Books and Publications

Dale L. Sproule : Selected Books and Publications

Novel




Short Fiction Collection

Psychedelia Noir  



Eight stories including three original to this collection 


Short Fiction Collection

Psychedelia Gothique  











17 stories including five original to this collection


Fiction, in order of publication

“Labour Relations” 
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine 1984, 
Psychedelia Gothique 2013

“Phenomenoia”
Dark Visions 1985

“On the Punko Beat, Beat, Beat” 
Sign of the Times (Magazine) 1986 
Sign of the Times Ten Year Anthology 1994

“Lifestreams”  
Sign of the Times (Magazine) 1986
Psychedelia Gothique 2013

“Metropenance” 
Waves (Magazine) 1986 
Pulphouse Weekly (Magazine)1995
Psychedelia Gothique 2013

“Nice Day for a Trip” 
Sign of the Times (Magazine) 1987
Psychedelia Gothique 2013

“The Bleeding Grounds” 
Book of Shadows 1987

“Quadricide” 
Ouroborous 1987

“All Along the Jabberwalk” 
Sign of the Times (Magazine) 1987

“Songs of the Way Station” 
Noctulpa (Magazine) 1987

“The Onion Test” 
Pulphouse #1 (Magazine)- 1988
Psychedelia Gothique 2013

“Grimmersion” 
Portents (Magazine) - 1988

“On Fire for You, Baby” 
Standing Stone (Magazine) 1991

“Rock” 
EOTU (Magazine) 1989, 
Best of EOTU (Anthology) 1990

“Fourth Person Singular” 
Northern Frights 2 (Anthology)1995, 
Nominated for Aurora Award “Best Short Form Fiction”
Wild Things Live Here – The Best of Northern Frights (Anthology) 2001
Pseudopod (Podcast) 2010
Psychedelia Gothique 2013

“Razorwings” (a Jaynie Razorwings story)
Terminal Frights (Magazine) 1995  
Psychedelia Gothique 2013

“Memory Games” 
Tesseracts 5 (Anthology) 1996 
Nominated for Aurora Award “Best Short Form Fiction”
Psychedelia Gothique 2013

“At Fort Assumption” 
Northern Frights 4 (Anthology) 1996 
Nominated for Aurora Award “Best Short Form Fiction”
Revised, retitled and republished as "Exposure" Psychedelia Gothique 2013

“Showdown in Kitschtown” 
The Urbanite (Magazine) 1996
Psychedelia Gothique 2013

“When the Children Misbehave” 
Parsec (Magazine) 1997

“Flushed” 
Northern Frights 5 (Anthology) 1998
Psychedelia Gothique 2013

“Roots of the Soul” 
North of Infinity (Anthology)1998

“Speaking Parts” 
EOTU 2000

“Bad Copies”
Psychedelia Gothique 2013
Reprinted in Stories from the Near Future 2016

“Corrosive Agents”
Psychedelia Gothique 2013

“Masks of Flesh”
Psychedelia Gothique 2013

“Touching the Screams”
Psychedelia Gothique 2013

“White on White”
Psychedelia Gothique 2013

“The Children of Bonetown”
Nine Tale Series (Anthology) 2014

“Nunavut Thunderfuck” 
Exile Book of New Canadian Noir (Anthology) 2015
Nominated for the Pushcart Prize
Psychedelia Noir - Arctic Mage Publishing 2020
That is SO Wrong - Anthologies of Offbeat Horror 2022

“The Ones Your Mother Gives You”
Black Treacle #9 (E-magazine) 2015

“Along Dominion Road”
The Colored Lens (Magazine) Autumn 2015
Psychedelia Noir - Arctic Mage Publishing 2020

“The Unravelling”
Strange Mysteries 7 (Anthology) 2016
Psychedelia Noir - Arctic Mage Publishing 2020

“The Trouble with UPCs”
Three Minute Plastic (Webzine) 2016

“The Birthing Blades”
with Sally McBride (a Jaynie Razorwings story)
Unbound II - Changed Worlds (Anthology) 2017

“Ladder of Ashes”
The Colored Lens (Magazine) Spring 2017
Psychedelia Noir - Arctic Mage Publishing 2020

“Two Yurts”
Hidden Animals: A Collection of Cryptids 
Dragon's Roost Press Winter 2017

"The Dream Harvesters"
Psychedelia Noir - Arctic Mage Publishing 2020

"Rated 'L' for Legacy"
Psychedelia Noir - Arctic Mage Publishing 2020

"The Headmaster's Closet"
Psychedelia Noir - Arctic Mage Publishing 2020

"The World's First Fireproof Woman"

"The Night Reclaims Its Shadows"

"Boomer Trap"
Dark Recesses Online (Webzine) July 2022

"From Out of the Glamour"
All Worlds Wayfarer Issue 12 Sept 2022

"Behind the Blue Door"
That is ALL Wrong, Offbeat Horror Anthology from Black Hart Publishers Oct 2022


Publisher/Editor


TransVersions - Literature of the Fantastic 1994-1999

The Phone Card Magazine 2002-2003

Canadian Newcomer Magazine The How to Magazine for New Canadians 2004-2014


Poems


“Unhoused”
2 AM (magazine) 1986


Non Fiction 


“Madly into the Future” (Article) – Books in Canada 1997

"Nostalgia for the Future" (William Gibson Interview) - Books in Canada 1998

"Dead Asleep" - (About Pillow Scenes an art installation by Mark Laliberte) Rue Morgue 2000

How to Find a Job in Canada (Non-Fiction Book) with Efim Cheinis Oxford University Press 2008

And I will leave You a Trail of Crumbs - The Evolution of Sean Stewart – AESciFi

Stepping Into a Possible Future - Interview with Karl Schroeder – AESciFi

Reviews of William Gibson, Helen Marshall etc. at  AESciFi







Selected llustrations

Northern Frights 5 (Mosaic Press) - cover 
Mulengro - (Frontispiece) by Charles De Lint
Nova Express -  Summer 1989 interior art
Poking the Gun - Collected Poetry of John Grey (Dark Regions) 2000
TransVersions 4 Covers, 5 back covers, 23 interior illos (Art Director) 1994-1999 
Kissing Carrion(Prime Books)/The Worm in Every Heart (Prime Books) by Gemma Files Covers 2003/2006
Psychedelia Gothique 2013
Plus illos in DeathRealm, Noctulpa, Scavengers Newsletter, Portents and many others.
Back cover: The Human Template 2020
Psychedelia Noir 2021

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