Matt Shaw

A new breed of serial killer - a stranger who travels the country kidnapping his victims before torturing them and discarding them in a field....

It was supposed to be a pleasant evening out; a break from the stress of the hard-working week they had both endured....

The Holy Bible, according to Matt Shaw. Taking the popular stories from the Bible and giving them a horror twist, this book is not intended to be used as a way of preaching your beliefs. God would probably frown down upon such usage....

February 14th and my wife is looking at me with hope in her eyes. She has just given me a card and a bottle of my favourite drink so I presume she is hoping for something similar in return. I have nothing but the shovel I'm hiding behind my back. Valentine's Day is a joke....

Home truths pave the way for a journey of self-discovery and revenge in the direct sequel to Matt Shaw's Sick Bastards....

A family will do anything to survive after a nuclear attack has left their world in ruins. Actions which even surprise them....

It was a killer year for horror fiction of the harder kind. The stories here represent the best of them, disturbing tales that dig deep and take you into the dark heart of horror itself, unrelenting and unapologetic....

T-Rex isn't the violent, blood-thirsty dinosaur people believe it to be. He's just grumpy and you would be too if you were sexually frustrated....

For Craig, the trip to the cabin was supposed to be a quiet retreat from his hectic city life where he could concentrate on writing his latest novel....

sickEST B*stards continues on from both Sick B*stards and SickER B*stards, bringing the story to a shocking conclusion....

The world is overpopulated. Resources are running out. In an effort to balance things out, the government has stepped in with a radical new lottery system. All names are put into a computer, with 200 names being drawn at random....

Mark fears that his wife is cheating on him. Over the past couple of weeks, she has been growing more and more distant and shudders at his very touch....

The year is 2032, and five-year-old Jacob is opening the biggest gift, beneath the Christmas tree, which is labeled for him: his very first semi-automatic rifle—and he couldn't be prouder....

Martin and Sonia's child, Stevie, needs a liver transplant. But in this cruel world, unless you're rich enough to go private, the only way they're going to get one is if Stevie enters The Arena with other sickly children and steps out victorious.

Jen's life came crashing down around her when she found out her husband had been seeing another woman behind her back. She knew they had issues in their relationship....

Mark and Helen's relationship is in a rut. They don't really sleep with one another anymore unless Mark instigates it, and even then, Helen's heart isn't really in it. After a trip to the dentist to have a tooth extracted, Mark inadvertently stumbles into Helen's hidden fetish....

Jake has nearly everything he wants from life.... The only thing he doesn't seem to have is the luck and - soon after that - he also finds himself without arms or legs....

Dean and Jess knew the house had a tragic past but it did not stop them from making the move with their young daughters....

Moving from school to school is never easy ... But it's worse when the more unfriendly students decide to take an instant dislike to you....

Sometimes people do not have much time in their lives. Deadlines are looming at work, kids are playing up, dinners need to be prepared, errands need to be run. That is where short stories....