David Leo Rice is a writer and animator from Northampton, MA. My interests cluster around horror, noir, SF, and the grotesque.
Contact (for review and interview queries, or for manuscript editing and development services): raviddice@gmail.com
My first novel, A ROOM IN DODGE CITY, is out now. I've just finished a second, called ANGEL HOUSE. It's about three 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:
Recent Work
A Room in Dodge City: Vol. 3 (serialized novel)
Lazy Eye Stories (graphic novel)
Novel
Dodge City Interview (in The Weird Fiction Review)
Dodge City Interview (in The Thoughtful Dog)
Dodge City Review (in The Opiate)
Electric Literature's 2017 Indie Book Preview
Brian Evenson's "Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2017" List
Short Stories
The Meadows (in The Collagist)
The Harmless Slaughterer (in The Weird Fiction Review)
Regression Pills (in The Weird Fiction Review)
Swimming School (in Identity Theory)
Normal Stigmata (in Volume 1 Brooklyn)
The Hate Room (in The New Haven Review)
In The Cabin Up On Stilts (in Black Clock)
Out on the Coast (in The Rumpus)
On the Murder of Nicola Teensmah (in Nat. Brut)
Joey in Vermont (in The Opiate)
Eric's Towing (in The New Haven Review)
Egon's Parents (in The Last Magazine)
Jack & Emily Texas Roadside Incident, Summer 2012 (in Identity Theory)
Night Surgeon / Arm Neighbor: A Bicoastal Romance (in Literati Quarterly)
At First I Tried to be Someone (in Pithead Chapel)
You You You Snuffed Yourself (in Spork)
Lazy Eye Excerpt (in Nat. Brut)
Ainsworth Gym (in The Bad Version)
A Visit from Transmission Man Marks the Beginning of the End (in The Bad Version)
Drifter Jim (in The Harvard Advocate)
Dawson's Creaak (in The Harvard Crimson)
Essays and Reviews
On Steve Erickson's Shadowbahn (in The Believer)
On The Unholy Family in American Horror Film (in The Fanzine)
Blake Butler Interview (in The Believer)
On D. Foy's Patricide (in Entropy)
On Not Reading David Ohle (in Electric Literature)
On Matthew Stokoe (in The Believer)
On D. Foy's Made to Break (in The Los Angeles Review of Books)
On Neutral Milk Hotel (in Salon)
On Takashi Miike's Visitor Q (in Entropy)
On Jack Ketchum (in HTMLGiant)
On Nick Antosca (in HTMLGiant)
On Adam Prince (in The Rumpus)
On Composer and Musician Ben Cosgrove (in Harvard Magazine)
On Sparklehorse and Ghost Folk (in The Harvard Advocate)
On Michael Cisco (in Rain Taxi)
On Christopher Narozny (in Rain Taxi)
An Interactive Personality Test I Designed for Simon Pummell's Film Brand New-U
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
Watching the Detectives (2016)
A Child's Metaphysics (Animation by Koji Yamamura, which I assisted on)
What I'm Reading
September 2017:
The Plains
Lincoln in the Bardo
The Dark Dark
Bright Lights, Big City
Fantasyland: A 500-Year History of How America Went Haywire
The Solar Bones
Tales of Falling and Flying
August 2017:
The Seventh Function of Language
The Grip of It
The Melancholy of Anatomy
We Others
Collected Stories of Leonora Carrington
Notes from a Coma
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
July 2017:
Made for Love
In The Dust of This Planet
The Famished Road
The Answers
The World Without Us
Amatka
June 2017:
My Favorite Thing is Monsters
Borne
Fever Dream
V For Vendetta
Coin Locker Babies
The Affirmation
Vox
May 2017:
Ill Will
Atlantic Hotel
The Night Ocean
Things We Lost in the Fire
Suddenly, A Knock on the Door
If They Move, Kill Em
April 2017:
Exit West
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
NK3
Things We Lost in the Fire
Suddenly, A Knock on the Door
Spider
Satantango
March 2017:
The Dark Net
The Twenty Days of Turin
Nixonland
Sudden Death
Lives Other Than My Own
Notes from Underground
A Horse Walks Into a Bar
February 2017:
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Universal Harvester
Dark Money
West Virginia
The Delicate Prey
Clarice Lispector: Collected Stories
January 2017:
Money
The Unwinding
The Transmigration of Bodies
The Babysitter at Rest
Senselessness
House of Penance
Homesick for Another World
Our Revolution
December 2016:
Normal
Transmetropolitan
The Last Wolf & Herman
Digging Up Mother
Dept. of Speculation
Some Possible Solutions
The Loney
The Lime Works
Authority
November 2016:
The Squirrel Machine
Slade House
The Hellbound Heart
Norm MacDonald: Based on a True Story
Mr. Splitfoot
October 2016:
Summer House with Swimming Pool
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shadowbahn
Mastodon Farm
Dear Mr. M.
The Warren
Come Closer
Panther
The Secret Life of Souls
The Dinner
September 2016:
From Hell
Zoo City
Carousel Court
Patricide
The Night Cyclist
August 2016:
Martian Time-Slip
Coetzee's Boyhood
Broken Monsters
The Jew of New York
July 2016:
Tours of the Black Clock
The Thief
Fight Club
The Girls
The Invention of Morel
Fragile Things
Watchmen
This Census Taker
Diary of a Bad Year
Ways of Going Home
June 2016:
The Marbled Swarm
The Argonauts
Madeleine E.
Arsene Schrauwen
Paulina & Fran
The Sympathizer
Quiet Creature on the Corner
The Nameless
May 2016:
The Ice Storm
Wilson
Uzumaki
The Wild Boys
Jealousy
Kafka by R. Crumb
Southern Bastards
April 2016:
Asylum
The Cage
Tinkers
Bird Box
The Sugar Frosted Nutsack
Patience
March 2016:
The Vorrh
My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist
Stone Arabia
Et Tu, Babe
Scrapper
The Secret of Evil
February 2016:
Collected Stories of Tennessee Williams
The Vegetarian
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Spring Snow
What Belongs To You
January 2016:
Hold Still
The Books of Blood
Killing and Dying
Glamorama
Sugar Skull
December 2015:
Beatlebone
Francis Bacon In Your Blood
The Disaster Artist
The Bloody Chamber
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
So You've Been Publicly Shamed
John Waters' Role Models
November 2015:
Eileen
The Visiting Privilege
The Elementary Particles
West of Sunset
A Head Full of Ghosts
October 2015:
The Magician of Lublin
Big Ray
The Man Who Noticed Everything
About Grace
The Snowman
Submission
Blood Beneath The Skin
September 2015:
Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World
Hotel Andromeda
Martin Sloane
A Visit from the Goon Squad
The Fun Parts
August 2015:
Libra
The Counterlife
Tropic of Cancer
A Cure for Suicide
Wind/Pinball
Shantytown
Just Kids
Whatever
July 2015:
Bad Behavior
The Ghost Writer
Zuckerman Unbound
Force Majeure
Still Holding
My Last Sigh
The Damnation Game
The Player
June 2015:
The Price of Salt
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
May 2015:
Werner Herzog: Guide for the Perplexed
Down and Dirty Pictures
A Killer Life
The Hive
X'ed Out
April 2015:
Young Skins
The Return
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
The Musical Brain
What We See When We Read
Secret Rendezvous
March 2015:
The Recognitions
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