About Me

David Rix is an author, composer, editor, artist and publisher active in the area of Slipstream, Speculative Fiction and Horror. Idée fixes include our natural identities, contemporary classical music, the seashore, urban underground, railways, rocks and canals. His published books are What the Giants were Saying, the novelette A Suite in Four Windows and Brown is the New Black, and the novella/story collection Feather, which was shortlisted for the Edge Hill prize. In addition, his works have appeared in various places, the most notable being many of the Strange Tales series of anthologies from Tartarus Press, Monster Book For Girls from Exaggerated Press, Creeping Crawlers from Shadow Publishing, and Marked to Die from Snuggly Books. He also runs and creates the art for Eibonvale Press, which focuses on innovative and unusual new slipstream writing. As an editor, his first anthology Rustblind and Silverbright, a collection of Slipstream stories connected to the railways, was shortlisted for the British Fantasy Award in the Best Anthology category. He is currently at work on two first novels, any one of which might win the race – A Blast of Hunters and Stink Horn.