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The Girl's Corpse: a body horror romance
From Matt Shaw and Maria Kovac comes a new twisted body horror to get under your skin!
Carol McCoy has spent years working in a funeral home, surrounded by the quiet certainty that every life ends the same way. Day after day, she prepares the dead for their final goodbye, and the constant proximity to death has drained the color from her own life. Why get excited about anything when it all leads to the same inevitable ending?
But one quiet afternoon, while Carol is working alone, the impossible one of the newest arrivals on the embalming table suddenly sits up...
Confused, pale, and with no memory of how he died, the man should be a miracle. Instead, he’s something far worse. Beneath his bewilderment lurks a violent hunger; an uncontrollable craving for human flesh.
As the situation spirals beyond anything she could have imagined, Carol finds herself trapped between the living and the dead, forced to confront a nightmare that shatters everything she thought she understood about mortality. If death was supposed to be the end… what does it mean when it isn’t?
Darkly unsettling and laced with grim humuor, this chilling novella asks a terrifying What if death isn’t the worst thing that can happen to you?
Carol McCoy has spent years working in a funeral home, surrounded by the quiet certainty that every life ends the same way. Day after day, she prepares the dead for their final goodbye, and the constant proximity to death has drained the color from her own life. Why get excited about anything when it all leads to the same inevitable ending?
But one quiet afternoon, while Carol is working alone, the impossible one of the newest arrivals on the embalming table suddenly sits up...
Confused, pale, and with no memory of how he died, the man should be a miracle. Instead, he’s something far worse. Beneath his bewilderment lurks a violent hunger; an uncontrollable craving for human flesh.
As the situation spirals beyond anything she could have imagined, Carol finds herself trapped between the living and the dead, forced to confront a nightmare that shatters everything she thought she understood about mortality. If death was supposed to be the end… what does it mean when it isn’t?
Darkly unsettling and laced with grim humuor, this chilling novella asks a terrifying What if death isn’t the worst thing that can happen to you?
104 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 24, 2026
About the author
Matt Shaw
553 books2,302 followersBiography
MATT SHAW was born, quite by accident (his mother tripped, he shot out) September 30th 1980 in Winchester hospital where he was immediately placed on the baby ward and EBay. Some twelve years later (wandering the corridors of the hospital and playing with road kill when he was on day release), the listing closed and he remained unsold, he was booted out of the hospital to start his life as a writer and hobbit – beginning with writing screenplays and short stories for his own amusement before finally getting published when he was twenty-seven years and forty-five seconds old.
Once Published weekly in a lad's magazine with his photography work, Matt Shaw is also a published author and cartoonist. Has to be said, can be a bit of a flirt and definitely, without a shadow of a doubt, somewhat of a klutz.
Favourite books
"Roald Dahl's Collection of Short Stories"
Tim Burton's Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy
Anything, really, written by himself. Because he is that good.
MATT SHAW was born, quite by accident (his mother tripped, he shot out) September 30th 1980 in Winchester hospital where he was immediately placed on the baby ward and EBay. Some twelve years later (wandering the corridors of the hospital and playing with road kill when he was on day release), the listing closed and he remained unsold, he was booted out of the hospital to start his life as a writer and hobbit – beginning with writing screenplays and short stories for his own amusement before finally getting published when he was twenty-seven years and forty-five seconds old.
Once Published weekly in a lad's magazine with his photography work, Matt Shaw is also a published author and cartoonist. Has to be said, can be a bit of a flirt and definitely, without a shadow of a doubt, somewhat of a klutz.
Favourite books
"Roald Dahl's Collection of Short Stories"
Tim Burton's Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy
Anything, really, written by himself. Because he is that good.
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Review of advance copy
Carol takes great efforts to ensure the dead are treated with dignity at her funeral home. Shawn disrupts her usual routine. A good feed will keep him going.
A fun read, especially when you spot some familiar names from the horror community. Poor Steve is never afforded a break!
The pacing was a bit slower than normal, but would be a fun translation into a short film. I really preferred the alternative ending - it gave me the dopamine hit I was looking for.
A fun read, especially when you spot some familiar names from the horror community. Poor Steve is never afforded a break!
The pacing was a bit slower than normal, but would be a fun translation into a short film. I really preferred the alternative ending - it gave me the dopamine hit I was looking for.
September 24, 2026
Awesomely freaky
As usual Matt Shaw makes characters that you know are weirdly freaky but you still kinda like them. Loved being the main character, usually I just am a victim but this was fun and crazy twisted!
As usual Matt Shaw makes characters that you know are weirdly freaky but you still kinda like them. Loved being the main character, usually I just am a victim but this was fun and crazy twisted!
September 26, 2026
corpse
I was certainly lost again with this writing but cannot stop reading Mr. Shaw’s books! I guess I overthink with his books but will continue to read them.
I was certainly lost again with this writing but cannot stop reading Mr. Shaw’s books! I guess I overthink with his books but will continue to read them.
Did Not Finish
October 11, 2026Dnf at 22% in wrong mood for it, nothing wrong with story
October 19, 2026
A good book!
The ending was definitely different from your other books. I wish you could have gotten the other person alive. I will continue reading your stories.
The ending was definitely different from your other books. I wish you could have gotten the other person alive. I will continue reading your stories.
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