- Author: D. F. Lewis Author Record # 1187
- Legal Name: Lewis, Desmond Francis
- Birthplace: Walton-on-Naze, Essex, England, UK
- Birthdate: 18 January 1948
- Language: English
- Webpages: infinityplus.co.uk, nemonymous.com, zinewiki.com
- Used These Alternate Names: Des Lewis
- Note: Has had approximately 1,500 short fictions published in print from 1986 to 2000, some in hard-to-find outlets, others in literary journals such as Stand, Iron, Orbis, Panurge and London Magazine. Others have appeared in anthologies. From 2001 until 2010, he has been editor and publisher of the Nemonymous "megazanthus" of short fiction.
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Novels
- Nemonymous Night (2011)
- The Best of D. F. Lewis (1993)
- Weirdmonger's Tales (1994)
- Weirdmonger (2003)
- The Last Balcony: Stories and Novellas (2012)
- A Dead Monument to Once Ancient Hope (2013)
-
Cloistered by Ravelled Bones and Ruined Walls (2017)
with
Sławomir Wielhorski?Slawomir Wielhorski
- The Big-Headed People and Other Stories (2017)
- Dabbling with Diabelli (2020)
- Nemonymous
- 1 Nemonymous (2001)
- 2 Nemonymous Two (2002)
- 3 Gold Coin: A Megazanthus for Short Fiction (2003) [only as by Des Lewis]
- 4 Glass Onion (2004)
- 5 Nemo Book (2005)
- 6 Tacet (unpublished)
- 7 Zencore! (2007)
- 8 Cone Zero (2008)
- 9 Cern Zoo (2009)
- 10 Null Immortalis (2010)
- The Horror Anthology of Horror Anthologies (2011)
- The First Book of Classical Horror Stories (2012)
- Horror Without Victims (2013)
- Agra Aska (1998)
- Weirdtongue (2010)
- Padgett Weggs (1986)
- She Feeds Him Tea and Oranges (1987)
- Stripling Welham (1987)
- Stripling Welham II (1987)
- Time to Go Home (1987)
- Emoss Crack (1987)
- Metal Fatigue (1988)
- Murky's Tales Part 1 (1988)
- Blasphemy Fitzworth (1988)
- Night Out (1988)
- Sinkhead (1988)
- The House of Cutt (1988)
- She'll Always Be Waiting for Me (1988)
- Longland Jones (1988)
- Tokkmaster Clerke (1988)
- Split Fire and Time (1988)
- The Weirdmonger (1988)
- Abrecocks & Zawns (1989)
- Boys (1989)
- Food for the Past (1989)
- Murky's Tales Part 4 (1989)
- Murky's Tales Part III (1989)
- Murky's Tales Part Two (1989)
- Zone Managers (1989)
- Curfew Watch (1989)
- Digory Smalls (1989)
- EM (1989)
- The Layingdown of Hau (1989)
- The Miser (1989)
- Beyond the Bookcase (1989)
- Daughters (1989)
-
Down to the Boots (1989)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Bis auf die Stiefel [German] (2015)
- Etepsed Egnis (1989)
- Mort au Monde (1989)
- Sponge and China Tea (1989)
- The Beach Hut (1989)
- Wall Pack (1989)
- Wiles (1989)
- Dreamaholic (1989)
- The Last Piece of the Jigsaw (1989)
- A Stitch in Time (1990)
- Certificate 40 (1990)
- Death Sweat (1990)
- Madge (1990)
- Owen's Damascus Road (1990)
- The Silver Tealeaf (1990)
- The Zodiac of Murkales (Segment One) (1990)
- The Zodiac of Murkales - Segment Two (1990)
-
Tsarina's Wintercoat (1990)
also appeared as:
- Variant: The Tsarina's Wintercoat (2011) [as by Des Lewis]
- Country Dusk (1990)
- Sparks of Dusk (1990)
- Roger á Cuthlieu (1990)
- Flossie Fraser (1990)
- Within the Flicks (1990)
- A Restless Night (1990)
- Hide and Seek (1990)
- The Loan (1990)
- The Groundling (1990)
- Bloodbone (1990)
- Misbegotten Love (1990)
- Peter Jeffery (1990)
- Warm Air (1990)
- Dear Mum (1990)
- Pyramids and Packhorses (1990)
- Trepanning (1990)
- Dabbling With Diabelli (1991)
- Headcount (1991)
- My Giddy Aunt (1991)
- Rosewolf (1991)
- The Mentioning (1991)
- The One-eyed Fly (1991)
- The Zodiac of Murkales (Segment Three) (1991)
- Look, Don't Touch (1991)
- Pogrom Panjandrum (1991)
- The Awakening of Samuel Rigger (1991)
- Slaughtergirl (1991)
- Beyond the Park (1991)
- Dognahnyi (1991)
- An Ounce of Three Castles and a Packet of Blue Rizla (1991)
- Inside the Bud (1991)
- Always in Dim Shadow (1991)
-
Jack-in-the-Box (1991)
also appeared as:
- Variant: The Jack-in-the-Box (2003)
- Max Haze (1991)
- Jack the Ratter (1991)
- Vampire of the Sun (1991)
- Entries (1991)
- Rootless Thought (1991)
- Muse of Murder (1991)
- Two Films and an Interlude (1991)
- A Thing of the Past (1992)
- A Useful Trick of the Trade (1992)
- Beyond the Cot Death (1992)
- Clad Bone (1992)
- Father of the Head (1992)
- Golden Dawns (1992)
- Hotel de Filles (1992)
- Like Eve's Apples (1992)
- Lost Child (1992)
- Strangers from the Small Screen (1992)
- The Hook and the Head (1992)
- The Walls of Time (1992)
- Title! Title! (1992)
- War and Peace (1992)
- Welsh Pepper (1992)
- The Infinite Cuckoo (1992)
- Between White Lines (1992)
- My Own Step-Father (1992)
- Cobb (1992)
- Soft Luggage (1992)
- The Old One (1992)
- Madame Claudia (1992)
- Pythona (1992)
- After the Requiem (1992)
- Opportunity Cost (1992)
- Season of Lost Will (1992)
- And Never Was Piping So Sad (1992)
- Stricken with Glee (1992)
- The Fan and the Fenestra (1992) with P. F. Jeffery
- Ogthrod Ai'f Geb'l (1992)
- Nygremaunce (1992)
- World Recession (1992)
- Away Day (1993)
- Clockhouse Mount (1993)
- Flossie's Return (1993)
- Meeting of Minds (1993)
- Milk's Mirror (1993)
- Parcels (1993)
- Salustrade (1993)
- Scales and Balances (1993)
- Second Best (1993)
- Splints (1993)
- Squabble (1993)
- The Horn of Europe (1993)
- The Ingelnook (1993)
- The Lurk Descending (1993)
- The Rocking Horse (1993)
- Tongue in Cheek (1993)
- Was That a Message or a Movement? (1993)
- Gongoozler (1993)
- Alum Chine (1993)
- A Live Show (1993)
- Ghost Hunters (1993)
- Half a Sixpence (1993)
- Onanism (1993)
- Squit's Smile (1993)
- If Fear Were Music (1993)
- The Faintest Breath (1993)
- Down the Spirit Hole (1993)
- Mask of Satan (1993) with Peter F. Jeffery
- A Tale of Two Todgers (1993)
- Encounters with Terror (1993)
- Knee Jerks for Nancy (1993)
- Shyfryngs (1993)
- Lady-Day in Harvest (1993)
- Stumps (1993)
- The Call of Llanelly (1993)
- The Front Room (1993)
- Woken with a Kiss (1993)
- Egnis (1993)
- Pal Pot (1993)
- The Night of the Lovelies (1993)
- Among the Prams (1994)
- Apple Turnover (1994)
- Back Doubles (1994)
- Both Sides of Midnight (1994)
- Boys on the Brink (1994)
- Floater (1994) with Peter F. Jeffery
- Imago (1994)
- Living on the Corner (1994)
- Meltdown (1994)
- Off Beat (1994)
-
Scaredy & Whitemouth (1994)
also appeared as:
- Variant: Scaredy & White Mouth (2003)
- Sexbomb (1994)
- Shaped Like a Snake (1994)
- Simonetta's Legs (1994)
- The Absence (1994)
- The Demon Faltering (1994)
- The First Mover (1994)
- The Last Prize (1994)
- The Meaning of the Mind (1994)
- This Flight Tonight (1994) with Gary Couzens
- Twice (1994)
- Cigarettes and Dandelions (1994)
- Effervescent (1994)
- The Fair of the Dog (1994)
- The Horn's Last Rite (1994) with Marge Simon [only as by D. F. Lewis and M. B. Simon]
- Dear Suzanne ... (1994)
- Even If Blood Were Fantasy, Vampires Would Sniff at It (1994)
- Love and Stitches (1994)
- Spookin Out (1994)
- Watch the Whiskers Sprout (1994)
- A Beacon to the Dead (1994) with Kirk S. King
- Dark Chintz (1994)
- The Dark Thrash (1994)
- Aspen (1994)
- Blood Noodle (1994) with Kirk S. King
- Shades of Grey (1994)
-
In the Vein of the Father (1994)
also appeared as:
- Variant: In the Vein of Father (1996)
- Monarchs and Man (1994)
- Off the Bone (1994)
- Imprimatur of the Monster (1994)
- Green Twist (1994)
- Nothing in Between (1994)
- Bricken Hall (1994)
- A Brief Visit to Bonnyville (1995)
- Beyond the Help of Mortals (1995)
- Big Ship, Little Ship and Brown (1995)
- Clumsy Nirvana (1995)
- Conjugal Spice (1995)
- Dark Serendipity (1995)
- Diptych (1995)
- Eminently Forgettable (1995)
- Ertz (1995)
- Following the Rhythmic Rakes (1995)
- House of Horrors (1995)
- Mr. Rampives (1995)
- Ruthven (1995)
- She Feeds Me Tea and Oranges (1995)
- Stretch of the Imagination (1995)
- The Christmas Angel (1995)
- The Good Neighbor (1995) with Marge Simon [only as by D. F. Lewis and Margaret Simon]
- The Last Thermal For R'Lyeh (1995)
- The Lostling (1995)
- The Princess and the Rose (1995) with P. F. Jeffery and B. Lewis
- The Ribbons of Reality (1995)
- The Scar Museum (1995)
- The Thing in the Bed (1995)
- Bedroom Eyes (1995)
- Head on the Block (1995)
- Three Kings (1995)
- Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Llanelli R'lyeh (1995)
- When Dawn Met Dusk (1995)
- First Sight (1995)
- Bad Reason (1995)
- In Unison (1995)
- Loose Ends (1995)
- The Dark Tale of Gods (1995)
- Crystal Toppings (1995) with Marge Simon [only as by D. F. Lewis and Margaret B. Simon]
- 3n/80ths (1996)
- Cloysters (1996)
- Find Mine (1996)
- Folie de Doute (1996)
- Jack the Cutter (1996)
- Only Parts Are Real (1996)
- Sisters in Death (1996)
- The Body in the Bed (1996)
- The Dark Hem (1996)
- The Prince's Wood (1996)
- The Pulsing of a Barely Hidden Heart (1996)
- The Tallest King (1996)
- The Weirdmonger's Circus (1996)
- Top of an Angel's Head (1996)
- Late Night Jamming (1996) with Gary Couzens
- Purged of Dream (1996)
- In the Belly of the Snake (1996) with Paul Pinn
- Connections (1996)
- Kites and Kisses (1996)
- The Best of All Possible Worlds (1996)
- The Fillings of the Sky (1996)
- Hildred's Tale (1996)
- Mustard Kat (1996) with Paul Pinn
- The Spigot & the Speech Mark (1996)
- End of Season (1996)
- Fitzworth's Funeral (1996)
- A Hairshirt Called Husband (1997)
- A Uneasy Death (1997)
- Epilogue (1997)
- Rose-Anne (1997)
- Sordid Limbs (1997) with Tim Lebbon
-
Static Ataxia (1997)
with
Paul Pinn
also appeared as:
- Variant: Static Attaxia (1997)
- The Gaze Strip (1997)
- The Hooded Spider (1997)
- The Round-Headed Club (1997)
- The Wrong Side of the Bomb (1997)
- Tugging the Heartstrings (1997)
- No Circumstances (1997)
- The Plug (1997)
- The War Wake (1997)
- Busy Blood (1997) with Stuart Hughes
- Oblongs of Oblation (1997)
- Widow's Weeds (1997)
- The Piano Player Has No Fingers (1997)
- The Piano Player Has No Fingers [II] (1997)
- Bald Steel and Fish-Bone Alloys (1997)
- Dark Comets (1997)
- The Long-Titted Tale (1997)
- Between Two Floors (1997)
- Blubby (1997)
- (He Believes) (1998) with Craig Sernotti
- A Little Girl Forever (1998)
- A Trick of Dusk (1998) with Gordon Lewis
- Agra Aska (1998)
- Blocks of Language (1998)
- Bottom Line (1998)
- Les Mains Sales (1998)
- No Such Thing (1998)
- Prickint the Conscience (1998)
- Ship in a Bottle (1998)
- The Chaise Longue (1998)
- The Swing (1998)
- Wasted Meals (1998) with Tim Lebbon [also as by D. F. Lewis]
- When I Was an Old Man (1998)
- Passiflora (1998)
- A Core Unto Itself (1998)
- The Last Story in the Book (1998)
- Wings Within Wings (1998)
- Early Closing Day (1998)
- Remission (1998) with Anthea Holland
- The Clinging of the Cold (1998)
- No Answer (1998)
- All Lean and No Fat (1998)
- Switch-Sell (1998) with Paul Pinn
- Versa Vice (1998)
- Gargling with Swordfish (1998)
- Simply a Stranger (1998)
- The Coming of the Cord (1998)
- A Map of Memories (1999)
- A Mouseful of Pins (1999)
- A Tale About Thomas (1999)
- Absent Without Leave (1999) with Anthea Holland
- Angel of the Agony (1999)
- Beyond the Comfort Zone (1999) with Stuart Hughes
- Breakfast at Noon (1999)
- Culling no Fungus (1999)
- Dark Footnotes (1999) with Craig Sernotti
- Done to a Turn (1999)
- Gentleman George (1999)
- Impaled (1999) with Craig Sernotti
- Know Thy Enemy (1999) with Scott H. Urban
- Night Visits (1999) with Mike Philbin [only as by Hertzan Chimera and D. F. Lewis]
- The Last Indulgence (1999)
- Treading the Boards (1999)
- Watter Hammer (1999)
- A Titanic Breed (1999) with Mike Philbin [only as by Hertzan Chimera and D. F. Lewis]
- Alternate Worlds (1999)
- Todger's Town (1999)
- Caretaker (1999)
- Critters and Innards (1999)
- Not So Far Away (1999)
- Spiteful Tables (1999) with Tim Lebbon
- After Tea (1999)
- Maps of Time (1999) with Scott H. Urban
- The Dead Hand (1999)
- Dirty Pipes (1999) with Tim Lebbon
- The Birthday Present (1999)
- Knuckledraggers, Inc. (1999) with John Travis
- Wordless Waffles (1999) with Tim Lebbon
- Benoko (2000)
- Dante Gabriel (2000)
- Dark Sweat (2000) with Jeff Holland
- Disaffected Blood (2000) with David Price
- Even Dogs Could Talk (2000) with David Price
- Jack Jumberlack (2000)
- From the Spirit-Hole (2000)
- Empty Breakfasts (2000) with Tim Lebbon
- Goose and Gander (2000)
- Daughter of a Dream (2000)
- Fruit of the Flotsam (2000) with Keith Brooke and Lawrence Dyer
- Dear Rubberjock (2000)
- The Sound of the Children (2000) with Anthea Holland
- Harvest Time (2000) with Gordon Lewis
- The Hungerers (2000)
- Delicious (2000)
- Basking in Mystery (2001)
- Bobtail (2001)
- Gates (2001)
- Nipping the Bud (2001)
- Soul of the Party (2001)
- Wooden Boys Don't Bleed (2001) with Keith Brooke and Lawrence Dyer
- Ancient Ponds (2001)
-
The Broom-cupboard of Crossed Destinies (2001)
with
Rhys Hughes
also appeared as:
- Variant: The Broom Cupboard of Crossed Destinies (2015)
- What Dreams May Come (2001) with David Price
- Fall from Grace (2001)
- Inky Stories (2001) with Tim Lebbon [only as by Tim Lebbon and Des Lewis]
- Aphids (2002)
- Dark House Lane (2002)
- Do You Have a Secret You'd Like to Reveal on Our Show? (2002) with Mark McLaughlin
- The Cut of Words (2002)
- The Fountain Well (2002)
- The Winged Menace (2002) with John B. Ford
- Meticulously Prepared for Madness (2002) with Stuart Hughes
- The Drawstring (2002)
- Don't Drown the Man Who Taught You to Swim (2002) with David Mathew
- From the Hearth (2003)
- In Camera (2003) with Simon Woodward
- Tiny Hooks and Dainty Door Keys (2003) with Mark McLaughlin
- Lights (2003)
- My Stark Lady (2003)
- A Mind's Kidney (2003)
- A Selfish Strain (2003)
- Dark They Were and Empty-Eyed (2003)
- Queuing Behind Crazy People (2003)
- Shades of Emptiness (2003)
- Small Fry (2003)
- Small Talk (2003)
- Tentacles Across the Atlantic (The Story) (2003)
- The Abacus (2003)
- The Dead (2003)
- The II King (2003)
- The Merest Tilt (2003)
- The Stories of Murkales: Twelve Zodiacal Tales (2003)
- The Sun Setting (2003)
- The Terror of the Tomb (2003)
- The Walking Mat (2003)
- Tom Rose (2003)
- Uncle Absolutely (2003)
- Valedictory (2003)
- Waning (2003)
- Wild Honey (2003)
-
The Strange Case of the Lovecraft Cafe (2004)
with
M. F. Korn
and
Jeff VanderMeer
also appeared as:
- Translation: Der seltsame Fall des Lovecraft Café [German] (2007)
- The Piano (2004)
- Variations on the Vile (2004) with Richard Gavin
- Murky's Tales (2004)
- Pay the Taxi Driver (2006)
- A Pie with Thick Gravy (2007)
- The Web Across the Door (2008)
- Rage (2010)
- The Fat Shrike (2010)
- So (2010)
- Weirdtongue (2010)
- The Perfect Pitch of Reality (2010)
- Abra Raven (2012)
- All Endings Are Happy (2013)
- The Only Climax (2013)
- The Last Dlictatorship (2013)
- Sleep's Lost Labour (2016)
- The Big-Headed People (2016)
- The Metal Ghost (1990)
- Nomicos Inge (1990)
- Visages of Jade (1991)
- The Shiftlings (1992)
- Migrations of the Heart (1992)
- X Certificate (1992)
- Mistaken Identity (1993)
- The Blind (1993)
- Disquiet (1994)
- What's My Line (1994)
- Lonely Hearts (1995)
- Stony Elf (1995)
- Face (1996)
- The Provenance of Souls (1996)
- In the Beginning Was the Word (1997)
- A Mixed Message (1997)
- The Striking of Camp (1998)
- Cold Air (1998)
- The Brainwright (1999)
- The Stranger's Tale (2000)
- Sea-Sickness (2000)
- The Proscenium of Dispossession (2000)
- Write About the Countryside (2000)
- Serious Measure (2001)
- Sonnet (2001)
- The Chill (2004)
- Introduction (The Best of D. F. Lewis) (1993)
- Tentacles Across the Atlantic (Deathrealm, Summer 1993) (1993)
- Tentacles Across the Atlantic (Deathrealm, Fall 1993) (1993)
- Tentacles Across the Atlantic (Deathrealm, Winter 1993) (1993)
- Letter (Science Fiction Eye #13) (1994)
- Tentacles Across the Atlantic (Deathrealm, Spring 1994) (1994)
- Tentacles Across the Atlantic (Deathrealm, Summer 1994) (1994)
- Tentacles Across the Atlantic (Deathrealm, Spring 1995) (1995)
- Tentacles Across the Atlantic (Deathrealm, Summer 1995) (1995)
- Tentacles Across the Atlantic (Deathrealm, Autumn 1995) (1995)
- Tentacles Across the Atlantic (Deathrealm, Winter 1995) (1995)
- Tentacles Across the Atlantic (1996)
- Tentacles Across the Atlantic (Deathrealm, Spring 1996) (1996)
- Tentacles Across the Atlantic (Deathrealm, Summer 1996) (1996)
- Tentacles Across the Atlantic (Deathrealm, Autumn 1996) (1996)
- Tentacles Across the Atlantic (Deathrealm, Winter 1996) (1996)
- Tentacles Across the Atlantic (Deathrealm, Summer 1997) (1997)
- Beyond Death (1999)
- Soapbox: The Hermaphrodite Brig Interview (2000) with Marni Scofidio Griffin and Rhys Hughes and Jeff VanderMeer [only as by Marni Griffin and Rhys Hughes and D. F. Lewis and Jeff VanderMeer]
- The Ghouldom of the Grand Guignol (Confessions of a Ghoul and Other Stories) (2001)
- Introduction to The Man Who Loved in Light Years (2003)
- The Golden Age of the Small Press: What Was It All About? (2003)
- Late-Labelling for Nemonymous Part Three (2004)
- The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen (2005) by Elizabeth Bowen
- Tenebrous Tales (2011) by Christopher Barker
- D. F. Lewis Interview (1989) by Emmanuel Escanco
- Show Case: D. F. Lewis (1991) by Jason R. Smith
- Getting to Know Des (1994) by Louise Beach and Steve Proposch
- Des Lewis and Paul Pin Shoot the Shit in Fantasy Land (1998) by Paul Pinn
- Interview: Only Connect with D. F. Lewis (1999) by Trevor Denyer
- Whistling Past the Graveyard (1999) by uncredited
- An Interview with D. F. Lewis (2001) by David Cowdall
- Cory Harding interviews D. F. Lewis (2004) by Cory Harding
- A Time-Travelling Interview with DF Lewis (2008) by Caroline Callaghan