Matthew H. Jones

Such Terrible Things is a collection of stories to be told at night. Within includes, I Hit A Monster With Your Car, which is mostly self-explanatory. There is Ghosts Don't Scream - when a preacher's wife is killed, something darker is reborn....

Luke Peters wakes one morning, feeling under the weather. After staying home from school, he is confronted, first, by an old man with a shaggy German Shepherd, and then by a young man with a scuffed, metal baseball bat. The old man tells him that there was an attempt on his life....

The drug Holy Fire is the best high around, ignoring the cat-piss smell, the violent episodes, and the complete organ failure. North City’s hero is gone. His sidekick must stop the emergence of this new drug alone. Fifteen-year-old Maxwell has served the crime fighter Harry for years....

Sixteen-year-old Jonah looks for someone important, someone he lost. Jonah tries to connect with someone important, someone divine. Jonah fights someone terrible, someone who can enslave gods....

Everywhere, you'll find two things: Incredible stories of people loving hard and epically in spite of all the things making love impossible, and lonely people who can't make love work. Books, music, movies, society, everything makes it seem like love is a natural thing that just happens....