Rhys Hughes: 23 books

Castor Jenkins is a Welshman who tells stories that may (or may not) be true...but no matter how fantastic, no one can prove they never happened! In the tradition of Lord Dunsany's "The Travel Tales of Mr. Joseph Jorkens" and Arthur C. Clarke's "Tales of the White Hart," here is a collection of club stories full of wonder and marvels, as only Rhys Hughes could have told them

Tired of being given good advice in fables and parables by wise men, sages and gurus? Why not try Rhysop's Fables instead, a set of 150 unhelpful and irresponsible fables? There are no messages here telling you how best to live your life. That kind of thing is entirely up to you! The philosophy...

An entire story-cycle in miniature. One thousand years of the remarkable magical history of a secret region of Spain where few people venture even now. Albarracín is a rose-red town tucked away in the mountains of Lower Aragon. Once the seat of an independent taifa during the dominance of the Caliphate...

Scamps of Disorder is a work by Rhys Hughes composed by two different tales. Or maybe not.The Candid Slyness of Scurrility ForepawsDon't be polite. Don't be good. The world is evil. If you are innocent, then you are weak, you are exposed to the injustice of society. Hohwever, you have a chance: try to...

More unhelpful and irresponsible fables from the mind of the cult writer who brought you Rhysop's Fables... Join an absurd host of aardvarks, ghosts, pirates, flying jellyfish, hospitals made of lemon jelly, yetis, rhino cops, slobbery kisses and many more entities in the continuing quest to learn...

“Without music humanity would be a base thing. I know it.”It is not hard to agree on the opinion that music is an essential human experience, maybe it is just what makes human being properly human. That is what the protagonist of the last novelette by Rhys Hughes believed before living the most unbelievable...

My butler, Chives, had gone to answer the door.I made a great show of nonchalance, as I always do when unexpected visitors arrive during a period of crisis, and I took my oboe down from its shelf and played a sad melody. I heard the tramp of feet, five feet in total, which meant only a single visitor,...

The story of two dead entertainers and their tour of Europe.

The story of a lesbian trapped in a man’s body and his/her search for real love.