D. F. Lewis is an English

England

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 author who has had approximately 1,500 short fictions published in print from 1986 to 2000, some in hard-to-find outlets, others in literary journals such as Stand, Iron, Orbis, Panurge and London Magazine

London Magazine

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. Others have appeared in anthologies

Anthology

An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts...

. From 2001 until 2010, he has been editor and publisher of the Nemonymous

Nemonymous

Nemonymous was a short fiction publication that labeled itself a "megazanthus" . It was published in the United Kingdom and edited by British writer D.F...

"megazanthus" of short fiction

Short story

A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...

. In 2008, he was the first exponent of Real-Time Reviewing of books.

Biography

Lewis was born in Walton-on-Naze, Essex

Essex

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 on January 18, 1948. He attended Lancaster University

Lancaster University

Lancaster University, officially The University of Lancaster, is a leading research-intensive British university in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The university was established by Royal Charter in 1964 and initially based in St Leonard's Gate until moving to a purpose-built 300 acre campus at...

 from 1966 to 1969, where he formed the Zeroist Group. He and his wife, Denise, have two children.

Book and chapbook publications

• 1989 - Dagon: DF Lewis Special
• 1993 - Best of D.F. Lewis, Tal Publications
• 1994 - Weirdmonger's Tales, Wyrd Press
• 1998 - Only Connect, Cartref. Original collection of ten ghostly tales in collaboration with his father, Gordon Lewis
  Gordon Lewis
  Gordon Hale Lewis is a Welsh former rugby union and professional rugby league footballer of the 1960s and '70s who at club level has played rugby union for Swansea RFC, and at representative level has played rugby league for Great Britain, and Wales, and at club level for Leigh, playing at , i.e...
  
   (1922–2007).
• 1998 - Agra Aska, Scorpion Press.
• 2003 - Weirdmonger: The Nemonicon, Prime Books.
• 2010 - Weirdtongue: The Glistenberry Romance, The InkerMen Press
• 2011 - Nemonymous Night, Chômu Press
• 2012 - The Last Balcony (details to follow)

Magazine and anthology publications (abridged)

• 1990 - Best New Horror, "Mort au Monde"
• 1990 - The Year's Best Horror Stories
  The Year's Best Horror Stories
  The Year’s Best Horror Stories was a series of annual anthologies published by DAW Books from 1971 to 1994 under the successive editorships of Richard Davis from 1971 to 1973, and, after a two year hiatus, Gerald W. Page from 1976 to 1979, and Karl Edward Wagner from 1980 to 1994. The series was...
  
   18, "Sponge and China Tea"
• 1991 - Signals: London Magazine, "Tom Rose"
• 1991 - Best New Horror 2, "Madge"
• 1991 - The Year's Best Horror Stories 19, "Hide and Seek"
• 1992 - The Year's Best Horror Stories 20, "My Giddy Aunt"
• 1993 - Narrow Houses: Touch Wood, "Splints"
• 1993 - The Year's Best Horror 21, "Welsh Pepper"
• 1993 - The Ultimate Zombie, "The Front Room"
• 1994 - The Starry Wisdom: Creation Books, "Meltdown"
• 1994 - Shadows Over Innsmouth, "Down To The Boots"
• 1994 - The Year's Best Horror Stories 22, "Salustrade"
• 1994 - Cthulhu's Heirs, "Watch the Whiskers Sprout"
• 1995 - Weirdbook29 http://www.mythosbooks.com/si/83458.html, "Encounters with Terror"
• 1996 - Peeping Tom No 21, "Late Night Jamming"
• 1997 - Best New Horror 8, "Kites and Kisses"
• 1998 - Cthulhu Codex #14, "No Answer"
• 1998 - Darkside - Horror for the Next Millennium, "Sisters in Death"
• 1998 - Midnight Carnival 2, "The Mentioning"
• 1998 - The Ex Files, "The Next Files"
• 1999 - Nasty Snips (Christopher C. Teague, Editor)
• 2000 - Dreams and Nightmares, "The Proscenium of Dispossession"
• 2001 - Song of Cthulhu, "Fall From Grace"
• 2005 - Horror: Another 100 Best Books, "The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen"
• 2007 - The Black Book Of Horror, "Pie In Thick Gravy" & "Shaped Like A Snake"
• 2008 - The Second Black Book Of Horror, "Squabble"
• 2008 - Wormwood #11, "Towards The Drogulus: A Strange Implosion of Self After Reading Elizabeth Bowen"
• 2010 - Where The Heart Is, "So"
• 2011 - The Master in the Cafe Morphine, "The Tsarina's Wintercoat"

Edited and published by D.F. Lewis

• 2001 - Nemonymous One
• 2002 - Nemonymous Two
• 2003 - Nemonymous Part Three (Gold Coin)
• 2004 - Nemonymous Part Four (Glass Onion)
• 2005 - Nemonymous Five (Nemo Book)
• 2006 - Nemonymous Six (tacet)
• 2007 - Nemonymous Seven (Zencore: Scriptus Innominatus)
• 2008 - Nemonymous Eight (Cone Zero)
• 2009 - Nemonymous Nine (Cern Zoo)
• 2010 - Nemonymous Ten (Null Immortalis)
• 2011 - The Horror Anthology of Horror Anthologies

External links

• Nemonymous - Nemonymous & D.F. Lewis website