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Richard Simonds

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Born

in Evanston, Illinois, The United States

Website

https://substack.com/@richards197859

Genre

Science Fiction, Horror, Classics

Influences

Gene Wolfe, John Cowper Powys

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I write imaginative fiction and poetry, focusing currently on speculative fiction, primarily literary science fiction and horror. I have about a dozen published short stories: an imaginative piece in issue 1102 of Bewildering Stories, an AI horror sci-fi dystopian piece in issue 1137 of Bewildering Stories, a work of “fae” horror in Eternal Haunted Summer, a work of literary gothic horror in House of Long Shadows, a science fiction story in the anthology Pirate Cove (Dragon Soul Press), a folk horror story in the anthology Faerie Contract (Dragon Soul) a cosmic horror short in Mobius Blvd 24, a Celtic horror story in Freedom Fiction, a crime horror story in the June 2026 issue of Schlock Webzine, a zombie horror story appearing in the upcom ...more

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	Don't Read This Book After Dark, Vol. 3 by Alice J. Taylor (Goodreads Author), Bridget Eilis, Jude Mire (Goodreads Author) 4.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — 3 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
	Star*Line 48.4, Fall 2025 by John Reinhart (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Liz Adair (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Fatimah Akanbi (Contributor) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2025	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
	Beautiful Tragedies 4 by Xtina Marie (Goodreads Author), Richard Simonds (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 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
	don't read this book after dark omnibus by Alice J. Taylor (Goodreads Author), Bridget Eilis, Lucille Bane it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 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
	Schlock! Webzine: Volume 20 Issue 2 by Richard Simonds (Goodreads Author), Ed Ahern, EW Farnsworth 4.67 avg rating — 3 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
	Pirate Cove: A Dragon Soul Press Anthology by J.E. Feldman (Goodreads Author), Barbara Swihart Miller (Goodreads Author), Caleb T. Brabham (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 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
	Mobius Blvd: Stories from the Byway Between Reality and Dream No. 24: October 2025 by Wayne Kyle Spitzer (Goodreads Author), Mark Blickley, J.J. Hillard 4.50 avg rating — 2 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
	Soul Cleanse: A Dragon Soul Press Anthology by J.E. Feldman (Goodreads Author), Richard Simonds (Goodreads Author), Dana I. Hunter (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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
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King of the Zombies

My short story “King of the Zombies” was published today in “Cozy in the Apocalypse” (Angry Gable Press). It is an exceptionally bleak and disturbing take on the zombie and post-apocalyptic horror sub-genres.

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Memoirs and Selected Letters

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The Rouse

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Gothic Tales

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Reposting in celebration of Anne Carson winning the Nobel. Love her. “Autobiography in Red" is a poem-novel (both and neither) of such originality, complexity and richness it is almost impossible to describe its unique effect on the reader. Imagine a ...more
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Contains my story “King of the Zombies,” along with other wonderful works of apocalyptic horror.
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“Life is short and the number of books is appalling.”
― John Cowper Powys

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“I peered through an arched tracery of stone upon the shadowed moon and wondered if I had there a moon-maiden counterpart whose glaucous eyes were slumberous with death.”
― Frances Gregg, The Mystic Leeway (Women's Experience Series)

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“The existentialists' view of love is not romantic, because they do not believe in love as an abstract force or amorous sunset walks along the beach. However, Cox also said, "if your idea of romance is somewhat more gothic and stormy, full of heartache, yearning and the thwarted desire to possess breaking up, making up and breaking up again, tears before bedtime and tears in the rain, then maybe it is romantic".”
― Skye Cleary, Existentialism and Romantic Love

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