Author Spotlight

Links

About Matthew Sawyer

Author Image

About me ... I don't have any awards - not even an honorable mention. Heck, I didn't even go to school to become a Writer - I was going to be a Fine Art Painter. Yet I had to pay my student loans. After college, I worked in Mental Health - as in schizophrenics and other assortment of severe mental disorders. All the while, I painted and drew - and wrote. I'm a Stephen King fan, so that may have something to do with my latter ambition in life. I was reading The Waste Lands (Dark Tower Book 3), much to my disappointment, and the Master's words spoke to me. King once said something about knowing you're ready to write a book when you recognize the fact - paraphrased - "You can do better." Grandiose, I know, but I knew the story I wanted to read - years of drawing monsters had spun my own mythology and I hoped for something comparable and real.

 
Matthew Sawyer's Bookstore
Pazuzu-Manifestation
 More Detail 		Pazuzu-Manifestation By Matthew Sawyer
Paperback: $23.59
Ships in 3–5 business days
* * * * *
 (1 Rating)
Pazuzu (pahzoo'zoo) - king of demons in Assyrian mythology.

Manifestation (manufe'steyshun) - indication of the presence of... More > a person or thing.

PAZUZU - MANIFESTATION is the first book in Matthew Sawyer's Pazuzu Trilogy. This book introduces the godless world of the Shur desert and the sorrowful sinners therein. Readers follow a pair of UnChosen wretches as they flee for their lives from a crime lord in the city of Gomorrah.

The Cortras brothers believe they'll find safety in the walled city called Capital. While the pair cross the desert, they encounter a man wandering the waste alone. The brothers think he is a heathen terrorist and hope they will collect the reward for the man's arrest.

The stranger joins the Cortras brothers, but he doesn't tell them about the voice following him. He doesn't know the voice is Pazuzu. In fact, the demon reminds him his name is Ben. One man suffering amnesia carries salvation and damnation from the desert. < Less
Add to Cart
Pazuzu-Abeyance
 More Detail 		Pazuzu-Abeyance By Matthew Sawyer
Paperback: $24.69
Ships in 3–5 business days
* * * * *
 (1 Rating)
Pazuzu (pahzoo'zoo) - king of demons in Assyrian mythology.

Abeyance (u'beyuns) - suspension.

PAZUZU – ABEYANCE is the... More > last book in Matthew Sawyer's Pazuzu Trilogy.

Achieving its goal, Pazuzu has claimed a body. The demon steals the frame of a boy and makes the mother a missionary. Before Tamara Stoughnt dies, she proclaims her possessed son is the messiah - the reincarnation of the Chosen's eviscerated Mortal God. Meanwhile, the younger Cortras is arrested by the Chosen's military and sent to a detention camp outside Capital.

At the camp, Hen Cortras meets real-life heathens. The prisoners escape the camp and Hen joins a march against the Chosen's Promised Land. The heathen attack has already begun behind the monumental Wall and Capital burns. Pazuzu and Benedict Ishkott, his heathen minister, now cross the fires of Capital in search of the flock gathered by the mother of the possessed boy. The alien gods are now aware of the demon moving through the world and they send monsters. < Less
Add to Cart
Pazuzu-Emergence
 More Detail 		Pazuzu-Emergence By Matthew Sawyer
Paperback: $23.81
Ships in 3–5 business days
* * * * *
 (1 Rating)
Pazuzu (pahzoo'zoo) - king of demons in Assyrian mythology.

Emergence (i'merjuns) - gradual coming out as a result of... More > something.

PAZUZU – EMERGENCE is the second book in Matthew Sawyer's Pazuzu Trilogy. This book continues the bleak tale begun in Pazuzu – Manifestation.

Horror comes to the battered squatters at Saint Erasmus once the demon, Pazuzu, finds a host. Lost in the chaos, Hen Cortras is taken prisoner and followed into the Shur desert, where he meets heathens - nomadic terrorists who crusade against the Chosen's Church and military. < Less
Add to Cart
Pazuzu-Manifestation - Hardcover
 More Detail 		Pazuzu-Manifestation - Hardcover By Matthew Sawyer
Hardcover: $32.63
Ships in 5–7 business days
* * * * *
 (1 Rating)
Pazuzu (pahzoo'zoo) - king of demons in Assyrian mythology.

Manifestation (manufe'steyshun) - indication of the presence of... More > a person or thing.

PAZUZU - MANIFESTATION is the first book in Matthew Sawyer's Pazuzu Trilogy. This book introduces the godless world of the Shur desert and the sorrowful sinners therein. Readers follow a pair of UnChosen wretches as they flee for their lives from a crime lord in the city of Gomorrah.

The Cortras brothers believe they'll find safety in the walled city called Capital. While the pair cross the desert, they encounter a man wandering the waste alone. The brothers think he is a heathen terrorist and hope they will collect the reward for the man's arrest.

The stranger joins the Cortras brothers, but he doesn't tell them about the voice following him. He doesn't know the voice is Pazuzu. In fact, the demon reminds him his name is Ben. One man suffering amnesia carries salvation and damnation from the desert. < Less
Add to Cart
The Horrid Tales of Wister Town
 More Detail 		The Horrid Tales of Wister Town By Matthew Sawyer
Paperback: $11.21
Ships in 3–5 business days
* * * . .
 (1 Rating)
The Horrid Tales of Wister Town is a collection of modern, urban horror short stories by Matthew Sawyer, the author of the... More > Pazuzu Trilogy. As Wister Town is a small, ingrown toenail of a place in southern Wisconsin, the characters are intertwined - but everyone has a creepy, and often noxious, story. Three stories reveal the Cult of Hathor in Wister Town, Wisconsin. The other stories are seeded when a demon visits a man named Darren in the short story "Truthful Consequence." < Less
Add to Cart
Gaunt Rainbow
 More Detail 		Gaunt Rainbow By Matthew Sawyer
Paperback: $18.00
Ships in 3–5 business days
* * * * .
 (1 Rating)
“Gaunt Rainbow" is set in a bleak dystopia twenty years after a pivotal event in the war between the Chosen caste and... More > heathens; the destruction of the walled city called Capital. Pamela, nicknamed “Rainbow,” is cursed and drains life from living beings so that she remains in perfect health. When she was a girl, a self-proclaimed messiah, a pubescent boy, cured her blindness. Pamela believes the boy also resurrected her after she died in a warehouse fire when all of Capital burned. Her curse began after she came back to life, but, by then, the boy had vanished. Pamela follows rumors and goes into the Shur desert to find the errant messiah. She hopes he will remove her murderous curse. < Less
Add to Cart
Monsters from the Mortui Philosophies
 More Detail 		Monsters from the Mortui Philosophies By Matthew Sawyer
Paperback: $48.20
Ships in 3–5 business days
. . . . .
 This item has not been rated yet
The monsters in my sketch books are chimeras, composites of animals. Despite my drawings and paintings, I was never content... More > with them. They needed more fiction behind their mythical origins, so I began writing horror stories. Yet the drawings still exist. They provide ideas and inspiration.

This publication contains original creatures from my sketch books, known collectively as the Mortui Philosophies. The text briefly discusses the origin of each monster and where they fit in a mythology or weird horror. < Less
Add to Cart
Pazuzu-Abeyance - Hardcover
 More Detail 		Pazuzu-Abeyance - Hardcover By Matthew Sawyer
Hardcover: $33.45
Ships in 5–7 business days
* * * * .
 (1 Rating)
Pazuzu (pahzoo'zoo) - king of demons in Assyrian mythology.

Abeyance (u'beyuns) - suspension.

PAZUZU – ABEYANCE is the... More > last book in Matthew Sawyer's Pazuzu Trilogy.

Achieving its goal, Pazuzu has claimed a body. The demon steals the frame of a boy and makes the mother a missionary. Before Tamara Stoughnt dies, she proclaims her possessed son is the messiah - the reincarnation of the Chosen's eviscerated Mortal God. Meanwhile, the younger Cortras is arrested by the Chosen's military and sent to a detention camp outside Capital.

At the camp, Hen Cortras meets real-life heathens. The prisoners escape the camp and Hen joins a march against the Chosen's Promised Land. The heathen attack has already begun behind the monumental Wall and Capital burns. Pazuzu and Benedict Ishkott, his heathen minister, now cross the fires of Capital in search of the flock gathered by the mother of the possessed boy. The alien gods are now aware of the demon moving through the world and they send monsters. < Less
Add to Cart
Pazuzu-Emergence - Hardcover
 More Detail 		Pazuzu-Emergence - Hardcover By Matthew Sawyer
Hardcover: $32.95
Ships in 5–7 business days
* * * * *
 (1 Rating)
Pazuzu (pahzoo'zoo) - king of demons in Assyrian mythology.

Emergence (i'merjuns) - gradual coming out as a result of... More > something.

PAZUZU – EMERGENCE is the second book in Matthew Sawyer's Pazuzu Trilogy. This book continues the bleak tale begun in Pazuzu – Manifestation.

Horror comes to the battered squatters at Saint Erasmus once the demon, Pazuzu, finds a host. Lost in the chaos, Hen Cortras is taken prisoner and followed into the Shur desert, where he meets heathens - nomadic terrorists who crusade against the Chosen's Church and military. < Less
Add to Cart
A Codex of Malevolence
 More Detail 		A Codex of Malevolence By Matthew Sawyer
Paperback: $8.59
Ships in 3–5 business days
* * * * .
 (1 Rating)
A Codex of Malevolence tracks the spread of weird and unholy evil from Wister Town, Wisconsin. Witches and the pagan... More > religion become entwined in these creepy short stories. Witness the horror invade Wisconsin, incorporate in Texas and gain entrance to California. (this short story compilation was originally titled Cancerous Exodus) < Less
Add to Cart