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MatGost
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Author, Dreamweaver. Pushcart, Best of the Net, & Best Microfiction nominee. Twin Peaks Fan. He/him. Latest pubs in links:
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Like #writing? Love quiet horror? My interview with @storyradio.bsky.social is out today, featuring an incredible reading by @terryholland.bsky.social.
We talk about the Silent Screams charity anthology and whether horror can ever be literature.
Listen here:
pca.st/episode/bb24...
#writingcommunity
Thumbnail of the Story Radio Podcast
December 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Three amazing charity anthology projects just landed...
My own Silent Screams antho, plus collections from @sasharavitch.bsky.social & @therelphian.bsky.social of @trashcatlit.bsky.social
Read all about them here:
matgost.substack.com/p/silent-scr...
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"
October 7, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Silent Screams is out now.
It's the first anthology I've edited and I love every single story inside it.
If you prefer your #Halloween scares quiet and filled with creeping dread, then this is the book for you.
eBook and paperback:
mybook.to/SilentScream...
#Horror #ShortStories #WritingCommunity
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.
October 6, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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My book is free right now on Kindle
mybook.to/6tth
(I finally worked out how to do a promo!) 
12 dark tales FOR FREE! 
#FreeBook #Horror
Please grab it, share the link, and drop a review if you get the chance. Help me get the word out.
Disturbing cover image of a strange hollow-eyed, black lipped face. An Ill-Stitched Menagerie Strange tales by Mathew Gostelow Table of contents 12 tales published by magazines and presses including Dark Holme, Exposed Bone, Bag of Bones Press and more
June 20, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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It's unleashed!
An Ill-Stitched Menagerie.
12 strange tales of horror and imagination.
mybook.to/JSQxd
Works first published by @exposedbonemag.bsky.social @acidbathpublishing.bsky.social @sjtownend.bsky.social @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social & more
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 "A true master of the occult genre" James Jenkins, Urban Pigs Press "Invasive, appalling, and perceptive. Gostelow writes with a rare doom." Scum Hellebore, Exposed Bone "Crack your skull open, bust those sutures, and fill your brainpan with these weird stories." JP Relph, Trash Cat Lit Packed with unsettling tales of horror and imagination, this collection will take you on a mind-bending journey into the deep dark, where you'll face demonic entities, fearsome creatures, cursed films, and apocalyptic visions
June 7, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Wonderful to have this beautiful anthology from @acidbathpublishing.bsky.social in my hands. A collection of poetry and short stories exploring the bacchanalian magic of night-time revels.
I can't wait to dive in...
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
June 5, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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An Ill-Stitched Menagerie.
My second short story collection, featuring 12 strange tales of horror and imagination.
Released on Saturday 7th June 2025.
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 Image of back cover with blurb: "A true master of the occult genre" James Jenkins, Urban Pigs Press "Invasive, appalling, and perceptive. Gostelow writes with a rare doom." Scum Hellebore, Exposed Bone "Crack your skull open, bust those sutures, and fill your brainpan with these weird stories." JP Relph, Trash Cat Lit Packed with unsettling tales of horror and imagination, this collection will take you on a mind-bending journey into the deep dark, where you'll face demonic entities, fearsome creatures, cursed films, and apocalyptic visions
June 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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My collection, 'An Ill-Stitched Menagerie', will be released on Saturday, 7th June.
The Kindle ebook preorder is already open:
mybook.to/6tth
Please help spread the word!
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.
May 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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The second sneak-preview comes via The Rejuvenation Business - a tale of corporate greed and taxidermy gone wrong - first published by Punk Noir:
punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/2024/04/25/t...
"...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..."
May 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Want to preview a couple of stories from my forthcoming collection, 'An Ill-Stitched Menagerie'?
You've got it!
First up, a tale of found footage, first published by @exposedbonemag.bsky.social - Sonneillon. You can read it in full on their website:
www.exposedbonemag.com/pieces/sonne...
"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..."
May 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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I've got a newsletter coming out on Friday, with Part 2 of my free SUBMIT course, packed with practical tips for writers looking to get their work published.
Also includes writing prompts, updates, sub calls and more.
Read previous issues and subscribe: matgost.substack.com
May 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Less than two weeks until the release of my 2nd short story collection, containing 12 strange tales of horror & imagination
Ft. work published by @exposedbonemag.bsky.social @sjtownend.bsky.social @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social @acidbathpublishing.bsky.social & more
Kindle preorder: mybook.to/6tth
Contents page: Contents The Rejuvenation Business 7 (first published by Punk Noir) Sonneillon [Transcript of Claire’s Scares, October 23rd, 2023] 23 (first published by Exposed Bone) Men o’ the Sea 38 (first published by Cloister Fox) ManTheFuckUp 56 (first published by Bag of Bones Press) The Scissorman 73 (first published by Solar Press) The Greys 90 (first published by Wrong Publications) Like a Different Species 106 (first published by DarkWinter Lit) Transcendence in an Oblong Room 121 (first published by Acid Bath Publishing) That’ll Be the Day 133 (first published by Black Glass Pages) The Festering Filth That Sloshed Inside 154 (first published by Dark Holme Publishing) All Up in Him 179 You Were Here 187 (first published by The Winged Moon)
May 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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My next short story collection is coming together...
Proof copy arrived yesterday 🫨
Squeeeeeeee!!
Thanks to @trashcatlit.bsky.social, @urbanpigspress.bsky.social and @exposedbonemag.bsky.social for killer blurbs...
Back cover of the book, with Not for resale strip, Ghost Willow Press logo and ISBN. Inside pages of the book
May 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Me: I know there's bread sticks, but I don't want to spoil my appetite.

Also me:
May 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Been fae-spotting, getting lost among the bluebells.
Lush green foliage and a carpet of bluebell flowers A path of dry leaves amid the bluebells
April 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Get the amazing Wrong Turns anthology as a free download with the code APR9 over at @wrongpublishing.bsky.social
wrongpublishing.com/store/p127/wro…
Amazing stories inside, including my dystopian medical puffball apocalypse, with a weirdly happy ending.
April 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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I'm really excited to be able to share my wee essay, pondering #TwinPeaks, Killer Bob, and David Lynch's passing.
coalitionfordigitalnarratives.org/2025/04/07/l...
Thanks to The Coalitionist for sharing this.
April 8, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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I'm incredibly excited to be able to share some news about the Quiet Horror Anthology project!

First: The title has been updated to SILENT SCREAMS😱

Second: I can finally reveal our stunning cover art by @ewbstuff.bsky.social

Third: Table of Contents attached

Tagging the incredible authors below👇
A beautiful weird artwork, depicting a silent screamer and many, many EYES Terry Holland Barnabus Calstock's Last Wish Sonia Overall The House-sitter Heather D Haigh Blood and Bones Sarah Royston Under Hallow Hill Ali Maloney Sawdust Mechanics, Pinochio Engineers JP Relph Rockabye Lindz McLeod Mother Nature Zary Fekete The Beast in the Hollow Sarah Turner The Marsh is Full of Forgotten Things Hilary Ayshford The Siren's Revenge James Penha Charming Emil Colic Sleeplilly John K Peck What The Rain Brings Out Tabitha Potts Welcome Little Stranger Peter Haynes Now Hard By Downbarrow Jack Kerger The Thing Upstairs Sarah Farr Never Forget Me H V Patterson (Helen) Unexplained Melissa Nunez The Medical Journal of Dr Miranda Montes Robert Nazar Arjoyan The Candle in the Kitchen
April 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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I've got a newsletter coming out on Monday (link in bio) - including Part 1 of a new course exploring the how, where and why of submitting your writing to mags and anthologies.
+ Writing prompts, sub opps, & shoutouts to @exposedbonemag.bsky.social @sjtownend.bsky.social @folklorereview.bsky.social
Newsletter promo image featuring a still from the film They Live, with a large billboard reading "SUBMIT"
March 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Everybody's out here raving about Adolescence, apparently forgetting that @sjtownend.bsky.social and Bag of Bones Press already published my weird and unsettling take on the toxic manosphere in their incredible SKIN anthology...
Cover of the SKIN anthology, depicts a skeleton with its skin blowing off in long ribbons.
March 28, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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Week-ahead reading 10.3
King of Pentacles (Blackie), Nine of Wands (Donna)
We need to tap into our 'bad bitch energy' this week. Swagger like a boss, talk like a boss, practice our power stances.
And if we don't feel it in our hearts yet, we can fake it 'til we make it.
#TwinPeaks #TarotReading
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.
March 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Week ahead reading, 24th Feb
King of Cups (Doc Hayward), Page of Coins (Dick Tremayne)
We need to remain stoic, work on mastering our emotions to stay afloat this week.
At work, we should keep a learning mindset. Stay thirsty, stay excited,
#TarotReading #TwinPeaks
Photo of two Twin Peaks themed tarot cards
February 24, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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I've got a newsletter coming out on Friday with writing prompts, a whole heapa submission opportunities, links to incredible short stories, and more.
Signup details here:
linktr.ee/matgost
Pic of a clock with the caption: I have never exploded but I know what it would be like
February 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Today's creative reading:
Strength (Nadine and Mike), 8 of Coins (Diane)
This is a time for calm and focus, patience and composure.
If you can see each project as a part of your apprenticeship, you'll achieve mastery of your craft without even noticing.
#TwinPeaks #Tarot
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
February 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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There's still a couple of weeks left to send your quiet horror stories for this charity anthology project:
matgost.substack.com/p/submission...
I'd love to read your words.
Freak me out. Twist my head. Make my skin crawl. I dare you.
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
February 17, 2025 at 7:39 AM