Matt Wesolowski is an author from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in the UK. He is an English tutor for young people in care. Matt started his writing career in horror, and his short horror fiction has been published in numerous UK- and US-based anthologies such as Midnight Movie Creature, Selfies from the End of the World, Cold Iron and many more. His novella, The Black Land, a horror set on the Northumberland coast, was published in 2013. Matt was a winner of the Pitch Perfect competition at Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Festival in 2015. His debut thriller, Six Stories, was a bestseller in the USA, Canada, the UK and Australia, and a WHSmith Fresh Talent pick, and TV rights were sold to a major Hollywood studio. A prequel, Hydra, was published in 2018 and became an international bestseller. Changeling (2019), Beast (2020) and Deity (2021) soon followed suit.

'First-class plotting' S Magazine;'A dazzling fictional mystery' Foreword Reviews;'Readers of Kathleen Barber's Are You Sleeping and fans of Ruth Ware will enjoy this slim but compelling novel' Booklist;'Matt Wesolowski brilliantly depicts a desperate and disturbed corner of north-east England in which paranoia reigns and goodness is thwarted ... an exceptional storyteller' Andrew Michael Hurley;'Beautifully written, smart, compassionate - and scary as hell. Matt Wesolowski is one of the most exciting and original voices in crime fiction' Alex North;'Insidiously terrifying, with possibly the creepiest woods since The Blair Witch Project ... a genuine chiller with a whammy of an ending' C J Tudor;'Endlessly inventive and with literary thrills a-plenty, Matt Wesolowski is boldly carving his own uniquely dark niche in fiction' Benjamin Myers;'Frighteningly wonderful ... one of the best books I've read in years' Khurrum Rahman;'Disturbing, compelling and atmospheric, it will terrify and enthral you in equal measure' M W Craven;'Bold, clever and genuinely chilling with a terrific twist that provides an explosive final punch' Deidre O'Brien, Sunday Mirror;'A genuine genre-bending debut' Carla McKay, Daily Mail;'Impeccably crafted and gripping from start to finish' Doug Johnstone, The Big Issue;'The very epitome of a must-read' Heat;'Wonderfully horrifying ... the suspense crackles' James Oswald;'Original, inventive and dazzlingly clever' Fiona Cummins;'A complex and subtle mystery, unfolding like dark origami to reveal the black heart inside' Michael Marshall Smith;'Haunting, horrifying, and heartrending. Fans of Arthur Machen, whose unsettling tale The White People provides an epigraph, will want to check this one out' Publishers Weekly;'Matt Wesolowski has just the formula to meet your self-scaring needs... ' Strong Words magazine;'A masterly piece of storytelling, very sinister, deliciously entertaining' New Books Magazine

Matt Wesolowski is an author from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in the UK. He is an English tutor for young people in care. Matt started his writing career in horror, and his short horror fiction has been published in numerous UK- and US-based anthologies such as Midnight Movie Creature, Selfies from the End of the World, Cold Iron and many more. His novella, The Black Land, a horror set on the Northumberland coast, was published in 2013. Matt was a winner of the Pitch Perfect competition at Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Festival in 2015. His debut thriller, Six Stories, was a bestseller in the USA, Canada, the UK and Australia, and a WHSmith Fresh Talent pick, and TV rights were sold to a major Hollywood studio. A prequel, Hydra, was published in 2018 and became an international bestseller. Changeling (2019), Beast (2020) and Deity (2021) soon followed suit.

'First-class plotting' S Magazine;'A dazzling fictional mystery' Foreword Reviews;'Readers of Kathleen Barber's Are You Sleeping and fans of Ruth Ware will enjoy this slim but compelling novel' Booklist;'Matt Wesolowski brilliantly depicts a desperate and disturbed corner of north-east England in which paranoia reigns and goodness is thwarted ... an exceptional storyteller' Andrew Michael Hurley;'Beautifully written, smart, compassionate - and scary as hell. Matt Wesolowski is one of the most exciting and original voices in crime fiction' Alex North;'Insidiously terrifying, with possibly the creepiest woods since The Blair Witch Project ... a genuine chiller with a whammy of an ending' C J Tudor;'Endlessly inventive and with literary thrills a-plenty, Matt Wesolowski is boldly carving his own uniquely dark niche in fiction' Benjamin Myers;'Frighteningly wonderful ... one of the best books I've read in years' Khurrum Rahman;'Disturbing, compelling and atmospheric, it will terrify and enthral you in equal measure' M W Craven;'Bold, clever and genuinely chilling with a terrific twist that provides an explosive final punch' Deidre O'Brien, Sunday Mirror;'A genuine genre-bending debut' Carla McKay, Daily Mail;'Impeccably crafted and gripping from start to finish' Doug Johnstone, The Big Issue;'The very epitome of a must-read' Heat;'Wonderfully horrifying ... the suspense crackles' James Oswald;'Original, inventive and dazzlingly clever' Fiona Cummins;'A complex and subtle mystery, unfolding like dark origami to reveal the black heart inside' Michael Marshall Smith;'Haunting, horrifying, and heartrending. Fans of Arthur Machen, whose unsettling tale The White People provides an epigraph, will want to check this one out' Publishers Weekly;'Matt Wesolowski has just the formula to meet your self-scaring needs... ' Strong Words magazine;'A masterly piece of storytelling, very sinister, deliciously entertaining' New Books Magazine

Matt Wesolowski is an author from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in the UK. He is an English tutor for young people in care. Matt started his writing career in horror, and his short horror fiction has been published in numerous UK- and US-based anthologies such as Midnight Movie Creature, Selfies from the End of the World, Cold Iron and many more. His novella, The Black Land, a horror set on the Northumberland coast, was published in 2013. Matt was a winner of the Pitch Perfect competition at Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Festival in 2015. His debut thriller, Six Stories, was a bestseller in the USA, Canada, the UK and Australia, and a WHSmith Fresh Talent pick, and TV rights were sold to a major Hollywood studio. A prequel, Hydra, was published in 2018 and became an international bestseller. Changeling (2019), Beast (2020) and Deity (2021) soon followed suit.

'First-class plotting' S Magazine;'A dazzling fictional mystery' Foreword Reviews;'Readers of Kathleen Barber's Are You Sleeping and fans of Ruth Ware will enjoy this slim but compelling novel' Booklist;'Matt Wesolowski brilliantly depicts a desperate and disturbed corner of north-east England in which paranoia reigns and goodness is thwarted ... an exceptional storyteller' Andrew Michael Hurley;'Beautifully written, smart, compassionate - and scary as hell. Matt Wesolowski is one of the most exciting and original voices in crime fiction' Alex North;'Insidiously terrifying, with possibly the creepiest woods since The Blair Witch Project ... a genuine chiller with a whammy of an ending' C J Tudor;'Endlessly inventive and with literary thrills a-plenty, Matt Wesolowski is boldly carving his own uniquely dark niche in fiction' Benjamin Myers;'Frighteningly wonderful ... one of the best books I've read in years' Khurrum Rahman;'Disturbing, compelling and atmospheric, it will terrify and enthral you in equal measure' M W Craven;'Bold, clever and genuinely chilling with a terrific twist that provides an explosive final punch' Deidre O'Brien, Sunday Mirror;'A genuine genre-bending debut' Carla McKay, Daily Mail;'Impeccably crafted and gripping from start to finish' Doug Johnstone, The Big Issue;'The very epitome of a must-read' Heat;'Wonderfully horrifying ... the suspense crackles' James Oswald;'Original, inventive and dazzlingly clever' Fiona Cummins;'A complex and subtle mystery, unfolding like dark origami to reveal the black heart inside' Michael Marshall Smith;'Haunting, horrifying, and heartrending. Fans of Arthur Machen, whose unsettling tale The White People provides an epigraph, will want to check this one out' Publishers Weekly;'Matt Wesolowski has just the formula to meet your self-scaring needs... ' Strong Words magazine;'A masterly piece of storytelling, very sinister, deliciously entertaining' New Books Magazine