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Nicholas Royle

(b.1963)

Nicholas Royle is the author of three short story collections – Mortality (Serpent’s Tail), Ornithology (Confingo Publishing), The Dummy and Other Uncanny Stories (Swan River Press) – and seven novels, most recently First Novel (Vintage). He has edited more than twenty anthologies and is series editor of Best British Short Stories (Salt). Reader in Creative Writing at the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University, he also runs Nightjar Press and is head judge of the Manchester Fiction Prize.

Genres: Horror

Novels

   Counterparts (1993)
   Saxophone Dreams (1996)
   The Matter of the Heart (1997)
   The Director's Cut (2000)
   Antwerp (2004)
   The Regicide (2011)
   First Novel (2013)

Collections

   Mortality (2006)
   Ornithology (2017)
   The Dummy (2018)
   London Gothic (2020)

Novellas

   The Enigma of Departure (2008)
   The Appetite (2008)
   The Reunion (2012)

Anthologies edited

Non fiction

The Art of the Novel (2015)
White Spines (2021)

Anthologies containing stories by Nicholas Royle

Cutting Edge (1986)
Book of the Dead (1989)
Best New Horror (1990)
Best New Horror 2 (1991)
Best New Horror 3 (1992)
Dark Voices 4 (1992)
The Year's Best Horror Stories XX (1992)
Dark Voices 5 (1992)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Sixth Annual Collection (1993)
Best New Horror 4 (1993)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Seventh Annual Collection (1994)
Little Deaths (1994)
Dark Voices 6 (1994)
Shadows over Innsmouth (1994)
The Giant Book of Terror (1994)
The Best New Horror 5 (1995)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eighth Annual Collection (1995)
Dark Terrors (1995)
The Best New Horror 6 (1995)
100 Tiny Tales of Terror (1996)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Seven (1996)
Dark Terrors 2 (1996)
Twists of the Tale (1996)
Love in Vein II (1997)
The Mammoth Book of Dracula (1997)
Dancing with the Dark (1997)
Dark of the Night (1997)
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror Volume Eight (1997)
Scaremongers (1998)
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eleventh Annual Collection (1998)
Scaremongers 2 (1998)
Crossing the Border (1998)
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998)
White of the Moon (1999)
Dark Terrors 5 (2000)

Short stories

	The Comfort of Strangers
	Futility Room
	Glory
	The Swing
	Irrelativity (1986)
	The Dandelion Woman (1988)
	Archway (1989)
	Saxophone (1989)
	X (1989)
	Negatives (1990)
	Crispy Notes (1991)
	Moving Out (1991)
	The Last Drop (1992)
	Night Shift Sister (1992)
	The Crucian Pit [short story] (1993)
	The Editor (1993)
	Flying into Naples (1993)
	The Big Game (1994)
	The Homecoming (1994)		World Fantasy (nominee)
	The Trees (1994)
	Lacuna (1995)
	The Lagoon (1995)
	Kingyo no fun (1996)
	Skin Deep (1996)
	Magical Thinking (1997)
	Mbo (1997)
	Question Seven (1997)
	Auteur (1998)
	The Blue Posts (1998)
	Jack (1998)
	The Roundabout (1999)		British Fantasy Society (nominee)
	The Proposal (2000)

Awards

	World Fantasy Best Short Story nominee (1995) : The Homecoming
	British Fantasy Society Best Novel nominee (1997) : The Matter of the Heart
	British Fantasy Society Best Short Story nominee (1999) : The Roundabout

Nicholas Royle recommends

The Cardamom Club (2003)
Jon Stock
"Shades of Greene - in this tense spy thriller with a difference, Jon Stock's Kerala is vividly rendered. Recommended."

Weirdmonger (2003)
D F Lewis
"Keep Weirdmonger by your bed, and when you wake up, you wont be sure if whats running through your head are the remains of your dreams or fragmented memories of the story you read before drifting off to sleep."

Pictures from Hopper (2011)
Neil Campbell
"A vital short story writer, in touch with people and the natural and constructed worlds around us."

The Harlequin (2015)
Nina Allan
"An outstanding, resonant piece of work."

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