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Matthew G. Rees - Writer
WELCOME to the website of Matthew G. Rees
'His writing is truly imaginative, dark, but also at times darkly amusing'
FROST ZONE
'A master of concise not-a-word-wasted yet cinematic storytelling'
BAFTA-winner STEPHEN VOLK
BREAKING NEWS...
'THE STOOL' - a brand new story by Matthew G. Rees - is now available from Dark Lane Books.
Scroll BOOKS page for Dark Lane titles with tales by Matthew G. Rees
'So good'
Robert Pope on the new story by Matthew G. Rees
Find it by scrolling the BOOKS page HERE
MAJOR NEWS!
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Matthew G. Rees has been announced as the 2023 winner of the prestigious Rhys Davies Award - Wales's national prize for the short story.
His winning story 'HARVEST' is the title tale in a new anthology from Parthian Books.
FULL NEWS about the prize can be found HERE
AVAILABLE through bookshops or via the publishers HERE
'a distinctive and masterful voice in storytelling'
JANE FRASER
Acclaimed author & 2023 Judge of the Rhys Davies Award
on MATTHEW G. REES
Meantime DARK RUSSIAN...
Remarkable continuing acclaim for Matthew G. Rees's
The Snow Leopard of Moscow & Other Stories
18 HAUNTING TALES - WITH PHOTOGRAPHS - SET IN PUTIN-ERA MOSCOW
'NOTHING SHORT OF PERFECTION'
BUZZ
'It's not often I want to shout about a story collection from the rooftops but with this one I really do... Buy it, buy it, buy it!'
BAFTA-winner Stephen Volk
'SUPERBLY WROUGHT... He manages to pull off certain stories like skilled bank robbers pull off heists... accomplished, evocative & arresting throughout.' Award-winning writer Jon Gower
For more about this and all books by Matthew G. Rees
please go to BOOKS page
Or find it direct ON AMAZON HERE
ALSO NOW AVAILABLE
A NEW STORY by Matthew G. Rees
A bookshop-set horror-with-humour fantasy
'LOCAL AUTHOR'
Dark entertainment in the latest anthology from Dark Lane Books
Events deviate far from the intended script when a debut novelist visits her local bookstore
Please visit the BOOKS PAGE for more on all Dark Lane stories by Matthew G. Rees
MEANWHILE in association with local & independent booksellers...
A limited quantity of SIGNED COPY books by Matthew G. Rees in stock at independent bookstore 'Cover To Cover'
in Mumbles, Swansea, Wales
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BOOK NEWS & FEEDBACK
Tales of dark dining -
Mounting acclaim
'Great collection of enjoyably macabre tales' - film-maker Steven Lancefield
'Do not miss this collection by a master story-teller' - author & academic Paul Murgatroyd
'genius' - award-winning writer Sally Spedding
'I laughed out loud & was unsettled in equal measure'
'impossible to put down ... I laughed out loud and was unsettled in equal measure. I highly recommend this anthology to anyone who enjoys intelligent, original horror' -Mark Humphries, author of 'Hawthorn', 5-star reader review on Amazon
'at the top of his game and then some' - Jon Gower
A 2022 BOOK OF THE MONTH at website AmeriCymru
'deliciously dark'
Purchase as a paperback, Ebook or via Kindle Unlimited HERE www.amazon.co.uk and markets worldwide
Purchase as a paperback, Ebook or via Kindle Unlimited
HERE www.amazon.co.uk
and markets worldwide
Remarkable continuing praise
'a masterpiece of literary speculative fiction' - Risingshadow website
'I knew I had a winner of a book here. I wasn't wrong.' -
Nancy Oakes, Oddly Weird Fiction
'Superb' - BAFTA-winner Stephen Volk
'excellent tales'
Garry Kilworth
Buy Keyhole through selected booksellers or direct from the publisher via my Books page HERE
While you're here: some articles & photos by Matthew G. Rees that you might like to look at...
FEATURE: MACHEN COUNTRY
VIEW MATTHEW G. REES' PHOTO ALBUM
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PICTURES & WORDS FROM MATTHEW G. REES'S EXPLORATION OF 'MACHEN COUNTRY' - THE LAND & SITES IN THE WELSH BORDERS ASSOCIATED WITH THE YOUTH OF ARTHUR MACHEN - HERE: EVENTS
FLASHBACK: ARCHIVE ARTICLE MATTHEW G. REES on
WICKER MEN
FICTION... OR FACT?
WHAT CONNECTS M.R. JAMES, ALFRED WATKINS & A MYSTERIOUS STONE IN THE BORDERLANDS OF ENGLAND AND WALES?
FIND OUT, IN WORDS & PICTURES,
HERE
PHOTOGRAPHS & THOUGHTS FROM MATTHEW G. REES'S VISIT TO THE HOME OF ANTON CHEKHOV 'THE FATHER OF THE SHORT STORY'
HERE
PLEASE TOUR THE WHOLE SITE FOR THE ABOVE PLUS INTERVIEWS, AUDIO STORIES, THEATRE - AND MORE.
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