Story Time With Crazy Uncle Matt: a tangle of yarns

by Matt Spencer

Gather round, folks. Pull up a chair. Grab a drink. Make yourself comfortable...while you still can. There's a maniac loose in society, and he's here to tell you some stories.

Stories of the vengeful ghosts, psychotic vagrants, zombie dogs, junkies, musicians, traumatized Veterans, road-tripping vampires, church socials that go demonically wrong, and shady antiques dealers, all of whom haunt the backroads and small towns of Vermont.

Stories of ruthless men and women who live and die by the sword, driven by untamed, primordial passions, hacking out their survival in ancient, devil-haunted realms.


Welcome to Story Time With Crazy Uncle Matt. Don't get lost, unless that's what you came here to do.

228 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 1, 2018

About the author

Matt Spencer is the author of five novels, three collections, and numerous novellas and short stories. He’s been a journalist, New Orleans restaurant cook, factory worker, radio DJ, and a no-good ramblin’ bum. He's also a song lyricist, playwright, actor, martial artist, and an avid fencer. As of this writing, he lives in Brattleboro, Vermont where he works at the local homeless shelter. You can sometimes find him on Instagram as @booksbymattspencer.

Reviews

[Matthew X Gomez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Spencer's prose is stripped down, raw, and can hit like a punch to the gut. This is't your cozy horror or knight-on-a-quest fantasy, but brutal, raw and often bloody. Spencer is more akin to Clive Barker than Stephen King, closer to Robert Howard or Joe Abercrombie than George R.R. Martin. Several standouts are "Kids Say the Weirdest Things" about a small tow church with some blood rituals; "Dead Men, Dead Dogs, Tasty Bacon" about what could be the very early stages of a zombie apocalypse; and "The Proper Name is Blackmail" a bloody occult horror set in Victorian England. If this your first exposure to Spencer's writing you are in for a treat, and it acts as a fantastic door to his longer work. And if you've read him before... well, you really don't have an excuse not to pick this up, do you?