Matthew Sawyer: 21 books

There are two holidays on which I often publish a short story. Halloween is my favorite. Although, honestly, my Valentine's Day stories are better. They are less juvenile and always more bloody. Wait, before that admission chases away prospective readers, if anyone follows my tales, he or she sees...

Do you want hear about R'Lyeh? That sunken city Lovecraft wrote about in his story Call of Cthulhu. I'll tell you little something a five-year old can understand.

Debbie Menon failed to sell the house everyone local called the Witch's house. The grief-stricken real estate agent set the historic brick Victorian on fire before the house became animated. The burning Witch's house moved itself out of Wister Town, taking a chunk of crust with it from the small Wisconsin...

Our Lord Weathercock shares the regional mythology of a damned Southern Wisconsin town. This story of cults, monsters and home-schooled magicians emulates. There are new gods and this is where they manifest. Here in Wister Town, a retired farmer is harassed by a coven of aspiring juvenile witches....

The Doctor appears late in this sordid tale. All the attention is given to the protagonist of Canaanabis Roach. He's special and he's just been given the power of speech. Now he talks about his adventures in past lives, This one happens to include the namesake Time Lord and an impossible girl.

Barry and Dana talk about having a baby; not another baby, because the couple does not speak about their stillborn son. But this new discussion upsets their pet cat.

Professor Hebert Stock is a good man. This professor of nuclear engineering at the University of Wisconsin – Green Bay truly believes he is a force for good. All alone, he considers himself a mortal god. His accomplishments support his delusions – Strock here has harnessed cold fusion. He has...