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S.R. Hughes

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S. R. Hughes inhabits the glittering dreamways between blackened stars. He writes dark fantasy, horror, and lite sci-fi.

S. R. Hughes has been featured in Sanitarium Magazine, as well as in the Wild Hunt eZine, and on the Have You Heard the One? podcast. His first novel, The War Beneath, released on October 1st, 2019 through Permuted Press. His second, A Maze of Glass, released on October 14th, 2022 through Ritual Dark Press.

Find out more about him at https://thesrhughes.com
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Sneak Peek : A Kingdom Without End

…Only Days Ago… (the dead speak in stirring dust and howling wind)

 

She wrote the names using a crow’s feather as a quill and animal blood as ink, as the book instructed. The names numbered thirteen and each had its own narrow scroll of parchment. She dropped these into a brazier where she’d burnt numerous molds and fungi in the weeks prior, as the book instructed. She prayed over the smolde

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
“No, no, no... you've got it all wrong... you can't act death. The fact of it is nothing to do with seeing it happen ---it's not gasps and blood and falling about---that isn't what makes it death. It's just a man failing to reappear, that's all ---now you see him, now you don't, that the only thing that's real: here one minute and gone the next and never coming back---an exit, unobtrusive and unannounced, a disappearance gathering weight as it goes on, until, finally, it is heavy with death.”
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“Once you’re sure that magic exists, you can’t be sure of anything else ever.”
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“You believe that. People believe all kinds of crazy shit. People think the sky is up. The sky is out though, isn’t it? We just feel more comfortable thinking it’s up ‘cause otherwise you gotta admit the whole world is a little speck of rock floating in the fucking dark.”
S.R. Hughes, The War Beneath

“The thing appeared jointed, osteological, a creature of bone and sinew, but it moved like drooping glue. It stretched out and fell from the ragged hole in the ceiling, a horrific whiteness of teeth and bladed limbs. Too many legs, three arms—one from the top of its spine, if it had a spine, the others from curdled-milk textured shoulders—and a vast jaw lined with rows and rows of jagged fangs. In the center of the serpentine tube of its torso, a red-black hole guttered to its innards.”
S.R. Hughes, The War Beneath

“The deal involved saving your life. There aren’t any subsection clauses to that. I saved your life. And if you hurt that kid, I’ll take it back.”
Frank’s lips flapped, making sounds but not words.
Deirdre didn’t wait for him to figure out how to speak again.”
S.R. Hughes, The War Beneath

“Deep, deep down, a truth beneath every tale. Soon, too soon, a monster at the end of every story.”
S.R. Hughes, The War Beneath

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
Stephen King

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
Charles Bukowski

“I'll take Cthulhu over you devils any day.”
Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

“The world is made up of rituals. From the way you brush your teeth to how you show obeisance during religious ceremonies, it’s an endless list of interlocking behaviours seared into your unconscious self, charms against the madness of reality.”
Cassandra Khaw, Food of the Gods

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