Author Matt Carter’s stories are going to give you chills.   And if the house suddenly creaks as you’re reading–you may just jump three feet in the air!

And the scary stuff is all in good fun.

Matt Carter, who writes horror, sci-fi and young-adult fiction, has had his short stories published in a series of anthologies.   But this year marks a “first” for him.  Matt’s first novel, Splinters, which he wrote in collaboration with YA/sci-fi and horror author F.J.R. Titchenell (who happens to be his wife), is set for publication in 2014.

And Splinters is just the first installment of Matt and F.J.R.’s five-book series, The Prospero Chronicles, which promises to give a few readers a good scare–or a sequence of five of them!

Matt, who is a PCC graduate, talked with Over Coffee host Dot Cannon about writing, horror, and the creative process on The Prospero Chronicles–and previewed his forthcoming novel, Splinters!