Rhys Hughes


Rhys Henry Hughes is a Welsh fantasy writer, playwright 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'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 techniques.
His major project consisted of authoring a 1,000-story cycle of both tightly and loosely interconnected tales, a project that was completed in 2022.
His books have had introductions and afterwords provided by Michael Moorcock, Jeff VanderMeer, A.A. Attanasio, Michael Cisco, Paul Di Filippo, John Clute, E.F. Bleiler and others.

Novels

  • The Percolated Stars: An Astro-Caffeine Romp in Three Cups Featuring Batavus Droogstoppel Merchant and Scientist and Bourgeois Monster: One Lump or Two?
  • Engelbrecht Again!
  • Mister Gum; Or: The Possibly Phoney Profundity of Puerility
  • Twisthorn Bellow
  • The Abnormalities of Stringent Strange
  • The Young Dictator
  • Captains Stupendous; Or, the Fantastical Family Faraway
  • Cloud Farming in Wales
  • The Honeymoon Gorillas
  • The Wistful Wanderings of Perceval Pitthelm
  • Growl at the Moon
  • The Devil's Halo
  • ''Trumpet Face''

    Novellas

  • Eyelidiad
  • Rawhead & Bloody Bones
  • Elusive Plato
  • The Crystal Cosmos
  • The Coandă Effect
  • The Sticky Situations of Zwicky Fingers
  • World Muses
  • Students of Myself
  • My Rabbit's Shadow Looks Like a Hand
  • The Ghost Loser
  • Three Novellas
  • ''Robots in Love''

    Collections

  • Worming the Harpy and Other Bitter Pills
  • The Smell of Telescopes
  • Stories from a Lost Anthology
  • Nowhere Near Milk Wood
  • Journeys Beyond Advice
  • A New Universal History of Infamy : a parody of and homage to Jorge Luis Borges's collection A Universal History of Infamy.
  • The Less Lonely Planet
  • The Postmodern Mariner
  • The Brothel Creeper
  • Link Arms With Toads!
  • Tallest Stories
  • The Just Not So Stories
  • More Than a Feline
  • Flash in the Pantheon
  • Rhysop's Fables
  • Bone Idle in the Charnel House
  • Orpheus on the Underground
  • Mirrors in the Deluge
  • Brutal Pantomimes
  • Salty Kiss Island
  • How Many Times?
  • Crepuscularks and Phantomimes
  • Weirdly Out West
  • Utopia in Trouble
  • Comfy Rascals
  • The Senile Pagodas
  • Adventures With Immortality
  • The Eleventh Commandment
  • ''That Other Egypt''

    Poetry

  • The Gloomy Seahorse
  • Bunny Queue
  • ''Robot Poems''

    Ebooks

  • ''The Rhys Hughes Fantastic MEGAPACK®''