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Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2023 finalist Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Young Adult Division — Short Story for 'The Lingering Taste of Your Last Supper', published on the Crystal Lake Entertainment Patreon.
Awards for Works
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Bites Eyes : 13 Macabre Morsels
Upper Mount Gravatt
:
Brain Jar Press
,
2023
25755506
2023
selected work
short story
horror
'Art and ambition meet sublime moments of dread in Matthew R. Davis’ Bites Eyes, a collection of sinister and terrifying vignettes from the award-winning author and rising star of Australian horror.
'Within, you’ll find ghosts celebrating heartbreaking holidays, deadly music that spells death for any who hear it, unsettling children who take extraordinary steps, lethal butchers lurking in plain sight, ancient evils, and much more.
'Collected together for the first time, these thirteen macabre morsels offer a taste of the terrifying, the sinister, the dangerous, and the disturbed.
'Every bite’s a pleasure, yet comes with a delectable thrill of fear.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
- 2023 finalist Australian Shadows Award — Collection
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The Dark Matter of Natasha
Evanston
:
Grey Matter Press
,
2022
24978137
2022
single work
novel
thriller
horror
'Natasha stalks the quiet streets of dead-end Lunar Bay like doom in a denim jacket. She's a grim reminder that some teenagers can never escape the ever-tightening noose of their lives. Burned out and benumbed by a traumatic past, dogged by scurrilous small-town gossip, she finds solace in drugs, sex and Slayer.
'What horrors have her flat eyes witnessed? And how far will she go in pursuit of the one tiny spark of hope that still flickers in her haunted heart?
'When a naïve transplant crosses her path, he's drawn into shadow and doubt. With his girlfriend ghosting him, Natasha's fresh introduction to her half-lit world is darkly appealing. Now faced with confusing quandaries-connection or convenience, relationship or exploitation-can he help any of the women in his life? Or is he just helping himself?
'The untold tragedies of Natasha's lonely life may be more than he can handle. And in a town whose history is littered with dead girls, there may be no happy ending for anyone.
'A tar-black coming of age story, this gritty psychological thriller from Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author Matthew R. Davis, eloquently chronicles the crushing gravity of small-town hopelessness, the double-edged catharsis of sex, drugs, and heavy metal, and the brutal weight of youth's first lessons in accountability' (Publication summary)
- 2023 nominated Ditmar Awards — Best Novella or Novelette
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