London Gothic (Confingo Publishing, 2020)
‘Alongside an undercurrent of the macabre there is much humour… Fabulous, at times chilling, storytelling to curl up with as the evenings draw in’ Jackie Law, neverimitate ‘In a Nicholas Royle story, nothing is as it seems… one of the best short story collections I’ve read in years… highly recommended’ Stephen Bacon ‘Flatly deadpan implications blossoming… haunting… continuously relishable… Hitchcockian… seminal… provocative’ DF Lewis, Gestalt Real-Time Reviews |
Ornithology (Confingo Publishing 2017)
‘Psychic tension and muted surrealism… Royle is a real craftsman of disquiet’ Phil Baker, Sunday Times ‘Stories that appear grounded, immersed in all that is familiar and safe, end up hovering just an inch above terra firma’ Tamim Sadikali, Bookmunch ‘Utterly utterly unmissable’ DF Lewis, Gestalt Real-Time Reviews |
In Camera, with David Gledhill (Negative Press London 2016)
‘Told through the twin fractures of a child’s memories, and the prompts of these photographs, the story is a remarkably satisfying one, full of hints and half truths… Royle has created a carefully crafted story of 1950s East Germany’ Adrian Slatcher, Sabotage Reviews |
Mortality (Serpent's Tail 2006)
‘Immaculately sinister’ Olivia Laing, Times Literary Supplement ‘Just beautiful’ Katy Guest, Independent ‘A collection of his short stories dating back as far as 1990, Mortality finds Nicholas Royle returning to familiar psychic territory, much as his obsessive, weird or lonely characters are often compelled to do. We see that he’s been writing about films, art, photography and memories, remembered affairs and missed opportunities, sex, desire and obsession, killings, suicides and open verdicts, psychogeography, abandoned buildings, hidden lives, ghosts and doppelgängers for a long time now’ Laurence Phelan, Independent on Sunday ‘Nicholas Royle is so accomplished a novelist of the uncanny and messed-up that it was never going to be necessarily the case that his short stories would be as good as they are… The stories are best read one at a time (because they are disturbing). At the same time, they cohere beautifully: they share a tone, a way of seeing’ Roz Kaveney, Time Out ‘Menacing and uncanny, Nicholas Royle’s short stories are brief experimental vignettes of horror and seedy nastiness… Though Royle often writes in the first person, there is a cold, anatomising, objective intelligence at work here…’ Jerome de Groot, Guardian |
Available to read online:
The Cast
The Performance
Auteur
Empty Stations
Flying into Naples
Trussed
The Swing
The Blue Notebooks
The Cast
The Performance
Auteur
Empty Stations
Flying into Naples
Trussed
The Swing
The Blue Notebooks