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Matthew M. Bartlett

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in Hartford, CT, The United States

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Horror, Thriller, Paranormal

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Matthew M. Bartlett was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1970. He writes dark and strange fiction at his home in Western Massachusetts, where he lives with his wife Katie and an unknown number of cats.

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	Gateways to Abomination: Collected Short Fiction 3.87 avg rating — 1,222 ratings — published 2014 — 10 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
	Creeping Waves by Matthew M. Bartlett (Goodreads Author), Nathan Ballingrud (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.22 avg rating — 297 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	The Stay-Awake Men and Other Unstable Entities by Matthew M. Bartlett (Goodreads Author), Dave Felton (Illustrator) 4.09 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 2017 — 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 Witch-Cult in Western Massachusetts by Matthew M. Bartlett (Goodreads Author), Alex Fienemann (Illustrator) 4.08 avg rating — 125 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
	Of Doomful Portent: An Advent Calendar of Grotesque Horrors by Matthew M. Bartlett (Goodreads Author), Yves Tourigny (Illustrator) 4.33 avg rating — 75 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
	Rangel by Matthew M. Bartlett (Goodreads Author), Aeron Alfrey (Illustrator) 4.69 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2015	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
	Dead Air: Early Broadcasts by Matthew M. Bartlett (Goodreads Author), Yves Tourigny (Illustrator), Tom Breen (Introduction) 4.33 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2007 — 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
	If It Bleeds by Matthew M. Bartlett (Goodreads Author), Luke Spooner (Illustrator) 4.47 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	Where Night Cowers 4.29 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2022 — 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 Obsecration 4.12 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2023 — 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

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Hello! I have not passed on to another life, but rather to another site. More up-to-date (though not completely up-to-date) info can be found here: My other, better site

That site includes a link to my storefront, where you can purchase new chapbook subscriptions and personalized merch! and also to a site for merch like t-shirts and mugs.

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“I drove on, and between the north and southbound lanes a construction crew worked under daylight-bright industrial lamps. I saw them through a gauzy fog of dust and strong light...they wore blood-red vests and hardhats and massive goggles, and as the road sank I saw that the workers were bone thin, with skeletal jaws and long teeth. They labored on platforms over gaping holes in the earth, and among the men, piled atop rickety pallets, lolled babies, piles of them, in ashy cerements. I could not tell whether the crew was excavating or burying them.”
― Matthew M. Bartlett, Gateways to Abomination

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“Among the most ghastly sounds a man can hear is the sound of a voice in what he thought was an empty house.”
― Matthew M. Bartlett, Gateways to Abomination

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“So many books. Cookbooks with garish colors, full of pictures of plump brown birds and things mummy-wrapped in bandages of bacon. Plays and slender volumes of poetry with surnames I didn’t recognize. Endless books on World War II and Adolf Hitler, branded with the ubiquitous stark and menacing swastika. The Joy Of Sex, Ribald Rhymes, Dirty Limericks, Hemingway, Mailer, Fitzgerald, Salinger. Montague Summers. Wheatley, Crowley, Castaneda. Manson. Edgar Cayce, LaVey, Margaret Murray. Abrecan Geist. Colin Wilson. Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader, many volumes. Dirty Jokes—hundreds of paperbacks with spines whitened with a thousand cracks. Lovecraft, Kuttner, Silverberg, Heinlein, and Sturgeon. Vonnegut. Older books whose names had long been rubbed from their ancient covers.”
― Matthew M. Bartlett, Creeping Waves

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“Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. It’s like network television. I’m your local cable access station.”
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