Matthew Keville is a writer of horror and urban fantasy. He tells the stories of the terrors lurking in the small-town dark and the wonders hidden in the secret places of the City. His major works include the novel Hometown, a Stephen King-esque saga of a dark force taking over a small town and the brave teens who must take a stand against it; Dreams of the Boardwalk, a novella about a woman lost in the Dream of New York City; and The Truth of Rock and Roll, a novella about rock and roll magic and following your dreams that at least one reader says just might save your soul. He’s also published a large number of short stories in both genres.
Matthew grew up in the small town of Camden, New York. Asthmatic and afflicted with allergies that made playing outside a chore, Matthew came to love the stories instead. He spent endless afternoons at the library and stayed up until late in the night reading. And when he couldn’t find the story that he wanted anywhere in literature, TV or film? He wrote it himself. He completed his first novel (never published) by the time he was in ninth grade, and throughout high school regularly contributed stories and poems to the school newspaper.
Like everyone in Camden, Matthew grew up in the shadow of the copper wire mills. You needed a dream to get out of Camden, and his dream was to be a writer. He followed that dream to St. Lawrence University, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in English.
After graduating, he moved with his then-fiancée to Boston, then New York City.
They say that everyone in New York City is just waiting tables or driving a bus or working as a stockbroker until they can make it on Broadway, but that’s not entirely true. Some are working in office jobs until they can make it as a writer.
(By the way, that Broadway thing? Sometimes, it really does happen. There’s this place at 51st and Broadway called Ellen’s Stardust Diner, whose gimmick is that the waitstaff all sing while you eat. Many of said waitstaff have worked on Broadway before and will again, and work at Ellen’s between gigs to keep their skills sharp – and because even when you’re living the dream, it probably won’t make you rich.)