Bøker av Matthew Tait

A famous house on the eastern seaboard, Oaklyn Castle has become even more notorious now a celebrity power couple calls it home. With a burgeoning family, Arabella Jaqus and Boyd Palmer have decided to raise their natural and adopted children in Palladian surrounds far from the furor of filmmaking. When Jaison Winters is summoned to the mansion, he views it as the job of a lifetime: a chance to redeem his flailing writing career by penning an accurate, in-depth biography of Arabella's dynasty - a firsthand glimpse into a private world previously off-limits until now. But what Jaison discovers is far darker than family secrets. More malevolent than anything previously penned. For Oaklyn Castle has become a repository for damaged souls. An afterlife about to be awakened by a knowing and terrible force.

At thirty four years of age, dark fiction scribe Micha Tudor has finally had enough trying to eke out a living as an author. Suicide, that eternal taboo of man, could potentially provide an escape hatch for an exhausted spirit seeking a reset button.But when Micha awakens in a world of his own making - a world straight from the pages of his new novel - he soon discovers the afterlife is far from an escape hatch or even oblivion. For in Hadley Grove, monsters walk the streets. Towering creatures composed of mercury who seem tied to the town's ancient church brooding above the oceanic bluffs. Presided over by the ominous sibling priests Malphas and Natal Purson, their hellish cathedral seems inextricably linked with Hadley Grove ... And now, Micha himself.Schizoid is a dark-hued fable of the often precarious line between our waking lives and the restorative power of storytelling.

Once a bustling school playing host to the elite of Cranston, Providence Place now sits completely abandoned; a derelict world of memories for the populace of Rhode Island. It's also a place where people come from all over the country seeking their scares. People like Dillon Cook, a budding film-maker who decides to recruit four past pupils for his next independent film. A director with a taste for the tragic places of the world, Dillon sees Providence Place as the perfect backdrop for tragedy to unfold ...

Nick Wheeler's subject matter has always been controversial. A venerated photographer motivated to capture the malign elements of human existence - suicide as illusion and artifice - his career is suddenly in tatters after a near-fatal work accident plunges him into a coma.A sleep paralysis victim, Nick's descent into oblivion ushers him back to where it all began: winters spent in the rugged foothills of Deception Pass. It was here, among the secret grottos and old-growth forests, where ancient forces first showed their hand: Shadow Men capable of paralyzing the body and manipulating generations into serving an otherworldly agenda.To survive, Nick must confront the past ... and the Shadows, evermore monstrous disguised by human faces.