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'His writing is truly imaginative, dark, but also at times darkly amusing'

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     STOP PRESS - Fantastic review published of Matthew G. Rees's new book
The Snow Leopard of Moscow & Other Stories - Tales From a City's Shadow Side 
                '...NOTHING SHORT OF PERFECTION'
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                 STOP PRESS
MATTHEW G. REES has been shortlisted for Wales's national short story award - the prestigious Rhys Davies Award 2022.
His story 'Endgame' has been selected as one of 12 written by the finalists.
(Rees, below: black-and-white photo, lower row, fourth from left.)

JUST PUBLISHED
New short story 'The Boat'
by Matthew G. Rees launched in anthologyDark Lane 12

Find 'The Boat'
HERE in 
Dark Lane 12

All 12 stories will appear in an anthology from Parthian B00ks (cover above right)  later in the year when the overall winner of the award will be announced.
Matthew G. Rees said: 'This is an honour for me. I'm pleased (and touched) to be associated with an award that, among other things, commemorates a writer so closely connected with the craft of short fiction, who produced some truly notable writing, indeed 'classics' that have stood the test of time.'  

STOP PRESS 
A limited quantity of SIGNED COPIES of The Snow Leopard of Moscow & Other Stories now in stock at independent bookstore 'Cover To Cover'
in Mumbles, Swansea, Wales

NOW AVAILABLE! - THE BRAND NEW BOOK

Dark Russian...

18 HAUNTING TALES - WITH PHOTOGRAPHS - SET IN PUTIN-ERA MOSCOW.

STORIES OF THE UNCANNY, FOLK HORROR, THE SPECULATIVE & THE DARKLY SATIRICAL

'WILL ASTONISH THE READER... A VERY GOOD BOOK INDEED!'

internationally published writer Rhys Hughes

'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

'A GENUINLEY STUNNING COLLECTION' 
                                                       Alan Bilton, author of The End of the Yellow House

IN PAPERBACK & EBOOK FORMATS

IN TERRITORIES WORLDWIDE

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FOR MORE ABOUT THE SNOW LEOPARD OF MOSCOW & OTHER STORIES

INCLUDING ADDITIONAL PICTURES

 PLEASE VISIT THE BOOKS PAGE HERE

NEWS 
FANTASTIC REVIEW PUBLISHED
OF THE FEAST

'DELICIOUS collection... from Matthew G. Rees... masterful storyteller... assembles as curious a cast as you're ever likely to encounter... an unfettered imagination at play, a serious & seriously gifted writer happy here to be a little more frivolous, more tongue-in-cheek.'          
SEE INTERVIEWS & REVIEWS PAGE via header tab for link to the full review, plus other reviews.

NEW FEATURE:
A VISIT TO THE HOME OF ANTON CHEKHOV

PHOTOGRAPHS & THOUGHTS FROM MATTHEW G. REES' VISIT TO THE HOME OF 'THE FATHER OF THE SHORT STORY' 
 EVENTS 

2022 Book News Latest 

Tales of dark dining -
Mounting acclaim

'I laughed out loud & was unsettled in equal measure'

 Remarkable continuing praise

'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

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

'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
 

Purchase as a paperback, Ebook or via Kindle Unlimited
HERE www.amazon.co.uk
and markets worldwide

'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

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While you're here: some articles & photos by Matthew G. Rees that you might care to take a look at...

RECENT STORY in an anthology that's been attracting plenty of interest

Buy The Ghastling anthology featuring the new story 'STICK' by Matthew G. Rees HERE 

PICTURES & WORDS FROM MATTHEW G. REES' 2021 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

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