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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 #56: “Window” by Bob Leman (1980)

On September 6, 2022September 6, 2022 By matthewrettinoIn The Archaeology of Weird Fiction Project, UncategorizedLeave a comment

A window into another dimensions opens up a nostalgic view of another world, but not is all as it seems.

Weird #55: “Sandkings” by George R. R. Martin (1979)

On August 30, 2022August 30, 2022 By matthewrettinoIn The Archaeology of Weird Fiction Project, UncategorizedLeave a comment

An animal rights abuser gets his just deserts

Weird #54: “My Mother” by Jamaica Kincaid (1977)

On August 23, 2022August 22, 2022 By matthewrettinoIn The Archaeology of Weird Fiction Project, UncategorizedLeave a comment

A surrealist story about a mother and a daughter who undergo transformation

plague doctor gazing through a bright window

Weird #53: “The Beak Doctor” by Eric Basso (1977)

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A Joycean jaunt through a foggy city plagued by sleeping sickness

Weird #52: “The Psychologist Who Wouldn’t Do Awful Things to Rats” by James Triptree, Jr. (1976)

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A harrowing tale questions why science can be so cruel to animals

Weird #51: “It Only Comes Out At Night” by Dennis Etchison (1976)

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The story of one lonely drive down a blistering desert highway.

Going on a Four-Week Hiatus

On June 27, 2022June 27, 2022 By matthewrettinoIn The Archaeology of Weird Fiction ProjectLeave a comment

The Archaeologies of Weird Fiction Project will be going on a four-week posting hiatus starting today. This will enable me to focus on finishing my novel draft and to give me more time to build a backlog of scheduled posts. Weekly posts will resume July 25th, beginning with "It Only Comes Out at Night" by …

Continue reading Going on a Four-Week Hiatus

Weird #50: “The Hospice” by Robert Aickman (1975)

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A ghost story that the reader pieces together only after it is told

Weird #49: “Don’t Look Now” by Daphne du Maurier (1971)

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Daphne Du Maurier’s line is almost literally hypnotic

Weird #48: “The Sea Was As Wet As Wet Could Be” by Gahan Wilson (1967)

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Gahan Wilson’s “The Sea Was Wet As Wet Could Be” hits quite differently than the other weird tales in this collection—his twisted, singsong references to Lewis Carroll form the background context to a story of the indifference of a barren universe.

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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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