Matt Shaw Books in Order

Peter believes he can build a perfect life with Vanessa, even though she barely knows him. Holding her captive at his dining table, he tries to turn his obsession into love while she seeks a way out.

Kim leaves a hotel at midnight with enough money to begin planning her escape. Returning to the red-light district for a few final hours of work, she hopes to flee the life she has built and the things she has done.

Peter believes Susie is the woman he should spend his life with, whether she agrees or not. This prequel to Happy Ever After follows both characters as his determination to secure their future turns into captivity and psychological terror.

This collected trilogy follows Jessica, a pregnant teenager held by a captor determined that she give birth. As she struggles for control over her body and future, the reasons for her imprisonment become increasingly threatening.

With Peter gone, Vanessa remains trapped in the house where her nightmare unfolded. Before she can think about rebuilding her life, she must escape, struggling against both her physical confinement and the voice insisting that he could still return.

A man wakes inside a confined space without knowing where he is or how he arrived. Hoping his friends are playing a prank, he waits for rescue, but the air grows stale and his chances of escape begin to shrink.

Alex briefly turns away from his younger brother in a crowded shopping center and loses him. His frantic search begins with fear of their mother’s anger, then becomes something far more disturbing as he discovers other children are missing too.

A repeatedly uprooted student faces another unfamiliar school and another group of tormentors. Pushed by relentless bullying and cruel pranks, the newcomer decides to reverse the balance of power, planning lessons the attackers and the wider world will never forget.

Writer Craig takes his wife and children to a secluded cabin, hoping to work while they enjoy a weekend away. The retreat becomes dangerous as sinister disturbances and stories of vengeful spirits intrude on their family vacation.

Confined to an asylum after the catastrophe at his family’s cabin, Craig hopes to understand what happened and find peace. Instead, spirits connected with the institution force him to confront its secrets and question his surroundings.

Six friends accept assistance from an apparently kind stranger and his welcoming family. A dinner invitation then exposes the danger behind their hosts’ hospitality, leaving the visitors trapped in an encounter far removed from their expectations.

Dean and Jess move their young daughters into a larger country house despite knowing its tragic history. Their hopes of building happy family memories unravel as the past intrudes, turning the home they wanted into a growing source of dread.

A mild-mannered fifty-year-old clown entertains children at their parties, enjoying their delighted screams. At home, his public persona falls away, exposing a hidden cruelty that turns an apparently harmless entertainer into the center of a psychological horror story.

A stranger demands that a parent surrender a child, escalating from financial inducements to threats against the entire family. Refusal and compliance both carry terrible possibilities, forcing an increasingly desperate struggle to protect loved ones.

Aspiring actress Victoria Sheldon enters the adult film industry when money becomes tight. Her growing success attracts a man with a new proposition, but his plans for the production reveal an audience seeking something far more dangerous.

During a sudden zombie outbreak, recently widowed Michael tries to keep his young daughter safe. Elsewhere, psychiatric patient Ted welcomes the disorder, bringing another kind of danger into a world where ordinary restraints are rapidly collapsing.

After an apparent nuclear catastrophe, a family survives in a devastated world by abandoning ordinary moral boundaries. Their missing memories and increasingly disturbing behavior raise questions about their circumstances as survival becomes inseparable from cruelty.

Returning to the household after uncovering disturbing truths, a survivor struggles with memories of his former life. Keeping his discoveries hidden becomes harder as his family grows restless and the damage from their experiences deepens.

A controlling man commands absolute obedience from the people he calls his family. Their willingness to fulfill his demands extends to murder, exposing a household whose bonds are maintained through manipulation, submission, and escalating violence.

Financial trouble forces Ryan to move his wife and children to a cheaper home outside the city. Decisions made under mounting pressure bring them into contact with a serial killer whose crimes threaten the family’s survival.

A sex worker offers clients more than the encounters they expect, reserving a deadly lesson for men who cheat. As their appointments become opportunities for punishment, the business of pleasure conceals a campaign of violent judgment and revenge.

A group of friends heads to the beach expecting a holiday together, but their getaway ends in disastrous circumstances. This horror novella draws on the atmosphere of seventies exploitation films as an ordinary vacation becomes a setting for violence and fear.

A domineering wife orders her bird-loving husband to raise a turkey for Christmas dinner and eventually kill it. His growing attachment to the animal becomes a refuge from their conflict and prompts questions about his marriage.

After killing a woman and the bird he loved, Elliott Chudleigh flees the discovery of his crimes. An unexpected attraction and the mysterious Freya complicate his desperate search for redemption as the voices in his head persist.

After moving house, Crista notices frightening changes in her children that her partner dismisses as ordinary misbehavior. Convinced something is profoundly wrong, she confronts the possibility that unfamiliar entities have taken possession of the children she thought she knew.

A family’s first camping trip is intended to replace screens with time together. After losing their way and pitching a tent in an isolated field, they encounter strangers who turn the holiday into a fight for survival.

A badly injured serial killer remains dependent on Dennis, an accomplice determined to restore his master’s power. Refusing medical care to avoid prison, Dennis supplies a captive woman as motivation, placing her at the mercy of their disturbing relationship.

An obsessive man watches a woman outside her school and plans to become her indispensable friend. Believing her husband stands between them, he prepares a disappearance that will let him offer comfort while concealing the violence behind his apparent devotion.

Continuing directly from SickER B*stards, this short story brings the family’s ordeal to its conclusion. Events from the preceding two books converge in a final chapter of the survival horror begun in Sick B*stards.

Four strangers survive the sinking of a cruise liner and share a life raft surrounded by open water. With their supplies exhausted and rescue uncertain, grief, desperation, and dwindling strength make their fragile refuge an increasingly dangerous place.

Sam arrives late for a restaurant date and discovers that his wife Sophie has vanished. While he searches for her, she is held in chains at an isolated farm, with no prospect of simply walking away.

Seeking relief from an ordinary life in England, a man books an eight-day sledding expedition in the Arctic Circle. The demanding journey proves far harsher than he imagined, testing his endurance as physical suffering replaces the escape he hoped to find.

Cliff and Jessica Pedersen raise their twin sons with love, then watch them become notorious killers. Left to face a devastated community, the parents struggle with guilt, loyalty, and whether affection for their children can survive the crimes they committed.

A grieving woman begins bringing dead children home, unwilling to leave them alone in a cemetery. As her desire for a living child grows, her brother struggles to help someone who refuses assistance without abandoning the sister he still loves.

Frustrated filmmaker Adam seeks recognition by recording real murders rather than simulated horror. Obsessed with notorious killers, he forces a captive woman into his production, demanding that she help transform his violent project into a romance.

Workers in the fur trade become victims of punishments modeled on the treatment of animals. Forced to experience confinement, pain, and terror themselves, they confront a campaign of revenge that turns familiar practices against the people who profit from them.

Paul James has reached his limit with careless drivers, rude strangers, and people who betray him. Carrying a metal bar engraved with the word manners, he sets out to enforce his own standards through an escalating campaign of violence.

Five years after a zombie outbreak, Mathew and Stacey discover that surviving people pose greater dangers than the weakening undead. Stopping for a stranger leads to captivity in a mansion where prisoners become entertainment for a ruthless community.

These two stories follow Jake, a grieving widower drawn to sex worker Danni because she resembles his late wife. Danni’s subsequent attachment to a married female client creates another conflict involving desire, secrecy, and emotional vulnerability.

Robert Nash has never found intimacy with another living person, and his latest encounter will not change that. His desperation to lose his virginity draws him into a disturbing situation that exposes the unsettling consequences of his loneliness.

This collection explores bereavement, damaged relationships, and attempts to recover hope. Its stories include a widow receiving calls apparently from her dead husband and parents considering an artificial child after the loss of their son.

Sarah’s controlling partner locks her in a basement to manufacture bears for profit. Pouring her anger into increasingly twisted creations, she discovers the toys are developing murderous lives of their own, transforming her forced labor into a new source of terror.

Survivors inhabit a world devastated by radiation, with little certainty about what destroyed their lives. Struggling through each day, they confront a question as difficult as finding food or shelter: what reason remains to keep living after everything is gone?

Serial killer Shane leaves another victim behind as police attention closes around his crimes. Searching for a different farm and fresh captives, he attempts to continue his campaign while avoiding the authorities determined to find him.

Ignored by the people around him, a lonely man longs for recognition and a sense of belonging. His need to conceal a secret drives increasingly dangerous choices, turning ordinary social rejection into the background of a disturbing psychological unraveling.

Jacob Miller spends an evening flirting with Harley in a crowded nightclub, expecting a casual encounter. She appears receptive, but behind her laughter lies a plan to kill him, drawing the night toward a supernatural tale of violent revenge.

A creature resembling a magical unicorn is forced to make his own way in the world. An adult filmmaker discovers him and promises stardom, turning his unusual appearance into a business opportunity in this bizarre story about exploitation and ambition.

An accident during a childhood holiday changes Tommy Edwards’s life and leaves his brother dead. Years later, Tommy marks the anniversary by watching others suffer similar fates, until newly emerging truths threaten the identity he has built around that loss.

After years on death row, a convicted killer receives his final meal and a lethal injection. Death appears to complete his punishment, but another judgment awaits him, taking his reckoning beyond the prison into a new psychological ordeal.

Feminist blogger Emily receives daily threats for challenging male power and defending women’s rights. She has learned to dismiss them as empty rage, until men arrive at her door and turn the hostility surrounding her work into an immediate physical danger.

A man attends psychological appointments that deepen his isolation rather than easing it. He tests his therapists with increasingly disturbing disclosures, while they debate whether he poses a danger, unaware that the murders he describes have already begun.

After discovering her husband’s affair, Jen becomes determined to understand why he chose another woman. Seeking answers, she approaches his lover and considers watching them together, hoping the painful encounter will reveal how to avoid being betrayed again.

Michelle Clevenger survives a cruise disaster connected to a government experiment designed to turn people against one another. Researchers take her to the Sanctuary to understand her survival, unaware of the danger their investigation could unleash.

Unexpected election winner Danny Hump begins his term as British prime minister. A vigilante group wearing masks of former leaders targets him, convinced that violent intervention is necessary to prevent his administration from damaging the country.

This two-book collection begins with a deadly, aggressive spider species spreading through Britain. Survivors then seek refuge abroad, where displacement, grief, and uncertainty about their hosts create further dangers beyond the creatures they are fleeing.

Drawing on his experience as an independent author, Shaw explains how to begin writing and prepare work for publication. Practical discussion of writing habits, formatting, and reaching readers addresses the steps between an idea and a finished release.

Shaw recounts life with his pug, including the breed’s troublesome habits, health problems, and associated costs. This humorous personal account examines both the pleasures and frustrations of ownership for readers considering bringing home a similar dog.

A government initiative gives thirteen randomly selected people each month legal permission to kill one person. As citizens await their letters, private resentments acquire deadly possibilities, turning the promise of an easier life into an officially sanctioned opportunity for murder.

Dentist Jack Scott struggles with marital separation in a city increasingly dominated by crime. When his teenage daughter suffers a violent attack, he decides to take matters into his own hands and confront the people he blames.

Victoria is abducted from her ordinary life and forced through a series of dangerous rooms for a clandestine broadcast. Watching audiences and ratings-driven producers turn her struggle to survive into entertainment for viewers around the world.

Unsolicited invitations offer selected households an all-expenses-paid trip aboard a luxurious new cruise liner. Once at sea, passengers and staff begin changing, leaving the recipients of the apparently generous offer trapped with a growing threat.

This collection gathers Shaw’s bizarre adult stories, including *UniPorn*, *A Sex Toy Story*, and *An Explosive Romance*. Absurd situations, sexual humor, and unconventional characters take precedence across a group of deliberately strange and irreverent tales.

More than sixty original drawings imagine the journey of sperm toward an egg through adult humor. Matt Shaw applies his taste for bizarre subjects to an illustrated account of reproduction, presenting familiar biology through exaggerated and deliberately provocative scenes.

This illustrated humor book presents examples of behavior that Shaw considers obnoxious. Intended as a blunt alternative to arguing with an irritating acquaintance, its short visual explanations turn everyday interpersonal frustration into an abrasive comic catalogue.

A man restrained to a bed receives twice-daily visits from a woman ordered to care for him without conversation. Their contrasting knowledge of the captivity frames a story told through three people seeking answers, forgiveness, or release.

A couple books a final road trip hoping to revive a relationship already worn down by conflicting lives. When the journey begins, the woman is dead, transforming their planned reconciliation into something profoundly darker.

An elderly woman’s unsettling behavior at the dinner table conceals a more disturbing ability. Difficulties eating with dentures are only the surface of a body-horror story centered on the unexpected uses of her saliva.

A man shaped by years of cruelty approaches his tormentors through apparent affection rather than open retaliation. Once they trust him, his hidden intentions emerge, transforming intimate encounters into violent expressions of the psychological damage he carries.

Victor attempts to create life from stitched-together human remains, only to face a creature that turns against him. Shaw retells Shelley’s story of ambition and responsibility through dark humor and the conventions of extreme horror.

Fed up with an abusive relationship with Mr. Hand, Mr. Prick leaves home to find Little Miss Cunt. His journey into the wider world becomes a crude adult fable about relationships, independence, and the search for a different life.

Before the events of Monster, Richard and Mary begin the relationship that will shape their family’s terrifying future. This prequel explores Richard’s descent into violence and the forces that leave Mary under his control.

Between seasons of a clandestine horror broadcast, its producers launch a competition to keep devoted viewers involved. The audience’s appetite for violence becomes active participation, extending the show’s cruelty beyond the contestants confined within its original game.

Unseen beings linger at the edges of human perception, shaping dreams around their victims’ deepest fears. Their purpose is to frighten people out of their own bodies, leaving an opening for something waiting in the shadows.

Craig inherits a house from an uncle he stopped speaking to after a family dispute. What initially seems like an unexpected reconciliation soon reveals a darker purpose, forcing him to question the legacy attached to the property.

A man and a woman are locked together by a chain around their ankles, but only one chose the arrangement. He controls when she can leave and refuses her repeated questions, turning their connection into a sustained ordeal of captivity.

On Christmas Eve, a withdrawn girl insists Santa already knows what she wants because he visits her dreams. Her anxious parents struggle to choose presents for a daughter they barely understand as midnight approaches and their unease grows.

Four strangers facing financial desperation accept a midnight running challenge for a substantial cash prize. Equipped only with flashlights, they must reach their destination before morning, but howls under the full moon expose the danger behind the offer.

Strangers enter a bidding game in which each names the price they would accept for completing a task. The cheapest bidder must follow through, leaving the contestants to discover what their mysterious organizer expects of them.

Jamie Harris travels the country assessing prisoners for parole, but the crimes he encounters haunt his sleep and waking hours. His decision to support Billy Ray's release becomes particularly troubling after the apparently reformed criminal kills again.

Aspiring model Jessica Ann struggles with debt and a stalled career until a well-paid party job offers relief. The lavish event hosted by the Larsens conceals a ritual intended to awaken the ancient entity Cthulhu.

Eight months after the ritual, Max prepares for the birth of Helena's extraordinary child. Confined within a lead-lined room, she awaits the Great Old One while the couple's preparations and sacrifices push their household further into madness.

A pug becomes an unlikely crime-fighter in a comic adventure involving thieves and stolen goods. The volume also includes Matt Shaw's humorous account of living with his own pug, exploring the expense and frustrations of ownership.

Punk singer Nate Nasty has built a reputation for outrageous performances and unruly behavior. When reporter Carolyne interviews him, she tries to separate the person behind the notoriety from the stories that have made him infamous.

Survivors of a dangerous midnight run have earned their prize but remain captives of mysterious masters. Following unfamiliar instructions, they search for a way out of the den before another full moon brings renewed danger.

Nick watches Hannah without being remembered, longing for a connection they once shared. Hannah is drawn to a pale, lonely boy in her lecture hall, but his intense gaze brings attraction together with fear and an unsettling sense of recognition.

Ten reality-show contestants arrive on a deserted Pacific island with basic equipment, supplies, cameras, and emergency radios. Their planned adventure turns threatening when events suggest the producers' intentions extend far beyond an ordinary televised survival challenge.

Michael plots to replace his brother Jason as leader of the pack, using Melissa and David to advance his scheme. Jason considers abandoning their troubled household, while the approaching full moon threatens to sharpen the struggle for control.

This collection combines previously unreleased flash fiction, short stories, and novellas, including Hush Little Baby, Man's Best Friend, Change, Cat, HIM, and A Girl and Her Corpse. The pieces bring together several forms of Shaw's horror writing.

Helen and Mark's intimate relationship has become routine, with neither addressing the growing dissatisfaction. An emergency dental appointment and tooth extraction reveal an unexpected fetish, introducing a disturbing new complication into their already strained life together.

Penny records her journey through wastelands devastated by the Trepedity Virus, searching for purpose after the apocalypse. Along the way, she encounters other survivors and bloodthirsty Wraiths capable of passing their infection to those who escape an attack.

Nate hoped to balance his audience's appetite for blood with contestants' desire for money without causing lasting harm. When those plans collapse, he is forced into a darker version of the game for viewers watching at home.

Matt Shaw recounts life with depression and self-hatred, describing the coping methods he has tried and their differing results. This memoir uses dark humor to discuss his struggles, including approaches encouraged by professionals and his more destructive experiments.

Contestants enter a supposedly haunted house where its former owner murdered his family. Once inside, they discover that the rules have changed, and surviving the night means confronting the other players rather than the ghosts they expected.

A man trawls social media to send unsolicited intimate photographs to women, enjoying their disgust and outrage. When he chooses a new recipient one evening, his familiar routine provokes a response he has neither anticipated nor prepared for.

An enormous asteroid passes between Earth and the Moon, turning the sky red and drawing crowds outside. While people celebrate or predict catastrophe, women experience a simultaneous and frightening bodily change that transforms the spectacle into horror.

Christmas traditions become the setting for a collection of horror stories. Beneath the wrapped presents, sleeping children and apparent festive comfort, Shaw replaces seasonal reassurance with unsettling encounters and threats drawn from the darker side of the holiday.

A man lets a six-sided die determine the choices he makes in life. Readers roll their own die to steer his decisions through branching paths, risking dangerous outcomes in a horror story with several possible endings.

Captain Lee and his crew promise wealthy yacht guests exceptional service, excursions, and meals. Behind the polished hospitality lies a secret: the crew's taste for human flesh has become part of the unsuspecting passengers' luxury dining experience.

Bullied for his awkward appearance as a child, Steve grows into a handsome man admired by strangers. Beneath his outward confidence and friendliness, resentment remains, and those who once mocked him face the consequences of his remembered humiliation.

A traveling serial killer kidnaps and tortures victims before leaving their bodies in fields disguised as scarecrows. He records the details of his crimes in a personal manuscript bearing a warning on its cover: Don't Read.