Horror author Matt Cowan examines the genre past and present
Issue #3 of Black Infinity Magazine is now available for purchase. The theme for this issue is Body Snatchers! Alien Control, Possession and/or Replacement. As always, it’s bursting at the seams with both new and classic weird/science fiction stories, columns, artwork, pictures and a vintage comic book tale. Every issue begins with an excellent article […]
Read More BLACK INFINITY #3 BODY SNATCHERS, ALIEN CONTROL AND REPLACEMENTI’ve previously posted here about my movie review column that made its debute in the new science fiction journal Black Infinity from Tom English and Dead Letter Press. What I haven’t mentioned much about is all the other contributions this impressive first volume has to offer. You’ll find a full novel by Harry Harrison, two columns ( […]
Read More BLACK INFINITY: DEADLY PLANETS SPECIAL PREVIEWBack in 2009, my short story “Here He Comes A Wandering” won The Pod of Horror Christmas Horror Story Competition and was read by the show’s fantastic host Mark Justice near the end of episode #58. I recently sent it to the editors at Grinning Skull Press for consideration for the third and final iteration […]
Read More REVISED AND EXPANDED “HERE HE COMES A WANDERING” TO BE PUBLISHEDINDIANA CRIME REVIEW 2013 has just become available in Kindle formate. It includes my psychic espionage tale, “System Override”, which is intended to be the first glimpse into what I hope to eventually expand into a much larger universe of stories. http://www.amazon.com/Indiana-Crime-Review-2013-James-ebook/dp/B018IS1GY4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1448548349&sr=8-1&keywords=indiana+crime+2013+kindle
Read More “System Override” Now Available For KindleHappy Halloween! I hope everyone is enjoying a terrifying day filled with spectral frights. To that end, I’m offering up a short story of my own. “The Shadow Man of Moon Spine Bridge” was originally published in the anthology INDIANA HORROR 2012 by James Ward Kirk Fiction. It’s about a man returning to his childhood […]
Read More “The Shadow Man of Moon Spine Bridge” by Matt CowanGreat Italian musician, Mac of BIOnight, interviewed me about my writing and love of the horror genre on his most recent podcast, along side tracks from his most recent album, THE RIVER AND THE RAILROAD. Check it out at the link below: http://macofbionight.bandcamp.com/album/macs-podcast-episode-06-may-2014“>http://macofbionight.bandcamp.com/album/macs-podcast-episode-06-may-2014”>http://macofbionight.bandcamp.com/album/macs-podcast-episode-06-may-2014
Read More Matt Cowan Interviewed on Mac’s PodcastThis anthology contains my short story, “Christmas Wine”. It deals with the legend that claims water stored in stone jugs is transformed into wine between the hours of eleven and midnight on Christmas Eve. Being a story of mine, however, things go horribly wrong. http://www.amazon.com/Little-Town-Deathlehem-Anthology-Holiday/dp/0989026949/ref=la_B008BBVZV8_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1388681822&sr=1-8
Read More O LITTLE TOWN OF DEATHLEHEM NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK!My short story “Numen” has been selected as one o two from the anthology CELLAR DOOR VOLUME II WORDS OF BEAUTY, TALES OF TERROR to win The Editor’s Choice Award. It’s now available on Amazon in both Paperback and Kindle formats.
Read More “NUMEN” WINS EDITOR’S CHOICE AWARDThe CELLAR DOOR 2 anthology containing my short story “Numen” is now available for the Kindle. The paper copy will be out soon. The definition of the word numen is: A divine power or spirit; a deity, especially one presiding locally or believed to inhabit a particular object.
Read More CELLAR DOOR 2 ANTHOLOGYMy short story “Numen” has been accepted to appear in the second volume of the CELLAR DOOR anthology. One of the requirements was for it to have a beautiful word or phrase for its title. Numen is a latin term meaning “The presiding divinity or spirit of a place”.
Read More My Short Story “Numen” to appear in CELLAR DOOR 2 Anthology
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