LATEST RELEASE

Book cover titled "Oracle of Unreason: A Haiku Collection" by Daniel Richardson, featuring a black and white illustration of a person with curly hair and a trench coat, blindfolded, surrounded by numerous small, walking figures.

Oracle of Unreason

Besimeni Press

November 4, 2024


A collection of 101 haiku and senryu poems

Classically structured, nature-oriented compositions evolve into passionate verse free from the confines of tradition as the futility of language, vagaries of meaning-making and solace found in nonsense are explored.

Come down from the mountains of logic and sanity. In the valley, a seat of lucid madness waits for a new oracle of unreason. It waits for you.

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BOOKS

Book cover for "The Blizzard and the Sieve" by Daniel Richardson, featuring a silhouette of a hand holding an axe with raised hands in the background and a full moon.

The Blizzard and The Sieve

All Things That Matter Press

Coming 2025

Casimir Marime is a failed carpenter’s apprentice whose only refuge from shame is a sacred grove cultivated by rumor. When the capital’s army invades his backwater village to find it, the tenderhearted boy is ensnared and, in an act of mercy, appointed as his home’s first executioner. To escape the ritual of redemptive violence, Casimir navigates a moral labyrinth fashioned by Konrad Soln, a disgraced former executioner from a dynasty of brutal fathers and sons, Konrad’s rebellious niece Marzena and a host of mercurial beings with their own veiled machinations.

COMING SOON
Black and white cover illustration with trees and foliage forming an oval frame around a white central space. Red text in the center reads, "Those Who Are Invited In." The author's name, Daniel Richardson, is at the top in red, and a small logo for Justice Publishing is at the bottom left edge.

Those Who Are Invited In

Solstice Publishing

November 16, 2022

Longtime partners Bernard Yates and Sofia Wren are traveling to Besimeni, a quiet fort town on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, to visit her grandparents. Meeting them for the first time, Bernard seeks their permission to propose to Sofia. The Wrens may invite him into the family but not before they test his mettle with family secrets, sacrifices and increasingly absurd demands.

LUCY NEEDS YOU
Book cover titled "Internal Exile" by Daniel Richardson, featuring a silhouette of a human head and a tree combined, with branches forming part of the face and black birds flying in the background, on an orange background.

Internal Exile

All Things That Matter Press

October 15, 2023

On the eve of her first family reunion, friendless nine-year-old Lucy Wren is once again tormented by sleep-paralysis and three shadowy figures. However, tonight there is a fourth and things are getting worse. Intent on keeping her awake during their flight, Lucy’s razor-witted mother trades her Halloween candy in exchange for a story about their 17th-century ancestor, Merrill O’Sullivan who suffered a similar affliction in a failed New World colony. Will his harrowing account of the unseen world convince Lucy to reconcile her nature with her longing or leave her lost in the darkness?

COME AND SEE
Portrait of a young man with shoulder-length brown hair, a goatee, and a mustache, wearing a dark suit, light blue collared shirt, and a plaid tie, smiling against a white background.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Daniel Richardson does not like to write about himself in the third person, so he won’t do that here.

I love horror with heart, one you can hold in your hands and show to your loved ones.

When I’m away from my desk, I’m watching European football, building folk instruments or chasing my border collie.

Born a stone’s throw from the Chesapeake, I now reside in the Midwest.

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