Books published by publisher Grey Matter Press

HUMANITY IS TARNISHED.First he gave us Little Deaths: The Definitive Edition. Then he unleashed his unique brand of pain in The End in All Beginnings. Now Bram Stoker Award-nominated John F.D. Taff – modern horror’s King of Pain – returns with Little Black Spots. Fifteen stories of dark horror fiction gathered together for the first time, exposing the delicate blemishes and sinister blots that tarnish the human condition.-- A man stumbles on a cult that glorifies spontaneous human combustion...-- A disgraced nature photographer applies his skills for a vile outcome...-- A darkened city parking structure becomes dangerously and malevolently alive...-- An innocent Halloween costume has a husband seeing his wife in a disturbing new light...-- A ruined man sees far too much of himself in his broken family...-- A young boy finds a mysterious bottle of liquid containing a deadly secret...-- And so much more.Little Black Spots is a beacon shining its light into some of life's most shadowy corners, revealing the dark stains that spatter all mankind.Praise for John F.D. Taff:“Of the current breed of authors riding the wave of digital liberation, John Taff is a standout talent. Literary, affecting, chilling, and indicative of that old-school mentality meets new-school daring.” – Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award®-winning author of The Turtle Boy, Kin and Jack & Jill“John F. D. Taff has rapidly become one of my favorite writers in the horror genre. His horror is grounded in our day-to-day lives, in our families, our work, our most private thoughts. His stories vibrate with emotion and life and his prose is cathartic, deeply satisfying, like popping the bubbles in bubble wrap.” – Ray Garton, Grand Master of Horror and author of Live Girls and RavenousProudly presented by Grey Matter Press, the multiple Bram Stoker Award-nominated independent publisher.Grey Matter Press: Where Dark Thoughts Thrive

From Bram Stoker Award-nominated authors Josh Malerman, the newly minted master of modern horror, and John F.D. Taff, the "King of Pain;" to the mind-bending surrealism of Erik T. Johnson; the darkly poetic prose of J. Daniel Stone and the transgressive mania of Joe Schwartz, I CAN TASTE THE BLOOD offers up five horror novellas from five unique authors whose work consistently expands the boundaries of conventional fiction.I CAN TASTE THE BLOOD opens the doors to a movie theater of the damned; travels the dusty, sin-drenched desert with an almost Biblical mysterious stranger; recounts the phantasmagoric story of birth, death and rebirth; contracts a hit that’s not at all what it seems; and exposes the disturbing possibilities of what might be killing Smalltown, U.S.A.As diverse as they are, in voice and vision, the work of the five celebrated authors assembled in this stunning volume of terror share one common theme, one hideous and terrifying nightmare that can only be contained within the pages of I CAN TASTE THE BLOOD.Five Unique Voices.Five Disturbing Visions.One Nightmare.If it's groundbreaking horror stories you want. It's I CAN TASTE THE BLOOD you need.I CAN TASTE THE BLOOD

OPEN NEW DOORS TO ABSOLUTE TERROR.Five years ago, Bram Stoker Award-nominated author John F.D. Taff welcomed you into the darkest recesses of his mind. Today, he returns to where it all began...opening doors to new rooms of abject horror. Disturbing rooms. Darker rooms.Rooms where a farmer awakens to find a gigantic tentacle writhing in his fields. Where the desiccated mummy of a young girl wants nothing more than something warm to drink. Where a memorabilia collector resurrects his dead girlfriend with the prop neck bolts from the 1931 movie Frankenstein. And where the sweetest candy of all is a dead man's flesh.Little Deaths: The Definitive Collection features 24 stories, five of them new to this edition, plus expanded notes for each tale, a new Afterword by the author and a new Foreword by Josh Malerman, author of Bird Box and Black Mad Wheel.

"THE THING ACROSS THE WAY billowed like funeral drapery. It stood upon two stilt legs and wound its torso about the bedposts, somehow rigid and boneless in the same instant, fluttering upon a breeze only it felt. A sour stench filled the air, fetid and cloying and strangely familiar."It slithered free of the bed, gathered itself into some semblance of a man and stalked forward. The beast crossed the room in two strides. She drew in a great breath, but a fleshy limb cinched about her jaw and held her screams checked in her throat. The beast's face lay inches away. Though it lacked eyes and ears and nose, she knew the appendage to be such, for the pit which must be its mouth puckered open and closed. It spat a single word into the air."Liar.""Yes, she was. And now it was too late to confess..."DIABOLICAL EVIL stalks the English countryside as childhood friends become entangled in a treacherous game of cat-and-mouse when they face off with a hellish creature bent on their destruction. So begins the saga of Sarah and Tabitha in THE DEVIL'S TRILL, the first chapter of The Ladies Bristol Occult Adventures series, a collection of thrilling supernatural adventures from the mind of horror and dark fantasy author Rhoads Brazos. Like a dark version of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson trapped in a world of the macabre, two friends from Bristol open forbidden doorways into the arcane and mystical realm of the occult and awaken the deadly forces that reside within.Fans of the BUFFY, THE VAMPIRE SLAYER horror franchise and the BURTON & SWINBURNE ADVENTURE series will find a new world of terrifying fantasy in THE DEVIL'S TRILL that puts a modern spin on the gothic thriller.

FIVE UNIQUE VOICES…From Bram Stoker Award-nominated authors Josh Malerman, the master of modern horror, and John F.D. Taff, the new "King of Pain." To the terrifying surrealism of Erik T. Johnson, the darkly poetic diversity prose of J. Daniel Stone, and the transgressive mastery of Joe Schwartz. I Can Taste the Blood offers five novellas from five unique authors whose work consistently expands the boundaries of conventional dark horror fiction.FIVE DISTURBING VISIONS…Step through the doors of a movie theater for the damned.Travel a dusty, sin-drenched desert with the most demonic of guides.Experience the horrifying, mind-altering transformation of death and rebirth.Take a walk on the wild side with a contract killer and a hit that’s not what it seems.And expose the frightening truth behind what’s actually killing Smalltown, U.S.A.ONE NIGHTMARE…As diverse as they are in voice and vision, the work of the five celebrated authors assembled in this volume of terror share one common theme, one hideous and terrifying nightmare that can only be contained within the pages of one book: I Can Taste the Blood.

HUMANITY IS TARNISHED.First he gave us Little Deaths: The Definitive Edition. Then he unleashed his unique brand of pain in The End in All Beginnings.Now Bram Stoker Award-nominated John F.D. Taff – modern horror’s King of Pain – returns with Little Black Spots. Fifteen stories of dark horror fiction gathered together for the first time, exposing the delicate blemishes and sinister blots that tarnish the human condition.-- A man stumbles on a cult that glorifies spontaneous human combustion...-- A disgraced nature photographer applies his skills for a vile outcome...-- A darkened city parking structure becomes dangerously and malevolently alive...-- An innocent Halloween costume has a husband seeing his wife in a disturbing new light...-- A ruined man sees far too much of himself in his broken family...-- A young boy finds a mysterious bottle of liquid containing a deadly secret...-- And so much more, including a preview of Taff's upcoming apocalyptic novel The Fearing.Little Black Spots is a beacon shining its light into some of life's most shadowy corners, revealing the dark stains that spatter all mankind.Praise for John F.D. Taff:“Of the current breed of authors riding the wave of digital liberation, John Taff is a standout talent. Literary, affecting, chilling, and indicative of that old-school mentality meets new-school daring.” – Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award®-winning author of The Turtle Boy, Kin and Jack & Jill“John F. D. Taff has rapidly become one of my favorite writers in the horror genre. His horror is grounded in our day-to-day lives, in our families, our work, our most private thoughts. His stories vibrate with emotion and life and his prose is cathartic, deeply satisfying, like popping the bubbles in bubble wrap.” – Ray Garton, Grand Master of Horror and author of Live Girls and RavenousProudly presented by Grey Matter Press, the multiple Bram Stoker Award-nominated independent publisher.Grey Matter Press: Where Dark Thoughts Thrive

OPEN NEW DOORS TO ABSOLUTE TERROR.Five years ago, Bram Stoker Award-nominated author John F.D. Taff welcomed you into the darkest recesses of his mind. Today, he returns to where it all began…opening doors to new rooms of abject horror. Disturbing rooms. Darker rooms. Rooms where a farmer awakens to find a gigantic tentacle writhing in his fields. Where the desiccated mummy of a young girl wants nothing more than something warm to drink. Where a memorabilia collector resurrects his dead girlfriend with the prop neck bolts from the 1931 movie Frankenstein. And where the sweetest candy of all is a dead man's flesh. Little Deaths: The Definitive Collection features 24 stories, five of them new to this edition, plus expanded notes for each tale, a new afterword by the author and a new foreword by Josh Malerman, author of Bird Box and Black Mad Wheel.

"THE THING ACROSS THE WAY billowed like funeral drapery. It stood upon two stilt legs and wound its torso about the bedposts, somehow rigid and boneless in the same instant, fluttering upon a breeze only it felt. A sour stench filled the air, fetid and cloying and strangely familiar."It slithered free of the bed, gathered itself into some semblance of a man and stalked forward. The beast crossed the room in two strides. She drew in a great breath, but a fleshy limb cinched about her jaw and held her screams checked in her throat. The beast's face lay inches away. Though it lacked eyes and ears and nose, she knew the appendage to be such, for the pit which must be its mouth puckered open and closed. It spat a single word into the air."Liar.""Yes, she was. And now it was too late to confess..."DIABOLICAL EVIL stalks the English countryside as childhood friends become entangled in a treacherous game of cat-and-mouse when they face off with a hellish creature bent on their destruction. So begins the saga of Sarah and Tabitha in THE DEVIL'S TRILL, the first chapter of The Ladies Bristol Occult Adventures series, a collection of thrilling supernatural adventures from the mind of horror and dark fantasy author Rhoads Brazos. Like a dark version of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson trapped in a world of the macabre, two friends from Bristol open forbidden doorways into the arcane and mystical realm of the occult and awaken the deadly forces that reside within.Fans of the BUFFY, THE VAMPIRE SLAYER horror franchise and the BURTON & SWINBURNE ADVENTURE series will find a new world of terrifying fantasy in THE DEVIL'S TRILL that puts a modern spin on the gothic thriller.