Rick Kennett Rick Kennett i(A30519 works by) (a.k.a. Ricky Kennett)
Born: Established: 1956 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender: Male
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1 1 y separately published work icon The Crooked Rook Rick Kennett , Australia : Rick Kennett , 2024 28446723 2024 selected work short story

'From the mind of Rick Kennett:

~ An English folly stands in the Australian bush ...
~ A failed scientist resents the success of H.G. Wells ...
~ Film students reconstruct and rediscover a long-ago injustice ...
~ Hide and seek in a midnight cemetery ...
~ Parlour games are dangerous ...
~ Who sampled the samplers?
~ Music industry dead have the last word ...
~ Drunken banshee ...
~ Beautiful gorgon ...
~ Out of the mouths of graves …

'Twenty-one stories and flash fictions of the weird and the unsettling ...'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 The Faces in Morgan Alley Rick Kennett , 2022 single work short story
— Appears in: Damnation Games 2022;
1 The Enemy of the Enemy Rick Kennett , 2019 single work short story
— Appears in: War of the Worlds : Battleground Australia 2019;

'A proverbial Aussie larrikin encounters the unknown, and his primitive struggles to comprehend the superior Martin intellect.'

Source: Foreword.

1 The Artifacts Rick Kennett , 2016 single work short story science fiction
— Appears in: Thirty Minutes for New Hell 2016; (p. 85-88)
1 The Carmel B Crazies Rick Kennett , 2016 single work short story science fiction
— Appears in: Thirty Minutes for New Hell 2016; (p. 24-33)
1 In a Phobos Garden Rick Kennett , 2016 single work short story science fiction
— Appears in: Thirty Minutes for New Hell 2016; (p. 7-10)
1 y separately published work icon Thirty Minutes for New Hell Rick Kennett , Australia : Rick Kennett , 2016 10875041 2016 selected work short story science fiction
1 y separately published work icon Presumed Dead Rick Kennett , Australia : Rick Kennett , 2016 10874940 2016 single work novel science fiction

'Being genetically engineered as an integral part of a starship's weaponry system for the Martian Star Corps is something Lieutenant Cy De Gerch deeply resents. When a failed war game leaves her marooned on an uninhabited planet with a monster intent on destroying her, Cy sees this as an opportunity to desert the Corps with an almost clear conscience. The ghosts of two former lovers, one male, one female, and an alien spider cross-dressing as a lobster have other ideas.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 The Outsider Rick Kennett , 2016 single work short story
— Appears in: The Dark and What It Said 2016; (p. 103-128)
1 All On St Mark's Eve Rick Kennett , 2016 single work short story
— Appears in: The Dark and What It Said 2016; (p. 47-50)
1 Anningley Hall, Early Morning Rick Kennett , 2016 single work short story horror
— Appears in: The Dark and What It Said 2016; (p. 15-22)
1 y separately published work icon The Dark and What It Said Rick Kennett , Australia : Rick Kennett , 2016 10874682 2016 selected work short story
1 Dolls for Another Day Rick Kennett , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2014 2015; The Dark and What It Said 2016; (p. 23-34)
1 y separately published work icon The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea Rick Kennett , United States of America (USA) : Rick Kennett , 2013 7484439 2013 single work novel fantasy horror

'I hate ghosts! I've played follow-the-leader with a bunch of dead men, fronted up to a demon with all my runes round the wrong way, been half strangled by a book illustration, nearly killed by a bunyip in a launderette washing machine. So when Raissa invited me to a séance I was sure was a fake but turned out to be real, I knew there could only be trouble for Ernie Pine. And there was—wedging a witch, an apprentice magician, an alcoholic Vietnam veteran and me all too literally between the Devil and the deep blue sea…'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Thirty Minutes for New Hell Rick Kennett , 2012 single work short story
— Appears in: Aurealis : Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction , March no. 48 2012; Thirty Minutes for New Hell 2016; (p. 89-108)
1 On the Other Side Rick Kennett , 2011 single work short story horror
— Appears in: Midnight Echo : The Magazine of the Australian Horror Writers Association , February no. 5 2011; The Dark and What It Said 2016; (p. 85-88)
1 Excerpt from In Quinn's Paddock Rick Kennett , 2011 extract novella (In Quinn's Paddock)
— Appears in: Devil Dolls and Duplicates in Australian Horror 2011; (p. 113-118)
1 Burnt Rick Kennett , 2009 single work short story science fiction
— Appears in: Aurealis : Australian Fantasy & Science Fiction , no. 42 2009; (p. 77-80)
1 Bummed Rick Kennett , 2008 single work short story science fiction
— Appears in: Antipodean SF , October-November no. 125 2008;
1 The Grantchester Grimoire Rick Kennett , A. F. Kidd , 2008 single work short story detective science fiction
— Appears in: Gaslight Grimoire : Fantastic Tales of Sherlock Holmes 2008; (p. 159-186)
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