Plutonian Parodies
A chapbook.
“...what might be dream in others, in Hughes, is material accessible to his waking mind. If Edgar Allan Poe were living, he could probably analyse it and tell us something about the Rhys Hughes who amazes us.” – Everett F. Bleiler
Plutonian Parodies – For more than twenty years Rhys Hughes has been producing carefully crafted parodies of his favourite authors, parodies written with love as well as a comic appreciation of the dark side. Now gathered together under one cover are the three parodies he regards as his finest. Three sly but deeply affectionate twists of the knife into the hearts of Poe, Lovecraft and Hemingway. He says they asked for it. Really they did. Honest!
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Rhys Hughes
Rhys Henry Hughes (born 1966) is a Welsh writer and essayist.
Born in Cardiff, Hughes is a prolific short story writer with an eclectic mix of influences, which include Italo Calvino, Milorad Pavić, Jorge Luis Borges, Stanisław Lem, Flann O'Brien, Felipe Alfau, Donald Barthelme and Jack Vance. Much of his work is of a humorously eccentric bent, often parodies and pastiches with surreal and absurdist overtones, although he is by no means limited to any of these forms and has proven to be extremely versatile. He has been published in Postscripts among many other places.
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