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Rio Youers

Birth place: Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

9 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
2009 3 Review Everdead Dead Reckonings No. 5, Spring 2009
April 2010 98 Review Everdead Cemetery Dance, #63
October 2010 70 Interview Author Spotlight: Rio Youers Shroud: The Quarterly Journal of Dark Fiction and Art, Autumn 2010
October 2010 73 Short Fiction Left-Hand Radio Shroud: The Quarterly Journal of Dark Fiction and Art, Autumn 2010
December 2012 101 Review Westlake Soul Cemetery Dance, #68, 2012
September 2013 131 Review Dark Dreams, Pale Horses Cemetery Dance, #70, 2013
July 2017 42 Review The Forgotten Girl Locus, #678 July 2017
January 2019 Review Halcyon Black Static, January-February 2019
July 2019 4 Essay It Scared the Shit Out of Me Unnerving Magazine, Issue #10

10 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
1999 Novel Ellie's Boy Rio Youers
2008 Novel Everdead Rio Youers
2009 Chapbook Old Man Scratch Rio Youers
2010 Novel End Times Rio Youers
2011 Collection Dark Dreams, Pale Horses Rio Youers
2012 Novel Westlake Soul Rio Youers
2015 Novel Point Hollow Rio Youers
2015 Chapbook The Angels Rio Youers
2017 Novel The Forgotten Girl Rio Youers
2018 Novel Halcyon Rio Youers

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2010 British Fantasy Award Best Novella Old Man Scratch Nominee
2013 Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic Adult Westlake Soul Nominee

Biography from http://www.edgewebsite.com/biographies/bios-u.html: Rio Youers has drawn praise from some of the most noteworthy names in the speculative fiction genre. The bestselling novelist Peter Straub described him as "...one of the most vital, most exciting young talents to come along in this decade." Youers is the author of the acclaimed vampire novel Everdead, and two novellas: Mama Fish and Old Man Scratch — the latter earning him a British Fantasy Award nomination in 2010. His short fiction has been published by, among others, Cemetery Dance, IDW Publishing, and St. Martin's Griffin. Rio's debut novel, End Times, was released in 2010. His first short story collection, Dark Dreams, Pale Horses, followed in 2011, and his novel, Westlake Sou was released in 2012. Rio lives in southwestern Ontario with his wife, Emily, and their daughter, Lily Maye.
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