum II - 13 More Tales of Terror 4.35 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 2015 — 3 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

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The Award Winning full length Horror/Thriller/Murder Mystery "Abra-Cadaver" is now available for free across all formats and all major retailers. Simply go to my website www.mattdrabble.com to find all download links.

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“If you are writing and no-one reads it, are you a writer, or you just writing?”
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“He was a man who couldn’t help but live in the constant moment, always self-aware and always resentful. Knowing”
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“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”
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Chad wrote: "Matt, thanks for accepting my friend request. I currently have two of your books on my To-Read-List: Gated and Abra-Cadaver, looking forward to reading both."

Hope you enjoy them

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