The second volume of the Dabbler in Drabbles project, a four volume extravaganza. There will be one-thousand drabbles in total. The first book features 100 of them, and this new book features 200.
Aardvark Caesar
The Books of Rhys Hughes.
Thursday 14 March 2024
Dabbler in Drabbles #2
The second volume of the Dabbler in Drabbles project, a four volume extravaganza. There will be one-thousand drabbles in total. The first book features 100 of them, and this new book features 200.
Tuesday 2 January 2024
Dabbler in Drabbles #1
Tuesday 26 December 2023
The Graphologist and Other Stories
Thursday 23 November 2023
My Little Glib Book of Flippant Fairy Tales
My Big Glib Book of Flippant Fairy Tales
Wednesday 8 November 2023
The Golden Fleas
Thursday 19 October 2023
Adventures With Immortality
A collection of linked philosophical fantasy stories. Available from Barnes and Noble and elsewhere as a hardback and filled with art by Mike Dubisch.
Thursday 12 October 2023
The Coffee Rubaiyat
Monday 4 September 2023
Aardvarks: Earth Pig Poetry
Sunday 2 July 2023
Lovecraft's Chin
Friday 23 June 2023
The Jazz Hands Pterodactyl
Thursday 15 June 2023
Starfish Wish
Monday 22 May 2023
Flunkey Monkey
Sunday 23 April 2023
Pastel Whimsies
Wednesday 29 March 2023
The Knight of Whatever
Saturday 25 March 2023
The Wistful Wanderings of Perceval Pitthelm
Monday 19 December 2022
The Mermaid Variations
Wednesday 9 November 2022
Tiny Arrows
“I need some inspiration,” he said.
The lightning bolt turned him into ashes.
That’ll do,” he whispered, and the index finger of his ghost began scrawling a story on the damp ground with the carbon of his death.
Tuesday 11 October 2022
Yee-Haw
Tuesday 27 September 2022
Five Hundred Mini-Sagas
Thursday 15 September 2022
The Senile Pagodas
Wednesday 27 July 2022
Comfy Rascals
Wednesday 22 June 2022
Robot Poems
Monday 16 May 2022
Three Novellas
THE DARKTREE WHEEL
THE IMPOSSIBLE INFERNO
THE SWINE TASTER
“If I said he was a Welsh writer who writes as though he has gone to school with the best writing from all over the world, wonder if my compliment would just sound provincial. Hughes’ style, with all that means, is among the most beautiful I’ve encountered in several years.” — SAMUEL R. DELANY
“It’s a crime that Rhys Hughes is not as widely known as Italo Calvino and other writers of that stature. Brilliantly written and conceived, Hughes’ fiction has few parallels anywhere in the world. In some alternate universe with a better sense of justice, his work triumphantly parades across all bestseller lists.” — JEFF VANDERMEER
Wednesday 23 February 2022
The Ghost Loser
These stories of Clumsy Carnacki are both a genuine tribute to the original tales of William Hope Hodgson and an ironic variation on them in postmodern mode.
Contents:
The Ghastly Club Foot * The Vampiric Tramp * The School for High Fliers * In His Footsteps * The Stork Reality
Thursday 10 February 2022
The World Beyond the Stairwell
Sunday 30 January 2022
Get a Room!
Friday 21 January 2022
Mathematical Ghost Stories
Wednesday 12 January 2022
Omnibus #Two
Saturday 27 November 2021
My Little Halloween Book
Gloomy Seahorse Press
Sunday 17 October 2021
The Seven Deadly Sinbads
Saturday 4 September 2021
Cthulhu Wants You!
Thursday 2 September 2021
Utopia in Trouble
Saturday 14 August 2021
Bunny Queue
Monday 26 July 2021
My Rabbit's Shadow Looks Like a Hand
Eibonvale Books
An experimental novella utilising many effects, including parallel columns and text grids, stories within stories and more, all combined into a unique and cohesive whole.
Students of Myself
Elsewhen Press
Saturday 17 April 2021
Weirdly Out West
Contents:
Phony Express * Like a Rhino Cowboy * Short Western Poems * Fables from Farout Stables * Honky Tonk Squonk * The Gunfighters * The Narrow Path to the Far West * Tom Cabin's Uncle * For a Few Hollers More
Sunday 21 February 2021
Vampires with Fairy Wings
Monday 8 February 2021
The Pilgrim's Regress
Gloomy Seahorse Press
Friday 8 January 2021
A Rhys Hughes Sampler
Contents:
The Forest Chapel Bell * In the Margins * Three Friends * The Duvet Thief * Trombonhomie * The Urban Freckle * The Purloined Liver * Madonna Park * Journey Through a Wall * Bridge Over Troubled Blood * A Girl like a Doric Column * Telegram Ma'am * The Tell-Tale Nose * The Banker of Ingolstadt * The Spanish Cyclops * The Macroscopic Teapot * Climbing the Tallest Tree in the World * Two Fat Men in a Very Thin Country * Finding the Book of Sand * Niddala * The Minotaur in Pamplona * The Candid Slyness of Scurrility Forepaws * Sending Freedom Far Away * Anton Arctic and the Conquest of the Scottish Pole * The Six Sentinels * Degrees of Separation * The Mirror in the Looking Glass * The Strings of Segovia * Loneliness * Rediffusion * The Gunfight * The Grave Demeanour * The Yeasty Rise and Half-Baked Fall of Lyndon Williams * How to Lose Friends and Alienate People * The Blue Jewel Fruit * The Pastel Whimsy * The Soft Landing * The Taste of Turtle Tears * The Prodigal Beard * The Unkissed Artist Formerly Known as Frog * No Fury * The Belly Orchard * Chopsticks * Silky Salathiel * All Your Belongings * The Partial Rapture * The Chimera at Home * Dogears
Sunday 3 January 2021
Omnibus #One
Gloomy Seahorse PressFive Books in One.
"Rhys Hughes seems almost the sum of our planet's literature... As well as being drunk on language and wild imagery, he is also sober on the essentials of thought. He has something of Mervyn Peake's glorious invention, something of John Cowper Powys's contemplative, almost disdainful existentialism, a sensuality, a relish, an addiction to the delicious." — Michael Moorcock
“It’s a crime that Rhys Hughes is not as widely known as Italo Calvino and other writers of that stature. Brilliantly written and conceived, Hughes’ fiction has few parallels anywhere in the world. In some alternate universe with a better sense of justice, his work triumphantly parades across all bestseller lists.” — Jeff VanderMeer
“If I said he was a Welsh writer who writes as though he has gone to school with the best writing from all over the world, I wonder if my compliment would just sound provincial. Hughes’ style, with all that means, is among the most beautiful I’ve encountered in several years.” — Samuel R Delany
Corybantic Fulgours
Gloomy Seahorse Press"Who are the Corybantic Fulgours? They are monsters. They live in a room, a room as large as the inside of the Moon, and in this room there are all sorts of ways and means, odds and ends, curves and bends, and no one but no one can ever say what the right way from here to there is. Most monsters don't care about things like that, and the Corybantic Fulgours are made from curdled light, so they care even less. Let's open the door to that room and step inside..."
A book of verses written for monstrous doodles drawn during the summer of the pandemic year 2020.
Samples of pages and an interview about the project can be found at Borderless Journal.
Monday 27 July 2020
The Meandering Knight
Gloomy Seahorse Press
An adventure story in verse form.
Bertie Random is an ordinary man and an unlucky traveller. While fleeing monsters on foot, he is accosted by an octopus on roller skates who gives him eight letters. These letters tell the tales of strange incidents across time and space. If Bertie learns the appropriate lessons from reading them, he will be knighted by Fate herself and his bad luck will turn into opportunity. Arise, Sir Random?
An epic poem (or a mock-epic or pseudo-mock-epic) that consists of a frame story and eight other odd and fantastical adventures that are related to the quest of the main protagonist.
Cover art by Selwyn Rodda.
Saturday 13 June 2020
Carrying Women Across Rivers
Gloomy Seahorse Press
Quirky poetry in the light-hearted tradition of Richard Brautigan, Don Marquis, Hilaire Belloc, Blaise Cendrars and Edward Lear.
133 verses and prose poems ranging in length from one-sentence quips to absurdist ballads. Space, time, love, journeys, fruit, the thoughts and feelings of inanimate objects and monsters are among the themes covered.
From the back cover:
"Dear reader,please don't have great
expectations about this poetry collection
because you might be disappointed
and I don't wish to be hated by you.
So kindly remember, before you enter,
that although most of the book could
surely be better, all its unrhymed parts
could hardly be verse..."
Saturday 9 May 2020
The Dangerous Strangeness
Gloomy Seahorse Press
Fifteen one-act plays featuring robots, poets, cowboys, pirates, highwaymen, castaways, mad scientists, homunculi, vampires, ancient warriors, impossible gods, eccentric insults and much more.
Written for puppets and people, for dreamers and schemers, and intended for the page as well as the stage. Includes a collaboration with Mauritian author Vatsala Radhakeesoon.
Contents:
The Handbag Inquisitor * Dust or Human Jigsaws * I Boil the Statistic Overshoe * Fewer Not Less * Three Log Fire * As a Man Grows Colder * Yesferatu * The Letters of the Alphabet * Don't Shoot the Messenger * One Short * The God of Atheism * The Highwayman * A Big Hand * Good Morning! * All Things Nice
Note: 'A Big Hand' was written with Vatsala Radhakeesoon.
Tuesday 21 April 2020
Crepuscularks and Phantomimes
Raphus Press
A collection of thirteen ghostly, gothic, lovecraftian and weird fantasy stories in the ironic mode...
Tentacle telephones that span centuries, men grown in jars, rivers overflowing with the tears of ghosts, phantom twins, tunnels that are the guts of an extinct giant, grotesque antique shops...
All this and more will be found in the pages of this hilariously nightmarish book.
Contents:
Tender is the Tether * Confessions of a Medicated Lurker * The Sauce of the Guile * The Itchy Skin of Creepy Aplomb * Gut Road * Back to Back * Different Shadows * The Blunderbuss * The Partial Rapture * Jacques Inleboqs * The Babbling Brook * The Fangs of the Underworld * The Smoking Room
Note: Two of the stories ('Jacques Inleboqs' and 'The Smoking Room' are only available in the paperback and ebook editions).