GINGER SNAPS: MINI INTERVIEWS WITH BITE: MATTHEW A. CLARKE

21/6/2022

Ginger Snaps: Mini Interviews with Bite!

Ginger Snaps is a brand new segment for Ginger Nuts of Horror. It is a quick-fire “bite-sized” interview, where your answers relate to what you’ve been doing in the past month

Who are you?
Who is anyone, really? I write weird horror and bizarro. My name is Matt Clarke, and I hate the name Matthew. So, naturally, I chose to the author name Matthew A. Clarke (and you’ll never know what the A. stands for!).

Your signature style:
Bizarre horror with a splash of everything else mixed in. I take a tin of weird, gently pour in the horror until it reaches a sticky consistency, then sprinkle in a little comedy, romance, sci-fi, and whatever else I can find in the pantry.

Toot your own horn:
I started out writing horror, but it was always a little weird. Too weird to be classed as ‘standard’ horror, in some cases. Then I discovered Bizarro. Fell in love. Started my own publishing company (Planet Bizarro Press) and have met lots of brilliant authors and readers along the way.

Books read:
More than I can count on my fingers (and I have an abnormally large number of those).

Movies watched:
Not so many these days. I work a full-time job and spend every minute of my free time writing/editing etc.

Games and/or music played:
Okay. Maybe not every minute of my free time is spend writing/editing. Most recently, I’ve been playing Elden Ring. I think I’m up to about 100 hours and I still haven’t completed it.

Words written:
I’m one of the only people in history to have used every letter of the alphabet in one novel. They told me it couldn’t be done. I can’t prove it, as I had to burn it before it drove me insane.
Horror books I’ve written: Beyond Human.
Those That Remain.
Bizarro/horror books I’ve written: Coffin Dodgers.
Things Were Easier Before You Became a Giant Fucking Mantis.
The World Has Gone to Turd and the Only Way to Save It Is With a Big ‘Ol Battle Royale.
Sons of Sorrow

Future stuff:
Dead Hard – Bizarro/horror
Another, with a top-secret title.

Brain worms:
I certainly hope not.

Bio:
Matthew A. Clarke writes weird and scary stuff. You can contact him on Facebook, Amazon, and at www.planetbizarro.com

Sons of Sorrow
by A. Clarke, Matthew

SOME THINGS ARE BETTER LEFT ALONE

Henk has been living a relatively carefree life in the city since fleeing the horrors of the town of Sorrow with his brother, Dave. Never would he have dreamt of returning. Not even for her.

But time and banality have a funny way of eroding the memory of even the worst experiences, bringing only the better times to the forefront of recall, so when he receives a wedding invitation from the third part of their old monster-fighting trio, he finds himself unable to turn it down.

Sorrow has changed drastically from the place it once was, with the murders and suicides that once plagued the town being used as a selling point by wealthy investors to turn it into a morbid attraction for dark tourists.

Beneath the costumed mascots and smiling families, is all really as it seems? Or by returning, have Henk and Dave inadvertently awoken an ancient evil far deadlier than anything they've faced before?

Sons of Sorrow is the latest bizarre horror from the mind of Matthew A. Clarke.