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MATTHEW LOWES

Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction

Short Stories

Watching the Snow Fall

Sounds of the Night, (August 2011)

Matsuo Hara lives a quiet life until a cruel turn of events forces him to choose between his heart, and his obedience to the feudal lord he has sworn to serve. This one’s a love story, but it ends in a bloodbath.

The Menace of Dupere

The Fringe Magazine

A mad professor will stop at nothing to understand an ancient occult knowledge. The evil he summons will destroy the world, unless one student can stop him.

The Music of Timothy Shean

Dark Recesses Magazine, Aug 2009

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Some music brings happiness and joy, contentment and hope, but some music has dire consequences. And you must know that these consequences are madness and death. When Dylan McAllister finds a notebook hidden in a secret compartment of an old piano, he soon discovers a music that should never be heard by human ears.

Crawlspace

SNM Horror Magazine, June 2009

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The mind, like the world, is a house in which our reality lives, and even though the foundation may be sound, there is a crawlspace between the floor and the ground, often overlooked or forgotten, in which dwell things undreamt of.

Old Growth

AlienSkin Magazine, Jan07/Dec08

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A young botanist finds more than than he bargained for when he enters an ancient forest in search of a new species of tree. A horror awaits him in the heart of the old growth.

Legend of the Crystal Robots

Worlds Apart #2

To rescue the girl he loves, a boy must betray the will of his people and make a perilous journey to a forbidden land. He will discover the mysteries of an ancient technology and learn the price of manhood before he can fulfill his destiny.

Vault of the Heavens

Anotherealm, 2006 Vol. 4

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Giant orbital billboards fill the night sky, a colorful, blinking, twinkling, mosaic. Jani was fourteen the first time she saw the stars. She’ll never forget it.

Vortex Mirage

Planet Magazine, 2006

Universe Pathways, July 2006

A man is reunited with his estranged girlfriend on the far side of the moon, and contact is made with an intergalactic communications network.

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  • "A gripping, well-written, and intriguingly academic horror story in the best Lovecraftian tradition." -Djibril Alayad, Editor of The Future Fire
  • "Original and very entertaining." -John O'Neill, Editor of Black Gate magazine
  • "A well-realised vision of the moon in the not-too-distant future." -Gareth D. Jones, SciFi UK Review
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