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Author: matthewrettino

I'm a speculative fiction writer who lives in the West Island of Montreal. My first story, “The Pilgrim’s Yoke,” appeared in Bards and Sages Quarterly in 2018, while his forthcoming story, “The Goddess In Him" appeared in September 2020 with NewMyths.com. He works as a freelance editor and leads courses at the Thomas More Institute. My Master’s thesis on modern fantasy, “Fantasy as a Peripheral Modernism: Uneven Development in Charles de Lint’s Urban Fantasy” is free to read online. I'm is presently working on an archaeological thriller with a weird fiction twist inspired by Jorge Luis Borges. Follow me on Twitter @matthewrettino.

Weird #36: “The Hungry House” by Robert Bloch (1951)

On April 12, 2021March 12, 2022 By matthewrettinoIn The Archaeology of Weird Fiction Project, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Probably the best haunted house story about the alienating effect of mirrors that you will ever read.

Weird #35: “The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles” by Margaret St. Clair (1951)

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Moral of story: know your client.

Weird #34: “The Summer People” by Shirley Jackson (1950)

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Things go wrong when an older couple decides to stay at the cottage past Labor Day.

Weird #33: “A Child in the Bush of Ghosts” by Olympe Bhêly-Quénum (1949)

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A journey from death to life in the forests of Benin.

Weird #32: “The Aleph” by Jorge Luis Borges (1945)

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Is there a link between weird fiction and mysticism?

Weird #31: “The Long Sheet” by William Sansom (1944)

On March 1, 2021March 12, 2022 By matthewrettinoIn The Archaeology of Weird Fiction Project, Uncategorized1 Comment

The true meaning of freedom

Weird #30: “The Crowd” by Ray Bradbury (1943)

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Ray Bradbury presents a surreal conspiracy based on a modern (too modern) anxiety: crowds!

Weird #29: “Mimic” by Donald A. Wollheim (1942)

On February 15, 2021March 12, 2022 By matthewrettinoIn The Archaeology of Weird Fiction Project, Uncategorized1 Comment

What if an insect camouflaged itself to deceive the apex predator of Planet Earth: human beings?

Weird #28: “White Rabbit” by Leonora Carrington (1941)

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A creepy story about acquiring a chunk of rotting meat for a new neighbour.

Weird #27: “Smoke Ghost” by Fritz Leiber (1941)

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Fritz Leiber's story about the ghosts of the modern city.

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Fiction

“The Goddess in Him”

NewMyths.com, September 2020

Bards and Sages Quarterly October 2018 cover

“The Pilgrim's Yoke”

Bards and Sages Quarterly, October 2018

A Bactrian bodhisattva's head

“In the Ruins of Shambhala”

600 Second Saga, September 2017

Poems

“Sir Arthur Evans”

Lantern Magazine, May 4th, 2021

Photo by Egor Myznik on Unsplash

"Dream: If you feed the banana to the computer, a hitman receives his orders”

Lantern Magazine, December 29th, 2020

Photo by Louis Hansel on Unsplash

"Horologium”

Lantern Magazine, December 20th, 2020

Photo by Rhii Photography on Unsplash

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