Creativity: A collection of Short Horror Stories

By Michael Matthews

Inspiration is not found. It is taken.

An artist discovers his true muse not in beauty, but in the exquisite geometry of a lover's breakdown. A son, sketching his mother's final days, finds that the only way to capture her life is to map the geography of her pain. An inventor, scavenging the refuse of the world for his grand design, is oblivious to the human wreckage he leaves in his wake.

In this chilling collection of interconnected stories, the act of creation is an act of consumption. Vision is a vulture, circling the carrion of human suffering, and a masterpiece is paid for in tears. From a war-torn village to a sterile hospital room, from a lover's betrayal to a friend's despair, Creativity explores the terrifying link between genius and monstrosity, asking a disturbing question: to capture a perfect moment of anguish, must the artist become the one who inflicts it?

These are not stories about making art. They are stories about the horror of what art makes of us.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G3HCTQSV
• ISBN13: 9798275582413
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"