Where is the real Leeds? How does one get there? Is it floating on the air—words and music you can almost reach out and grab like wriggling worms of sound and ether? Is it in the carnival that seethes under the corrupted church, drawing the lost along shadowy corridors and through the strangely angled Funhouse doors to the place where the city fathers perform secret rites with the goat-headed masters of the dark? Do you seek the Real Leeds? Venture out to a secluded spot, turn on your radio, and spin that dial down to the murky low numbers, somewhere just around 87.9... That music, that voice calling on the edge of static and distortion—it might lead you to that blasted and damned path toward the Real and Truest heart of Leeds, Massachusetts. This is WXXT. It's the witching hour, when shadows take wing and nightmares stalk. Turn your radio up. Point your antennas to the infinite sky. And stay tuned for Weather on the Sixes. WXXT. The bubbling blisters on the tongue of the Pioneer Valley.

Creeping Waves

Literature & Fiction

Bartlett, Matthew M.

Genre Fiction

Muzzleland Press

Now you’re playing with… TERROR 
 Demons stalk the circuit boards. Phantoms roam the arcade. Programmers embed occult secrets into the code. Madness spreads from player to player like a virus. Virtual and augmented reality are haunted by unspeakable forces. Doom-cursed warriors live and die and live and die again and again, in bloody and brutal fashion. The denizens of a tortured cyberworld begin to wake up… and get very, very angry. 
Power up across fifteen shocking and sinister levels of video game-inspired horror, from unique tributes to legendary game franchises to alarming visions of technology gone to hell. These rising stars of independent horror channel our fears of the new interactive electronic frontier—and reveal the terrors that await us in the great digital abyss beyond. 
So grab the controller and press START. But no cheat code can save you from… TERROR IN 16-BITS
Featuring: Matthew M. Bartlett, Jack Burgos, Amber Fallon, Julie K. Godard, Orrin Grey, J.R. Hamantaschen, Amberle L. Husbands, Thomas C. Mavroudis, Adrean Messmer, Brian O'Connell, Jonathan Raab, Alex Smith, William Tea, Sean M. Thompson, Richard Wolley

Terror in 16-Bits

Raab, Jonathan

Messmer, Adrean

Thompson, Sean M.

Tea, William

Godard, Julie K.

Wolley, Richard

O’Connell, Brian

Hamantaschen, J.R.

Elected as county sheriff on a paranormal defense and anti-goblinry platform, Sheriff Kotto has defended the citizens of his Rust Belt community from secret societies, malignant aliens, blood-stealing nonprofit organizations, and more.To document his war against the paranormal, Kotto stars in Freaky Tales From the Force, a local documentary-style public access television show produced by reporter Veronica Cartwright. Join Sheriff Kotto, his intrepid deputies, and the public access television crew as they investigate a variety of supernatural threats including wendigos, a lizard boy, evil clones, a haunted numbers station, flesh creepers, the wreckage of neoliberal economic policies, a Nazi sorcerer, a spectral locomotive—and a season-spanning threat: cosmic bloodsuckers from outer space! Each story in this anthology represents one episode of Freaky Tales' inaugural season, capturing all the high-octane, hard-drinking, high-strange action. Featuring special guest star writers and a new long-form story arc, Freaky Tales From the Force: Season One is the perfect book for readers new to the Kottoverse and long-time fans alike.Tune in, crack a beer, watch the skies—and support your local sheriff!

Freaky Tales From the Force: Season One

Martin, Charles J.

Collins, Jared

Crihfield, R. Morgan

Breen, Tom

Scharf, Colin

Edwards, S.L.

The classic monsters have returned... again!
During the gothic horror revival of the late 1950s through the 1970s, vampires, witches, devil worshipers, occultists, spirits, ghouls, and grave-robbing mad scientists returned to terrify a new generation of thrill-seeking movie audiences. Influenced by the social and cultural upheavals of the time and the ever-present specter of nuclear war, these classic terrors became more violent, more subversive--and more seductive.
Behold the Undead of Dracula features stories inspired by the films of the gothic horror revival, dripping with blazing bright-red blood and radiating sex appeal.
Eleven of the best authors in underground horror fiction offer up unique and terrifying takes on this special era of cinematic history, summoning spine-tingling tales sure to frighten and seduce unwary readers.
Grab your popcorn, take a seat, and watch as the curtain rises on these gothic nightmares. Bear witness to the lurid and sensual horrors of Behold the Undead of Dracula!
Featuring: 
"Go to the Devil" by Matthew M. Bartlett
"Over the Violets There That Lie" by Gwendolyn Kiste
"George Strait and the Black Orchard Grimoire" by Mer Whinery
"Vengeance of the Blood Princess" by Dominique Lamssies
"Diabolus in Musica" by William Tea
"Taste of Fear in the Night (European Release Title: Curse of the Mountain Witches)" by Tom Breen
"You Should Smile More: The Blood Coven of Arkana" by Heather L. Levy
"Mina's Castle" by Sean M. Thompson
"Cleaver Castle of Carnage Presents: The Coven Strikes Back" by Christa Carmen
"The Bloody Cask of Rasputin" by Thomas C. Mavroudis
"The Filthy Creation of Frankenstein" by Gemma Files
Cover art by Trevor Henderson
Interior illustration by Mat Fitzsimmons
Editing and layout by Jonathan Raab

Behold the Undead of Dracula: Lurid Tales of Cinematic Gothic Horror

Kiste, Gwendolyn

There’s a side of the world those deemed "normal" don’t see, save for glimpses in flashing moments of fear and confusion. These places exist just around the corner of our vision, beyond the ocean fog of memory and nightmare, where monstrous children cry for love and secrets are hidden in remote caves; where nature reclaims its own and a sweet taste in your mouth portends evil beyond imagining. Within these pages are twenty-one secrets hidden behind a veil only the most ancient of beings have dared to pass through, brought to you by some of the most talented and imaginative authors to come out of New England.In short, these stories are Wicked Weird.Featuring oddities and terrors from Matthew M. Bartlett, J. Edwin Buja, William D. Carl, Victoria Dalpe, Barry Lee Dejasu, Peter N. Dudar, Emma J. Gibbon, John Goodrich, Paul R. McNamee, F. R. Michaels, Kali Moulton, Errick A. Nunnally, Jason Parent, Steve Van Samson, Rob Smales, LL Soares, Wicker Stone, Morgan Sylvia, Jeffrey Thomas, K. H. Vaughan and Trisha J. Wooldridge

Wicked Weird: An Anthology of the New England Horror Writers

Van Samson, Steve

Thomas, Jeffrey

Soares, LL

Nunnally, Errick A

Wooldridge, Trisha J.

Carl, William D.

Goudsward, Scott T.

NEHW Press

Bizarre radio broadcasts luring dissolute souls into the dark woods of Western Massachusetts. Sinister old men in topcoats gathered at corners and in playgrounds. A long-dead sorcerer returning to obscene life in the form of an old buck goat. Welcome to Leeds, Massachusetts, where the drowned walk, where winged leeches blast angry static, where black magic casts a shadow over a cringing populace. You've tuned in to WXXT. The fracture in the stanchion. The drop of blood in your morning milk. The viper in the veins of the Pioneer Valley.

Gateways to Abomination

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Matthew M. Bartlett, author of Gateways to Abomination, is back with The Witch-Cult in Western Massachusetts. A cross between Roberto Bolaño’s Nazi Literature in the Americas and Gardinel’s Real Estate by Orrin Grey and M.S. Corley, this slender volume consists of 13 bite-sized fictional biographies, each accompanied by a chilling illustration by the masterful Alex Fienemann. Meet Stanley Malanson, who had a curious rapport with felines. Meet Abrecan Geist, who endeavored to take revenge on a capricious God. Meet Minerva LaBrie, who abandoned Wicca in favor of a dark and blasphemous alternative. Meet Jebediah Blackstye, who crossed a line with his beloved familiar, a toad with revolting powers. These are but four of the practitioners of black magic who have made their homes in the cities and towns of Western Massachusetts. Read of sumptuous feasts gone to rot, of a corrupted priest who dared unleash his venomous platitudes over the common airwaves, of a powerful sorcerer born at the intersection of Blood and Stone. Open your hearts to the Witch-Cult in Western Massachusetts.

The Witch-Cult in Western Massachusetts: Volume 1

What is "High Strange"? It's the men in black erasing your UFO research. It's a corporate takeover by bio-occult horrors. It's losing your edge, and finding it again at the bottom of the cosmos. It's your television telling you to eat your government-approved genetically-modified breakfast cereal. It's the unexplained lights in the sky and the faceless gray woman haunting your dreams. It's ancient legends working under contract. It's the forbidden film playing at a haunted movie theater. It's the medical staff making sure you stay crazy. It's the 19th round of mini golf with a disembodied pirate. It's the outer reaches of human experience. Where conventional reality ends, High Strange begins. Over a dozen authors mine the deepest reaches of consciousness and Fortean phenomena. Are you ready to see what lies beyond the veil? On the Weird and the Damned (introduction) by Jonathan Raab Investigations by Michael Bryant So You’ve Lost Your Edge. Now What? by Charles Martin and Will Weinke Frosty Pyramid Treats by Jonathan Raab The Dead Wait by Toni Nicolino The Keepers by David A. Owens Night Dog by Matthew M. Bartlett The Pirate-Ghost of Hole 19 by Doctor Gaines The Lights Are Off by Christopher Fraser Púca by C.R.J. Smith Delve by Matthew D. Jordan Brought Low by J. Howard Shannon Black-Eyed Children, Blue-Eyed Child by Billy Lyons The Vampire Sea by Amberle L. Husbands Ascendance by Julie Godard Cats by Jake Skillings The Projectionist by Mer Whinery Excerpt from Look For Me by Colin Scharf I Want to Believe (post-script essay) by Colin Scharf

High Strange Horror: Weird Tales of Paranoia and the Damned

Martin, Charles

Bryant, Michael

Nicolino, Toni

Owens, David A.

Gaines, Doctor

Fraser, Christopher

Smith, C.R.J.

Jordan, Matthew D.

Five years prior to the publication of Gateways to Abomination, Matthew M. Bartlett put out a book called Dead Air. That book is now extremely scarce. This volume contains most of the unpublished work from that book, a few dark poems, and stories and fragments that later appeared in Gateways to Abomination and Creeping Waves. It also features magnificently creepy artwork by Yves Tourigny, as well as Tom Breen's original introduction. Witness the early days of dread magus Benjamin Stockton, and of his demonic radio station WXXT, with all its guts, worms, wriggling things, and voices from the dark

Dead Air: Early Broadcasts

"Matthew M. Bartlett is an open channel to the darkness" -Michael T. Cisco, author of Unlanguage\nA hair product's occult properties give the unsuspecting consumer more than just luxurious locks.\nA rural museum's shocking exhibits explore the dark and deathly aspects of laughter.\nA house travels the skies by night to find the man who long ago hid from terror in its abandoned halls.\nAn actor on a movie set recites a scripted incantation that summons unholy apocalypse.\nAn unseemly birthday party novelty turns out to be a diabolical tool of revenge.\nA town's dark devotion to a dead child spells danger for unwary day trippers.\nA senior citizen van takes an unexpected detour to hell.\nJoin Matthew M. Bartlett, author of Gateways to Abomination, as he takes you on a tour through witch-ridden Leeds, Massachusetts, through hex-haunted Hulse, Massachusetts, and beyond, to the darker precincts of existence, where the chance rotation of a radio dial leads to cosmic madness, where devils reign, where doom creeps, where fiends flourish...where night cowers. "Reading Bartlett is like watching the offspring of François Rabelais & Al Columbia frolic like demented wildlife, where people wear the faces of a Hannah Höch portrait while giggling macabre wisdom over obscene broadcasts from radio stations located deep within dark forests." -Christopher Slatsky, author of The Immeasurable Corpse of Nature

Where Night Cowers

JournalStone

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