Matthew Davis

Matthew Davis writes weird occult fantasy from the bi-polar depths of California’s Central Valley, a landscape that shifts from seething heat and shimmering air to blanketed fog and pounding rain. It is a place where there are eyes in the shadows and the weirdness lays like a patina across the land. A devotee of the grotesque and the strange, Matt creates stories for readers who like their magic raw and their monsters honest.

Influenced by the mechanics of TTRPGs and the aesthetics of industrial noir, his work focuses on competence porn for the apocalypse. His characters are survivors, not heroes. They save the world not out of moral compunction, but because they have to live there.

In the Grey Days books, magic isn't a gift; it is the ability to bully reality into submission. When not writing, Matt is likely playing video games, watching movies, or contemplating a swan dive into oblivion.