David Leo Rice is a writer and animator from Northampton, MA. My interests cluster around horror, dark comedy, 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. My second, ANGEL HOUSE, is coming out in Spring 2019, and DODGE CITY: VOL 2 is coming out in fall 2019.
I'm also working on a feature film with director Simon Pummell, about sex and immortality:
Novels
ANGEL HOUSE (Now available for preorder, coming out in June 2019)
A Room in Dodge City (Winner of the 2016 Electric Book Award)
Dodge City Interview (in The Weird Fiction Review)
Dodge City Interview (in The Thoughtful Dog)
Dodge City Interview (in The Harvard Crimson)
Dodge City Interview (in The Transmitter)
Dodge City Interview (in Shelf Awareness)
Dodge City Review (in The Opiate)
Electric Literature's 2017 Indie Book Preview
Brian Evenson's "Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2017" List
Audio Excerpt from Dodge City: Vol. 2 at KGB Bar Reading
Short Stories
The Painless Euthanasia Roller Coaster (in Catapult)
The Brothers Squimbop (in Fanzine)
The Meadows (in The Collagist)
Circus Sickness (in Cosmonauts Avenue)
The Harmless Slaughterer (in The Weird Fiction Review)
Regression Pills (in The Weird Fiction Review)
Architecture (Short Comic in Emanata #4)
Swimming School (in Identity Theory)
Normal Stigmata (in Volume 1 Brooklyn)
PornMe2: Gribby in Space (in The Opiate)
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
Basement Boys: On Joseph Cornell and the Art of Mythologizing Your Hometown (in The Believer)
The Overlook Hotel: Thoughts on a Post-human Earth (in The Believer)
Interview with Mariana Enriquez (in Literary Hub)
Interview with Nick Drnaso (in Vol. 1 Brooklyn)
On Steve Erickson's Shadowbahn (in The Believer)
Farewell to My Mentor: An Appreciation of Jack Ketchum (in Vol. 1 Brooklyn)
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
Multimedia Projects
A Room in Dodge City: Vol. 3 (serialized novel)
Lazy Eye Stories (graphic novel)
Animations
Watching the Detectives (2016)
A Child's Metaphysics (Animation by Koji Yamamura, which I assisted on)
What I'm Reading
February 2019:
Same Same

The Sacred and the Profane
Sand
Black Leopard, Red Wolf
In Our Mad and Furious City
Milkman
January 2019:
Codex 1962

Dancing Bears
Ways of Seeing
Sea Monsters
A Mouthful of Birds
Ghost Wall
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
Sophist
December 2018:
The Notebook Trilogy

The Naked Eye
Zone
Muck
Cobra
Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephants
November 2018:
Killing Commendatore

My Year of Rest and Relaxation
The Hole
The Order of Time
Ryder
October 2018:
Destroy All Monsters

The Third Hotel
Hopscotch
La Maison de Rendez-vous
My Work Is Not Yet Done
If on a winter's night a traveler
September 2018:
Tristram Shandy

The Third Policeman
The Utopia of Rules
Foe
A Man Lies The Dreaming
Duty Free Art
August 2018:
Major Works

One of Us
The Dead
Mysteries
July 2018:
Mason & Dixon

T Singer
Room to Dream
Against Interpretation
Comemadre
Blood and Guts in High School
Transmetropolitan Vol. 2: Lust for Life
Nutshell
June 2018:
Sabrina

Men Without Women
The Information
My Antonia
Outer Dark
On Tyranny
Garden, Ashes
May 2018:
Animal Money

Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish
The Mars Room
White Ibis / The Garbage Times
Hocus Pocus
Homo Deus
Patriotism
Frank Bidart's Half-Light
April 2018:
Stream System

Border Districts
American War
An American Dream
Frankenstein in Baghdad
The Weird and the Eerie
Capitalist Realism
Gyo
March 2018:
Edwin Mullhouse

Lanark
Ask The Dust
The Tetherballs of Bougainville
Where The Dead Sit Talking
Piano Stories
February 2018:
The Dead Father

Jakob von Gunten
Call Me Zebra
The Wardrobe Mistress
The Dark Dark
Gone with the Mind
Sentimental Education
January 2018:
The Lonely City

The Job of the Wasp
The Slynx
Grendel
A Separation
Dear Cyborgs
The Perfect Nanny
Desolation of Avenues Untold
Amsterdam
Anti-Oedipus
December 2017:
In The Distance

You Should Come With Me Now: Stories of Ghosts
The Future is History
Her Body and Other Parties
White Dialogues
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country
Such Small Hands
A General Theory of Oblivion
November 2017:
Compass

Stephen Florida
The Remains of the Day
Stet: An Editor's Life
Paperbacks from Hell
October 2017:
Solar Bones

Lincoln in the Bardo
We Others
Beauty Is A Wound
I Am The Brother of XX
The Pleasures of Urban Decay
September 2017:
The Plains

Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys
Bright Lights, Big City
Fantasyland: A 500-Year History of How America Went Haywire
Tales of Falling and Flying
Crooked Little Vein
August 2017:
The Seventh Function of Language

The Grip of It
The Melancholy of Anatomy
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