Magical tales of strange females.
"She still danced but in slow motion now, a puppet at the end of a long day on the stage of a miniature theatre. Her postures were more sensual. I felt the evening star like a pin in the middle of my brow, goading me to a greater effort. I stretched out my acquisitive arms. She paused, weight on one foot, hand on hip, in the traditional alluring stance of the courtesan. I lurched forward, suddenly my nimbleness gone, my joints stiff, my tread heavy, as if I waded through black honey."
"Rhys Hughes seems almost the sum of our planet’s literature. He toys with convention. He makes the metaphysical political, the personal incredible and the comic hints at subtle pain. Few living fictioneers approach this chef’s sardonic confections, certainly not in English.’ — MICHAEL MOORCOCK
"If I said he was a Welsh writer who writes as though he has gone to school with the best writing from all over the world, I wonder if my compliment would just sound provincial. Hughes’ style, with all that means, is among the most beautiful I’ve encountered in several years.’ — SAMUEL R. DELANY
"It’s a crime that Rhys Hughes is not as widely known as Italo Calvino and other writers of that stature. Brilliantly written and conceived, Hughes’ fiction has few parallels anywhere in the world. In some alternate universe with a better sense of justice, his work triumphantly parades across all bestseller lists.’ — JEFF VANDERMEER
Genre: Paranormal Romance
"She still danced but in slow motion now, a puppet at the end of a long day on the stage of a miniature theatre. Her postures were more sensual. I felt the evening star like a pin in the middle of my brow, goading me to a greater effort. I stretched out my acquisitive arms. She paused, weight on one foot, hand on hip, in the traditional alluring stance of the courtesan. I lurched forward, suddenly my nimbleness gone, my joints stiff, my tread heavy, as if I waded through black honey."
"Rhys Hughes seems almost the sum of our planet’s literature. He toys with convention. He makes the metaphysical political, the personal incredible and the comic hints at subtle pain. Few living fictioneers approach this chef’s sardonic confections, certainly not in English.’ — MICHAEL MOORCOCK
"If I said he was a Welsh writer who writes as though he has gone to school with the best writing from all over the world, I wonder if my compliment would just sound provincial. Hughes’ style, with all that means, is among the most beautiful I’ve encountered in several years.’ — SAMUEL R. DELANY
"It’s a crime that Rhys Hughes is not as widely known as Italo Calvino and other writers of that stature. Brilliantly written and conceived, Hughes’ fiction has few parallels anywhere in the world. In some alternate universe with a better sense of justice, his work triumphantly parades across all bestseller lists.’ — JEFF VANDERMEER
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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