My darkly comic horror short, "The Bloodwitch," is featured on Season 5 of the horror podcast Wilhelm Presents: Frightening Tales. 

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Why has Mike been feeling so low? Why was he on top of the world just months ago? What will he do to get that high back?

Mike Fontaine thought a new start would fix everything. A door-to-door sales gig, 400 miles from home, seemed like the perfect escape. He never expected the cure for his slump to be blood.

In one world, he’s the frontman of a psychedelic hardcore band. In the other, he’s a serial killer. Every time the band releases a record, someone dies.

This is one of those records.

“Grandmas beware! Killer Mike and the Blood Slugs are back in town!! Matthew Jon Smith has found a great horror niche with his Killer Mike character! Let's hope for more Mike adventures! It's like the carnival ride you just want to ride over and over again!! And LOVE them slugs!!”

- Jim Donohue, Author of Ramona

"I'm sorry to say we're passing on ‘Killer Mike and the Blood Slugs.’

We don't publish music reviews, and I don't know how

[Carnage House] wound up on your radar for this."

- Josh Darling, Editor in Chief of Carnage House

“If you love your grandma, this will read like a punch to the suck hole. If you hate your grandma, you'll feel like you just punched HER in the suck hole. Regardless of your feelings about grandmas, it'll be a moist ride.”

-B.S. Miller, Author of A Glimpse of Fear

Liner Notes: After the incident during the Spring Break of ‘89, Mike didn’t really exist anymore; the only thing left was his blissful, nauseating high, and this worked for him quite well. Without being there, without getting in the way, school was now effortless, and he even had a brief stint of popularity. At six months, the high started to dwindle, and he could feel himself creeping in; could feel himself getting in the way. After another six months, he started losing friends. Before long, his motivation and grades fell to lows worse than before… Before what? Mike could sense a hole where a memory should be. He ended up dropping out of college, much to the chagrin of his parents, and moved into a cheap studio apartment that was only a few miles from the family home, using what he had left of his college tutoring money as a down payment on the place. The whole situation had him down, and he knew he needed a job. In April of ‘91, Mike answered an ad that he found in the Shikaakwa Moon that said, “Looking for young people who want to make a lot of money and travel at the same time.” During the phone call, the only questions the person that Mike now knew was the boss asked him were, “Do you have a car?” and, “Have you ever worked sales before?” He was pretty sure they would have hired him no matter what he answered to that second question, and when they told him where to go, Mike drove the 400 miles to the south suburbs of the Twin Cities the very next day. Now, after a couple of weeks working that new job… 

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Imagine 500 Days of Summer if Joseph Gordon-Levitt had homicidal tendencies.

Mike is really struggling with his urges. He knows what he wants, but he also knows the consequences, Maybe he just hasn't met that right someone.

In one world Mike Fontaine is the front man for a psychedelic hardcore band and in another he is a serial killer. Every time the band releases a record in one world, Mike kills in the other. 

This is one of those records.

“A shocking turn of events that was equal parts brutal and strangely beautiful.”

- Camille Danciu, Author of On Behalf of All Women

“Blood Slugs’ [A Night on the Town] is what you'd get if Jim Jarmusch did splatterpunk.”

- Rob Tannahill, Editor of Last Christmas: A Holiday Horror Anthology

“Get ready for a visceral, grotesque experience that will leave you questioning what’s real and what it's like to be truly alive.”

- Tory Favro, Author of Piñata

Liner Notes: News of his wrongdoings in Minnesota never reached home, but Mike would sometimes think about those damned slugs, and his whole body would shiver. Without question, he knew if he struck again, they would show up to feast on the blood. It wasn’t just that they looked like living blobs of snot, or the fact that when they fed, their tails engorged like pregnant bubbles. There was something else. Something that would make his flesh crawl when he conjured their image, an elusive feeling, enough to control his urges for damn near a year and a half. He needed his fix, but he couldn’t face the slugs. That was, until he met her. Late on a Monday night while leaving a concert on the north side of Shikaakwa…

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(Foreword by yours, truly.)

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Regardless if you are a Poe expert or a newcomer to his works, this hand-selected collection is the perfect addition to any horror lover's library.

From "The Black Cat" to "The Tell-Tale Heart" the stories in this collection have shaped the face of modern horror literature. See where it all began in "The Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe."

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“The Fall of the House of Usher”

“The Masque of the Red Death”

“The Pit and the Pendulum”

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My story "Traditions Tangled in Tinsel" is featured in Last Christmas: A Holiday Horror Anthology from Dark Moon Rising Publications.  

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Dark Moon Rising Publications also has other cool anthologies out now. Go check them out.