ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 


TONY RICHARDS' SUPERNATURAL STORIES first started appearing in three classic long-running British series, The Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories, The Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories and the legendary Pan Book of Horror. And it was the editor of the ghost series - Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes, no mean practitioner of dark fiction himself - who was most vocal in his praise. "I have no hesitation in saying," he wrote in the introduction to the first tale he published, After Dark, "that this is a brilliant story, told in a crisp, even elegant style. I regard Mr. Richards as a very welcome addition to my growing stable of authors."

Since then Tony's fiction has appeared in Weird Tales, Midnight Street, Cemetery Dance, Asimov's SF, The 3rd Alternative, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Phantasmagoria, The Dark, Black Static, Dark Terrors and Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, as well as in a slew of top anthologies including Best New Horror.

His full-length novels include Night Feast, Hot Blood, Under the Ice, Tropic of Darkness, The Slaves of Cthulhu and the Raine's Landing series of supernatural thrillers. His debut novel  The Harvest Bride (Tor Books, 1987) was shortlisted for the HWA Bram Stoker Award for Best First novel and his collection Going Back (Elastic Press, 2007) was a finalist for the British Fantasy Award.

You can contact him at trichmail@yahoo.com






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