About
Mathew Gostelow haunts a leafy suburb of Birmingham, UK. His CV is a chaotic patchwork quilt, including journalism, pheasant farming, catering, and marketing. Mat’s taste in art, music, film, and literature is equally eclectic, although he tends to gravitate towards anything with a creepy, dreamy aesthetic.
If you catch him staring intently into the middle distance, Mat is either thinking about Twin Peaks or cooked breakfasts. Some days he wakes early and scribbles strange tales.
Mat has written two books: a collection of speculative stories entitled See My Breath Dance Ghostly (Alien Buddha Press) and Dantalion is a Quiet Place, a novella-in-flash (forthcoming, DarkWinter Lit). He also co-wrote a horror-thriller novella called Watcher with his friend JP Relph.
He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Microfiction.
Links to his books and social profiles are all collected here. Mat was interviewed on the Ginger Nuts of Horror blog in 2023, and you can read the article here. He was also featured by Urban Pigs Press, ahead of the release of their charity anthology Hunger. You can read that piece here.
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