Matt Shaw Books in Order

A badly burned man wakes in hospital with fragmented memories of killing people and flees to avoid the police. Wandering the streets, he tries to reconstruct his identity and home life as violent recollections gradually return.

As preparations for Cthulhu's awakening reach their final stage, violent storms and disturbed seas signal an approaching catastrophe. The conclusion of the Octopus trilogy follows the consequences of the rituals as madness threatens to spread across the world.

Billy Smith enjoys an affair with Sherry while assuring her he will leave his wife. When his wife disappears and a package arrives containing her severed tongue, he must follow clues left by someone who knows his secret.

Jamie Lee arrives at a rented house for a secret weekend with her lover and hears the telephone ringing. Expecting an explanation for his delay, she answers a call that transforms the familiar retreat into a threat.

Unexplained earthquakes draw a scientific expedition into the Mariana Trench aboard a billionaire’s specially designed submarine. With the world watching their descent, the researchers travel toward the ocean’s deepest point, unaware of the horrors waiting below.

A discreet, expensive club offers people who want to end their lives a way to do so while protecting their families from the aftermath. Its unsettling promise connects private despair with questions about what loved ones are left to bear.

Sharon and Mary refuse to accept the cancellation of their favorite violent television show, The Game. Hoping to persuade its producers to commission a new program, the devoted fans prepare footage intended to demonstrate their own talents.

Tommy and Jacqueline find two strangers in their living room on Christmas morning, claiming their parents have been called away. The visitors insist on celebrating, but their disturbing version of the holiday leaves the children facing increasingly alarming festivities.

A solitary man pays others to indulge his secret fetishes, relying on their discretion. After a drunken night, he discovers he has kidnapped a colleague and struggles with the consequences, fearing both releasing her and keeping her captive.

An aspiring artist uses a relationship with a famous man to advance her career, then destroys his reputation with allegations. A stranger who hears her account decides to intervene, turning the public controversy into a personal campaign of terror.

A horror author travels abroad to meet readers who helped fund his visit, expecting friendly conversations and shared enthusiasm for his books. His hosts have a different interest in their guest, making the trip a dangerous encounter with devoted fans.

Matt Shaw revisits his humorous account of pug ownership, adding material to the original book about Chewie. His misadventures explore the demands of caring for the breed and the realities prospective dog owners may overlook.

Living alone after his marriage breaks down, a man escapes his repetitive days through online videos. His search for increasingly unusual material introduces an obsession he believes could restore his marriage, threatening to turn reconciliation into something disturbing.

In 2032, five-year-old Jacob unwraps his first semi-automatic rifle on Christmas morning while his parents struggle with news of another pregnancy. This dystopian horror explores a future in which reproductive restrictions give a growing family reasons to fear.

Every Halloween, a boarded-up house opens for a deadly spectacle. A captive struggles through its maze of rooms looking for an exit while neighbors watch on outdoor screens, enjoy refreshments and wager on whether the prisoner will survive.

Brooke cannot escape memories of what was done to her, despite her attempts to rebuild her life. Determined to prevent the nightmare from happening again, she considers taking the law into her own hands, whatever the consequences.

Familiar biblical stories are reimagined through horror and dark humor. Shaw transforms well-known religious narratives into irreverent tales, using their recognizable characters and situations to explore unsettling possibilities beneath stories usually told as lessons in faith.

A boy feels something dangerous growing inside him, but others dismiss his attempts to explain it. Their insistence that he is fine deepens his anger and fear, leaving him uncertain who will suffer when he finally loses control.

After a crash kills a mother and child, Jimmie leaves hospital without remembering what happened. Guilt and an approaching court case overwhelm his efforts to rebuild until a religious stranger’s visit changes whom he holds responsible.

A free streaming service attracts viewers with films and television programs still playing elsewhere. When its audience reaches 666 subscribers, a glitch unleashes disturbing images that strip viewers of their souls and leave violent impulses in their place.

Trainers at a sanctuary believe they have rescued a dolphin and given it a safe home. The animal’s unexpected behavior soon reveals a dangerous side, forcing its caretakers to reconsider their assumptions about the creature in their care.

A secretive organization offers people the chance to kill their enemies in a specially equipped room. Both participants must wear cameras, and subscribers watch the resulting violence, turning revenge into entertainment governed by one demand: keep the audience interested.

Santa has spent years bringing joy to children while concealing grief over his own daughter’s death. A routine Christmas visit revives memories he thought buried, turning his holiday duties into a disturbing encounter shaped by loss and rage.

An overcrowded world introduces a government lottery that sends two hundred people to a club each night. Half receive permission to return home; the others are marked for death, making an ordinary invitation the beginning of a terrifying ordeal.

After losing his wife to cancer, a grieving husband believes she has returned to him as a worm. Their unusual reunion becomes a bizarre love story that challenges his understanding of beauty, companionship and the bond they once shared.

An assault leaves a woman frightened of strangers and struggling to leave home despite therapy. Seeking a sense of safety, she begins targeting men she believes deserve punishment, building a disturbing collection as her recovery becomes a pursuit of revenge.

A young couple seeking respite from illness, retired lodge owners and two unhappily married food vendors cross paths in the English countryside. Their apparently ordinary lives conceal tensions that turn a quiet holiday into a tangled horror story.

A young woman wakes to discover her body has undergone an impossible transformation. Part of her has become an independently living creature with relentless cravings, leaving her confronted by a bizarre threat born from her own flesh.

The opening installment traces Jack Morrison's origins before his birth, beginning with his mother's work as a prostitute and a violent attack. Her experience introduces the serial's question of whether a killer is born or shaped by circumstance.

Jack hires a sex worker named Michelle, but the encounter has little to do with ordinary desire. Instead, he seeks a disturbing form of role-play that lets him feel close to his dead mother and attempt a farewell.

Jack's childhood unfolds under an alcoholic mother who resents that he is a boy and sends him to school in dresses. Targeted by bullies, he absorbs their cruelty while an increasingly dangerous anger builds beneath his quiet exterior.

Left alone in Jack's house, Steve Chappo must decide whether to return to his parents and sister or remain and begin another life. Problems at home complicate his choice as the serial introduces a new perspective on violence.

Steve Chappo returns home after weeks away to find his mother nearing the end of her battle with cancer and his father acting strangely. Meanwhile, a voice in Steve's head increasingly encourages him to indulge his darker thoughts.

Steve faces fresh family troubles as his father’s drinking turns threatening toward him and his sister. Guided by a voice in his head, he follows an increasingly dangerous course while Debra makes a decisive move of her own.

After her mother's death and a change in her father's behavior, Debra leaves home hoping for a fresh start. With little money and limited experience, she soon becomes trapped in a life she had wanted to escape.

Gary survives his assigned night at the government’s lethal club, only to discover his wife has received a death token. Their attempt to escape the system collides with another couple fleeing the lottery, bringing unforeseen danger to both families.

Emily relies on therapy to manage a difficult life until recurring dreams reveal an unsettling possibility. A man arguing online from his mother’s basement is writing a novel, and she may be the character he has invented.

Mysterious books curse their readers and the people they love, eventually spreading to electronic devices. An account claiming to offer a defense against the demon behind them invites readers to learn whether its advice can protect them.

Widower Mark Jacobs finds hope after adopting an Alsatian named Bobby. A stranger claiming ownership demands the dog’s return and begins harassing him, forcing Mark to gather evidence before the campaign against his new companion escalates.

A woman wakes in darkness with no memory of how she became trapped. Finding a passage offers possible escape, but narrowing corridors and a hidden tunnel force her deeper into an unfamiliar space where she must keep moving without reassurance.

Sue turns to her Kindle for relief from a world filled with violence and despair. When an unfamiliar book replaces her current read and cannot be removed, she becomes entangled in the deadly curse surrounding its pages.

After an accident disfigures his wife, a husband pursues a horrifying way to restore her appearance. His repeated efforts require new victims, while growing guilt threatens an arrangement he has justified as an expression of love.

Before the original family’s ordeal, the government tests how people would behave after civilization collapses. Officials debate whether survivors deserve rescue or should fend for themselves, making society’s response to disaster the basis for a grim experiment.

Police close Stoney Brook Farms after a child’s body is discovered inside a scarecrow. Forced from their home as investigators examine the property, the owners wait for answers about the death and who concealed it on their land.

Serial killer Tony struggles to conceal his crimes from his family until his daughter witnesses him disposing of her mother’s body. Her unexpectedly curious reaction opens a disturbing connection between them, making a killers’ convention an unusual family outing.

A new street drug from an unusual source produces extraordinary highs that seem to transport users into another reality. Its effects carry terrible consequences, blurring the distinction between vivid dreams and a world that may be dangerously deceptive.

Scientists begin raising the Titanic piece by piece before decay destroys the wreck, hoping to reassemble it on the surface. The first section brings more than historic remains, unleashing a supernatural threat from the ocean floor.

Cheap houses draw new owners to an abandoned English mining village under a government renovation scheme. The promise of affordable homes and future profit fades as their work disturbs old secrets that should have remained buried.

Contestants join a dark-web game show believing they can earn life-changing money by confronting their greatest fear. They enter unaware that the competition is rigged, leaving them exposed to dangers concealed behind its seemingly straightforward promise.

Three friends enter an abandoned aquarium to document neglected animals and help secure their rescue. What begins as an effort to expose cruelty becomes a frightening exploration when they realize marine creatures are not the only things watching them.

Giant insects hunt people sheltering in an icebound world while a motel owner develops a plan for human survival. Linked stories of a threatened camping family and a lakeside weekend expose horrors connected across different timelines.

Amelia humiliates Ian at school through a cruel prank she secretly records and shares. Years later, a chance meeting brings them together again, giving Ian an opportunity to act on resentment that has never faded.

Jeremy Jumper’s recurring medical condition causes a swelling on his nose that attracts ridicule from strangers and friends. As the growth worsens, relentless mockery feeds an anger that threatens to erupt before his tormentors recognize the danger.

An emergency call-handler becomes furious with persistent callers who waste already strained resources. Armed with a list of the worst offenders, he begins visiting them personally, while police pursue him before his campaign reaches its end.

A supernatural horror told through its central character’s eyes explores suicidal thoughts, grief and the afterlife. Drawing on personal struggles with chronic pain, Shaw examines despair and the difficulties of understanding both those in crisis and those left behind.

Martin and Sonia’s child needs a liver transplant, but their world reserves private treatment for the wealthy. To obtain care, Stevie must enter an arena against other sick children and win, forcing the family to confront a cruel system.

Women awaken in a locked basement and discover they have been abducted for a game of Simon Says. Their captor treats them as playthings, rewarding obedience and punishing mistakes as they struggle to understand his demands and stay alive.

Thomas loses his wife shortly after they move into their dream country home. Left alone with his grief, he discovers their house has a history of death, and its restless inhabitants are responding to his vulnerability.

A couple posing as a divorcing mother and her estranged husband target another rental property for their scam. Their new landlord seems inexperienced, but his effort to escape darker desires makes this tenancy more dangerous than they expect.

A man remains unable to escape the trauma of being bullied in high school. An approaching reunion brings him back into contact with that past, turning an ordinary gathering into a disturbing confrontation with those connected to his suffering.

James and Emily awaken stripped and imprisoned in a white room, monitored by unseen captors. Rewards encourage compliance and punishments enforce obedience as the strangers struggle to understand the experiments, their confinement, and whether escape is possible.

An artist becomes consumed by arguments and public condemnations in his online community, neglecting his work and marriage. When his wife asks for a divorce, the rejection he never anticipated sends his deteriorating life toward violence.

Eight-year-old Lauren believes a monster has taken her mother’s place while her real parents remain trapped in shadows. A mysterious child appearing in mirrors offers clues to the house’s secrets and the creature keeping her there.

Readers suggest ordeals for a central character, and Shaw combines their demands into one continuous horror story. Encounters with killers, aliens and sinister rituals create an unpredictable journey shaped by the audience’s increasingly disturbing ideas.

After her husband dies, Jenny discovers the unfinished bucket list he kept during his illness. Determined to fulfill his wishes, she exhumes his body and takes him along, turning her grief into an increasingly disturbing undertaking.

Funeral-home worker Carol McCoy has grown numb to the constant presence of death. When a corpse sits up on her embalming table, his confusion and hunger for human flesh force her to confront a terrifying possibility beyond mortality.

Online influencers sell young men a vision of strength built on domination, resentment, and contempt for women. As their audience grows, one man decides to deliver a brutal lesson through the same screens that spread their message.

Doctors Schwartz and Henderson struggle with revelations that threaten their lives and identities. As one considers exposing the corporation and another seeks revenge from within, their conflicting plans threaten the experiments Sam Schlecht intends to expand.

Raven’s Hollow, an abandoned amusement park outside a quiet town, has become a place where trespassers disappear. Beneath its ruined attractions lie the dead and missing children, while one man watches over the dark secrets within its gates.

A man wakes in an unfamiliar room surrounded by three women, two of whom he recognizes from his past. With another woman speaking for them, he discovers that former victims now control an encounter built around revenge.

A disgraced filmmaker recruits influencers and thrill-seekers for an illegal landing on North Sentinel Island. Their pursuit of online fame becomes a fight for survival as rescue proves impossible and fear turns the isolated crew against one another.

Carly and her siblings are on an adventure holiday when their guide disappears during the night. An encounter with an unknown spider leaves Carly bitten, turning their search for safety into a frightening struggle with an unfamiliar threat.