{"id":2802,"date":"2016-09-10T13:33:51","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T13:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2016-09-29T19:45:32","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T19:45:32","slug":"tag-team-horror-matthew-m-bartlett-and-tom-breen-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/greydogtales.com\/blog\/tag-team-horror-matthew-m-bartlett-and-tom-breen-exposed\/","title":{"rendered":"Tag Team Horror: Matthew M Bartlett and Tom Breen Exposed!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A sense of place is a wonderful thing when it comes to weird fiction and folk horror. A sense of plaice<\/em>, on the other hand, is an underlying fear that flat-fish have developed an obsession with you. We’ll go with the first one today. Two contemporary authors who have done much to burrow into strange places are Matthew M Bartlett<\/strong><\/span> and Tom Breen<\/strong><\/span>, with their tales of Leeds, Massachusetts<\/strong> and Orford Parish<\/strong> respectively.<\/p>\n

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Both locations are marvellously imagined, populated by everything from long-dead cultists to goblins who interfere with the sewage system. The sounds of small town America reverberate through their streets, but the tunes and words are discordant – and rather subversive. It’s also never a good idea to go into the woods.<\/p>\n

So we decided that we would pit these two literary giants against each other in an inquisitorial combat which could yet rip asunder the very fabric of modern weird fiction and expose the underbelly of warped Americana. Or maybe just ask them a few questions and see what happened. We can’t quite remember what we were thinking about when the idea came up.<\/p>\n

We’ll meet our charming contestants in a moment, but you may wish to know about their quaint colonial names first.<\/p>\n