Richard Kadrey

About the Author

Richard Kadrey is a freelance writer. He is the author of dozens of stories, plus numerous novels, including: the Sandman Slim Series, Metrophage, and Butcher Bird. Kadrey created and wrote the Vertigo comics mini-series ACCELERATE. Richard has written and spoken about art, culture and technology show more for Wired, The San Francisco Chronicle, Discovery Online, The Site, SXSW and Wired For Sex on the G4 cable network. He is also a fetish photographer and digital artist. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Includes the names: Richard Kadrey, Richard Kadrey, Richard Kadreys

Series

Sandman Slim

The Dominion

Another Coop Heist

Accelerate, Vol. 1: The Flash Tribe Wars

Carrion City

Works by Richard Kadrey

Popular Recent

Sandman Slim (2009) 2,553 copies, 183 reviews

Kill the Dead (2010) 1,115 copies, 48 reviews

Aloha from Hell (2012) 814 copies, 56 reviews

Devil Said Bang (2012) 612 copies, 21 reviews

Kill City Blues (2013) 504 copies, 22 reviews

Butcher Bird (2007) 466 copies, 19 reviews

The Everything Box (2016) 449 copies, 23 reviews

The Getaway God (2014) 400 copies, 16 reviews

Metrophage (1988) 381 copies, 6 reviews

Killing Pretty (2015) 329 copies, 14 reviews

The Dead Take the A Train (2022) — Author — 324 copies, 13 reviews

The Grand Dark (2019) 300 copies, 12 reviews

Devil in the Dollhouse (2012) 272 copies, 11 reviews

The Perdition Score (2016) 266 copies, 10 reviews

The Kill Society (2017) 241 copies, 9 reviews

Dead Set (2013) 205 copies, 16 reviews

Hollywood Dead (2018) 199 copies, 6 reviews

The Wrong Dead Guy (2017) 179 copies, 10 reviews

Ballistic Kiss (2020) 168 copies, 7 reviews

King Bullet (2021) 103 copies, 3 reviews

Whole Earth Catalog : signal communication tools for the information age (1988) — Editor — 99 copies, 2 reviews

From Myst to Riven: The Creations and Inspirations (1997) 95 copies, 2 reviews

The Pale House Devil (2023) 67 copies, 3 reviews

Covert Culture Sourcebook (1993) 62 copies

Suspect Zero: A Short Story (2013) 59 copies, 2 reviews

Kamikaze L'Amour (1995) 55 copies, 1 review

Lucifer Vol. 3: Blood in the Streets (2017) 53 copies, 3 reviews

Covert Culture Sourcebook 2.0 (1994) 35 copies

A Cautionary Tale (2016) 24 copies

Angel Scene / Teeth and Tongue Landscape (2003) 19 copies

Across the Dark Water (2021) 17 copies, 1 review

The Secrets of Insects (2023) 14 copies, 1 review

Accelerate (2007) 12 copies, 1 review

Bad Blood (2016) 8 copies

Blind Shrike 8 copies, 1 review

Voyager: A Science Fiction and Fantasy eBook Sampler From Harper Voyager US (2014) — Introduction; Contributor — 7 copies

The Sandman Slim Series Books 1-4 (2013) 5 copies

Metrófago I (1990) 5 copies

Metrofago - 2 5 copies

Zombie 4 copies

Goodbye Houston Street, Goodbye [short fiction] (1986) 4 copies, 1 review

Still Life with Apocalypse 4 copies

DMV 3 copies

Lucifer (2015-2017) #16 2 copies

Accelerate # 1: Fax Mortum (2013) 2 copies

The Diseases of Purgatory, Pt. 6 2 copies

Lucifer (2015-2017) #14 2 copies

Chronalgia 2 copies

Confessions of a Mnemonist 2 copies

Hall of the Phoenix Machines 2 copies

Black Neurology: A Love Story 2 copies

Lucifer (2015-2017) #15 2 copies

Collected Short Stories 2 copies

Lucifer (2015-2017) #19 2 copies

Lucifer (2015-2017) #18 2 copies

Lucifer (2015-2017) #17 (2017) 2 copies

Ubiquitous Computing 2 copies

The Tears of the Moon 2 copies

Pleasure Cruise 2 copies

Pembroke's Saga 2 copies

Larks' Tongues in Aspic 2 copies

The Birth of Athena 2 copies

Food Chain Blues 2 copies

The Enigma Event 2 copies

Herzog's Benediction 2 copies

Mouse Lights 2 copies

Dragon 1 copy

Field Trip 1 copy

The Silk Road 1 copy

The Götterdämmerung Show 1 copy

Dark Jubilee 1 copy

Growth Cycle 1 copy

The Index of Refraction 1 copy

Speed clans [short fiction] 1 copy, 1 review

Ice House 1 copy

Dog Boys 1 copy

Christmas Greetings 1 copy

Crash Kiss 1 copy

Concrete Bouquet 1 copy

Iron Wit 1 copy

A Cabinet of Curiosities 1 copy

The Hellblazer #16 1 copy

The Hellblazer #18 1 copy

The Hellblazer #17 1 copy

Amnesia: Mist Memoir 1 copy

1000 Destroyers: A Machine Creation Myth 1 copy

Heat Island 1 copy

SETI 1 copy

[Kill City Blues: A Sandman Slim Novel] [By: Kadrey, Richard] [July, 2013] 1 copy

Singing the Dead to Sleep 1 copy

The Arcades of Allah 1 copy

Interspecies Communication 1 copy

A Song Called Youth 1 copy

Le Jardin des Os 1 copy

Accelerate # 2 1 copy

Speaking Up 1 copy

Surfing the Khumbu 1 copy

Secrets of the Universe 1 copy

Second-Floor Girls 1 copy

What Goes Around 1 copy

The Winter Haven Leviathan 1 copy

The Probability Box 1 copy

Trembling Blue Stars 1 copy

Patrimony 1 copy

Outsider Art 1 copy

Opener of the Ways 1 copy

The Fire Catcher [short fiction] 1 copy, 1 review

The Night Patrons 1 copy

Accelerate # 3 1 copy

Jump Start 1 copy

Accelerate # 4 1 copy

The Night of the Drunken Heart 1 copy

Necrophony 1 copy

My Exquisite Corpse 1 copy

Mudrosti 1 copy

Mementos 1 copy

Master of the Crossroads 1 copy

The Magnetic Garden 1 copy

The Mad Hatter 1 copy

Lotus Alley 1 copy

The Last Great Kings of Earth 1 copy

Kabbalah Cowboys 1 copy

Space Time Collapse 1 copy

Horse Latitudes 1 copy

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Associated Works

Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse (2008) — Contributor — 1,601 copies, 52 reviews

Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction (1991) — Contributor — 251 copies

Semiotext(e) SF (1989) — Contributor — 250 copies

When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson (2021) — Contributor — 192 copies, 11 reviews

The Doll Collection (2015) — Contributor — 131 copies, 6 reviews

Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror (2016) — Contributor — 113 copies, 10 reviews

Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories (2019) — Contributor — 110 copies, 4 reviews

Christmas and Other Horrors: A Winter Solstice Anthology (2023) — Contributor — 107 copies, 1 review

Wastelands: The New Apocalypse (2019) — Contributor — 91 copies, 3 reviews

Children of Lovecraft (2016) — Contributor — 88 copies, 3 reviews

Bangs and Whimpers: Stories about the End of the World (1999) — Contributor — 85 copies, 2 reviews

Screams from the Dark: 29 Tales of Monsters and the Monstrous (2022) — Contributor — 84 copies, 1 review

When the Music's Over (1991) — Contributor — 64 copies, 1 review

Body Shocks: Extreme Tales of Body Horror (2021) — Contributor — 63 copies

Hellboy: An Assortment of Horrors (2017) — Contributor — 59 copies, 1 review

Interzone: The 3rd Anthology (1988) — Contributor — 50 copies, 1 review

The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook: No. 1 (1988) — Contributor — 50 copies

Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles (Blumhouse Books) (2020) — Contributor — 44 copies, 2 reviews

The Big Book of Cyberpunk (2023) — Contributor — 33 copies

Omni Best Science Fiction One (1992) — Contributor — 27 copies

Cyber World: Tales of Humanity's Tomorrow (2016) — Foreword — 26 copies, 3 reviews

The Big Book of Cyberpunk Vol. 1 (2024) — Contributor, some editions — 22 copies

Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 3 (2020) — Contributor — 19 copies

Omni Visions Two (1994) — Contributor — 15 copies

Come Join Us by the Fire: A Nightfire Anthology (2019) — Contributor — 8 copies, 1 review

Tor.com Short Fiction: Jan/Feb 2021 (2021) — Contributor — 6 copies

Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 106 • March 2019 (2019) — Contributor — 6 copies, 1 review

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume Three (Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, 3) (2022) — Contributor — 6 copies

Science Fiction Eye #12, Summer 1993 (1993) — Contributor — 2 copies

Rod Serling's the Twilight Zone Magazine 1987 01 January-February — Contributor — 1 copy

Science Fiction Eye #08, Winter 1991 — Contributor — 1 copy

Science Fiction Eye #07, August 1990 — Contributor — 1 copy

Science Fiction Eye #10, June 1992 — Contributor — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1957
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Places of residence: San Francisco, California, USA
Occupations: photographer
freelance writer
digital artist
photographer
Agent: Ginger Clark

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Reviews

Sandman Slim: A Novel (Sandman Slim, 1) by Richard Kadrey

I’m not gonna lie: I loved the hell out of this book. (Pun intended.) I wish I could have given it 6 stars, or go back and adjust my other previous 5 star reviews down to 4’s because this one set a new bar for me. It was a ton of fun to read. It grabbed me immediately and did a great job of balancing character history with running plot.

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jcheshire | 182 other reviews | Jan 3, 2025 |

The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, 1) by Richard Kadrey

Eldritch/cosmic horror.
Reminded me of the law firm in the tv series Angel.
The magic system was confusing and the storyline felt messy. The sapphic friends to lovers story was also a bit limp.
I was hoping everything would make sense in the end and that Julie (Constantine-esque) would be really badass, but that didn’t eventuate.

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spiritedstardust | 12 other reviews | Dec 24, 2024 |

The Pale House Devil by Richard Kadrey

What a fun book.
Straightforward and lighthearted horror tale of a living guy and his undead partner hunting a monster. Plenty of witty banter.
Feels like there should be a second. And a third.
Definitely recommend.

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DS_LaLonde | 2 other reviews | Dec 20, 2024 |