Bone Idle in the Charnel House by Rhys Hughes

Bone Idle in the Charnel House by Rhys Hughes

For more than two decades, Welsh writer Rhys Hughes has been entertaining and befuddling readers with his distinctive mix of terror, humor, fantasy, and absurdity. Although influenced by such writers as Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges, his work is utterly unique in its melding of weirdness and comic grotesquerie.

In this substantial collection of new and reprinted stories, Hughes displays the literary skills that have brought him a wide and devoted readership. In The Old House Under the Snow, we find two explorers burrowing under the snow to find a house whose bizarre features mesmerize them; in What I Fear Most, the narrator's account of his inmost terrors takes a strange turn; in The Hydrothermal Reich, Hitler and his cohorts are shown to have an unusual plan for world domination.

In a story reminiscent of Kafka, Happiness Leasehold tells of a wealthy man who is unnerved to discover that his prosperity is entirely the result of another's actions-and now his time is up. Somewhat more orthodox, Sigma Octantis is a powerful tale in the Lovecraftian idiom, telling of cosmic horrors in an obscure Welsh community.

Many of these stories have been published in leading magazines and anthologies over the past decade; but several are unpublished and reveal their wonders and mysteries for the first time. With this book, Rhys Hughes stakes a claim to being one of the most original writers in contemporary weird fiction.

Rhys Hughes is the author of seven novels, dozens of short story collections, and hundreds of tales, essays, poems, and artwork. He has also compiled two volumes of the anthology series The Ironic Fantastic.

Hughes, Rhys: - Rhys Hughes was born in 1966. Tartarus Press published his first collection, Worming the Harpy, in 1995, and since that time he has published more than thirty other books. His fiction is generally fantastical and his output mainly consists of short stories, though he has published several novels. His work is frequently compared to that of Boris Vian, Flann O'Brien and R.A. Lafferty, but he cites his major influences as Italo Calvino and Donald Barthelme. His three most recent books are the collections Bone Idle in the Charnel House (Hippocampus Press), Orpheus on the Underground (Tartarus Press) and Brutal Pantomimes (Egaeus Press). Fascinated by paradoxes, he incorporates them into his fiction as entertainingly as he can. Sangria in the Sangraal was inspired by a real visit to the town of Albarracü¾™†”¼n in the year 2007.

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ISBN 13	9781614980872
ISBN 10	161498087X
Title	Bone Idle in the Charnel House
Author	Rhys Hughes
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Hippocampus Press
Year published	2014-12-01
Number of pages	246
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