Tony Richards (author)

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Tony Richards is an English dark fantasy and horror author.[http://www.richardsreality.com Tony Richards – Fantasy/Horror Author]. Richardsreality.com. Retrieved on 20 October 2011. He was born in 1956 in Greenford, England, and educated at University College School, Hampstead, before going on to study law at Middlesex University. Although he has written science fiction, mystery, and even mainstream stories, he is principally an author of supernatural, dark fantasy, and horror fiction. He has published three full-length novels, five novellas, and more than sixty short stories. His work has seen print in most major genre outlets, and he is a frequent contributor to Cemetery Dance Magazine[http://www.cemeterydance.com/page/CDP/CTGY/MAGS Cemetery Dance Publications: Cemetery Dance magazine]. Cemeterydance.com. Retrieved on 20 October 2011. and to anthologies compiled by the British editor Stephen Jones.[http://www.stephenjoneseditor.com Stephen Jones:]. Stephenjoneseditor.com. Retrieved on 20 October 2011. An avid traveller, his fiction is often set in locations he has visited, most notably in his 2004 stand-alone novella Postcards from Terri,[http://www.pendragonpress.net/books/no-man-and-other-stories No Man and Other Tales – by Tony Richards]. Pendragon Press. Retrieved on 20 October 2011. where the peripatetic heroine of the title goes to Hong Kong, Japan, Africa, Switzerland, Nicaragua, Istanbul, Budapest, Barcelona, Ottawa, Chicago, New York, Vancouver, and San Francisco during the course of the story. It is this quality that prompted the editor, publisher, and critic John Pelan{{cite web |url=http://www.darksidepress.com/ |title=Home |website=darksidepress.com}} to say of him: He’s convincing … convincing enough that the locals will read about their city as described by Tony Richards and shudder. And that’s what we call a writers' writer. He has twice been nominated, first in 1988 for the Bram Stoker Award[http://www.horror.org/hwaawards.htm Horror Writers Association – Bram Stoker Awards]. Horror.org. Retrieved on 20 October 2011. for Best First Novel for The Harvest Bride, and then in 2008 for the British Fantasy Awardhttp://www.britishfantasysoeciety.org/award.html{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }} for Best Collection for Going Back. He is married to Louise Richards, and lives in London. His latest novel, Dark Rain,[http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780061474668/Dark_Rain/index.aspx Dark Rain by Tony Richards]. Harpercollins.com. Retrieved on 20 October 2011. is set in the fictional town of Raine’s Landing, Massachusetts, and is intended to be the first of a series of books located there. The second such novel, Night of Demons, is scheduled for publication in 2009.