Only the Heart Goes to Hell: And Other Morbid Tales

From budding author Stephen Mathis comes a new anthology of morbid short stories that will captivate, concern, and entertain you.

While pondering the morbidity between the everyday throes of life and the mysterious veil of death, Stephen Mathis posits provocative and creepy sentiments about what it means to suffer. Rife with themes of family conflict, addiction, grief, self-harm, vulnerability, and more, Only the Heart Goes to Hell: And Other Morbid Tales broaches the uncomfortable with impenitent imagination and creepiness.

“Specter” tells the story of Loman Bunker’s medical history amid his haunting experience with schizophrenia after receiving a sinister inheritance. More than one world will end in “Songs to Play at the End of the World” when a looming planetary collision leaves a young woman alone with only her apocalyptic playlist to comfort her. “New England Clam Chowder” puts an unsavory twist on the notion that you are what you eat. “Summer of ‘91” lives and relives the tale of an unknown man’s journey through regret, addiction, and the consequences of a lifetime. The titular “Only the Heart Goes to Hell,” follows a disturbed man’s journey into hell as he tries to rescue his estranged friend. And in “Among the Ashes,” Link, an anxious, lip-biting internet marketing professional, finds truth in death and purpose inside a funeral home.

Stories Include

• Specter
• The Donut Algorithm
• Typewriter Diaries
• Songs to Play at the End of the World
• New England Clam Chowder
• A-OK
• In A Shuttle Circling the Sky
• Summer of ‘91
• Only the Heart Goes to Hell
• Among the Ashes