Rhys Henry Hughes (born 1966,
Cardiff
Cardiff (; cy, Caerdydd ) is the capital and largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Cardiff ( cy, Dinas a Sir Caerdydd, links=no), and the city is the eleventh-largest in the United Kingd ...
, Wales) is a Welsh fantasy writer and essayist.
Career
Born in Cardiff, Hughes has written in a variety of forms, from short stories to novels.
His long novel ''Engelbrecht Again!'' is a sequel to
Maurice Richardson
Maurice Richardson (1907–1978) was an English journalist and short story writer.
Life and career
Richardson was born to a wealthy family."Odd Man Out", Mary Manning,''Irish Times'', 4 August 1978 (p.11) Review of ''Fits and Starts''. As a ch ...
's 1950 cult classic ''The Exploits of Engelbrecht'' and is the most radical of Hughes's books, making extensive use of lipograms, typographical tricks, coded passages and other
OuLiPo
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techniques.
His main project consists of authoring a 1,000-story cycle of both tightly and loosely interconnected tales.
Bibliography
Novels
* ''The Percolated Stars: An Astro-Caffeine Romp in Three Cups Featuring Batavus Droogstoppel Merchant and Scientist and Bourgeois Monster: One Lump or Two?'' (RazorBlade Press; 2003)
* ''Engelbrecht Again!'' (Dead Letter Press; 2008; )
* ''Mister Gum; Or: The Possibly Phoney Profundity of Puerility'' (Dog Horn Publishing; 2009)
* ''Twisthorn Bellow'' (Atomic Fez Publishing; 2010; )
* ''The Abnormalities of Stringent Strange'' (Meteor House; 2013; )
* ''The Young Dictator'' (Pillar International Publishing; 2013; )
* ''Captains Stupendous; Or, the Fantastical Family Faraway'' (expansion of ''The Coandă Effect: A Corto Maltese Adventure'') (Telos Moonrise; 2014;
* ''Cloud Farming in Wales'' (Snuggly Books; 2017; )
* ''The Honeymoon Gorillas'' (Bizarro Pulp Press; 2018; )
* ''The Pilgrim's Regress'' (Gloomy Seahorse Press; 2014; )
Novellas
* ''Eyelidiad'' (1996)
* ''Rawhead & Bloody Bones'' (1998)
* ''Elusive Plato'' (1998)
* ''The Crystal Cosmos'' (
PS Publishing
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Background
PS Publishing was founded in 1999 by Peter Crowther.[Tartarus Press
Tartarus Press is an independent book publisher based near Leyburn, Yorkshire, UK.](_ ...<br></span></div>; December 2007; )
* ''The Coandă Effect'' (Ex Occidente Press; November 2010)
* ''The Sticky Situations of Zwicky Fingers'' (Gloomy Seahorse Press; 2014; )
* ''World Muses'' (Ex Occidente Press; 2017)
* ''Students of Myself'' (Elsewhen Press; 2014; )
* ''My Rabbit's Shadow Looks Like a Hand'' (Eibonvale Press Press; 2021; )
<h2><br><p> Collections </h2></p>
* ''Worming the Harpy and Other Bitter Pills'' (<div class=) , 1995;
)
* ''The Smell of Telescopes'' (Tartarus Press, 2000; )
* ''Stories from a Lost Anthology'' (Tartarus Press, 2002; )
* ''Nowhere Near Milk Wood'' (1997, expanded 2002)
* ''Journeys Beyond Advice'' (2002)
* ''A New Universal History of Infamy'' (2004): a parody of and homage to
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (; ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, as well as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known bo ...
's collection ''
A Universal History of Infamy
''A Universal History of Infamy'', or ''A Universal History of Iniquity'' (original Spanish title: ''Historia universal de la infamia''), is a collection of short stories by Jorge Luis Borges, first published in 1935, and revised by the author in ...
''.
* ''The Less Lonely Planet'' (Humdrumming, Ltd.; May 2008; )
* ''The Postmodern Mariner'' (Screaming Dreams; June 2008; )
* ''The Brothel Creeper'' (Gray Friar Press; March 2011; )
* ''Link Arms With Toads!'' (Chômu Press; May 2011; )
* ''Tallest Stories'' (Eibonvale Press; January 2013; )
* ''The Just Not So Stories'' (Exaggerated Press; October 2013; )
* ''More Than a Feline'' (Gloomy Seahorse Press; December 2013; )
* ''Flash in the Pantheon'' (Gloomy Seahorse Press; 2014; )
* ''Rhysop's Fables'' (Gloomy Seahorse Press; 2014; )
* ''Bone Idle in the Charnel House'' (Hippocampus Press; 2014; )
* ''Orpheus on the Underground'' (Tartarus Press; 2015; )
* ''Mirrors in the Deluge'' (Elsewhen Press; 2015; )
* ''Brutal Pantomimes'' (Egaeus Press; 2016; )
* ''Salty Kiss Island'' (Immanion Press; 2017; )
* ''How Many Times?'' (Eibonvale Press; 2018; )
* ''Weirdly Out West'' (Black Scat Books; 2021; )
* ''The Senile Pagodas'' (Centipede Press; 2022; )
Poetry
* ''The Gloomy Seahorse'' (Gloomy Seahorse Press; 2014; )
* ''Bunny Queue'' (ImpSpired Press; 2021; )
Ebooks
* ''The Rhys Hughes Fantastic MEGAPACK®'' (Wildside Press; 2022)
References
External links
The Spoons That Are My Ears! Rhys Hughes's
weblog
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Rhys Hughes, the man who laughs at goldfish interview by Steve Redwood
Interview at ''Weird Fiction Review'', 7 March 2016
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1966 births
Living people
British science fiction writers
Welsh writers
Welsh essayists
Welsh male novelists
Welsh short story writers
Welsh fantasy writers
Welsh horror writers
Welsh science fiction writers
Writers from Cardiff