Second Hand Hands (2024)
Fifty new stories. Strange, offbeat, imaginative, inventive, concise, playful fictions featuring ghosts, werewolves, giants, pirates, mutants, spirits, witches, elephants, sentient mirrors and a parade of other odd characters.
These tales delight in language as well as concepts, form as well as content, comedy, tragedy, horror, crime and paradox.
"A Welsh writer who writes as though he has gone to school with the best writing from all over the world." — SAMUEL R. DELANY
"For many years, I have regarded each new book from Rhys Hughes as continuing proof that the universe is a marvellous, exciting and creative place." — PAUL DI FILIPPO
Contents:
My Body Parts * The Stairway Zoo * Duke Electron * Shoe Stones * Roman à Clef * Pirates of the Carob Bean * The Impossible Backpack * The Ornithopter Pilot * Who is the Giant? * Wolfbat * The Plucky Old House at Fisticuffs * Hired Gun Hiram * Three Bens in a Moat * A Sorry Tale * A Werewolf Story * Consent: a Bedtime Story * In the Lost Box * The Chairs * The Self-Haunting * The Turning * Roman Holiday * The Rasp of the Dead Breath * Second Hand Hands * The Spoils * The Sheet * The Actor * Bluebeard * The Anniversary * My Breath * Are You Ready? * The Distribution of Fear * The Other Meaning * War Memorials * Through Our Teeth * The Leaves * The Witch * Girlfriend Archaeology * Candles * Skylights * The Façade * Elephant Letters * The Despatch * Dracula's Dilemma * Granny's School Journey * Hand in Marriage * The Birds * The Passage * So Far Untitled * The Editor * Memoirs of a Mirror
