Richard V. Hirst

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"The power of myth and the fallibility of memory propel two women in search of the truth into dark and devastating places. Ashworth and Hirst’s epistolary novella hurtles along as the distant past unscrews the hinges of the present. Terrific stuff." - Adam Marek

Winner - The Saboteur Awards 2017

The Night Visitors is a novella co-written by Jenn Ashworth and Richard V. Hirst. You can find out a bit more about it here or even buy a copy here.

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On 2017

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SOME RECENT THINGS

The Upstairs Room
A short story published The Shadow Booth

Cannibalism in Film
a feature for The Quieus

Kloya and Klik
A ghost story in The Island Review

Let's Take the Dog
for a Walk
An essay in The Real Story

Modern Epistolary Novels
A feature in the Guardian

The Night Visitors
A novella told entirely via an exhange of emails

Frankenstein: Before the Beginning
An essay published on
The Learned Pig

Bait
A short story published in
Confingo magazine

CURIOUS TALES

I'm one of the people behind Curious Tales, an independent publisher which specialises in the creepy and the uncanny.

You can find out more about our books, projects and events on our site.

SOME OLDER THINGS

These are some of the online bits and pieces I've made. They're not really comics or short stories or anything like that. They're just weird lo-fi internet stuff.