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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

	Theseus 34 4.67 avg rating — 6 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
	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.
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Rory Hughes is now following Sebastian Vice Author of In Filth It Shall Be Found
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Rory Hughes is now following Paige Johnson Author of In Filth It Shall Be Found
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