by Matt Drabble
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Please find my other novels “Gated II”, “The Travelling Man”, “Asylum – 13 Tales of Terror”, “Abra-Cadaver”, “After Darkness Falls – Volumes One & Two” on Amazon.
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GATED II: Ravenhill Academy
It has been 10 years since the events in the small picturesque town of Eden. Lives were forever altered as two newcomers found the courage to peek behind the curtain and bring Tolan Christian's reign to a violent end as the town burned around them.
No-one was more affected than Sarah-Jane Mears. The once bubbly ball of good nature is now a shadow of the former woman she used to be. After travelling to try and find a new home she has eventually settled in Northern England. She has taken a teaching position at Ravenhill Academy, an exclusive private school.
But now there is a new student who has just transferred. A young American boy who is strangely familiar and oddly charismatic. As the school breaks for the Christmas holidays the harsh winter weather has cut them off from the outside world. Sarah is starting to learn that Ravenhill is an old building seemingly with a life and an energy of its own, one that is slowly stirring.
She is going to realise that not all lessons are learnt in the classroom and that some secrets won't stay buried.
"Gated II: Ravenhill Academy is as good a suspense thriller as any written by the big name authors. Indeed, it could serve as the Indie Publishing Poster Child" READERS' FAVORITE
"If you read Gated & loved it, then I know you will enjoy this book. The ending leaves us with an opening for a third book which I'm sure is what you want!" HORROR NOVEL REVIEWS
THE montague portrait
Hugo Montague was a man of boundless cruelty that lived on beyond his mortal days. The portrait that he commissioned has hung on many walls, but has always overseen tragedy and murder.
The painting was long thought destroyed in a fire, but now there are those desperate to find the portrait if it still exists
Travis Parker was an insurance investigator, but now he is a widower trapped within his own pain and broken promises. When he is approached by the mysterious Telfer Vargas to track down the portrait he reluctantly agrees to one last case.
Charlotte Goode has a long personal history with the painting and will let nothing stand in her way to avenge her family.
The race across Europe to find the painting soon becomes littered with death as dark supernatural forces converge and threaten to consume those foolish enough to look.
"Once again, I was impressed with the rich background of each character in this suspenseful plot, never taking away, but always adding to the excitement. Matt is feeding my need for horror through the written word." SAGE ADDERLEY
"Matt Drabble is immensely talented... Again & again he has provided his readers with exceptional content & books we cannot put down!... I literally flew through this one because I just couldn't put it down... It's definitely a 5 star novel" DEVOTED MOMMY OF 3 (blog)
THE TRAVELLING MAN
The small desert town of Granton is a typical slow boiling pot of unfulfilled hopes and dreams. Every hard working day is much like any other here where little ever changes.
Sheriff Cassie Wheeler runs a tight ship in the tradition of her late father. There is little serious crime to trouble her department, save for the local miners' occasional rowdiness after payday.
But Granton has its share of secrets hiding behind twitching curtains and small town folks often have the biggest of ambitions.
Now the long dusty road into town has brought with it a stranger. A man of elegance calling himself Gilbert Grange has arrived. He brings with him a bag full of dreams and a silver tongue of promise.
He can give you whatever you desire, all you have to do is sign
on the dotted line.
The residents of Granton are about to discover that dreams can come at a terrible price, and you should always be careful what you wish for.
"If you are looking for a classic tale of horror then you'll never ever be disappointed in Matt Drabble's writing. He knows creepy and he writes it very well." SAGE ADDERLEY
"Its dark subject matter, creepy terrain, a highly developed and complex cast of characters, and a thundering crescendo all make for a spectacular novel of horror and suspense" HOGWASH
"If you're a fan of Stephen King's Needful Things then you have to get this book" Zombie Girl Shambling Blog
ABRA-CADAVER
Winner of a prestigious Indie Book of the Day Award
Tommy, Dixon, McEwen, PJ, and Alison were always a close knit group until Tommy's 12th birthday party. Tragedy strikes when a magic trick goes horribly wrong and a woman lays dead.
A local magician Albert Trotter is railroaded during a rigged trial and locked away. Forever protesting his innocence and after a vicious assault in prison, he is eventually sent to a mental institution in a catatonic state.
Now Tommy is 36 and heading home for the first time in over two decades, but he's not alone. Someone is slaughtering the residents of Denver Mills with magic trick themed murders and holding those involved with the Trotter trial in a steely grip of fear.
Tommy will have to find the strength to bring his old friends together as secrets and lies are exposed throughout the small town of Denver Mills.
Something evil is coming home, and they're bringing a whole new bag of tricks.
"The perfect slasher novel, someone make the movie! 10/10" SCARYMINDS.COM
"This will serve to excite and thrill gore fans" THE BRITISH FANTASY SOCIETY
"A suspenseful, on the edge of your sit, thrill ride. A great read that will leave you sleeping with the light one!" FAERIETALEBOOKS.ORG
ASYLUM – 13 TALES OF TERROR
A Horror/Anthology Chart #1 best seller
& voted #5 on The Horror Novel Review’s Top 10 Books of 2013
Blackwater Heights is a building with a long dark history, some of it is well known but more is shrouded in myth and legend. None more so than that of its founding father Horace Whisker.
Martin Parcell is an ex-journalist with shattered dreams of an author's career. Sidelined through a car crash's injuries, he finds himself forced through governmental austerity measures having to take a custodians position at a private mental health hospital. A writer with undoubted talent, but an author without a story.
He begins his new job deep in depression and drowning under waves of his lost dreams. On his first night he meets Jimmy, his elderly supervisor who has spent most of his life within the hospital walls. Jimmy is nearing retirement age and desperate to rest his weary bones. Jimmy offers Martin a way out for both of them, access to the background histories and stories of the hospital's patients.
A collection of 13 tales from the darkly disturbed minds of the residents of Blackwater Heights.
As the long night unwinds, Martin finds himself deeply troubled as the tales unfold before him and threaten to drag him down into their insanity.
"Matt Drabble is nothing short of a genius when it comes to painting a picture of his characters. This novel was sensational! I started reading and couldn't stop"
LITTLE BLOG OF HORROR
"Consistently very, very strong like Stephen King, or Clive Barker, there's simply no telling what the man will deliver in a package of this nature"
HORROR NOVEL REVIEWS
"It takes skill to make the short story format work and Matt Drabble has mastered it as he is
able to establish both character and story in a matter of pages while conveying a sense of horror and terror" REELYBORED.COM
"Turn down the lights, turn off the TV and cuddle up with these stories tonight - talk about being afraid of the dark!" BOOK FIDELITY
AFTER DARKNESS FALLS
VARIOUS VOLUMES
10 tales of terror & the macabre
A new horror anthology collection,
look out for future volumes
"Matt Drabble has come out with another winner. Ten terrifying tales guaranteed to make you shudder 5/5"
HORROR NOVEL REVIEWS
"Guaranteed to keep you awake at night, while fully entertaining you during daylight hours. 5 Stars"
READERS' FAVORITE
"Matt Drabble delivers the must have UK collection of 2013"
SCARY MINDS
VOLUME ONE
VOLUME TWO