MatGost

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🏔️🔥🦉🌲☕️🥧 Author, Dreamweaver. Pushcart, Best of the Net, & Best Microfiction nominee. Twin Peaks Fan. He/him. Latest pubs in links: https://linktr.ee/matgost

Thumbnail of the Story Radio Podcast
A promo image for my blog post on substack, showing the cover of my Silent Screams anthology, with a word cloud, and the post title: "Silent Screams for Halloween"
The cover wrap for Silent Screams, An Anthology of Quiet Horrors - featuring a striking, surreal illustration by Eric Brenner, depicting a screaming face with far too many eyes. The book blurb states: The most terrifying horror stories don't churn your stomach. They creep like shadows, chilling with a touch. They build dread through atmosphere and emotion, rather than splatter and gore. Welcome to Silent Screams, an anthology of quiet horror stories. Within these pages, you will face strange and twisted scenes, dark and demonic characters, nightmares great and small, written by a host of talented authors from around the world. These are shattering tales of grief and loss, visitations from strange folk, troubled dreams, and cursed artefacts. These are whispers to make your skin crawl and your toes curl. Words to catch your breath and smother screams.
Disturbing cover image of a strange hollow-eyed, black lipped face. An Ill-Stitched Menagerie Strange tales by Mathew Gostelow
A graphic showing the book cover with a series of themes describing the content Cursed video Taxidermy gone wrong Reality unravelling Occult scissors Techno, sex, and gelatinous flesh Existential dread Toxic manosphere fuckery Characters with heart
Anthology propped up on a book shelf. The cover is a riotous collage of gargoyles and glimpsed bodies, statues, skulls and bones. Night Terrors: An Anthology of the Drunk & Debaucherous
A graphic showing the book cover with a series of themes describing the content: Cursed video Taxidermy gone wrong Reality unravelling Occult scissors Techno, sex, and gelatinous flesh Existential dread Toxic manosphere fuckery Characters with heart
The cover depicts a disturbing eyeless face with a row of stitches across its forehead. Text reads An Ill-Stitched Menagerie. Strange Tales by Mathew Gostelow.
"...a table covered in angle poise lamps, special needles, cotton wool, scissors, and scalpels. In amongst it all is his latest project. Seems like he's currently working on a cat. Unlucky little bastard..."
"Just for moment, when the camera and the torchlight line up, you see him, only his eyes are pure black, like just a void, and his mouth too - no teeth, no tongue, just empty blackness inside..."
Back cover of the book, with Not for resale strip, Ghost Willow Press logo and ISBN.
Lush green foliage and a carpet of bluebell flowers
A beautiful weird artwork, depicting a silent screamer and many, many EYES
Newsletter promo image featuring a still from the film They Live, with a large billboard reading "SUBMIT"
Cover of the SKIN anthology, depicts a skeleton with its skin blowing off in long ribbons.
King of Pentacles from a Twin Peaks tarot deck, depicting Blackie, the ruthless madame of One-Eyed Jack's brothel. Nine of Wands from another Twin Peaks tarot deck, featuring Donna Hayward wearing Laura's sunglasses as she smokes cigarettes, radiating bad-girl energy.
Photo of two Twin Peaks themed tarot cards
Pic of a clock with the caption: I have never exploded but I know what it would be like
Cards from two different Twin Peaks tarot decks. Strength features Nadine and Mike grappling. The 8 of Coins features a silhouette of Diane, typing, surrounded by dictaphone cassettes
The Whispering Gallery We want your slow burners, your creeping dread, your atmospheric hauntings, your weird and your unsettling. Mood over gore. Chills over splatter. 500 to 2500 words
Three cards. Three of clubs from an illustrated deck, the card has a space shuttle blasting into space. Romance, a card from an oracle deck, with a sketch of a couple dancing closely. Ten of Hearts, with a picture of ants carrying leaves.
The slimy alien beauty of the Eraserhead baby
Eight of Spades (lambs jumping over fences), Working Together, Five of Hearts (teddy bear)
An image of David Lynch with the text "Such a sadness, but also such a joy."
And ideas start flowing and you start getting excited about stuff
A glorious, weird sunrise. Trees silhouetted against a sky that burns fierce orange at the horizon with a vivid purple hue above.
Come and Admire Him by Joe Koch
Silhouette of twisted tree branches against the night sky
“Dantalion is a Quiet Place is a spectral tapestry of a book, stitched with the sinew and vein of the best folklore. Gostelow gathers tales, visions, scraps of poetry, journals, and no-frills reportage—the only artefacts of this mysterious borderland. In these pages, the reader finds Dantalion in the only way it can be found, for this is a village built on the fault line separating the living and the dead, where the breath of old gods roils from the earth like hungry mist. A clever, imaginative, and haunting read.” Coy Hall, author of Colossus with a Poison Tongue
A photo of my fuzzy mug, next to a picture of my book cover
A glistening, dark black worm is coiled on a vintage map. Green text reads: Dantalion is a Quiet Place, by Mathew Gostelow.
An epistolary folk horror with cosmic influence and a heavy dose of lore, Dantalion is the story of a twisted small town - and its stories won't let you look away. It is the premise of the lost village with the mythos of Twin Peaks, told in the style of Dracula. Each new revelation is as mesmerising as it is haunting."
"A remarkable feat of imagination and tantalising mystery. Folk Horror at its darkest" Sarah Farr, author of Enter the Darkness
Read the first pages of Watcher free at Wolf Park Press
Arcanum Fabulas by Bam Barrow
Mood board featuring worms, miners, a clay baby, cultists, woods at night under a purple sky, and more worms
Watcher: a novella. A thriller with dark supernatural tones
Suddenly the doors of the nun's boudoir burst inward. In a flurry of yellow tentacles and splintered wood, evil King Zarlak crashed into the room, accompanied by a kill-squad of robotic assassin drones.
Twin Peaks themed tarot card, 4 of Swords, featuring Leland Palmer clinging to the lid of his daughter's coffin
The Whispering Gallery An Anthology of Quiet Horrors Open call for submissions We want your slow burners, your creeping dread, your atmospheric hauntings, your weird and your unsettling. Mood over gore. Chills over spatter. 500-2,500 words
Twin Peaks themed tarot card. 9 of coins. Depicting a hospitality girl from One Eyed Jacks casino and brothel.
The Writers’ HQ Five Days of Write-mas Join us for five days of festive writing toomfoolery It’s that time! We’re gathering our nuts, herding our cheese and inviting you to join us for the traditional Writers’ HQ writing hooha of inspirational awesomeness full of fun, frolics, pep, prompts and sweary lols.
A winter sunrise blazing with vivid colours - purples, neon pinks and oranges, stark black trees silhouetted against the glorious sky
Watcher: A Novella. Now available on Amazon. A thriller with dark supernatural tones.