Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Black Room Manuscripts Volume Two | 2016 | Matt Shaw | Buy |
| 2 | None More Black | 2017 | Matt Shaw | Buy |
| 3 | The Devil’s Guests | 2017 | Matt Shaw | Buy |
| 4 | Masters of Horror | 2017 | Matt Shaw | Buy |
| 5 | Next Door | 2019 | Matt Shaw | Buy |
Matt Shaw’s anthology appearances offer readers the chance to see his short fiction alongside work from other writers in the extreme and dark horror community. The Black Room Manuscripts Volume Two (2016) was part of an ongoing series of extreme horror anthologies that became a reference point in the UK horror small press scene. Shaw’s contribution sits alongside other writers who share his commitment to unfiltered, transgressive content.
None More Black (2017) and The Devil’s Guests (2017) are companion volumes in spirit if not in fact, both drawing from the same community of horror writers and sharing a similar aesthetic sensibility. Masters of Horror (2017) broadens the scope slightly, presenting itself as a survey of the genre’s practitioners at that moment. All three 2017 anthologies appeared within a short window and represent a period when Shaw was particularly active in the collaborative side of extreme horror publishing.
Next Door (2019) closes the current anthology list and takes a slightly different approach, focusing on the horror of the everyday and the people living in close proximity to each other. It is the anthology in this list most likely to appeal to readers who prefer their horror grounded in recognizable social situations rather than overtly supernatural or viscerally extreme scenarios.