Matthew G. Rees – Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook

Doctor Spotlight

Peter Kenny

March 31, 2021

I don’t know exactly where I first heard the term ‘Doctor Spotlight’ to describe the way that being in the spotlight can momentarily conceal, for example, the terrible hangover or malaise you might be experiencing. In the early nineties I was knocked off my bicycle one morning cycling down Chiswick High Road, and sustained quite…

a writer’s life, Autobiographical, Blowing my own trumpet, Fiction, Short Stories, Theatre

Doctor Spotlight, Horla, Mario Petrucci, Matthew G. Rees, Rosemary Norman

Powerful work from Clare Best and Matthew G. Rees

Peter Kenny

January 9, 2020

Here are a two things I have read lately, that I would highly recommend. Clare Best The Missing List I’ve met Clare several times, but bought this book without realising that its subject matter was in fact a memoir about child abuse, published in 2018. I discovered it to be a beautiful patchwork of impressions, of…

Autobiographical, Fiction, Horror, Short Stories

Clare Best, Matthew G. Rees, The Missing List, The Snow Leopard of Moscow

Unlocking a trove of dark and lyrical stories

Peter Kenny

June 4, 2019

Keyhole, stories by Matthew G. Rees, published by Three Impostors Press Modulating beautifully through passages of horror, humour and the supernatural Matthew G. Rees collection Keyhole is a hugely enjoyable collection of short stories. They juxtapose a grainy matter-of-factness that moves the narrative briskly along, with tantalising glimpses of a deep and timeless magic that…

Fiction, Horror, Reading

Keyhole, Matthew G. Rees, Three Impostors Press