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BURIED CURSES-- It took PI Jack Mahler eleven years to claw out of the hole Sergeant Anderson left him in. All the unbelievable horrors he has experienced can be traced to Anderson getting him kicked out of the army. Jack thought he had buried the scandal and is finally rebuilding his life when Anderson comes calling on his "old buddy" again. The FBI is accusing Anderson of smuggling stolen Iraqi artifacts into the U.S., and he wants to hire Jack to prove his innocence. Jack is almost certain Anderson is guilty, but, just like old times, Anderson talks him into going against his better judgment. Jack links the stolen antiquities to a murdered scholar and stumbles upon a mystery as old as civilization. Now, only Jack stands between humanity and a forgotten god.

Our latest Group Flash fiction is now live and free to read! The students in Katerina Tsiopos’ English Capstone class at IUPUC came up with something really fun and original! Click here to read Prince Petyr's Problematic Picnic

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The Audio Book version of Waking Terror, Key Seekers and Secular City Limits are now available on Audible!!!

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FREE AUDIO KIDS BOOK Have the author read the Lonely Princess with you any time! A perfect companion to the print or new Kindle versions

NOW AVAILABLE

WAKING TERROR A nightmare haunts the Albuquerque suburbs. To solve this mystery, PI Jack Mahler seeks answers in his own shameful past, risking life and sanity to discover the secret of the waking terror before his dream of a normal life turns to smoke.	KEY SEEKERS An action-packed introduction to the worlds of The Brute and Valora. College sophomore Mike falls into a medieval fantasy land and must face monsters and evil wizards to find the Key home.	THE BRUTE: CHASING SHADOWS(Ages 11 and up) 168 full-color illustrated pages After the events in Temple of Secrets, The Brute travels the modern world in search of his lost humanity.	Harmony Unbound(Ages 8 and up) In this graphic novel, timid teen Victoria (Vicky) Bond is bound to an exuberant superheroine. They must learn to work together in time to save their small town from a twisted robot with unique motivations of its own.
Temple of Secrets (Ages 11 and up) A graphic novel by Matthew Barron and Joel Cotejar A monster stalks the new museum in Indianapolis. People are dying and only magazine reporter RENE GOLD seems to have any clue WHO or WHAT is killing.	Valora (Ages 11 and up) Aret's fairy tale life is twisted into a nightmare. His quest for vengeance puts everything and everyone he cares about in danger.	The Lonely Princess (All Ages) A children's picture book with charming illustrations by Charles Gratner Princess Rhonda had everything a girl could want in her castle, but she was all alone. Will she ever find a friend?	The dystopian Secular City Limits(PG13) "...a talented new voice in fiction... part speculative fiction, part social commentary." --swampdweller press Helena takes her son and a teenage friend across the dystopian America to find schools, jobs and tolerance, but nothing goes as planned.

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Matthew's story Dogs Playing Poker won the 3rd place Editors Choice Award in the March 2023 Journey anthology released by the Gal's Guide to the Galaxy's

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Matthew Barron's Twilight Zone like story "Subdivision" is featured in Generation X-Ed, and anthology of horror through the lens of the slasher generation.

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Matthew Barron's vampire fairy tale, "The Lifted Veil," is featured in the vampire anthologyAnd the Dead Shall Sleep No More

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The quiet, creepy short, "Back to Normal" is avaialble FOR FREE onThe Dread Machine's website from their October 2021 issue

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Submatter Press author Matthew Barron had TWO drabbles featured in 100 word horror anthologies-- "Mothership" in Cosmos and "Vampire Kiss" in Beneath

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Mattthew Barron's story "Killing Time" is featured in the April 2017 issue of Outposts of Beyond. Killing Time is a hard sci-fi thriller with a touch of horror and a twist at the end. A student's friends die of apparent natural causes while she is stalked by a spectral man in a suit.

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Matthew Barron's Iron Writer Challenge winning story "Mastodon Mystery" is in their brand new 2016 Ironology anthology

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Matthew Barron's short story "Hell Island" is in the Ill-considered Expeditions anthology from April Moon Books

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Matthew's story "Yao's World" is available for free on SciFiJournal.com anthology from April Moon Books

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His short story "LOVE BOT LB65244" is in ROBOTEROTICA an anthology of robot erotica (not for those offended by graphic portrayals of sex with robots).

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He also has two short comics in Welcome to Indiana, an anthology of comics by Indiana creators,

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and his short, "Waiting for Mourning," was in issue # nine of the online magazine House of Horror

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Submatter Press wrapped up its first play as part of the 2015 Indianpolis Fringe Festival

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Matthew Barron Reads part of his story, "The Longest Night," From the Gifts of the Magi anthology

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In 2014 Matthew Barron was interviewed by Johnny and Brendan on the Brother Brother Beercast!

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In 2013 author Matthew Barron was interviewed by Scott Lefebvre on YOU ARE ENTITLED TO MY OPINION

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Matthew also did an experiment in film-making in 2007's THE KING OF INDIANA

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