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Richard Kadrey

(b.1957)

Richard Kadrey has published five novels, including Sandman Slim, Butcher Bird and Metrophage, and more than fifty stories. He has been immortalized as an action figure, and his short story “Goodbye Houston Street, Goodbye” was nominated for a British Science Fiction Association Award. A freelance writer and photographer, he lives in San Francisco.

Genres: Urban Fantasy, Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction

New and upcoming books

October 2025

The Flesh King
(Discreet Eliminators)

Series

Sandman Slim
   1. Sandman Slim (2009)
   2. Kill the Dead (2010)
   3. Aloha from Hell (2011)
   3.5. Devil in the Dollhouse (2012)
   4. Devil Said Bang (2012)
   5. Kill City Blues (2013)
   6. The Getaway God (2014)
   7. Killing Pretty (2015)
   8. The Perdition Score (2016)
   9. The Kill Society (2017)
   10. Hollywood Dead (2018)
   11. Ballistic Kiss (2020)
   12. King Bullet (2021)

Another Coop Heist
1. The Everything Box (2016)
2. The Wrong Dead Guy (2017)

Carrion City (with Cassandra Khaw)
1. The Dead Take the A Train (2022)

Discreet Eliminators
1. The Pale House Devil (2023)
The Flesh King (2025)

Novels

   Metrophage (1988)
   Kamikaze L'Amour (1995)
   Butcher Bird (2007)
   Dead Set (2013)
   The Grand Dark (2019)

Collections

Angel Scene / Teeth and Tongue Landscape (2003) (with Carlton Mellick III)
The Secrets of Insects (2023)

Novellas and Short Stories

Suspect Zero (2013)

Series contributed to

Tor.Com Original
Across the Dark Water (2021)

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Books containing stories by Richard Kadrey

Appalachian Strong (2025)
A Charity Anthology Benefiting the Survivors of Hurricane Helene
edited by
John G Hartness

Winter in the City (2024)
A Collection of Dark Speculative Fiction
edited by
Anna Koon and R B Wood

Christmas and Other Horrors (2023)
edited by
Ellen Datlow

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Award nominations

	2024 Dragon Award for Best Horror Novel (nominee) : The Dead Take the A Train
	2020 Locus Award for Best Horror Novel (nominee) : The Grand Dark
	1997 BSFA Award for Best Short Fiction (nominee) : The First Man Not to Land on the Moon
	1989 Locus Award for Best First Novel (nominee) : Metrophage

Richard Kadrey recommends

The Night That Finds Us All (2025)
John Hornor Jacobs
"John Hornor Jacobs reminds us that he's one of our best contemporary horror writers. The Night That Finds Us All combines action and dread like few other recent books, as a haunted ship's crew fights both the ocean and an evil that will swallow them all."

The Essential Horror of Joe R. Lansdale (2025)
Joe R Lansdale
"If you don't know Lansdale's work, this is a great place to start. If you do know it, you're going to find some of his best and darkest works in one place."

We Are Always Tender with Our Dead (2025)
(Burnt Sparrow, book 1)
Eric LaRocca
"Eric LaRocca is one of the best horror voices to emerge in the last few years. We Are Always Tender with Our Dead is his finest work to date, filled with relentless darkness, but beauty too. The story and characters will stay with you in your dreams long after you've finished it."

The Adventures of Mary Darling (2025)
Pat Murphy
"Outstanding characters, a deep understanding of her new fictional world, and clever storytelling."

A Mask of Flies (2024)
Matthew Lyons
"A Mask of Flies is a riveting story of shocking violence and the terrible mysteries that families leave behind like scars in your skin. It's desperation, loneliness, and the knock on the door by things that are better off dead."

Chlorine (2023)
Jade Song
"Ren Yu is a fierce young woman who's dreamed of mermaids ever since she can remember - dreams so vivid that the first touch of water in a swimming pool alters her life forever, sending her down a path that's both beautiful and frightening. Chlorine isn't just a coming of age story. It's the tale of transformation from human to something wilder and more transcendent. It's about love and longing and the willingness to do anything to become who you truly are."

The Spite House (2023)
Johnny Compton
"In The Spite House, Johnny Compton introduces us to a family with secrets and a house as mean and hungry as any in horror. The book is a work of great imagination and humanity, showing both love and terror in a world as real as the dust in the attic of a terrible old house."

Number One Fan (2022)
Meg Elison
"Number One Fan is a tense ride from the start as we're introduced to one of the most deeply unsettling villains I've encountered in a long time. It's about fighting for who and what you are when it would be easier to simply give up and be someone else's idea of you. It's about pain and resilience and redemption. In short, it's terrific."

Nothing But Blackened Teeth (2021)
Cassandra Khaw
"Khaw's tale seems to come at you straight, setting up your story expectations, but then twists the knife at the last minute, leaving you reeling, but wanting more."

Slewfoot (2021)
Brom
"Which is worse? The Devil of the forest or the terror of Puritan village rumors, accusations, and lies? At the crossroads of victimhood and vengeance, Abitha makes her choice--and blood follows."

In the Ravenous Dark (2021)
A M Strickland
"Strickland is a storyteller of both grace and power."

Stormland (2021)
John Shirley
"A powerful and necessary story for these times."

Wanderers (2019)
(Wanderers , book 1)
Chuck Wendig
"Beautiful and harrowing—and timely as hell."

The City of Lost Fortunes (2018)
(Crescent City , book 1)
Bryan Camp
"Take a walk down wild card shark streets into a world of gods, lost souls, murder, and deep, dark magic. You might not come back from The City of Lost Fortunes, but you'll enjoy the trip."

Nanoshock (2017)
(Sinless, book 2)
K C Alexander
"Razors for your brain."

The Fall of the House of Cabal (2016)
(Johannes Cabal, book 5)
Jonathan L Howard
"Jonathan L. Howard has such an effortless way with monsters and the undead that you might suspect him of being, like his creation, Johannes Cabal, a necromancer. The series is addictive."

The Library At Mount Char (2015)
Scott Hawkins
"A terrific book, full of dark mystery and genuine beauty."

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