book cover of Second Hand Hands
 

Second Hand Hands

(2024)
A collection of stories by

 
 
Fifty new stories. Strange, offbeat, imaginative, inventive, concise, playful fictions featuring ghosts, werewolves, giants, pirates, mutants, spirits, witches, elephants, sentient mirrors and a parade of other odd characters. These tales delight in language as well as concepts, form as well as content, comedy, tragedy, horror, crime and paradox.

"Like Beckett on nitrous oxide. Like Kafka with a brighter sense of humour.” — A.A. ATTANASIO

"It's a crime that Rhys Hughes is not as widely known as Italo Calvino and other writers of that stature." — JEFF VANDERMEER

"A Welsh writer who writes as though he has gone to school with the best writing from all over the world." — SAMUEL R. DELANY

"For many years, I have regarded each new book from Rhys Hughes as continuing proof that the universe is a marvelous, exciting and creative place." — PAUL DI FILIPPO


Genre: Fantasy

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