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Rory Hughes

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Born

in London, The United Kingdom

Website

https://roryhugheswriter.com/

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Genre

Fiction

Influences

Don DeLillo, William Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Jorge Luis Borges, ...more

Member Since

September 2020

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Rory Hughes is a Croydon-based writer, journalist and commercial fisherman. His transgressive novel, Theseus 34 was released through Incunabula Media in 2024, and has been described as "a breathtaking descent into a digital urban hell", and by Incunabula Media co-founder D.M. Mitchell as "the darkest [novel] I've ever published".

His challenging short stories have appeared in publications such as BlazeVOX, Angel Rust, Fleas on the Dog, A Thin Slice of Anxiety, The Rye Whiskey Review, Vine Leaves Press, Literally Stories and Horror Sleaze Trash.

He is the reviews/feature editor for underground music zine Astral Noize, writing album and live reviews, features and interviews; as a guitarist and producer, he has been releasing electronic, noise, ...more

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Average rating: 4.67 · 6 ratings · 4 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	Theseus 34 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scape: Deselected Works 2013-15 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Rory Hughes liked an answer from Manny Torres: What’s the best thing about being a writer? You get to maintain some sort of written history of all you observe and breathe in your everyday life. Manny Torres
Nov 07, 2024 02:51PM
Rory Hughes rated a book it was amazing Parasite (A Novel) by D M Mitchell	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
If you're here for plot, character development, or resolve, I'm not actually sure how you got here in the first place. Parasite is a Picaresque-of-the-Absurd "novel" that stylistically pits William (Burroughs + Gibson), Philip K. Dick and Thomas Pynch ...more
Oct 01, 2024 12:42PM · 1 like · like · see review
Rory Hughes is now following Florian, Mena Siva, and Jason Pettus
Sep 16, 2024 12:45PM
Rory Hughes rated a book really liked it Roommate by Crowley Barns (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
An unusual entry in the extreme horror canon with some very inventive gore. The aneurotypical viewpoints were particularly convincing, and splatterpunk antics aside, there are moments of disturbing depth.
Jul 14, 2024 12:12AM · 1 like · like · see review