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DAIKAIJU!
GIANT MONSTER TALES 1, 2 and 3 are now available on Amazon. Check them out here.
Previous
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STORIES / NOVELS / ARTICLES SOLD
"Walking the Dead Beat", a noirish supernatural novella, will be published in the anthology Damnation and Dames, edited by Amanda Pillar and Liz Grzy for Ticonderoga Publications in 2012.
"Soul Killer" -- a 15,000 word novella -- will be published as part of the Zombies vs Robots multi-volume fiction project edited by Jeff Conner for IDW Publishing (US). Publication date 2012.
"Escena de un Asesinato" has been accepted for Exotic Gothic 4, edited by Danel Olson, to be published by PS Publishing in March 2012.
"Footprints in Venom" will appear in the anthology In the Footsteps of Gilgamesh, edited Mark S. Deniz, Gilgamesh Press, publication date TBA.
The big news is that my decade-spanning epic fantasy novel, Fragments of a Broken Land, has been contracted for publication by Borgo Press, an imprint of Wildside Press. Publication date to be announced. |
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WHAT'S OUT THERE?
A dark-crime/horror novel Scavengers is currently doing the rounds.
Robot War Espresso, a SF novel about robots, coffee and mortality, is undergoing major revision. |
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NEW BOOKS
Creeping in Reptile Flesh, first published
in 2008 by Altair
Australia Books in a limited format, has just been reprinted by Morrigan Books and is now available from Smashwords in a variety of e-book formats and on Amazon in book form and for Kindle.
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- Rob
was Featured Author
on the very excellent IDEOMANCER SPECULATIVE
FICTION website during January, February and
March 2003. On the site you will find a then new story, "Nobody's
Car", as well as two reprints -- "Rotten Times"
(which was shortlisted for an Aurealis award in 2000)
and "Necropolis" (from Day-dreaming
on Company Time). There is also a new interview
conducted by Deborah Biancotti. Check
out the site at www.ideomancer.com. Note:
you'll have to go to the Previous
Issues section now! Time marches on!
- New interview by Kathryn Linge for the Australian 2010 Snapshot project here.
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Recent Stories |
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Recently
accepted stories, awaiting publication
- "Walking the Dead Beat", Damnation and Dames, edited by Amanda Pillar and Liz Grzy for Ticonderoga Publications, 2012.
- "Soul Killer", Zombies vs Robots fiction project, edited by Jeff Conner, IDW Publishing, TBA.
- "Escena de un Asesinato", Exotic Gothic 4, edited by Danel Olson, PS Publishing, in March 2012.
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"Footprints in Venom" in In the Footsteps of Gilgamesh, edited Mark S. Deniz, Gilgamesh Press, TBA.
- Fragments of a Broken Land: Valarl Undead, Robert Hood, Borgo Press US, 2012.
Published stories / articles since 2005
- "Desert
Madonna", Anywhere But Earth,
edited by Keith Stevenson. Coeur De Lion,
November 2011
- "Making Fish out of Men: Gothic Uncertainty in Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan", 21st Century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000, edited by Danel Olson, The Scarecrow Press, 2011.
- "Wasting Matilda", Zombie Apocalypse! edited by Stephen Jones, Robinson UK/Running Press US, October 2010.
- "Primal Etiquette", Orb: Greatest Hits. Issue #8: The Best of Orb, ed. Sarah Endacott, EOD, September 2010.
- "Ego", Scenes From the Second Storey, ed. Amanda Pillar and Pete Kempshall, Morrigan Books, September 2010.
- "Getting Rid of Mother", The Year's Best Australian Science Fiction & Fantasy, Fifth Annual Volume, ed. Bill Congreve, MirrorDanse Books. September 2010.
- "Behind Dark Blue Eyes", Exotic Gothic 3, ed. Danel Olson, Ash-Tree Press, December 2009
- "Sandcrawlers", Dead Souls, edited by Mark S. Deniz, Morrigan Books, 2009. Re-print.
- "Kulpunya", Exotic Gothic 2, edited Danel Olson,
Ash-Tree Press, 2008.
- "Remainders", Voices, edited by Mark S. Deniz and Amanda
Pillar, Morrigan Books, 2008. [This comprises six discrete
but connected short stories: "1928", "1948",
"1968", "1988", "2008"
and "Epilogue"), which introduce each section
of the anthology.]
- "Zombie
Au Gratin", Scary Food, edited
by Cat Sparks, Agog! Press 2008 (fundraiser for Paul Haines).
- "Creeping
in Reptile Flesh", Creeping in Reptile Flesh, Robert Hood (Altair Australia
Books 2008)
- "Getting
Rid of Mother", Creeping in Reptile Flesh,
Robert Hood (Altair Australia Books 2008)
- "Unravelling", Creeping in Reptile Flesh, Robert Hood (Altair Australia Books 2008)
- "Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast" in
Studies in Australian Weird Fiction,
vol. 2, edited by Benjamin Szumskyj (Equilibrium
Books, Aust.) [column]
- "Abandoned", Trust Me!, edited Paul Collin
(Ford Street Publishing, 2008)
- "Fafrotskies",
Black
Box, edited by Shane Jiraiya Cummings
(Brimstone Press, 2008)
- "The
Ossuary: Ghosts, Monsters and Chainsaws" in
Studies in Australian Weird Fiction,
vol. 1, edited by Benjamin Szumskyj (Equilibrium
Books, Aust.) [column]
- "Call
of Cthulhu's Mum", Conflux 5 Progress
Report, February 2008 -- read it here.
- "Pseudomelia
of the Masses" -- an SF tale speculating on
the near-future of work -- accepted for publication
in The Workers' Paradise, edited
by Russell B. Farr and Nick Evans, Ticonderoga Press,
2007.
- "In
the Service of the Flesh", Australian
Dark Fantasy and Horror 2007 Edition, edited
Angela Challis, Brimstone Press, 2007 [reprint]
- "Flesh
and Bone", Daikaiju! 3: Giant Monsters
vs the World, edited Robert Hood and Robin
Pen, Agog! Press/Prime Books, 2007
- "Monstrous
Bright Tomorrows", In Bad Dreams: Where
Real Life Awaits, edited Mark Sin Deniz
and Sharyn Lilley, Eneit Press, 2007
- "Dear
Mary", Conflux 4 Program,
September 2007 -- read it here.
- "Luxury
Goods", Fantastic
Wonder Stories , edited Russell B.
Farr, Ticonderoga Press, March 2007
- "Gold
and Black Ooze", Dr Who Short Trips:
Destination: Prague, edited Steve Savile,
Big Finish, July 2007
- "God
of War", Borderlands, issue
8, 2006
- "First
Moment of Dying", Shadowed
Realms #11, edited Angela Challis
- "A
Giant Against Giants: Ultraman for the New Millennium",
in G-Fan
#77, 2006.
- "Birthmark",
cØck, edited by
Keith Stevenson and Andrew Macrae, Coeur
de Lion Press, 2006.
- "Man
and Super-monster: A History of Daikaiju Eiga and
its Metaphorical Undercurrents", Borderlands
#7, 2006.
- "Touched",
Fables and Reflections #8, edited
by Lily
Chrywenstrom, 2006.
- "Cross-currents",
Cosmos, Issue 5, November 2005.
- "Divided
Kingdom: King Kong vs Godzilla", in King
King Is Back! An Unauthorized Look at One Humongous
Ape, edited by David Brin (BenBella Books,
2005).
- "In
the Service of the Flesh", Aurealis
#36 , 2005.
-
"<term UNTRANSLATABLE>", Ticonderoga
Online, No. 4, June 2005
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me a spookshow@roberthood.net.
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Note: postage will be in addition to these prices,
and will be charged according to destination on a
straight cost basis.
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Backstreets |
AU$8.00 |
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Day-dreaming
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AU$5.00 |
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Crosstown
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AU$5.00
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Shades
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AU$10
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