
“I work in my office, usually with music cranked, whatever best captures the spirit of my current project, just trying to move the ball forward a little with each session.” “It’s just something I have to do at this point and if I don’t, I feel very unfocused and off for the rest of the day,” he said. Serafini said he’s been writing for about 15 years now and that “somewhere along the way I trained myself to write a little bit each day.” Now, with the help of a young social worker, Holland must find a way to escape the supernatural engine that powers the city’s most haunted building. A strange figure with a straight razor prowls the halls. Hidden floors reveal forgotten tragedies. There among the graffiti-laden corridors, he discovers a world of sinister phenomena. The book’s description states that the main character, Holland, tracks the source of a new street drug to the decrepit tower in the heart of Times Square. He said with each of his books he’s “always looking to do something a bit differently than what I’ve done before,” and he nailed that ambition with “Graffiti Tombs.” “I’m back there all the time,” Serafini shared. He moved up to New Hampshire several years ago but still has a lot of family and friends in Leominster.
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Anna School, graduated from Leominster High School, and earned a degree at Fitchburg State University while working full time at Market Basket on Sack Boulevard. Serafini, who is also a screenwriter, grew up in Leominster and got his “entire education in Central Mass.” He attended St. Cover art for Leominster native Matt Serafini’s latest book “Graffiti Tombs” was designed by his business associate Scott Cole, a graphic designer behind a few of the prolific author’s book covers.

“If you had to put ‘Graffiti Tombs’ into a category, you would call it a haunted house story, as I haven’t done one of those yet, but inspiration-wise it’s a pretty distinct combination of my interests: revenge cinema of the 70s and 80s, bold and bloody Italian horror, and the hallucinatory fiction of writers like Bret Easton Ellis, Kathe Koja, and Brian Evenson,” Serafini said of the idea behind the plot of his latest offering. LEOMINSTER - City native and prolific author Matt Serafini recently had his eighth novel published, a 212-page fiction page turner that delves into the dark world of vigilante Leo Holland titled “Graffiti Tombs.”
