Matthew Tait

• Feb-2013
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Fifteen years ago the affluent gated-community of Slander Hall was the setting of the largest mass suicide in U.S. history; dozens of men and women committing the ultimate sacrifice and embracing the covenant of their leader to shed their bodies f...

• Jun-2013
• / General Fiction
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Peru, 1835, and the Order of Sant’Antonio have just witnessed something that goes against all belief: a ball of light has penetrated their sanctuary. Nobody has seen anything like it before and Brother Chabuca Cristal knows that one of his own f...

• Nov-2013
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A writer is disturbed from his daily grind by blood dripping from the ceiling, which gets steadily worse. Soon, the blood becomes his own personal metaphor in a battle of denial.

When a compulsive gambler is forced to seek out a loan shark ...

• Apr-2014
• / Horror
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Hidden within the Pitch Pines of Cyclone Cove forty-five years prior, Wyvern Way becomes a sinister backdrop when a young autistic child bears witness to atrocity. Rescued by an unlikely source, the two make a final pact that resonates throughout ...

• Jan-2017
• / Science Fiction
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In his 2013 novel Dark Meridian, Australian author, Matthew Tait introduced us to Adam Lavas: a washed up rock star who retires in solitude and discovered another world in the process. Welcome to the second story in Adam's narrative ... Olearia. Once...

• Oct-2017
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Once a bustling school playing host to the elite of Cranston, Providence Place now sits completely abandoned; a derelict world of memories for the populace of Rhode Island. It’s also a place where people come from all over the country seeking their...

• Dec-2018
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At thirty four years of age, dark fiction scribe Micha Tudor has finally had enough trying to eke out a living as an author. Suicide, that eternal taboo of man, could potentially provide an escape hatch for an exhausted spirit seeking a reset button....

• Sep-2020
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Jessica and Patrick's tour of the Australian outback began as a honeymoon of sorts – a chance for cross-continental lovers to become even more enamored of each other against the backdrop of a picturesque desert world.But, like so many travelers...

• Oct-2020
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Nick Wheeler's subject matter has always been controversial. A venerated photographer motivated to capture the malign elements of human existence - suicide as illusion and artifice - his career is suddenly in tatters after a near-fatal work accident ...

• Jan-2021
• / Horror
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Bone and sinew, veins and blood, piloted around by a mysterious force called consciousness.The human animal.Mark Tanner is more aware of his anatomic makeup than most. And his severe germophobic OCD only makes the realization all the more potent. An ...

• Mar-2021
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When Perry and Timmy are summoned to the backroads of California with the promise of pleasure, there are few fears. After all, the lure of an all-week rave in a town called Terrica sounded like the ultimate escape – a holiday where li...

• Apr-2021
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• Aug-2021
• / Horror
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Against their mother's wishes, brothers Henry and Jacob are on their way to the new horror museum. A night jaunt through the twisting thoroughfares of Cyclone Cove. Its opening shrouded in secrecy, no one quite knows anything beyond its enigmatic nam...

• Oct-2021
• / Horror
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The First Apocalypse they named it, a title that didn't mean anything to the survivors …In a war ravaged desert world, giant strongholds have arisen from the dust; cathedrals built to house a new world order of decadent tribes. While order surv...

• Oct-2023
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A famous house on the eastern seaboard, Oaklyn Castle has become even more notorious now a celebrity power couple calls it home. With a burgeoning family, Arabella Jaqus and Boyd Palmer have decided to raise their natural and adopted children in Pall...

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Idle hands are the Devil's plaything ...After finishing high school, Liam Goodald and his friends quickly discover the meaning of boredom: freewill as a state of mind and not an abstract philosophy. With blistering heat settling into their apartment ...

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Every year, the Isle of Zoltan plays host to Scout troops in their hundreds, Cubs from all across Australia who gather to rock climb, explore caves, and fish in isolation from the mainland. But for Bradley and his friends Nigel and Steve, this year w...