OH NO MATTHEW CASH IS STUCK IN A HORROR FRANCHISE!

13/7/2022

OH NO I’M STUCK IN A HORROR FRANCHISE!

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You wake up and find yourself in a horror franchise, what franchise would you prefer to wake up in and why?

Despite the multiple storylines and lack of continuity, the Halloween franchise with the original first five Michael Myers films' brother/uncle storyline.

Halloween, and all its sequels, remakes, and comics has always been my favourite franchise and I don't care the stick it gets. I love it. I read Taking Shape II recently and even loved reading about the sequels and revamps that never got made.

So, yeah, Halloween, as it's a great time of the year too, and in a way I kind of sympathise with Michael Myers.

Something happened to make him that way. I liked the Curse of Thorn idea and would have liked to have seen more about that and its origins.

You find yourself as the “Final One” which monster / villain would you most like to go up against and why do you think you would survive?

Michael Myers in the latest continuity.

I'd burn his bloody house down and destroy his mask {I don't think he's happy with people seeing his face for some reason} and say 'Now what, fucker?' And then obviously run really quickly to the nearest airport as he's never left the country yet.

And which creature would you least like to go up against?

A Hammer Horror vampire. One of the ones wearing bodices with heaving cleavages everywhere.
I'd be screwed.

You find yourself in Scooby Doo, which character are you, and who would most like to have as the other members of Mystery Inc?

Knowing me I'd be the bloody dog.

Em Dehaney would be Daphne, Linda Nagle would be Velma,
Jonathan Butcher would be Fred,

Daryl Duncan would be Shaggy and I'll have my dachshund Pearl to play Scrappy as she's a little shit.

Pinhead pops round for an evening of fun, what are your pains and pleasures?

Obviously copious amounts of food, which in my case usually covers both of these things. He'd lure me with a banquet of my favourite foods, make me believe that they're free of calories, and then laugh when I've eaten everything and he tells me he's lied. Then all his little chains would come out of everywhere and force-feed me chicken nuggets and chocolate and milkshakes intravenously until I explode.

The Wishmaster gives you three wishes

1. You can wish to write in any franchise
2. You can wipe out one franchise from the minds of everyone
3. You can date your horror crush

What do you choose?

Yet again, Halloween. It's been my love since getting into adult horror. When I first used to write 'serious' stories I would write Halloween fan fiction.

It took something like six years for The Curse of Michael Myers to come out after ending the previous film on such a cliffhanger and I recall writing my own ending, which, funnily enough I've seen theorised online recently. My story continued straight after Halloween 5 and even linked in the third, unrelated, Season of the Witch. My Michael Myers was one of the androids from the Silver Shamrock Novelties factory and the guy who freed him from jail was the toy maker himself. I think, and this was about two years before Terminator 2 came out, my ending was something very similar, Michael Myers drowning in a vat of something extremely corrosive in the Silver Shamrock factory. His niece is left holding his mask, just in case I wanted to write another one.

Yeah. I love Michael Myers.

Matthew Cash

Author Biography

Matthew Cash, or Matty-Bob Cash as he is known to most, was born and raised in Suffolk; which is the setting for his debut novel Pinprick.

In 2016 he launched publishing house Burdizzo Books and took shit-hot editor and author Em Dehaney on board to keep him in shape and together they brought into existence SPARKS: an electrical horror anthology, The Reverend Burdizzo’s Hymn Book, Under The Weather* Visions From the Void ** Corona-Nation St and The Burdizzo Mix Tape Vol. 1.

He has numerous solo releases on Kindle and several collections in paperback.
Originally with Burdizzo Books, the intention was to compile charity anthologies a few times a year but his creation has grown into something so much more powerful *insert mad laughter here*. He is currently working on numerous projects.
*With Back Road Books
** With Jonathan Butcher

He has always written stories since he first learnt to write and most, although not all, tend to slip into the many-layered murky depths of the Horror genre.
His influences, ranged from when he first started reading to Present day are, to name but a small select few; Roald Dahl, James Herbert, Clive Barker, Stephen King, Stephen Laws, and more recently he enjoys Adam Nevill, F.R Tallis, Michael Bray, Gary Fry, William Meikle and Iain Rob Wright (who featured Matty-Bob in his famous A-Z of Horror title M is For Matty-Bob, plus Matthew wrote his own version of events which was included as a bonus).

He is a father of two, a husband of one and a zookeeper of numerous fur babies.

You can find him here:
www.facebook.com/pinprickbymatthewcash

https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B010MQTWKK

The Glut
by Matthew Cash

Matthew Cash's latest book The Glut was written entirely during Nanowrimo 2021 and came out January 2022. Buy it here http://hyperurl.co/fdzzai

FREE YOURSELF
What would you do if you found out your compulsions were not your fault?
That something else had been controlling you all along?
What would you do if you discovered there was a dark part of you, a part of humanity, that was put there by an entity older than the stars?

Vince is binge-eating himself into an early grave. He cannot resist the voice inside that encourages him to gorge, an instinctive reaction to every strong emotion.
Finding it increasingly more difficult to live with, he vows to do anything to rid himself of it.
Even if it means stooping to new lows and levels of degradation of which he never considered himself capable.