Ryan Mathew Schulz was born in Perth, Western Australia 1988.
As a graduate of John Curtin College of the Arts and a lover of all things theatrical, growing up in the world’s most isolated city made Ryan fascinated with life outside the borders of WA – as did the stories of Mr. Stephen King! Holding 8 years of a career as a drag queen, they tossed aside the wigs to tap into other artforms, discovering circus, burlesque, and cabaret through the Fringe World Festival.
Relocating to London in March 2017, to further pursue the arts, Ryan held 5 solid years working in those industries and now, works in commercial theatre on the West End. They enjoy writing stories that bring people into the sparkly glimmering worlds they’ve been part of, giving readers a taste of some fabulousness and grit!
The story follows the eternal battle of the curse of the vampire, choosing between the sunlight and the shadows.
What will your choice be?
“Filament Lit Nights” invites you to wonder what it would feel like to leave everything you ever knew behind. To start a fresh and bloody life. A young man named Thomas arrives at the Cliffs of Dover, readying to end his life, when his attention is drawn to bright filament lit lights strung around a funfair, and a large thick striped black and white big top. There, a cast of vampires offers Thomas an extraordinary and intriguing future, filled with confidence, strength, newfound independence, sex, self-discovery and blood. A modern-day travelling vaudeville made up of vampires – travelling and seeking the misfits of the society.
“Sounds around the big top soon filled with screams, tears, POP and CRACK! The orderly and conformed humanity to which they’d entered in on was all too quickly unravelled as hidden away truths were confronted – their deep and buried animalistic like natures rose to the surface in a reactive response of fight or
flight.”
“They each looked out to the sea. All from different walks of life, but now all on the same path and with that of the same curse. It was a curse, but it was not holding any of them back. In actual fact, it had brought each of them together. They were now each as individuals, stronger for it.”
GB&T is a Queer-Horror trilogy written by Ryan Mathew Schulz. The series, is inspired by the industries in which Ryan has spent their life – burlesque, cabaret and drag – with themes around sex, sexuality, polyamory and equality. Each book follows the journey of a character named Michael, who battles to control his emotions and rational thinking, after being diagnosed with certain illness. This, leads him into some very precarious positions. Sometimes, regretful ones. Usually, deadly ones.
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