“THE SHOT”

novella

A throwback thriller, reminiscent in tone of 1980’s sci-fi video rentals. The story centers around a wildly popular hallucinogenic green slime and the nameless protagonist bent on stopping its spread. Spiritually-infused psychedelic visions, a zombified violent cult that preaches of a coming alien Mothership to save humanity, and rather a lot of bullets and bloodshed towards the end bit.

"The voice and tone are compelling, and the story is brimming with vivid descriptions that immerse the reader. Gaines reinvents and reshapes popular Science-Fiction tropes to yield something new, imaginative, and fun…a unique form that doesn’t sacrifice substance for style. It has camp and consciousness."

- Donald Quist, INDIES Bronze-winning author of To Those Bounded

“We live Amongst the Dust”

Novels, three volumes

Originally released under the title Tincture, this widely-praised trilogy by Matthew D. Jordan has garnered a supreme reputation, has a dedicated readership and scores of rave reviews. It integrates mind-twisting time travel, gunslinging western adventure and post-apocalyptic rebuilding elements, to name a few. This sharply clever, non-linear narrative has incredible depth, richness in its characters, humor, bloodshed and bizarro strangeness—it does not easily fall into one genre. Highly recommended for fans of Westworld or Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series.

Newly available in beautiful Hardcover editions, I penned unique Prologues for each of the three volumes; one being the a formal Foreword to the series, the other two being short stories taking place within the fictional universe. The trilogy is available now in Hardcover print or Ebook format at the button below.

“WHITE BARK”

Standalone short story

A boy and his grandfather encounter trouble on the family farm.

“…one of those rare authors that can take a whole bunch of classic horror ingredients—the woods, creepy old men, even creepier children—and serve up a dish that is as unique as it is frightening. The world that the prose creates is rich and off-putting; I was fully immersed and exceedingly uncomfortable the whole time I was reading…”

-Amazon 5-star review

“Poisonous Snakes of the Midwest”

Standalone short story

By day, Garland is a snake handler in the Henry Doorly Zoo. By night, something more sinister murmurs within him, deep in the recesses of his compromised mind, an insatiable urge that must be fed. This does not bode well for those around him.

“It made me a little uneasy.”

-Amazon Reviewer

“CARCOSA”

Standalone short story

A bleak and bizarre vision of a false Utopia where chaos reigns in the form of The King in Yellow. A companion piece to the 2018 concept album of the same name by Archabald.