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Richard Thomas



Richard Thomas is the author of seven books Disintegration and The Breaker (both at Random House Alibi), Transubstantiate (Otherworld Publications), and three short story collections, Herniated Roots (Snubnose Press) Staring Into the Abyss (Kraken Press) and Tribulations (TBA), as well as one novella of The Soul Standard (Dzanc Books). With over 100 stories published, his credits include Cemetery Dance, PANK, Gargoyle, Weird Fiction Review, Midwestern Gothic, Arcadia, Pear Noir!, Chrial Mad 2, and Shivers VI (with Stephen King and Peter Straub). He has won contests at ChiZine, One Buck Horror, and Jotspeak and has received five Pushcart Prize nominations to date. He is also the editor of three anthologies out in 2014: The New Black (Dark House Press), The Lineup (Black Lawrence Press) and Burnt Tongues (Medallion Press) with Chuck Palahniuk. In his spare time he is a book critic at The Nervous Breakdown, a columnist at LitReactor, and Editor-in-Chief at Dark House Press. He agent is Paula Munier at Talcott Notch.
 

Genres: Horror, Literary Fiction
 
New and upcoming books
January 2024

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The Best of Gamut
 
September 2024

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Incarnate
 
Novels
   Incarnate (2024)
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Collections
   Staring Into the Abyss (2013)
   Tribulations (2016)
   The Soul Standard (2016) (with Nik Korpon)
   Spontaneous Human Combustion (2022)
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Anthologies edited
   Burnt Tongues (2014) (with Chuck Palahniuk and Dennis Widmyer)
   Exigencies (2015)
   The Best of Gamut (2024)
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Richard Thomas recommends
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Edenville (2023)
Sam Rebelein
"Nobody is writing the uncanny like Sam Rebelein. Edenville is an immersive, visceral, unsettling metafictional tale that lures you into the shadows, and then slowly expands your mind to the horrors that were always there. It's Chuck Palahniuk mixed with Clive Barker and Stephen Graham Jones to create a funny, heartbreaking, original piece of fiction."
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Despatches (2023)
Lee Murray
"What a powerful collection of brutal, haunting, visceral stories and poems. But don't worry, this stellar anthology from down under is not one note-originality, wonder, and curiosity keep you guessing, pleading for these dark fates and unsettling myths to find a different, brighter path."
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Wild Spaces (2023)
S L Coney
"Wild Spaces is a visceral, haunting, original story that takes the best of cosmic horror and pairs it with familial love in a way that tugs at your heart strings as it continuously raises the levels of horror. It's Hereditary meets The Fisherman with a dash of The Dark Tower. One of my favorite authors writing today."

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Anthologies containing stories by Richard Thomas
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The Fiends in the Furrows III (2023)
Final Harvest
(Fiends in the Furrows, book 3)
edited by
David T Neal and Christine M Scott
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Shallow Waters (2023)
(Shallow Waters)
edited by
Joe Mynhardt

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