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Matthew Costello Neil Richards Biography & Facts

Matthew John Costello (born 1948) is an American writer specializing in the genres of horror, gothic, and science fiction. His articles have appeared in publications including the Los Angeles Times and Sports Illustrated. He has scripted Trilobyte's bestselling CD-ROM interactive dramas The 7th Guest and its sequel The 11th Hour, as well as many other video games. Career Costello continued Dana Lombardy's "Gaming" column on Asimov's Science Fiction beginning in April 1986, which renamed to "Neat Stuff" in April 1989 and he continued until June 1990. Along with F. Paul Wilson, Costello created and scripted FTL Newsfeed, which ran daily on the Sci-Fi Channel from 1992 to 1996. His television credits also include shows on The Disney Channel, PBS, the BBC, and many others. In 2005 his novel Beneath Still Waters was adapted into a film by director Brian Yuzna. Costello also wrote Island of the Skull (Pocket Books), an original prequel to Peter Jackson's film, King Kong. Along with his adult genres, he has created works for children. His works include the book series The Kids of Einstein Elementary (Scholastic), and Magic Everywhere (Random House), as well as games including Aladdin's Mathquest (Disney), A Cartoon History of the Universe (Putnam), and two math games based on the hit PBS Kids show Cyberchase. He is the designer of role-playing and board games, including Dungeons & Dragons, Call of Cthulhu, Batman, Lone Wolf & Cub, and many others. Recently, Costello worked on Rage, a post-apocalyptic action-adventure game for id Software, and wrote its novelization, as well as a new game for Eidos with Neil Richards and Swedish developer Avalanche Studios. Books Video Games Awards Bram Stoker Best Novel nominee (1993): Homecoming Prometheus Award Best Novel nominee (1999): MasqueExternal links Official website Matthew J. Costello at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Matthew Costello at IMDb Matthew J. Costello at Library of Congress, with 31 library catalog records Matthew J. Costello at Demian's Gamebook Web Page Shane Christopher (pseudonym) at LC Authorities, 1 record, and at WorldCat. Discover the Matthew Costello Neil Richards popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Matthew Costello Neil Richards books.

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  • Cherringham - Secret Santa synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Secret Santa

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    Bill Vokes has played Santa at the children’s Christmas show for years. But with the show just hours away, he vanishes with no explanation. The whole village is baffled. Did someth...

  • Cherringham - Trail of Lies synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Trail of Lies

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    Last year at Cherringham High, and for three girls that means facing the School Summer Challenge, a grueling fiftymile hike across the Cotswolds, through thick woods, over steep hi...

  • The Body in the Woods synopsis, comments

    The Body in the Woods

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    It’s Carnival week in Cherringham, but while most of the locals are looking forward to the regatta, the parade and the fireworks, Jack and Sarah are more interested in the mysterio...

  • Cherringham - Episode 10 - 12 synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Episode 10 - 12

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    Jack's a retired excop from New York, seeking the simple life in Cherringham. Sarah's a Web designer who's moved back to the village find herself. But their lives are anything but ...

  • Cherringham - The Last Puzzle synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - The Last Puzzle

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    When amiable old village eccentric Quentin Andrews dies, the good folk of Cherringham are astonished at the crowd that turns up to his funeral. But even more astonished are the ben...

  • Cherringham - Mystery at the Manor synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Mystery at the Manor

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    The elderly owner of Mogdon Manor, Victor Hamblyn, dies in a mysterious fire. But was it really an accident? Jack and Sarah are sceptical ... The victim's three middleaged children...

  • Cherringham - Ghost of a Chance synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Ghost of a Chance

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    Every Halloween, the supposedly haunted Bell Hotel hosts its famous 'GhostHunters Dinner', complete with scary stories, spooky apparitions and things that go bump in the night. But...

  • Cherringham - Episode 4 - 6 synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Episode 4 - 6

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    Jack's a retired excop from New York, seeking the simple life in Cherringham. Sarah's a Web designer who's moved back to the village find herself. But their lives are anything but ...

  • Cherringham - Episode 37-39 synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Episode 37-39

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    Jack's a retired excop from New York, seeking the simple life in Cherringham. Sarah's a Web designer who's moved back to the village find herself. But their lives are anything but ...

  • Cherringham - Still Dead synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Still Dead

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    When the Veteran Head of Botanicals at the worldfamous Cherringham Gin Company is suddenly found dead at the Distillery, it seems at first a strange accident must have taken place....

  • Cherringham - Follow the Money synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Follow the Money

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    Claire and Terry Goodman seem to have everything. Successful business. Son at Oxford. New mansion right on the River Thames. And seemingly ... plenty of money to spend. But when Ja...

  • Cherringham - A Dinner to Die For synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - A Dinner to Die For

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    When a new restaurant with a starred American chef opens in Cherringham, it seems the Spotted Pig has a worthy rival. But a series of disturbing incidents turns that rivalry into ...

  • Cherringham - The Drowned Man synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - The Drowned Man

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    Accidents happen to Charley Clutterbuck. Always just scraping by, living on his ramshackle boat, not above the dodgy deal here and there ... So when his body is found floating down...

  • Cherringham - The Song Never Dies synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - The Song Never Dies

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    When Alex King, leader of legendary 90s rock group Lizard, hosts a party to get the band back together, old grudges surface. At dawn Alex is found floating in the pool of his Cherr...

  • Cherringham - Episode 28-30 synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Episode 28-30

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    Jack's a retired excop from New York, seeking the simple life in Cherringham. Sarah's a Web designer who's moved back to the village find herself. But their lives are anything but ...

  • Cherringham - A Fatal Fall synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - A Fatal Fall

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    Dylan McCabe a livewire Irish labourer on a rushed Cherringham building Project has been making noises about the site's lack of safety. When he's discovered dead after a fall, it...

  • Cherringham - A Deadly Confession synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - A Deadly Confession

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    On the edge of Cherringham lies St. Francis' Convent, home of the Sisters of St. Francis, a small Catholic teaching order. Here a handful of nuns worship, contemplate, and pray. A...

  • Cherringham - Final Cut synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Final Cut

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    When a big movie production comes to Cherringham, complete with lords, ladies, and flashing swords, the whole village is abuzz with excitement. But when a series of dangerous accid...

  • Cherringham - Snowblind synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Snowblind

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    One of the worst blizzards in years hits Cherringham, cutting off the village from the rest of the world. Just outside of town, Broadmead Grange is a struggling retirement home, ho...

  • Cherringham - Episode 31-33 synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Episode 31-33

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    Jack's a retired excop from New York, seeking the simple life in Cherringham. Sarah's a Web designer who's moved back to the village find herself. But their lives are anything but ...

  • Cherringham - Blade in the Water synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Blade in the Water

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    It's just days before the Cherringham Regatta an annual event that draws luxury yachts from across the country, as well as the local boat crowd, all looking to party on the river....

  • Cherringham - Last Train to London synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Last Train to London

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    Cherringham is devastated. Otto Brendl, the likeable old man who had hosted the classic PunchandJudy show for the kids each summer, died suddenly of a heart attack. But while the m...

  • Cherringham - The Body in the Lake synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - The Body in the Lake

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    Cherringham parish council has invited Laurent Bourdain, mayor of a French village on the Brittany coast, to a gala reception to join the two villages in a mutually beneficial 'twi...

  • Cherringham - Playing Dead synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Playing Dead

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    When Cherringham Drama Society invite a local TV celebrity to direct their Christmas show, they get more publicity than they bargained for. Someone's out to sabotage the event, and...

  • Cherringham - Episode 7 - 9 synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Episode 7 - 9

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    Jack's a retired excop from New York, seeking the simple life in Cherringham. Sarah's a Web designer who's moved back to the village find herself. But their lives are anything but ...

  • Cherringham - Episode 34-36 synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Episode 34-36

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    Jack's a retired excop from New York, seeking the simple life in Cherringham. Sarah's a Web designer who's moved back to the village find herself. But their lives are anything but ...

  • Cherringham - Episode 1 - 3 synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Episode 1 - 3

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    Jack's a retired excop from New York, seeking the simple life in Cherringham. Sarah's a Web designer who's moved back to the village find herself. But their lives are anything but ...

  • Cherringham - A Lesson in Murder synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - A Lesson in Murder

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    When Jack and Sarah are called in to investigate mysterious pranks at an exclusive girls' private school, it seems at first that it might be the work of a few mean pupils with a gr...

  • Cherringham - Episode 25-27 synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Episode 25-27

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    Jack's a retired excop from New York, seeking the simple life in Cherringham. Sarah's a Web designer who's moved back to the village find herself. But their lives are anything but ...

  • Cherringham - The Secret of Combe Castle synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - The Secret of Combe Castle

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    When the penniless FitzHenrys, proprietors of the rundown Combe Castle Heritage Site, find themselves victims of a threatening campaign to oust them from their ancestral home, Jack...

  • Cherringham - Scared to Death synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Scared to Death

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    When classic horror movie star Basil Coates becomes the victim of a series of scary pranks, the local police put it down to a crazed fan. Just pranks, after all ...But with Hallowe...

  • Cherringham - The Secret of Brimley Manor synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - The Secret of Brimley Manor

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    Brimley Manor, home to an eccentric museum of oddities from its owner's lifetime of exotic travels also holds dark secrets. When a suspicious fire breaks out, the biggest question ...

  • Cherringham - The Vanishing Tourist synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - The Vanishing Tourist

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    When an American tourist goes missing in Cherringham, the local police don't see reason for concern people often wander away from such tours. But when that tourist's sister shows ...

  • Cherringham - Murder under the Sun synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Murder under the Sun

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    As the day of Grace's wedding approaches, it seems nothing can get in the way of the happy Cherringham event. But just days before, her father Len is suddenly arrested on suspicion...

  • Cherringham - Murder Most Wild synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Murder Most Wild

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    When the Zakro Corporation attempts to build a mammoth supermarket outside Cherringham, the whole village is up in arms. But the accidental death of lead environmentalist Sam Lewis...

  • Cherringham - The Gentleman Vanishes synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - The Gentleman Vanishes

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    Bernard Mandeville loves trains. Every Sunday, the elderly and frail Bernard, in perfect attire, purchases a ticket on the Great Cotswold’s Steam Railway, takes a seat in FirstClas...

  • Cherringham - Cliffhanger synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Cliffhanger

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    When a hiker falls from a cliff edge while walking the Cotswolds Way, it seems like no accident. The more Jack and Sarah investigate the walkers on the trail that day, the more lik...

  • Cherringham - Episode 16-18 synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Episode 16-18

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    Jack's a retired excop from New York, seeking the simple life in Cherringham. Sarah's a Web designer who's moved back to the village find herself. But their lives are anything but ...

  • Cherringham - A Death in the Family synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - A Death in the Family

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    When a doddering Harry Platt tumbles from the top of his stairs in a deadly fall, it looks like an unfortunate accident. But solicitor Tony Standish’s suspicions are aroused when h...

  • Cherringham - Killing Time synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Killing Time

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    Urban Explorers love the excitement of ‘exploring’ longabandoned buildings, searching for mysteries in the dark, empty places. But when one such explorer takes a solo tour of a dec...

  • Cherringham - A Bad Lie synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - A Bad Lie

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    When talented young artist Josh Andrews goes missing after a stag night prank at Cherringham Golf Club, the bride in desperation asks Jack and Sarah to find him. It seems he's gott...

  • Cherringham - Too Many Lies synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Too Many Lies

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    When Cherringham’s Council debates selling the historic village hall for development as a luxury restaurant and hotel, all of Cherringham is up in arms; some seeing the sale as nee...

  • Cherringham - Death on a Moonlit Night synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Death on a Moonlit Night

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    When the boss of the big local DIY outlet is murdered on a moonlit night, all the evidence points to the store's junior manager. And when police retrieve the murder weapon from the...

  • Cherringham - Thick as Thieves synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Thick as Thieves

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    Two Cherringham locals, roaming a farm with metal detectors, discover an amazing treasure a silver Roman plate worth millions. They must share the reward with both the farmer and ...

  • Cherringham - Murder on Thames synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Murder on Thames

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    Cherringham a quiet town in the Cotswolds. Nothing ever happens there, or so it seems until one morning a woman's body is found in the river. A terrible accident, according to th...

  • Cherringham - Murder by Moonlight synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Murder by Moonlight

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    Just two weeks to go before the Cherringham Charity Christmas Concert. Choir rehearsals are in full swing. Then the worst thing happens: Kirsty Kimball, one of the singers, is foun...

  • Cherringham - Episode 13-15 synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Episode 13-15

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    Jack's a retired excop from New York, seeking the simple life in Cherringham. Sarah's a Web designer who's moved back to the village find herself. But their lives are anything but ...

  • Cherringham - Death Trap synopsis, comments

    Cherringham - Death Trap

    Matthew Costello & Neil Richards

    When Edward Townes famed writer of novels about knights and maids, and castles and conquering attends a medieval launch party for his latest book, he arrives ready to do more tha...