Rhys Henry Hughes
Born	1966 Cardiff, Wales
Occupation	Novelist, short story writer
Nationality	Welsh
Genre	Absurdism, Fantasy, OuLiPo, Science fiction
Website
rhysaurus.blogspot.com

Rhys Henry Hughes (born 1966, Cardiff, Wales) is a Welsh fantasy writer and essayist. ^[1]

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. ^[2]

His main project consists of authoring a 1,000-story cycle of both tightly and loosely interconnected tales. ^[2]

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) ^[2]
• Engelbrecht Again! (Dead Letter Press; 2008; ISBN  978-0-9796335-4-6)
• Mister Gum; Or: The Possibly Phoney Profundity of Puerility (Dog Horn Publishing; 2009) ^[2]
• Twisthorn Bellow (Atomic Fez Publishing; 2010; ISBN  978-0-9811597-1-3) ^[2]
• The Abnormalities of Stringent Strange (Meteor House; 2013; ISBN  978-0-983746-13-3) ^[2]
• The Young Dictator (Pillar International Publishing; 2013; ISBN  978-0-9574598-3-0) ^[2]
• Captains Stupendous; Or, the Fantastical Family Faraway (expansion of The Coandă Effect: A Corto Maltese Adventure) (Telos Moonrise; 2014; ISBN  978-1-84583-886-7 ^[2]
• The Pilgrim's Regress (Gloomy Seahorse Press; 2014; ISBN  979-8-697441-96-1)
• Cloud Farming in Wales (Snuggly Books; 2017; ISBN  978-1-943813-36-0)
• The Honeymoon Gorillas (Bizarro Pulp Press; 2018; ISBN  978-1-947654-55-6)
• The Wistful Wanderings of Perceval Pitthelm (Telos Publishing; 2023; ISBN  978-1-845832-12-4)

Novellas

• Eyelidiad (1996) ^[3]
• Rawhead & Bloody Bones (1998) ^[4]
• Elusive Plato (1998) ^[4]
• The Crystal Cosmos ( PS Publishing; December 2007; ISBN  978-1-905834-98-3)
• The Coandă Effect (Ex Occidente Press; November 2010)
• The Sticky Situations of Zwicky Fingers (Gloomy Seahorse Press; 2014; ISBN  978-1-291738-16-2)
• World Muses (Ex Occidente Press; 2017)
• Students of Myself (Elsewhen Press; 2014; ISBN  978-1-911409-69-4)
• My Rabbit's Shadow Looks Like a Hand (Eibonvale Press; 2021; ISBN  978-1-913766-05-4)
• The Ghost Loser (Gibbon Moon Books; 2022; ISBN  978-1-739797-14-0)
• Three Novellas (The Darktree Wheel, The Impossible Inferno, The Swine Taster) (Gibbon Moon Books; 2022; ISBN  978-1-739797-13-3)

Collections

• Worming the Harpy and Other Bitter Pills ( Tartarus Press, 1995; ^[3] ISBN  978-1-872621-20-3)
• The Smell of Telescopes (Tartarus Press, 2000; ISBN  1-872621-44-9) ^[3]
• Stories from a Lost Anthology (Tartarus Press, 2002; ISBN  978-1-872621-68-5) ^[4]
• Nowhere Near Milk Wood (1997, expanded 2002) ^[4]
• Journeys Beyond Advice (2002) ^[4]
• A New Universal History of Infamy (2004): a parody of and homage to Jorge Luis Borges's collection A Universal History of Infamy. ^[4]
• The Less Lonely Planet (Humdrumming, Ltd.; May 2008; ISBN  978-1-905532-52-0)
• The Postmodern Mariner (Screaming Dreams; June 2008; ISBN  978-0-9555185-2-2)
• The Brothel Creeper (Gray Friar Press; March 2011; ISBN  978-1-906331-22-1) ^[5]
• Link Arms With Toads! (Chômu Press; May 2011; ISBN  978-1-907681-08-0)
• Tallest Stories (Eibonvale Press; January 2013; ISBN  978-1-908125-16-3)
• The Just Not So Stories (Exaggerated Press; October 2013; ISBN  978-1-291558-20-3)
• More Than a Feline (Gloomy Seahorse Press; December 2013; ISBN  978-1-291619-27-0)
• Flash in the Pantheon (Gloomy Seahorse Press; 2014; ISBN  978-1-291731-03-3)
• Rhysop's Fables (Gloomy Seahorse Press; 2014; ISBN  978-1-291738-73-5)
• Bone Idle in the Charnel House (Hippocampus Press; 2014; ISBN  978-1-61498-087-2)
• Orpheus on the Underground (Tartarus Press; 2015; ISBN  978-1-905784-71-4)
• Mirrors in the Deluge (Elsewhen Press; 2015; ISBN  978-1-908168-65-8)
• Brutal Pantomimes (Egaeus Press; 2016; ISBN  978-0-957160-69-9)
• Salty Kiss Island (Immanion Press; 2017; ISBN  978-1-907737-77-0)
• How Many Times? (Eibonvale Press; 2018; ISBN  978-1-908125-60-6)
• Crepuscularks and Phantomimes (Raphus Press; 2020)
• Weirdly Out West (Black Scat Books; 2021; ISBN  978-1-735764-61-0)
• Utopia in Trouble (Raphus Press; 2021)
• Comfy Rascals (Raphus Press;2022)
• The Senile Pagodas (Centipede Press; 2022; ISBN  978-1-61347-080-0)
• Adventures With Immortality (Oddness Books; 2023; ISBN  978-1-96021-328-0)

Poetry

• The Gloomy Seahorse (Gloomy Seahorse Press; 2014; ISBN  978-1-291715-03-3)
• Bunny Queue (ImpSpired Press; 2021; ISBN  978-1-914130-32-8)
• Robot Poems (Gibbon Moon Books; 2022; ISBN  978-1-739797-16-4)

Ebooks

• The Rhys Hughes Fantastic MEGAPACK® (Wildside Press; 2022)

References

External links

• The Spoons That Are My Ears!, Rhys Hughes's weblog
• Rhys Hughes, the man who laughs at goldfish, interview by Steve Redwood
• Interview at Weird Fiction Review, 7 March 2016