David Rice is a writer and animator from Northampton, MA. My interests cluster around horror, noir, SF, and the grotesque.
I'm currently working on a novel, possibly called ANGEL HOUSE, about three 29-year-old former best friends reunited in their haunted hometown, trying to get their shit together before going dangerously insane, while freaks from the Outskirts swarm in to smother them.
I'm also working on a feature film with director Simon Pummell, about sex and immortality.
Contact: raviddice@gmail.com
Recent Work
A Room in Dodge City (serialized novel)
Lazy Eye Stories (graphic novel)
Stories
In The Cabin Up On Stilts (Black Clock)
Eric's Towing (New Haven Review)
Egon's Parents (The Last Magazine)
Jack & Emily Texas Roadside Incident, Summer 2012 (Identity Theory)
Night Surgeon / Arm Neighbor: A Bicoastal Romance (Literati Quarterly)
At First I Tried to be Someone (Pithead Chapel)
You You You Snuffed Yourself (Spork Press)
Ainsworth Gym (The Bad Version)
A Visit from Transmission Man Marks the Beginning of the End (The Bad Version)
Drifter Jim (Harvard Advocate)
Dawson's Creaak (Harvard Crimson)
Essays and Reviews
Blake Butler Interview (The Believer)
On Not Reading David Ohle (Electric Literature)
On Matthew Stokoe (The Believer)
On D. Foy's Made to Break (Los Angeles Review of Books)
On Takashi Miike's Visitor Q (Entropy)
On Composer and Musician Ben Cosgrove (Harvard Magazine)
On Sparklehorse and Ghost Folk (Harvard Advocate)
On Michael Cisco (Rain Taxi Print Edition)
On Christopher Narozny (Rain Taxi Print Edition)
A film I worked on about German mental patient Daniel Paul Schreber, directed by Simon Pummell
A book about Oedipus and the Sphinx I helped translate from the German
Animations
What I'm Reading
February 2015:
Satin Island
The Cement Garden
The Comfort of Strangers
Liberation
The Unconsoled
The Infernal
Safari Honeymoon
Nog
The Wallcreeper
The Kills
January 2015:
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
The Bone Clocks
No One Belongs Here More Than You
Safari Honeymoon
The First Bad Man
First Love, Last Rites
Silver Screen Fiend
December 2014:
Harmony Korine: Interviews
The Baltimore Atrocities
The Corpse Exhibition
Annihilation
Revival
The Emerald Light in the Air
The Dog
Preparation for the Next Life
Showrunners
November 2014:
The Fifth Child
No Other
The Late Work of Margaret Kroftis
A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall
The Book of Strange New Things
The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing
Preacher: Vol. 1
Ed The Happy Clown
October 2014:
Dead Stars
Apocalypse Culture
The Autumn of the Patriarch
Beautiful Ruins
Leve's Suicide
Tool.
Dan
September 2014:
10:04
Wolf in White Van
Burning Chrome
Conquest of the Useless
Extinction
Autoportrait
August 2014:
The Devils of Loudun
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Ever
There Is No Year
Gil the Nihilist: A Sitcom
Down the Rabbit Hole
July 2014:
The Passion According to G.H.
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
Night Shift
Wittgenstein's Mistress
Imperial Bedrooms
The Last Horror Novel in the History of the World
By Night in Chile
At Last
The World is Ever Changing (Nic Roeg Memoir)
Crystal Eaters
June 2014:
300,000,000
The Flamethrowers
Bald New World
Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls
The Informers
The Skin
May 2014:
The Patrick Melrose Novels
Consumed
The Empathy Exams
Home Land
Sex Criminals Vol. 1
Ghost World
Ant Colony
The Cowboy Wally Show
April 2014:
High-Rise
Crash
Platform
The Possibility of an Island
Attempting Normal
Days Between Stations
Blue Movie
In The Mean Time
The Family
The Denial of Death
Uzumaki
March 2014:
The Glister
The Orange Eats Creeps
Made to Break
My Loose Thread
Flatscreen
What's Important Is Feeling
February 2014:
I Was Dora Suarez
God Jr.
Submergence
Silence Once Begun
The Box Man
Lorrie Moore: Bark & Birds of America
Praying Drunk
January 2014:
Mira Corpora
Blacklung
Samedi The Deafness
The Isle of Youth
The Shining
Glamorama
I'm Not Sam
December 2013:
The Hangman's Ritual
The Haunting of Hill House
Baby Leg
The Facades
Save the Cat!
Alone with the Horrors (Best of Ramsey Campbell)
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
City of Bohane
Peaceable Kingdom
November 2013:
N0S4A2
Dark Lies the Island
Danse Macabre
Catching the Big Fish
The Dark Country
Stories for Nighttime and Some for The Day
The Pilo Family Circus
Stephen King: It
October 2013:
The Insult
Jack Ketchum: The Girl Next Door, Off Season, and The Lost
'Salem's Lot
Kitchen Confidential
September 2013:
The Man in the High Castle
High Life
Bleeding Edge
Rubicon Beach
August 2013:
The Face of Another
The Little Friend
The Infatuations
The Consummation of Dirk
HhHH
July 2013:
Like A Velvet Glove Cast In Iron
Alissa Nutting's "Tampa"
Play It As It Lays
Difficult Men
Charles Burns' "Black Hole"
Ryu Murakami's "Audition"
June 2013:
Lunar Park
American Psycho
The Girlfriend Game
Taipei
American Dream Machine
May 2013:
Teatro Grottesco
The Wasp Factory
Kamby Bolongo Mean River
Reality Hunger
How Literature Saved My Life
Cows
From The Mouth of the Whale
April 2013:
Brand New Cherry Flavor
Midnight Picnic
Stabs at Happiness
Novel About My Wife
The Manual of Detection
In The House Upon The Dirt Between The Lake And The Woods
Cataclysm Baby
Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia
Sam Pink's "Person"
March 2013:
Koko
M. John Harrison's "Light"
The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard
Yoko Ogawa's "Revenge" "The Diving Pool" and "Hotel Iris"
Out Stealing Horses (book clubby, for sure, but it hits the right notes in a pretty forthright and upstanding way)
The Imago Sequence
Super Flat Times
Conjunctions 39
How They Were Found
February 2013:
Ghost Story
Stories in the Worst Way
Divorcer
Leaving the Atocha Station (can 6 billion recommendations be wrong?)
William Gay's "Twilight"
Venus Drive
Anchor Book of New American Short Stories
The Shell Collector
Conjunctions 52
January 2013:
Dhalgren
Hawksmoor
The Flame Alphabet
The Stammering Century
Aira's "Ghosts"
Tenth of December
December 2012:
Little, Big
The Lime Twig
Molloy
White Jazz
Embassytown