Richard Wright

Biography

Richard Wright is an author of strange, dark fictions, currently living in India with his wife and daughter. In the sixteen years since writing his first novel Cuckoo, his short stories have appeared widely in the US and UK press, most recently in diverse anthologies such as Dark Faith, and Wildthyme In Purple. In 2010, Shroud Publishing released his novella Hiram Grange and the Nymphs of Krakow, and his new novel Thy Fearful Symmetry is now available.

Where to find Richard Wright online

Where to buy in print

Series

The Lomax Chronicles
Hack reporter Dexter Lomax would rather invent strange horrors than experience them, but the strange horrors have other ideas.
The Flesh Remembers
Price: $2.99 USD.
The Weighing of the Heart
Price: $2.99 USD.

Books

The Weighing of the Heart
Series: The Lomax Chronicles. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 36,750. Language: English. Published: October 18, 2016 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Fantasy » Dark
Where souls are made of stories, the desert gods shall feast. A single telephone call from an old friend in deep trouble drags Dexter Lomax and his charge Kirsteen MacDonald from hiding and hurls them halfway across the world to Dubai, where old gods have emerged blinking from the sands and found our world to their liking.
The Flesh Remembers
Series: The Lomax Chronicles. Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 31,780. Language: English. Published: October 18, 2016 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Occult, Fiction » Fantasy » Dark
When hack reporter Dexter Lomax investigates a series of mysterious craters forming across England, he expects to convert a well-planned hoax into international news for the weak-minded. What he doesn’t expect is to be in the centre of a horror that begins with the discovery of dozens of skinned corpses on the Town Moor and ends in places beyond the reach of his imagination.
The Flesh Market
Price: $5.99 USD. Words: 107,380. Language: English. Published: July 9, 2016 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Undead, Fiction » Historical » Victorian
Set amidst the slums of 19th Century Edinburgh and the ivory towers of its academia, The Flesh Market is an almost true story of murder, mad science, obsession, and the restless dead.
Craven Place
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 64,990. Language: English. Published: October 4, 2013 . Categories: Fiction » Mystery & detective » Traditional British, Fiction » Horror » Ghost
An invitation to a crumbling cottage in the lonely wilds. The legend of the witch who haunts it still. A disappearance from a locked room and the rising, ancient power that may be culprit. The hag has waited long for visitors, and guests are encouraged to extend their stay. For whatever remains of their lives. Welcome… to Craven Place.
Thy Fearful Symmetry
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 101,470. Language: English. Published: November 15, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary
The end of the world started in Glasgow, with an impossible kiss. On cold streets, the last tattered remnants of humanity must draw faith in a world that has no more use for them. As the masses pray and crawl on bloody knees, the few must restore the fearful symmetry between good and evil - for the sake of all. Blood will flow. Fire will fall. Days will end.
His Work To See
Price: Free! Words: 7,250. Language: British English. Published: June 18, 2012 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary
The game is ancient. The players are powerful beyond measure, battling in perpetuity for the souls of every human on earth. Pandora and Ambrose are opposites in the Greatest War, an angel and a demon. They shouldn’t have been able to fall in love. Now Heaven and Hell are hunting them, nobody on Earth can help them, and they must face the beings that even monsters fear.
Cuckoo
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 75,930. Language: English. Published: August 24, 2011 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Psychological thriller
Gregory Summers returns home to discover that his wife no longer knows him, and is married to another man using his name. Pursued by a creature that cannot exist, his comfortable truths shattered, Greg finds his whole knowledge of the world questionable. If he does not even know himself, what else can he possibly trust himself to know? Only that the true fight to survive, is all in the mind...