Alistair Rennie


Alistair Rennie is a Scottish author of weird fantasy and horror fiction, known for his weird fantasy novel, BleakWarrior, published by Blood Bound Books in 2016, and his short story collection, HardWeird, published by Blood Bound Books in 2024. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, and has lived for ten years in Bologna, Italy. He is the creator of the dark ambient music project Ruptured World which released its first album, Exoplanetary, on the dark ambient music label Cryo Chamber in August 2018. Ruptured World has since released several albums, including Archeoplanetary, Interplanetary, Shore Rituals, Xenoplanetary and Void Rituals. Rennie has also released an electronic music album under the name Exosferics, called Demiurgic Velocities of Arcane Signals, which was released in 2024 by the US-based record label Shady Ridge Records.

Education

A former painter and decorator, Rennie has studied at the University of Aberdeen and the University of Edinburgh and holds a PhD in literature based on the work of Robert Louis Stevenson and Canadian critic Northrop Frye. He also holds an M.Sc. in Sound Design and Audiovisual Practice from the University of Glasgow.

Career

Rennie has published numerous short stories in several acclaimed anthologies and magazines, including the New Weird anthology, Weird Tales magazine, Electric Velocipede, Mythic Delirium and Shadowed Realms.
Author Jeff VanderMeer has said of him: "Without having any wish to start a new moment or movement, I'd call him kind of 'Next Weird'. His work is transgressive and hard-edged and yet sometimes also experimental, while the influences seem to be everything from, well, authors typified as New Weird to mainstream literary to graphic novels."
Rennie is also a musician and a creator of electronic dark ambient music. Under the name of Ruptured World, he released his first album, "Exoplanetary", with the dark ambient music label Cryo Chamber, run by Simon Heath of Atrium Carceri, in August 2018. Ruptured World released a second album with Cryo Chamber, called Archeoplanetary, in July 2019, and has since released several albums, including Interplanetary, Shore Rituals, Xenoplanetary, and Void Rituals. Rennie is also an electronic music producer who goes under the name of Exosferics. Exosferics released its debut album Demiurgic Velocities of Arcane Signals on Shady Ridge Records in September 2024.

Short stories

  • "Il Duca di Cesena", short story, in Electric Velocipede Issue #10, Spilt Milk Press.
  • "The Coup de Grâce", short story, in Shadowed Realms Issue #11, Brimstone Press.
  • "The Gutter Sees The Light That Never Shines", short story, in The New Weird, Tachyon Publications,.
  • "Recalled to the Wrath of Penda", short story, in Fabulous Whitby, Fabulous Albion,.
  • "BleakWarrior Meets the Sons of Brawl", short story, in Weird Tales Vol. 63, No. 4., Issue #351, Wildside Press,.
  • "A Doom of My Own", short story, in Electric Velocipede Issue #15/16.
  • "A Little Piece of Me Will Die", short story, in Schlock Magazine.
  • "The Carpet Seller's Recommendation", short story, in Horror Without Victims, Megazanthus Press,.
  • "The Fear Seeker", short story, in Walk on the Weird Side, LASC Press.
  • "TerrorSluts for Eternity Versus the Ungodheads of the Interdimensionals", short story, in DOA III, Blood Bound Books,.
  • "The Island Brushed by Ghosts", short story, in Mechanical Animals: Tales at the Crux of Creatures and Tech, Hex Publishers,.

Books

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Discography

Major releases

Studio albums

  • Exoplanetary
  • Archeoplanetary
  • Interplanetary
  • Shore Rituals
  • Xenoplanetary
  • Void Rituals
  • ''Demiurgic Velocities of Arcane Signals''