Matthew M. Bartlett

Matthew M. Bartlett was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1970. At an early age he was given as a gift the novelization of The Omen; not long after that, he inherited a worn copy of Christine by Stephen King. He fell deeply in love with horror: with the Universal monsters, with Hammer films, with the rented videos from the horror section of that almost-gone artifact known as the Video Rental Store. He began writing poetry while in the English program at Central Connecticut State University. An abiding interest in horror fiction led him to start a Livejournal page whose posts were his first forays into fiction: bite-sized tales accompanied by doctored daguerreotypes and his own photographs taken in Leeds and Northampton, Massachusetts. These posts centered around a long-dead coven using radio waves to broadcast disturbing and dangerous transmissions from the dark woods of Western Massachusetts. His inspirations are varied and the foremost are certainly not atypical for the genre: H.P. Lovecraft, Thomas Ligotti, Robert Aickman, T.E.D. Klein. Other authors he admires include Donald E. Westlake, Richard Yates, J.D. Salinger, and Hunter S. Thompson. He also draws inspiration from the radio monologues and shows of Joe Frank; the poetry of Philip Larkin, of Mark Strand, of Stephen Crane; the movies of Wes Anderson, of Ben Wheatley, of the Coen Brothers. He continues to write 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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Cadabra Releases:
Mr. White Noise
Ginny Greenteeth
Call Me Corey
The Mill River Revenant
Mr. White Noise 2
The Tee
Cadabra Illustrated 4: Infectious Agents
Bibliography:
Fiction Series
* Leeds
** Gateways to Abomination (2014) [C]
** Creeping Waves (2016) [C]
Collections
* Of Doomful Portent: An Advent Calendar of Grotesque Horrors (2017)
* The Stay-Awake Men & Other Unstable Entities (2017)
Anthologies
* Behold the Undead of Dracula: Lurid Tales of Cinematic Gothic Horror (2019) with Gwendolyn Kiste
Chapbooks
* Rangel (2015)
* Spettrini (2016)
Short Fiction
* A World of Lucretias and Ledas (2014)
* Accident (2014)
* Cat-tails and Rushes (2014)
* Great Uncle Eltweed (2014)
* Interview with Emily Lavallee — September 2007 (2014)
* Notice — 1802 (2014)
* Path (2014)
* Pharaoh (2014)
* Sermon (2014)
* The Arrival Part 1 (2014)
* The Arrival Part 2 (2014)
* The Ballad of Ben Stockton Verse 1 (2014)
* The Ballad of Ben Stockton Verse 2 (2014)
* The Ballad of Nathan Whiteshirt (2014)
* The First to Die (2014)
* The Gathering in the Deep Wood (2014)
* The Gossip Hour (2014)
* The House in the Woods (2014)
* The Investigator (2014)
* The Last Hike (2014)
* The Leech (2014)
* The Reddening Dusk (2014)
* The Sons of Ben Number 2 (2014)
* The Sons of Ben Number 3 (2014)
* The Theories of Uncle Jeb (2014)
* The Woods in Fall (2014)
* Uncle Red Reads To-day's News (2014)
* Uncle Red Reads To-day's News (2) (2014)
* Uncle Red Reads To-day's News (3) (2014)
* Uncle Red Reads To-day's News (4) (2014)
* Uncle Red Reads To-day's News (5) (2014)
* Wanted Dead (2014)
* When I Was a Boy -- A Broadcast (2014)
* WXXT New Brief (2014)
* Carnomancer; or, The Meat Manager's Prerogative (2015) also appeared as:
** Variant: Carnomancer, or The Meat Manager's Prerogative (2015)
* Machine Will Start When You Are Start (2015)
* Following You Home (2015)
* Rangel (2015)
* The Terrible Old Friend (2016)
* Spettrini (2016)
* If He Summons His Herd (2016)
* Where Night Cowers (2016)
* No Abiding Place on Earth (2016)
* The Long-Lost Parent (2017) with Tom Breen
* The Storefront Theater (2017)
* Provisions for a Journey (2017)
* The Master of the House (2017)
* The Two-Wheel System (2017)
* Leeds 2600 (2017)
* We Pass from View (2017)
* Kuklalar (2017)
* The Beginning of the World (2017)
* The Stay-Awake Men (2017)
* Deep Into the Skin (2017)
* Call Me Corey (2017)
* The Obsecration (2018) only appeared as:
** Serializations:
** Who Beareth the Body (2017)
** The Ring Bearer in Situ (2018)
** Goat's Rue (2018)
* Baal Protects the King (2018)
* Dr. 999 (2018)
* Effigies of Former Supervisors (2019)
* My Miskatonic: A Who's Who of Arkham (2019)
* A Strange Haze (2019)
* The Black Cheese (2019)
* Go to the Devil (2019)