Bites Eyes: 13 Macabre Morsels

Matthew R. Davis is an author and musician based in Adelaide, South Australia, with over seventy short stories published around the world to date. He’s been shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson, Aurealis, Australian Shadows, and Washington Science Fiction Association Small Press Awards, winning two Shadows in 2019 – the only author other than Kaaron Warren to receive two in the same year. His books include Supermassive Black Mass (novelette, 2019), If Only Tonight We Could Sleep (horror stories, 2020), Midnight in the Chapel of Love (novel, 2021), and The Dark Matter of Natasha (novella, 2022), with more on the way.

He’s been writing, recording, and performing music for many years, supporting international acts and touring interstate, appearing on a slew of albums, EPs, and singles; he is/was/may be the bassist and vocalist for eclectic heavy rockers Blood Red Renaissance and pensive prog metallers icecocoon. He’s also created album and poster art for these bands, singer/songwriter Ethan Davis, and some reading events. He’s been involved in many independent film projects as writer, director, editor, producer, composer, grip, and/or actor, most recently working as an extra on the local trashploitation flick Ribspreader, and sometimes performs spoken word with punk poets Paroxysm Press. He lives in Somerton Park and shares his life with photographer Meg Wright (aka Red Wallflower Photography).