Trumpet Strudel Mineshafts

Trumpet Strudel Mineshafts (2026)
Gibbon Moon Books

Eighteen one-act plays featuring castaways, cowboys, duellists, pandas, pilots, twiddlers, cyclists, phantoms, eccentric academics, angry bears, jazz musicians, mystic gorillas, philosophers, hippies, madmen, and many more strange characters. Written for people and puppets, for dreamers and schemers, and intended for the page as well as the stage.

“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

“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

Contents:

The Universal Set * Dr Oxygen and Mr Hydrogen * The Modesty Men * The Wallah * The Dessert Isle * Like a Rhino Cowboy * Balconies * Pandemonium * The Plane Play * Twiddling * Uneasy Rider * Three Friends * The Pendulum * Pursued by a Bear * The Jazz Strumpet * The Mystic Gorilla * The End of the Road * The Grass