Matthew Heilman

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Matthew earned a PhD in English Literature with a focus on British Romanticism, Gothic, Victorian, and supernatural fiction. He is the co-author of "Come Forth in Blood" and "Lie Still the Dead" with Ryan Henry and lives in Pittsburgh. ...more

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Lie Still the Dead

Today is a special day for Ryan Henry and I as the sequel to our vampire novel Come Forth in Blood has been published by Stygian Press. We are grateful to Craig Hines for all of his hard work and for creating the new book’s gorgeous and deliciously blasphemous cover.

The ideas for Lie Still the Dead have haunted Ryan and I for more than 10 years and were initially planned to be part of the first n Read more of this blog post »
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Published on September 27, 2022 15:10 Tags: detective-story, gothic, horror, noir, occult, police-procedural, ritual-magic, supernatural, vampires
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"This is a tantalisingly creepy and menacing gothic horror novel, populated by ghosts, and set in 1866. It begins with a patient, Mrs Elsie Bainbridge, a woman badly burnt in a fire, being questioned by Dr Shepherd, a progressive psychologist at St Jo" Read more of this review »
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"List of Each Story forthcoming. I have to write it all out first then post.




I don't know another writer that has influenced me as much as Angela Carter who still remains as subversive as ever, but also very clever. She totally embraces her sex, womanh" Read more of this review »
The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
"A Gothic masterpiece with direct ties to a real-life Gothic event—the Salem Witch Trials!

Nathaniel Hawthorne's great-great-grandfather, Judge John Hathorne, ruled many women guilty of witchcraft. He declared guilt quicker than any other magistrate an" Read more of this review »
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