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Author · Storyteller
Matthew Holland
@matthewholland
Horror writer drawn to flawed characters, unexpected consequences and the small details that make imagined worlds feel real.
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About the writer
Matthew Holland writes horror and gothic. Their interests range from character and story structure to editing, formatting and the practical realities of independent publishing.
Readers notice more than writers sometimes give them credit for.
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Stories by Matthew Holland
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The Quiet Room Above the Bookshop
When a rain-damaged bookshop in Winchester opens a locked room no one remembers building, its new caretaker finds that certain books have been annotated by hands that do not belong to the living. The notes begin predicting the private failures of customers and staff, each one leading them a little closer to a sealed basement that should have stayed sealed. What starts as a nuisance becomes a slow, intimate haunting built out of guilt, old grief, and the terrible usefulness of being read too carefully.
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