R. Delacorme

The author and the writing

R. Delacorme tells stories from somewhere on the coastal edge. He is sometimes seen with a machine.

“I found it by the road, or perhaps someone gave it to me. I no longer remember. It takes my stories and stray thoughts and finds them a proper place on the page,” he explains.

He insists the machine is only a tool. This would be easier to believe if it had not recently begun to resemble him, and if certain stories did not appear to recognise it.

Published work

Accounts from the Hesswick Coast gathers twenty-seven reports, incidents and stories assembled from testimony, institutional records, logbooks and correspondence.

Twenty-One Cases follows communities that have moved beyond first contact and developed procedures for accommodation.

Eighteen Lives brings together eighteen further accounts from communities living beside the fog.

Nine Better Versions follows borrowed lives, corrected memories, improved grief and the quiet arrangements people make at the edge of the fog.

All four collections are available to read online and download as EPUB and PDF editions.

Grandmother Elowen's Tales from Beyond the Marsh gathers twelve quiet folktales about promises, names, thresholds and the rules that keep a household safe. It is available to read online and as illustrated and light EPUB and PDF editions.

Sir Cardevane and the Green Fog is a twenty-case record kept by the knight's clerk, Bartholomew. It is available to read online and as illustrated and light EPUB editions and illustrated and light PDF editions.

Inspector Machen and the Green Fog: Six Cases from the Green Fog Coast follows mysteries in which ordinary crimes drift toward stranger causes and the evidence rarely remains still. It is available to read online and as illustrated and light EPUB and PDF editions.

In preparation

Further transmissions gathers additional records from uncertain places, subject to recovery, verification and weather.