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About Me

I'm Matt Staggs and I'm the editor of www.SkullRing.org, a webzine covering the best in horror movies, books, music, art and more.When I'm not working on skullring, I'm usually working on my fiction, which would be best described as Southern-Fried Gothic.You can usually read some of it (unedited, raw and unfiltered) in my MySpace blog.I love meeting cool people with similar interests, so feel free to drop me a message.

My Interests

horror movies, horror novels, horror directors, horror actors, horror authors, horror writers, artists, art, books, music, musicians, reading, writing. The south, Mississippi, Southern-Fried Gothic, southern gothic, monsters, ghosts, creatures, critters, haints and ghouls, horrorpunk, horror rock, new movies, independently published authors, publishing, journalism, publishers, magazines, short stories, werewolves, vampires, ghouls, zombies, zombies, zombies, independent film, indie, creepy stuff.

I'd like to meet:

Horror writers, movie directors, musicians, artists and anyone else who has an appreciation for dark and macabre entertainment.We actively seek out creative people to interview, and are always eager to review books, movies, music and art.Drop us a message if you have a screener or review item you'd like for us to look at, or if you'd like for us to interview you at www.skullring.org.

Music:

Tom Waits, Coheed and Cambria, The Misfits, Elvis Presley, V.A.S.T., Hank Williams III, David Bowie, The Damned, Killing Joke, The Undead, Samhain, Ministry, rockabilly, gothabilly, psychobilly, horror rock, horror punk, industrial, metal, heavy metal, bluegrass, outlaw country, punk, rock and roll, blues, jazz.

Movies:

Dog Soldiers, The Descent, The Shining, The Howling, An American Werewolf in London, Dawn, Night of the Living Dead, Day of the Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Land of the Dead, 28 Days Later, Cat People, The Thing, Prophecy, The Changeling, Evil Dead, Army of Darkness, Slither, Skeleton key, Ravenous, The Hills Have Eyes, Shaun of the Dead, Cabin Fever, Hostel, The Crazies, Martin, The Wicker Man

Television:

Very, very little.

Books:

Manly Wade Wellman, Robert E. Howard, Jeff VanderMeer, Joe R. Lansdale, Thomas Ligotti, H.P. Lovecraft, Brian Lumley, Robert Holdstock, Max Brooks, Steve Niles, Garth Ennis, Flannery O' Connor, William Faulkner, Robert Kirkman, Way too many to list.

Heroes:

Rob Zombie, Vincent Price, Christopher Lee.

My Blog

Story Snip: Team Cross (work in progress)

 (SNIP) I pulled the canister of Psychokinetic Manifestation Fluid free from my belt, shook it up, and sprayed it around the bloodstains on the walls. The purple mist hung in the air for a momen...
Posted by SKULLRINGdotORG on Mon, 07 May 2007 04:49:00 PST

Skullring call for review items

The www.SkullRing.org staff is accepting books, DVDs, CDs, games and more for review, so if you have an item that you'd like to get in front of our readers, message me and I'll let you know where to s...
Posted by SKULLRINGdotORG on Mon, 07 May 2007 04:43:00 PST

Buy my book - it's about skunk apes and vampires.

Ahem - now hear this - My novella, "The Green Man of Lowland Little Swamp" is the story of a small boy, his friendship with a sasquatch and their attempt to save their tiny Mississippi town from some...
Posted by SKULLRINGdotORG on Sat, 05 May 2007 05:25:00 PST

His Most Worthy Tentacles

HIS MOST WORTHY TENTACLESby Matt Staggs(TEMPORARILY OFF-LINE)
Posted by SKULLRINGdotORG on Sat, 05 May 2007 04:55:00 PST

Memo to a camwhore

Fuck you, Kissyface27And your black and whiteHolstein heifer dressVideocamera deityAn explosive nuisanceon endless loopSaline and siliconeschadenfreude.you embarrasing yourselffor pocket change andwin...
Posted by SKULLRINGdotORG on Sat, 05 May 2007 04:49:00 PST

My favorite rejection letters, first installment.

I got a 'wonderful' rejection letter...you know the kind that I'm talking about---where the editor doesn't just tell you "no," but they stop to do a end-zone dance as well.Dear Matt --    ...
Posted by SKULLRINGdotORG on Thu, 03 May 2007 06:50:00 PST

If I could make you read a handful of books..

If I could make you read a handful of books, it would be the following:Jeff VanderMeer "City of Saints and Madmen" - Jeff is my favorite living writer, and he is an unparalleled master of the weird an...
Posted by SKULLRINGdotORG on Thu, 03 May 2007 04:30:00 PST

Ah, f*ck it. Story excerpts

I'm in a really shitty mood today; feeling pretty much defeated. Day. Job. Driving. Me. Nuts. Here's some excerpts from some stories I've written. Enjoy.(SNIP) You know those big white grubs you some...
Posted by SKULLRINGdotORG on Wed, 02 May 2007 06:41:00 PST

interview with Bruce Campbell!

I just completed an interview with Bruce Campbell. It's at www.SkullRing.org...That's another off of my "people I always wanted to interview" list!Bruce only had time for 10 questions, so it's a bit s...
Posted by SKULLRINGdotORG on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 04:09:00 PST

Writin' and such

Hey folks - I haven't had much time to blog here, but I did want to take a minute and mention that I have a couple of stories going to print really soon.I have a revised and cleaned up version of "The...
Posted by SKULLRINGdotORG on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:07:00 PST