Thomas, Richard
Entry updated 13 January 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1967- ) US author whose short fiction, which is mostly horror, has been assembled as Herniated Roots (coll 2012), Staring into the Abyss (coll 2013) and Tribulations (coll 2016). His first novel, Transubstantiate (2010), is a noirish thriller set in a Disaster-afflicted world – an experiment in controlling Overpopulation has catastrophically misfired, killing off most humans – though the protagonist may escape durance through a gestalt-like rapport (see Hive Minds) with a cadre of others on an Edenic Island. There are puzzles with something like Time Travel connected to this island, which evoke the less transparent moments of Lost (2004-2010). [JC]
Richard Thomas
born St Louis, Missouri: 21 November 1967
works
- Transubstantiate (Louisville, Kentucky: Otherworld Publications, 2010) [pb/]
- Disintegration (New York: Random House / Alibi, 2015) [pb/]
- Breaker (New York: Random House / Alibi, 2016) [ebook: na/]
collections and stories
- Victimized (place not given: Amazon Digital Services, 2011) [story: ebook: na/]
- Herniated Roots (place not given: Snubnose Press, 2012) [coll: pb/]
- Staring into the Abyss (place not given: Kraken Press, 2013) [coll: pb/]
- Tribulations (place not given: Crystal Lake Publishing, 2016) [coll: pb/Ben Baldwin]
- Spontaneous Human Combustion (Nashville, Tennessee: Keylight Publishing, 2022) [coll: hb/]
works as editor
- The New Black (Milwaukie, Oregon: Dark House Press, 2014) [anth: pb/]
- Burnt Tongues: An Anthology of Transgressive Short Stories (St Charles, Illinois: Medallion Press, 2014) with Chuck Palahniuk and Dennis Widmyer [anth: pb/]
- Exigencies: A Neo-Noir Anthology (Milwaukie, Oregon: Dark House Press, 2015) [anth: pb/Daniele Serra]
- The Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers (New York State: Black Lawrence Press, 2015) [anth: pb/photographic]
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