Dale L. Sproule is a writer, artist, sculptor and editor.
Writing
Author of two short story collections and a four-book series of novels, the first of which is available now – with the next three coming out at regular intervals through 2024-25.
Books and Publications
Dale L. Sproule : Selected Books and Publications
Novel
Remapping The Human Template
Psychedelia Noir
Eight stories including three original to this 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
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
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
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
Cover: Northern Frights 5 (Mosaic Press)
Frontispiece: Mulengro special edition hardcover by Charles De Lint
Interior art: Nova Express – Summer 1989
Cover and all illustrations: Poking the Gun – Collected Poetry of John Grey (Dark Regions) 2000
Art Director: TransVersions – four covers, five back covers, 23 interior illos 1994-1999
Two Covers NFG Magazine
Covers: Kissing Carrion(Prime Books)/The Worm in Every Heart(Prime Books) by Gemma Files 2003/2006
Cover: Psychedelia Gothique 2013
Cover: Remapping the Human Template
Psychedelia Noir 2021
Plus illos in DeathRealm, Noctulpa, Scavengers Newsletter, Portents and many others.
Artist
Stone sculpture, painting, multi-media – including book and magazine covers.
Editor
Along with magazines on alternative health, phone cards, and university living and newcomers/immigration. Dale was co-publisher/co-editor and art director of the award-nominated magazine, TransVersions – Literature of the Fantastic
Please visit our sculpture site at https://sculptorstouch.com
