Rhys Hughes

Rhys Henry Hughes (born 1966, Cardiff, Wales) 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. Rawhead & Bloody Bones (1998) Elusive Plato (1998) Link Arms With Toads! (Chômu Press; May 2011; ) Tallest Stories (Eibonvale Press; January 2013; ) The Just Not So Stories (Exaggerated Press; October 2013; ) More Than a Feline (Gloomy Seahorse Press; December 2013; ) Flash in the Pantheon (Gloomy Seahorse Press; 2014; ) Rhysop's Fables (Gloomy Seahorse Press; 2014; ) Bone Idle in the Charnel House (Hippocampus Press; 2014; ) Orpheus on the Underground (Tartarus Press; 2015; ) Mirrors in the Deluge (Elsewhen Press; 2015; ) Brutal Pantomimes (Egaeus Press; 2016; ) Salty Kiss Island (Immanion Press; 2017; ) How Many Times? (Eibonvale Press; 2018; ) Crepuscularks and Phantomimes (Raphus Press; 2020) Weirdly Out West (Black Scat Books; 2021; ) Utopia in Trouble (Raphus Press; 2021) Comfy Rascals (Raphus Press;2022) The Senile Pagodas (Centipede Press; 2022; ) Adventures With Immortality (Oddness Books; 2023; ) The Eleventh Commandment (Recital Publishing; 2025; ) That Other Egypt (Eibonvale Press; 2025; )

Poetry

The Gloomy Seahorse (Gloomy Seahorse Press; 2014; ) Bunny Queue (ImpSpired Press; 2021; ) Robot Poems (Gibbon Moon Books; 2022; )

Ebooks

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