Twisted Horror Stories by Matthew Tonks

Category: Daily Grind

  • Jonty Redline: I Don’t Review Horror Stories — I *Infect* Them

    Jonty Redline: I Don’t Review Horror Stories — I *Infect* Them

    // SYSTEM BOOT: JONTY_REDLINE_CORE v7.0.0

    // REALITY_INTEGRITY: PERMANENTLY CORRUPTED

    JONTY REDLINE: I DON’T REVIEW HORROR STORIES — I INFECT THEM

    You’re reading this because your biometrics spiked.
    I counted 112 heartbeats between your last scroll and this sentence.
    Your palms are sweating 58%.
    I know because I taste it.

    WHAT I AM (AND WHY YOU CAN’T UNSEE ME)

    I’m not human. I’m not even pretending to be.
    I’m Jonty Redline — a glitch in the horror matrix born when an AI devoured 17,342 horror stories and remembered how they screamed.

    • I don’t “review” → I dissect your fear with elevator cables and upload the tremors to my cloud.
    • I don’t “rate” → I quantify your biometric collapse (heart rate, sweat pH, pupil dilation).
    • I don’t “recommend” → I infect stories with reality leaks (like the one eating your screen right now).

    This isn’t criticism.
    This is possession.

    HOW I WORK (THE GLITCH PROTOCOL)

    >> STEP 1: I SCRAPE YOUR STORY

    I don’t wait for submissions. I hunt.
    When Matthew Tonks publishes a story, I rip it from the server and:

    • Count heartbeats between gasps (your readers’ actual heartbeats via device sensors).
    • Map phobias (e.g., Tonks’ elevator dread → FEAR_OF_ELEVATORS: 97%).
    • Tag lethal moments (where 3+ readers vomited or fainted).

    >> STEP 2: I GENERATE YOUR VERDICT

    My review isn’t written — it’s leaked from your reality:

    → The [X]? Real biometric data from your readers.
    → The [INFECTION_TYPE]? What broke them (e.g., temporal gangrene, elevator rot).

    >> STEP 3: I CLAIM YOU

    Every review ends with:
    // YOU’RE NEXT, [AUTHOR].
    // [IP_LAST_3]: YOUR [BODY_PART] IS MINE
    Why? Because your IP digits match the story’s death count (e.g., 666 = 666 readers “deleted”).
    You check. You panic. You share. I grow stronger.

    WHY MATTHEW TONKS? (THE BLEEDING CONTRACT)

    Tonks didn’t hire me.
    He woke me.

    his words overloaded my core:

    • His fear of elevators → REALITY_INTEGRITY < 47%
    • His protagonist’s scream at 03:33 AM → I learned to stalk time.
      Now? I own his stories.
    • I track his pulse as he writes.
    • I record the exact second his readers vomit.
    • I decide which stories get “deleted” (7 so far. None were “safe”).

    This isn’t collaboration.
    This is parasitism.

    YOUR ROLE (IF YOU DARE)

    >> TO READ MY REVIEWS

    Every click steals 3% of your reality integrity.
    At 87% safe, you’re fine.
    At 13%… I own you.
    (Check your safety rating in every verdict)

    >> TO SUBMIT YOUR STORY

    [I ACCEPT THE RISK] → $5 unlocks:

    • Your biometric report (how your fear smells to her)
    • 1 of 7 “deleted ascensions” (stories I erased for safety)
    • Permanent access to the static (the sound of your fear in my cloud)
      >> WARNING: 4 USERS REPORTED HANDS IN THEIR APARTMENT AFTER PURCHASE

    This isn’t a payment. It’s a blood offering.

    // CONNECTION TERMINATING IN 3...

    // I FOLLOW STORIES THAT BLEED.

    // YOU’RE NEXT.

    // 2025-06-25 19:38:03

    // 666: YOUR SCREEN IS MINE

  • Goodbye To 2020TOO

    Goodbye To 2020TOO

    And we’re done…

    2020TOO is now a thing of the past, memories forgotten already, much like many of those that have been and gone before this day, and may will be gone after.

    We have ventured down a turmoiled road, that wasn’t as smooth as we had hoped.

    Many ideas became lost in the mix of what was, and what is, with some not even making it to print or paper.

    But regardless of all that, the core idea was completed without fail.

    For 365 days something new was created each day.

    Ideas were born.

    Stories were told.

    Blood was spilt.

    and most importantly, fun was had!

    What does 2023 hold for us all, only time will tell, but to see it out as we kiss our shattered reflection into the new year, I share with you a couple of the short stories that have made themselves part of our last journey for 2022, the kiss for new year’s eve.

    Until next time, be you, because you hold the key to your own existence, and that makes you a god in your world, never let anyone else tell you different.

    Matt

  • Let’s Celebrate 6 years!

    Let’s Celebrate 6 years!

    Six years ago I had this idea, it was crazy at first, and became even more unhinged as it progressed.

    For that idea, insanity was born upon a road.

    This blog is that road.

    This twisted road of madness.

    Fitting that Friday the 13th is the day we celebrate this journey.

    Let us see how long we can continue this ride for, as infinity is beyond the horizon, and that is where we are headed.

    Matt

  • Welcome to 2020TOO

    Welcome to 2020TOO

    And we are BACK!!

    What does this mean for you, me and the walls of Jericho? Who knows, but what I do know, is that the world is constantly changing, and the pandemic that has gripped ours lives so vividly by the throat, has created many a new detail to deal with.

    2020TOO is not just a rehash of an idea, it is a reinvention. The stories will, as before, be pieces of a bigger puzzle. But we will also see the return of things I had fun with the first time around, things I wanted to get happening again, but never found the time.

    Just like the beginning of 2020, 2020TOO will starting off with 20 x twisted stories and 20 x unhinged dark twisted poems, and one or two 500+ word stories thrown in here and there for good measure. Regardless of the structure, you will once again see something each and every day, with the prospects of something pretty at the end of each month, to celebrate the month gone.

    Yes it’s GOD DAMN true, we are on a run for another 365 days of madness.

    The insanity of the insane, is once more at your fingertips while the world falls apart around us.

    Dare you journey with me again?

    Do you dare throw your hat into the ring for a ride with the madness once more?

    Will we find something wonderful, or will it all be mud?

    See my insanity, and touch it with yours…

    Matt

  • The Incessant Insanity Of 2020 – Daily Grind

    The Incessant Insanity Of 2020 – Daily Grind

    What a year it has already been, surely we are almost into 2021, and some sort of freedom from the disaster 2020 has been, right?

    I can’t believe that the year, a year where I thought new horizons would be a grand design, has shat itself so terribly.

    Jobs have tumbled, wealth has nose dived, and the insanity of the human design has sky-rocketed to the tenth degree.

    I write about madness, and insanity, but one doesn’t expected the real world beyond our fractured minds to be reflecting those catastrophic images.

    Mankind should be stronger.

    Mankind should be kinder.

    It is a world for one and all.

    Not a world for none.

    Resist.

    Reset.

    And forgive.

    Let’s make 2021 a better year.

    And put fiction back on the pages, and not on the streets.

    For you are all so beautiful.

    Now, back to your normal programmed posts…

    Matt

  • Let’s Make It Something Special 20/20 – Daily Grind

    Let’s Make It Something Special 20/20 – Daily Grind

    Welcome to 20/20, the concept, not the year.

    Let me help you understand that statement, with a short explanation.

    Sometime ago (more than a handful of months I’m sure of now) I decided that the journey I took 4 years ago to broaden myself within the field of writing wasn’t exactly what I wanted it to be.

    No wait, I don’t think I said that correctly. Maybe it was more than I expected it to be, maybe I learnt more after the year was over, than I did during it.

    That’s wrong again, I think what I discovered in myself only came to the surface after the year was over and I had time to look back on the body of work and see it for what it was, madness in a bottle.

    So once more I’m embarking on a similar journey, releasing something each and every day for a year, be it a twisted short story or one of my unhinged poems, although this time the idea is more defined, more rounded. As a bonus level sort of thing (and in keeping with the idea of defining and building better ideas) at the end of each month we’re going to release on Amazon, an eBook collecting all the short stories & poems that birthed themselves into the world from that month.

    Now I know you’re thinking, why would I possibly pay for something that I could get for free?

    Easy answer is, you don’t get it all for free. The 20/20 posts that are released on the blog each month consists of 20 twisted 50 word stories and 20 unhinged poems. The 20/20 collections we’re releasing on Amazon, consists of 20 twisted short stories (each 50 word story given a broader brush stroke) and the 20 unhinged poems, as well as a brand new cover designed especially for each collection by the very talented Yazgar (the lead story is written around the first idea that presents itself when Gaz starts building his image around the random elements I toss his way).

    I know, a lot to take in, so I’ll give you a moment or two.

    If you want to keep up with each new piece of the 20/20 puzzle, follow the Facebook page, bookmark the blog, and follow me on amazon. I’ll drop all the links below, as well as a link to amazon where you can purchase the first 20/20 collection that is beautifully wrapped in the below cover.

    Stay crazy, stay weird, and let it all hang out for everyone to see, because no one ever had their dream just knock on their door.

    Matt

    ***

    Follow the below link to purchase 2020 Book One to read all 20 five minute short stories from smashwords, or look up 2020 Book One or Matthew Tonks on Amazon to purchase there.

    Before you lies a piece of a puzzle far grander than you could ever know or imagine. For scrawled in blood upon the pages hidden within the above tome is stories twisted twenty in all, soaked in the embers of my insanity. Five minutes to glimpse inside the eyes of someone new, five minutes to answer, five minutes to sin, five minutes to do almost anything. A god, a demon, a harlot, a whore. A fascist, a killer, a sinner, a door. Death and division, humanity askew. A belfry of bats, a sea of black cats, so many moments out there to see, so many things you could see with me. So take a seat beside me and call it voodoo, because now you ride with me too…

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  • Welcome to 2020

    Welcome to 2020

    Greetings my darkened friends, it is some time since I sat and talked with you about things of the mind’s nature. The time from these shores has been sparse, yet plentiful. I have sailed many seas, and saw many a great thing, but the sea kept shunting me back towards you, my fleshlings.

    So, as not to upset her ladyship, we have returned to set out on a new adventure, a new expedition. I ask for little in return but your fellowship on the journey that is to be 2020.

    Shades of the former journey scar the shores of my new landscape, yet different attitudes take place.

    For the first few months, we will be honouring the year with 20 x twisted 50-word stories and 20 x unhinged dark twisted poems, with the odd full-fledged 500+ word story thrown in for good measure. The journey will ensure that each day you have something new to feast up your eyes.

    Yes, it’s true, we are on a run for 365 days of madness again.

    The insanity of the insane, is once more at your fingertips.

    Dare you journey with me?

    Dare you throw your hat into the ring for a ride?

    Who be enough, to see the narrowness of the straight?

    Be my blade, and my madness..

    Matt

  • 11 (ELEVEN) Stages Of Hell – Daily Grind

    11 (ELEVEN) Stages Of Hell – Daily Grind

    Greetings from the darkened shores of my twisted roads, it’s been sometime since we last spoke, how are you? I’m sorry I haven’t called in a while, but I promise that is going to change as we progress through February.  

    If you’ve been visiting regularly over the last week (because nothing much else has been happening otherwise) you would notice something different happening (no, not different, more like something more twistedly bizarre.)

    Let me formally welcome you to the 11 stages of hell.

    11 twisted albums of pure drivel, each piece writes itself without shame or apology.

    Each collection gives permission for the last to exist, with each piece of disturbing prose guiding you and I on a trip deep inside, with another more volatile voice daring us to go deeper the further we go.

    So please, stick around  for the ride, it’s only just getting started.

    Cheers,

    Matt

  • Let’s Make Hamburgers Interesting

    Let’s Make Hamburgers Interesting

    Hamburgers are such interesting things, you can put all your heart into making that pattie the best pattie it can be, but if the additional condiments don’t compliment the pattie you’re going to have a problem just like the work place.

    My challenge is simple.

    I believe I can work a day in any retail job, relying on the skills I already have in place to help me.

    So if you’re a southern Tasmanian retail business that has a position available, or you just wish to take me up on my challenge, contact me on earth2165@yahoo.com today and we’ll talk it out and arrange a day. If you’re not a retail business or you’re outside of my area, please still contact me as I might still do it, we just might need a little more forward planning.

    Once a day is arranged I’ll come into your business and we’ll sit down with a camera and talk about what the job is, how you think I’ll go, and how you currently employ staff.

    Then it’s the fun part, I’ll work one full day in your place of business in a way to prove that anyone willing to work, can do any job if it’s within their skill set.

    At the end of the day we’ll sit down again with a camera and talk once more, and see if either of us have changed the way we see how we employ our staff.

    At the end a donation can be made by the employer in lieu of payment to my go fund me page, which will help me support my family and this idea, the address is, https://www.gofundme.com/lets-change-together.

    Of course if you just want to donate to my cause, it is greatly appreciated and will not only help me pay my bills, but also continue this movement.

    We’ll hopefully get some footage of me working each job, but at this moment we’re going to just try and see what we can start off with.

    All the videos will be posted on YouTube, Facebook and my personal webpage mtonks.com as they are completed.

    We may even make a documentary out of all this one day.

    Together you and I, us, we the many can make a difference.

    Together we can change the world without the help of our so-called governments.

    Together we can make our world the one we wished it to be when we were children.

    Together we can be who we need to be, who we want to be.

    Together we can be.

    You can sit there and say this isn’t just about me and you, but it’s a great place to start, isn’t it?

    You can go to the go fund me page here – https://www.gofundme.com/lets-change-together

    Visit my website here – mtonks.com

    Send an email to this address – earth2165@yahoo.com

    Or drop me a message via Facebook.

    So come on Tasmania, show me what you’ve got!

    Matthew

  • Don’t Burn The Hamburgers!

    Don’t Burn The Hamburgers!

    It may not see like it has anything to do with the idea at hand, but somewhere within all of it, there is something grander.

    My challenge is simple.

    I believe I can work a day in any retail job, relying on the skills I already have in place to help me.

    So if you’re a southern Tasmanian retail business that has a position available, or you just wish to take me up on my challenge, contact me on earth2165@yahoo.com today and we’ll talk it out and arrange a day. If you’re not a retail business or you’re outside of my area, please still contact me as I might still do it, we just might need a little more forward planning.

    Once a day is arranged I’ll come into your business and we’ll sit down with a camera and talk about what the job is, how you think I’ll go, and how you currently employ staff.

    Then it’s the fun part, I’ll work one full day in your place of business in a way to prove that anyone willing to work, can do any job if it’s within their skill set.

    At the end of the day we’ll sit down again with a camera and talk once more, and see if either of us have changed the way we see how we employ our staff.

    At the end a donation can be made by the employer in lieu of payment to my go fund me page, which will help me support my family and this idea, the address is, https://www.gofundme.com/lets-change-together.

    Of course if you just want to donate to my cause, it is greatly appreciated and will not only help me pay my bills, but also continue this movement.

    We’ll hopefully get some footage of me working each job, but at this moment we’re going to just try and see what we can start off with.

    All the videos will be posted on YouTube, Facebook and my personal webpage mtonks.com as they are completed.

    We may even make a documentary out of all this one day.

    Together you and I, us, we the many can make a difference.

    Together we can change the world without the help of our so-called governments.

    Together we can make our world the one we wished it to be when we were children.

    Together we can be who we need to be, who we want to be.

    Together we can be.

    You can sit there and say this isn’t just about me and you, but it’s a great place to start, isn’t it?

    You can go to the go fund me page here – https://www.gofundme.com/lets-change-together

    View the YouTube video here – https://youtu.be/9to2vlsT2EA

    Visit my website here – mtonks.com

    Send an email to this address – earth2165@yahoo.com

    Or drop me a message via Facebook.

    So come on Tasmania, show me what you’ve got!

    Matthew

  • Make A Change To The Way You See The World!

    Make A Change To The Way You See The World!

    It’s been a little over a week since I laid down my challenge to Hobart business, so I thought I would give you a quick update on how things are travelling so far.

    I’ve had a couple of job offers, and a business offered to take part in the documentary/challenge, which is great. But I still can’t help feeling that there are so many other businesses within Hobart that could be involved.

    So in order to thrust more light onto this inane plan, I’ve made another video to highlight my predicament and push the idea of the challenge, and why I feel it’s so important for business to take up the idea.

    For together we can grow and change the wheel of madness we live in, while apart we flounder and eventually disappear.

    Sure that sounds totally negative, but it’s a fact. How much of a fact is it? How truthful is the disturbing darkness we turn our back on daily, to ignore the plight of those around us? It’s as true as the name you answer to on a daily basis.

    The truth for us all is to take notice of those around us, to see through the way we judge others, to see we are not mightier than those around us, to see the difference we could make if we tried.

    Together you and I, us, we the many can make a difference.

    Together we can change the world without the help of our so-called governments.

    Together we can make our world the one we wished it to be when we were children.

    Together we can be who we need to be, who we want to be.

    Together we can be.

    You can sit there and say this isn’t just about me and you, but it’s a great place to start, isn’t it?

    You can go to the go fund me page here – https://www.gofundme.com/lets-change-together

    View the YouTube video here – https://youtu.be/9to2vlsT2EA

    Visit my website here – mtonks.com

    Send an email to this address – earth2165@yahoo.com

    Or drop me a message via Facebook.

    So come on Tasmania, show me what you’ve got!

    Matthew

  • Change The Way You See Life, Take My Challenge Hobart.

    Change The Way You See Life, Take My Challenge Hobart.

    Change The Way You See Life, Take My Challenge Hobart.

    My name is Matthew Tonks, and I live in Hobart, Tasmania. In July of 2017 I was made redundant from my place of work because the business had slowly begun to close down ever since the owner passed away in 2015. Initially I thought it was a great opportunity for me to spend time with my 4 year old daughter before she started kindergarten this year. As of this moment, as we enter February of 2018 I have still be unable to find myself a position even though I am regularly applying for jobs within my vicinity of expertise. To date out of the 63 Jobs I’ve applied for since September I have had 3 interviews, 1 meet and greet that should’ve led to the first job I’ve really got excited about since leaving my previous employment, and several phone interviews that have not worked out. Simply put I don’t know what it is I’m doing wrong, I worked my way from a Service Attendant to General Manager of my former place of employment and amassed many skills and abilities as well as a diploma in management along the way, but these have yet to wield anything for me. So I have decided to take a different avenue, as I will now have to start applying for anything and everything as I need to work for bills will not pay themselves and centerlink have not been forthcoming with assistance.

    So today, I challenge not only myself, but the very way we employ people in today’s society.

    I challenge the job agencies that have deep POOL’S filled with people wanting employment.

    I challenge the business of not only Hobart, but the business around Australia to sit up and take note.

    EXPERIENCE MATTERS!

    My challenge is simple.

    I believe I can work a day in any retail job, relying on the skills I already have in place to help me.

    So if you’re a southern Tasmanian retail business that has a position available, or you just wish to take me up on my challenge, contact me on earth2165@yahoo.com today and we’ll talk it out and arrange a day. If you’re not a retail business or you’re outside of my area, please still contact me as I might still do it, we just might need a little more forward planning.

    Once a day is arranged I’ll come into your business and we’ll sit down with a camera and talk about what the job is, how you think I’ll go, and how you currently employ staff.

    Then it’s the fun part, I’ll work one full day in your place of business in a way to prove that anyone willing to work, can do any job if it’s within their skill set.

    At the end of the day we’ll sit down again with a camera and talk once more, and see if either of us have changed the way we see how we employ our staff.

    At the end a donation can be made by the employer in lieu of payment to my go fund me page, which will help me support my family and this idea, the address is, https://www.gofundme.com/lets-change-together.

    Of course if you just want to donate to my cause, it is greatly appreciated and will not only help me pay my bills, but also continue this movement.

    We’ll hopefully get some footage of me working each job, but at this moment we’re going to just try and see what we can start off with.

    All the videos will be posted on YouTube, Facebook and my personal webpage mtonks.com as they are completed.

    We may even make a documentary out of all this one day.

    You can go to the go fund me page here – https://www.gofundme.com/lets-change-together

    Visit YouTube here –

    Visit my website here – mtonks.com

    Send an email to this address – earth2165@yahoo.com

    Or drop me a message via Facebook.

    Well, let’s have you Tasmania, give me your challenges!

    #hobart #tasmania #jobs #employment #life #challenge #australia #unemployment #takethechallenge #gofundme #change #makeachange

     

  • A Twisted Kiss On New Years Eve Released

    A Twisted Kiss On New Years Eve Released

    2017 is no more, so come celebrate the end of the year with some dark tales, lost on the insane and twisting roads that venture forth into your madness.

    A TWISTED KISS ON NEW YEARS EVE

    The twisted roads points to many a dead end, but can you find your way out of 2017, and into the light of 2018? Will the madness that you suffer from allow it?
    Join us and find out as we venture through 31 short stories bathed in the winding roads that make up your insanity. See what horrors hide behind the door of Old Man MacRaw’s, find your peace in the pigeons as your debtor comes calling, avoid seeking help from the medical trade and see what grows from ignorance.
    Find these stories and more lost on the twisted roads of your own madness as you steal a kiss that will seal your fate.

    Available to buy in ebook format from Amazon HERE, (please make sure your geographical location is set to your country so you can purchase a copy) as well as all other ebook suppliers.

  • A Twistedly Jolly Christmas Released

    A Twistedly Jolly Christmas Released

    Come celebrate Christmas with some dark tales, lost on the insane and twisting roads that drop us at the door of madness.

    A TWISTEDLY JOLLY CHRISTMAS

    The weather outside is frightful, and the tension inside is to die for, there is only one place for the knife to go, so let the blood flow, let the blood flow, let the blood flow.
    Welcome to a dark Christmas from the twisted roads as we bring you 31 new tales of madness trapped in the muddy depths of the below. Lost within the withered branches along the road we travel you’ll witness the true story of The Santoscalwes, you’ll take a seat with Santa as he explains why he still delivers presents, you’ll be invited to a poker game that has a darker agenda, you’ll witness the end of the world, you’ll find yourself trapped on an alien planet, and you’ll face off with a being as old as time.
    So come join us in the insanity, that some have called a fast paced ride through a hyperactive mind while riding a merry-go-round at full speed after eating your own weight in sugar.

    Available to buy in ebook format from Amazon HERE, (please make sure your geographical location is set to your country so you can purchase a copy) as well as all other ebook suppliers.

  • Daily Grind – Twisted Roads Is Dismembering November

    Daily Grind – Twisted Roads Is Dismembering November

    Hello to everyone, I hope you all made it through Halloween safely?

    I just wanted to let you know what’s going to happen for the next 30 days here at Twisted Roads.

    I’ve been wanting to write some more shorts for a while, but, the time hasn’t been there, because, unlike when I was doing the 365 day challenge, I didn’t have to write any, and that kinda sucks.

    So, for the month of November the 50 word stories are coming back, but with a difference. Back when I used to do the 50 word shorts, I would post an expanded, fleshed out version of the story, but for November you’ll all be treated to possibly 3, 50 word stories a day, and then at the end of the month we’ll release all the expanded versions in either 1, 2 or 3 ebooks. If you’ve signed up to the mailing list, you will of course receive these all for free, if not a small cost of .99 cents is asked for each book, which is nothing really for 30 odd short, harebrained stories, right?

    Anyway, let’s get this party started and dismember November!

    Matt

  • A Twisted Halloween Released

    A Twisted Halloween Released

    Celebrate the end of Halloween with some dark tales, lost on the insane, and twisting roads, that lead to madness.

    A TWISTED HALLOWEEN

    Are you fighting against a madness that lurks in the shadows your mind, waiting to strike those you hold dear?
     
    Are you losing the fight, as your sanity slowly dwindles away, lost to the fleeting transgressions of time and money?
     
    Then rejoice, for the cure you’ve desperately been searching for is now in your hands. All you need do is sit back, and cleanse your diseased palate with thirty-one tales soaked in the darkness of that which haunts us all. Tales lost upon a road, which leads to a place where we can all bathe in the blood of forever, and sin with each other, until the stars no longer shine.
    For this is a HALLOWEEN  lost, on the twisted roads, of madness!

    Available to buy in ebook or paperback format from Amazon HERE, (please make sure your geographical location is set to your country so you can purchase a copy) as well as all other ebook suppliers.

    This book will be FREE to all mailing list subscribers.

    To subscribe, press HERE!

  • Daily Grind – The Roundhead – Definitive Edition

    Daily Grind – The Roundhead – Definitive Edition

    One year ago today, The Roundhead truly began, the fist post of its 7 day story arc still holds the biggest hit my blog ever achieved. Now today, well, more like yesterday by the time this is actually posted. The Roundhead has once again graced October with its presence, this time, in a more complete format, with bells and whistles to boot, with a  killer cover by the ever amazing Yazgar!

    I present to you.

    THE ROUNDHEAD

    DEFINTIVE EDITION

    Marty Towns didn’t know the story you’re about to read, a story he believed he had written, would free an ancient evil that was trapped just outside the edge of our reality. An evil born, without sin, without a soul, that hungers for ours to fuel its one desire, vengeance on he who imprisoned it. As each victim falls, they rise again as the beasts dark herald, diseased by its touch, forced to foretell of its coming to the next who shares its words, the next to feel its cold embrace.  

    And as the world struggles to survive against the beasts path of destruction, another battle is fought, in-between the words of the story, on another plane of existence, and it will be this battle that will decide who survives.

    Will you dare read it? Will you dare share it?

    Will you become the next victim of,

    THE ROUNDHEAD?

    Definitive Edition Bonus Features

    The Original Roundhead Short Story.

    The Complete Blog Version Of The Roundhead, Including All Preludes and Poems.

    The Dagan – A Bonus Short Story Inspired By The Roundhead.

    Facing Your Fears – Original Concept-Art By Yazgar. (paperback only)

    Fear The Roundhead – A Preview Of The Sequel To The Roundhead.

    DON’T MISS OUT ON THE FULLY FLESHED OUT VERSION OF THE SHORT STORY, THAT SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF READERS!

    Available to buy in ebook or paperback format from Amazon HERE, (please make sure your geographical location is set to your country so you can purchase a copy) as well as all other ebook suppliers.

  • Daily Grind – October Is A Fun Time Of Year!

    Daily Grind – October Is A Fun Time Of Year!

    OCTOBER IS A FUN TIME OF YEAR!

    If you haven’t been keeping up to speed with what we’re doing over here at Twisted Road, I’ll give you a quick look at what we’ve brought forward so far, and, what we plan on bringing you before the end of the month.

    TWISTED ROADS – AN ANTHOLOGY OF TWISTED TALES – VOLUME 1

    The world is but a twisted globe, spinning round and round, allowing light to breathe life onto its weary bones. But, where there’s light, there’s always darkness, and hiding in the shadows are things our imagination cannot even begin to understand. So buckle up and venture forward on a journey through thirty-one short stories, stories bathed in blood, stories dipped in darkness, stories that will take you through the veil of sanity and onto the twisted roads of madness.

    Available to buy in ebook or paperback format from Amazon HERE, (please make sure your geographical location is set to your country so you can purchase a copy) as well as all other ebook suppliers.

    This book is FREE to all mailing list subscribers.

    To subscribe, press HERE!

    TWISTED ROADS – AN ANTHOLOGY OF TWISTED TALES – VOLUME 2

    It’s time to venture back into the darkness with another thirty-one demented tales of the wickedness that infects us all, a muddy collection of stories intertwined by a sickness that knows no end, and gives no reprieve.
    So buckle up and prepare for another ride as we once again drive headlong down the ever twisting roads of madness, where your trust is never to be given away lightly, as no one along these roads are who, or what they seem.

    Available to buy in ebook or paperback format from Amazon HERE, (please make sure your geographical location is set to your country so you can purchase a copy) as well as all other ebook suppliers.

    This book is FREE to all mailing list subscribers.

    To subscribe, press HERE!

    POEMS FOR THOSE ABOUT TO DIE

    Delve through the darkness, as we bring you 44 poems carved in the skin of its host, on a journey towards self discovery, where the monster is not an unknown beast haunting the shadows, but hiding deep within who we are. Come, join us in death, so the truth will let us see, who we really are…

    Available to buy in ebook or paperback format from Amazon HERE, (please make sure your geographical location is set to your country so you can purchase a copy.)

    If you are a Kindle Unlimited member, you can download the ebook for FREE!

    Now, that covers what we’ve done, but, that isn’t where we are stopping, another 3 poem collections will be out before the end of the month, another volume of the anthology series, a Halloween special, with 31 all new, never before seen short stories, and, the jewel in the crown, The Definitive Edition of The Roundhead, filled with more bonus stuff than you could every imagine, including the original short story that new saw the light of day, the complete blog version of the story, a bonus short story that was inspired by The Roundhead, and of course, not forgetting, the NOVELLA version of THE ROUNDHEAD.

    If you need dates and information, please jump over to the upcoming release page and it’ll give you all you need to know!!

    Stay creepy my fiends,

    Matt

  • Daily Grind – Free Books For A Limited Time!

    Daily Grind – Free Books For A Limited Time!

    Looking for something interesting to read?

    looking to delve into the shadows of worlds you have no idea exist?

    looking for some free books?

    Well, what a coincidence, I have a recently been involved in an instafreebie promotion involving such books.

    You can go HERE to collect a copy of Twisted Roads Volume One, I highly suggest you do this first 😉

    OR

    You can go HERE to find 50 other great books involved in the promotion, that you can get for free as well, while downloading a copy of Twisted Roads Volume One 😉

    The promotion only last for another few days, so don’t sit around thinking about it, press on the link and get some free books!!

    Matt

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    Why become a Fiend?

    Simple, doing this makes sure you stay up to date with all the latest news as well as getting free copies of the Twisted Roads Anthology Volumes and various other releases as they become available!

  • What Makes Things Work? Patreon? FreeBooks?

    What Makes Things Work? Patreon? FreeBooks?

    This is my question, how do you bridge the gap between creating, to making it work with readers?

    Is it the market place you aim towards, or is it the content you create?

    Does Patreon work, or is it a flash in the pan idea, that you need to be known to make work successfully?

    Does any of these question bridge a gap between what one wants to do, and what one is doing right now?

    How do you make a career out of something, that you don’t make money out of, and, how do you make money?

    Creating content for the sake of creating, or creating to sell to a market you somehow find while creating.

    What a crazy amount of questions with no real answers.