Rio Youers is the British Fantasy and Sunburst Award–nominated author of Westlake Soul and Lola on Fire. His 2017 thriller, The Forgotten Girl, was a finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel. He is the writer of Refrigerator Full of Heads, a new six-issue series from DC Comics, and Sleeping Beauties, based on the best-selling novel by Stephen King and Owen King. Rio’s new novel, No Second Chances, is available now from William Morrow.
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COMICS
SHORT FICTION
NOVELLAS
The Angels
Cemetery Dance Publications, 2015.
Promised Land Blues
PS Publishing, 2011.
Old Man Scratch
PS Publishing, 2009.
Mama Fish
Shroud Publishing, 2009.
SHORT STORIES
Die Ersten (The First)
in Everdead (Germany only)
Cemetery Dance Germany, 2021
in Everdead (Germany only)
Cemetery Dance Germany, 2021
Vanished Summer Glory
in Wonderland
Edited by Marie O’Regan & Paul Kane. Titan Books, 2019.
Fort Lauderdale
in Ten-Word Tragedies
Edited by Christopher Golden & Tim Lebbon. PS Publishing, 2019.
The Typewriter
in New Fears 2
Edited by Mark Morris. Titan Books, 2018.
The Promised Smile
in Hellboy: An Assortment of Horrors
Edited by Christopher Golden. Dark Horse Books, 2017.
Separator
in Seize the Night
Edited by Christopher Golden. Gallery Books, 2015.
Sister Free
in Far Voyager (Postscripts #32/33)
Edited by Nick Gevers. PS Publishing, 2015.
Outside Heavenly
in The Spectral Book of Horror Stories
Edited by Mark Morris. Spectral Press, 2014.
Sins Like Scarlet (coauthored with Mark Morris)
in Dark Duets
Edited by Christopher Golden. Harper Collins, 2014.
Wide-Shining Light
in Psycho-Mania!
Edited by Stephen Jones. Robinson Publishing, 2013.
The Widow
in End of the Road
Edited by Jonathan Oliver. Solaris, 2013.
Honesty
in Chilling Tales: In Words, Alas, Drown I
Edited by Michael Kelly. Edge Publishing, 2013.
For King and Country
in ZvR: Diplomacy
Edited by Jeff Conner. IDW Publishing, 2013.
Depth
in Shivers VII
Edited by Richard Chizmar. Cemetery Dance, 2013.
Tiger, Tiger
in A Carnivàle of Horror: Dark Tales from the Fairground
Edited by Marie O’Regan & Paul Kane. PS Publishing, 2012.
The Happy Bird and Other Tales
in 21st Century Dead
Edited by Christopher Golden. St. Martin’s Griffin, 2012.
in 21st Century Dead
Edited by Christopher Golden. St. Martin’s Griffin, 2012.
Splinters (coauthored with Peter Crowther)
in Gutshot
Edited by Conrad Williams. PS Publishing, 2011.
Chrysalis
in Dark Dreams, Pale Horses
PS Publishing, 2011.
Pure
in Dark Dreams, Pale Horses
PS Publishing, 2011.
The Ghost of Lillian Bliss
in The New and Perfect Man (Postscripts #24/25)
Edited by Peter Crowther & Nick Gevers. PS Publishing, 2011.
Quoth the Rock Star
in Classics Mutilated
Edited by Jeff Conner. IDW Publishing, 2010.
Left-Hand Radio
in Shroud Magazine, Issue 10: Halloween Special
Edited by Kevin Lucia. Shroud Publishing, 2010.
Bury Me Not
in Best New Zombie Tales, Volume 2
Edited by James Roy Daley. Books of the Dead Press, 2010.
Soulfinger
in Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead
Edited by Nancy Kilpatrick. Edge Publishing, 2010.
This is the Summer of Love
in This is the Summer of Love (Postscripts #18)
Edited by Peter Crowther & Nick Gevers. PS Publishing, 2009.
The T’angle
in Northern Haunts: 100 Terrifying New England Tales
Edited by Tim Deal. Shroud Publishing, 2008.