Rhys Hughes: 12 books

Ten finely-crafted tales that are tributes to the whimsical genius of the great writer, Italo Calvino... A city that consists entirely of corners; a ruler who exports all his country's freedom until there is none left for himself; a series of miniature adventures featuring a talkative sun; the story...

A bumper book of exactly 100 stories by a cult writer who has been highly praised by Michael Moorcock, Jeff VanderMeer, Michael Bishop, Brian Aldiss and many others. 'The Tellmenow Isitsöornot' was a nonexistent book of tall stories that Edgar Allan Poe invented as a joke in one of his tales; try...

A quartet of celestial stories about the troubles and triumphs of the planets, moons, stars and galaxies, all of which turn out to be sentient and sensitive living beings. Yes, the heavenly objects have feelings too and they find life just as bewildering as human beings do. When Pluto is officially...

Join cult writer Rhys Hughes on a series of inventive adventures among a cast of peculiar characters, including the completely unfeasible Hogwash & Bum Note, somewhere under the rainbow way down low... Here you will find stories about incompetent explorers in strange places; knights, goddesses...

A revised edition of a collection of stories totalling 100,000 words of fiction that span the entirety of the career of cult author Rhys Hughes.... Ghosts, vampires, mythological beings, eccentrics, mad inventors, demons and other strange beings can be found cavorting here, sometimes seriously, sometimes...

What happens when apeman good meets marshmallow evil? That's the alarming question posed by this novella, which is a double sequel to two obscure and unlikely books, namely The Abnormalities of Stringent Strange by Rhys Hughes and The Fangs of Suet Pudding by Adams Farr... In a forgotten corner...

Zwicky Fingers is a giant fruit bat detective who lives in the past, present and future simultaneously. He is often consulted by the police force when there are paradoxical, lateral or impossible crimes to be solved. His sticky situations are ten tricky cases, one for each finger of two human hands;...

The adventures of an exceptional mermaid as she travels from a carnival in tropical Brazil to a country where it never stops raining, Wales; and from there to the moon, where the lunar mermaids are the wrong way around. A magical mystical miniature trilogy for adults who still believe in whimsy, romance and fables!

A collection of 101 flash fictions by a writer who has made his reputation as a devoted champion of the short story form. None of the stories in this book are longer than 1000 words; many are under 500 words; some are less than 100. The very short story is a noble literary tradition and includes such...

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...

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...