Shadowchild
by
Matthew Williams
Genre:
Horror
In
1629 something visited the parish of Feckenham. The events that
followed were so terrifying that they never gained their place in the
history books.
Now
in 2008, something seems to be wrong with Marie Watson’s young
children.
Her
father won’t believe her and her mother is nearing the end of her
tether.
Marie
feels utterly alone.
But
is she?
The
Shady Corner
by
Matthew Williams
Genre:
Horror
A
shady corner in life can be a dark and mysterious place, but in the
shady corners of the mind, the mystery and darkness know no
bounds!
In
a struggle with his conscience and haunted by images of murder, David
is given a choice to right the wrongs of his past.
Can
he cheat fate and avoid his future? Or is the evil that dwells within
him more than it seems?
Only
one thing is certain . . .
Fate
can be cruel, but true evil can be brutal!
INTERVIEW
What do you think about the current publishing market?
It’s
exciting times ahead for the publishing market in my opinion. I have a network
of literally hundreds of authors and the cost of books with the introduction of
e-books is far lower than it used to be.
Traditional publishing seems to have narrowed its view in more recent
times, they seem to take less risks than they used to, and they seem to like
the safe bet. I find that most traditional publishers don’t even accept horror
manuscripts, so the growth of Indie publishing is only natural, it certainly
works for the music and film industries.
Do you have a favorite horror or thriller movie? which of your novels can you imagine made into
a movie?
It’s
hard to pick a single film, there are so many great movies out there. But if I
had to say which movie scared me the most, then it is hands down ‘Eden Lake’
it’s very realistic and genuinely hard to stomach, and that’s without relying on
visual effects at all. The whole movie unfolds with increasing tension and
terror, I love it!
I
could definitely see either one of my books as a movie. I am not a screenwriter
of course, but I do visualise in vivid detail as I write, it does often feel like
I’m watching a film in my own imagination.
It has been said in a few reviews of ‘The Shady Corner’ that this book
would work as a film brilliantly. I have to say that if any of my work ever
made it to the screen I would be lost for words, I can’t think of anything more
exciting than that.
Is it hard to evoke a dark mood through words? what’s your method?
I
don’t find it hard to evoke a dark mood in my writing at all, as I already
said; I have an affinity for the macabre and the creepy. My method is pretty
basic really; I was often scared as a child while my imagination turned
everyday noises into something more terrifying. I simply call upon those
feelings and the experience of being scared, then inject that terror into my
writing and my characters. I still get shivers down my spine as I’m writing at
times, this effect seems to be reaching my readers so far; I’ve had several
readers contact me to tell me that my books have given them nightmares. I’m so
proud of that lol.
I
think the hardest thing with horror is giving it a fresh and original feel. I
love horror, but I have to admit that there is a lot of cliché in the genre. I
always aim to give my readers a new experience; I hope that I am doing that.
Tell us
something really interesting that's happened to you!
Thinking back
on it, I guess I was lucky to survive my childhood. I don’t mean to imply for a
moment that my upbringing was bad, quite the opposite in fact. But on two
separate occasions I could have died, or at least suffered injuries that would
have altered the course of my life.
When I was
just eighteen months old when I was knocked down and run over by the rear wheel
of a car as it was reversing out from a parking space. I had a nasty graze on
my forehead from where I hit the ground, but somehow, I was otherwise
unscathed. The ‘Bionic Baby’ the newspapers called me, and I got to share the
front page with Raquel Welch.
The second
occasion was, perhaps, even more strange than that. The living room in my
parent’s house had a very elaborate fire hearth. A piece of slate that ran the
width of the room, and ornate rocks that were embedded in the wall above the
fire. Now, these rocks weren’t small, in fact the largest stone was over a
meter in length and must have weighed over 100kgs. As a child of six, I used to
sit on that slate hearth regularly. It was a favorite spot of mine until the
largest rock fell from the wall and split the slate hearth. What was really
strange was that until the very second that that rock fell, I had been sat
there, warming myself by the fire. To this day I still don’t know what made me
get up when I did. It would be easy to say that my getting up caused the rock
to fall. But as an engineer I have looked at that wall many times as an adult,
and I find it hard to believe that something as small as I was then would make
a rock that was mounted a good 1.5 Meters up the wall fall. I don’t know maybe
it did? Or maybe something? Somewhere? Is watching over me? What I can be sure of is
that the split in the slate is still the only scar from that day.
Born
in 1975, Matthew Williams has been a keen fan of the
horror/thriller/fantasy genres for as long as he can remember.
Whether it’s a film, a TV series, or a novel; he is drawn to all
the different aspects of these genres. Mainly it’s the complexities
and the mysteries that can be expressed with freedom and imagination
that he enjoys the most.
A
fan of authors such as Stephen King, James Herbert, Dean Koontz,
Richard Layman – to name but a few!
A
fan of TV shows such as Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Breaking
Bad, American Horror Story – to name but a few!
A
fan of films such as Saw, Seven, Eden Lake, The Descent, Quarantine,
Skeleton Key, The Sixth Sense – to name but a few!
Matthew
now has a small body of work of his own with ‘The Shady Corner’
and ‘Shadowchild’ only the beginning of what he is determined to
grow into an extensive collection of horror/thriller fiction novels.
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