TONY RICHARDS

  Years before Benedict Cumberbatch  and Johnny Lee Miller  had a go, I wrote my first story placing Sherlock Holmes in a present day setting. Based in Las Vegas and with a strong supernatural theme, it appeared in the Edge Books anthology Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes . Over the next couple of years, I then went on to write twelve more stories of that kind, taking Holmes to different cities in the States, to the Caribbean, Africa, the Far East, European capitals, and finally back home to London for his last showdown. The complete collection was published for years by Lume Books UK  under the title 'The Astonishing Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in the 21st Century.' But now it is out on Kindle, under the new title THE IMMORTAL SHERLOCK HOLMES . And it can be read on KU too.

  My latest collection is now out from my US publisher. 6 very different ghost tales, each of them set in a separate part of England. The first one starts in 1942 during the War and the last one finishes in an alarming near-future . The book includes a revised version of my novella 'Postcards From Terri.' The 5 new and original short novels are THE HAZEWICH FOG, PARADISE LAKE, THE WRECK, SUBTERRANEAN and GHOST WAR. HAUNTED ENGLAND: THE DEAD COME BACK is available in paperback, on Kindle, or to read on KU.

  Since 2021, much of Tony's fiction has appeared - first as a signed collector's hardback and then as a trade paperback and on Kindle - from acclaimed specialist publisher Weird House Press . This includes his short fiction collection Grendel & Other Creatures From the Dark  and his massive anthology spanning forty years of storytelling,  After Dark: The Best Horror Fiction of Tony Richards . Weird House Press has seen into print his Lovecraftian fiction too, both his highly-praised collection of short novels The Howling Terror  with its slew of top Amazon reviews and his full-length novel The Slaves of Cthulhu , in which Lovecraft himself appears as a minor character. Tony's stories appear as well in two Weird House multi-author anthologies, '27 Falsham Street' in 13 Haunted Houses  and 'Sadie' in 13 Possessions . And now there is a new collection - of ghost fiction this time round -  Haunted England: The Dead Come Back , available only as a hardback ...

My latest collection of short fiction is now out. 15 stories and one novella, some of them from the pages of magazines like Cemetery Dance and Phantasmagoria, but with several new tales written specially for this book. Cold blue eyes were all around him, dozens of pairs of the things. And the silhouettes behind them startled him so much he couldn’t even scream. Gangling, starved-looking shapes, angular in the extreme, the limbs no more than skin-wrapped bone, ribs showing through on the emaciated torsos, fingers very long and tipped with claws. They all had ragged mops of hair that looked pitch black in the cyan light. And under those were faces that embodied the word hunger, with their sunken cheeks and jutting fangs. They started moving in on him. When you go to sleep, where else do you go? In Boston, a mother and her small boy form a dangerous bond. In ice-bound Lapland, something very old and lethal lurks behind the darkness and the snow. What is hunting people down in modern-d...

  Following on from last year's   THE HOWLING TERROR & OTHER LOVECRAFTIAN HORROR STORIES , my new full-length novel THE SLAVES OF CTHULHU   is now available from dark fiction specialists Weird House Press in all formats. On Sauquill Island off the coast of Providence, dark dangerous forces are at work. Strange lights color up the sky at night. Screams can be heard ringing through the dark. And it all centers around one ugly house, owned by a Russian millionairess who has come here from the mainland and who seems to rule this isle.   And when Jay Sinclair arrives from Boston – looking for some peace and quiet – he starts to fall under her influence and become involved with her life. Why is the main town so very quiet? Why are there no animals but frightened horses? And when new visitors start disappearing, Jay begins to understand that there is something very wrong.   Ancient Gods are being worshipped here. The millionairess has a plan. And Jay finds out that...

  Now out from US horror specialist Weird House Press: A WEALTHY PUBLISHER heads north to help console a grieving friend from college days, little knowing he is on a journey out beyond the very gates of Death, into a realm occupied by ancient beings and cruel gods, where madness, terror and betrayal reign.   An infantry captain from the First World War finds himself marooned while traveling through the Far East, abandoned on a tramp steamer that lies moored in the waters off Hong Kong. Except he soon suspects that he is not alone, and his investigations lead him to a tragic tale of loss and to a truth far deadlier than any he has known before.   In a sleepy little Irish coastal town, a huge dark building – the Menningdale Orphanage – hangs above the rooftops like some threatening cloud. And when the newly-arrived local doctor tries to find out more about the place, he finds himself plunged into a world where human beings have no place and timeless forces are at work....