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Matthew Warner -- Writer

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About Me

Welcome! I'm the author of three published books: The Organ Donor , a supernatural thriller about organ donation and Chinese mythology; Death Sentences: Tales of Punishment and Revenge , a limited-edition collection of five short stories; and Eyes Everywhere , a psychological suspense thriller debuting August 2006 in both a limited edition and trade hardcover. Click here for more info. A fourth book, Horror Isn't a 4-Letter Word: Essays on Writing & Appreciating the Genre , is on its way in 2008.I live in Staunton, Virginia , with my intelligent, beautiful, and talented wife, the illustrator Deena Warner , and two cats. Deena and I own and operate Deena Warner Design , specializing in print design and website design and programming.
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My Interests

reading & writing, martial arts, piano playing, downhill skiing, public speaking, ways to avoid traffic jams!

I'd like to meet:

Living: Stephen King, Jay Leno, Patrick Stewart, and a rich movie director who likes my stuff

Dead: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, H.P. Lovecraft, Abraham Lincoln, Julian Jaynes

Music:

Miles Davis, Collective Soul, Audio Slave, Lenny Kravitz, classic rock, The Black Keys, stuff in that vein

Movies:

The Thing, Spooky Encounters, 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Blues Brothers, X-Men 3

Television:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Lost, The Office, the off button

Books:

Some books I've recently enjoyed: Chamber of Horrors by Robert Bloch, House Infernal by Edward Lee, Master of Swords by Angela Knight, Replay by Ken Grimwood, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes

My Blog

Horror Library

"Under the Bridge Downtown," my short-story collaboration with Gary A. Braunbeck, will appear in the new Horror Library anthology coming from Cutting Block Press. Variant Frequencies is now running a...
Posted by Matthew Warner -- Writer on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:36:00 PST

Who is Bazzard?

It was a blast to be involved with my first theatrical production since the seventh grade, when I assayed the role of Phillip Bax as Bazzard in Drood. This Tony Award-winning musical by Rupert Holme...
Posted by Matthew Warner -- Writer on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:23:00 PST

Lair of the Yak online interview, Sept 20. @ 9 p.m.

This Saturday at 9 p.m., Nick Cato and the crazy crew of Lair of the Yak will interview me on their live video podcast show.  Click here! ...
Posted by Matthew Warner -- Writer on Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:03:00 PST

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

For good or ill, I will be playing the part of Bazzard in a local theatrical production, The Mystery of Edwin Drood.  Here's a link to a website that Deena and I created to promote it....
Posted by Matthew Warner -- Writer on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:37:00 PST

Video of me reading from Horror Isnt a 4-Letter Word

The publisher's launch of Horror Isn't a 4-Letter Word at last weekend's Horrorfind Weekend convention was a success!  Here's a link to me reading from the foreword at a special author event...
Posted by Matthew Warner -- Writer on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:33:00 PST

The ForeWarner: The Matthew Warner Newsletter

Originally published Aug. 4, 2008.  You can subscribe to The ForeWarner at this link. Greetings, readers! Thank you for subscribing to my new newsletter.There's lots to tell you about.HORROR ISN'...
Posted by Matthew Warner -- Writer on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:41:00 PST

Writing a radio play: what I’m learning

It's a refreshing and fascinating challenge to me to change formats.  I love dabbling in screenplays, for instance.  Not only does it seem to go a hell of a lot faster than prose writing, bu...
Posted by Matthew Warner -- Writer on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:16:00 PST

Execution photo, reviews, and Charles Dickens

My latest "Author's Notes" column at Horror World features an actual, bona fide photo of a beheading.  It was culled from the 80-year-old scrapbooks of my late grandfather, who for several years ...
Posted by Matthew Warner -- Writer on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:40:00 PST

Obscenity

Today, my local newspaper, the Staunton News Leader, ran this letter from me: Obscenity laws confusing and unfair Over 50 years ago, in a case concerning the sale of books, the U.S. Supreme Court rul...
Posted by Matthew Warner -- Writer on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 04:44:00 PST

Update on HORROR ISNT A 4-LETTER WORD

Things are on track for Horror Isn't a 4-Letter Word, my collection of non-fiction, to debut at the Horrorfind convention in August.  Guide Dog Books (imprint of Raw Dog Screaming Press) is sched...
Posted by Matthew Warner -- Writer on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:50:00 PST