Dale L. Sproule is a writer who has published over 50 short stories in a wide range of media.
In the late 90’s he co-published/edited a magazine called TransVersions – Literature of the Fantastic, with his then-wife, Sally McBride. Our poetry editor was Governor General Award winning poet, Phyllis Gotlieb. The magazine sought out work that came at the genre sideways and published work by a wide range of amazing voices, including Gemma Files, Jeff VanderMeer, James Sallis, David Nickle, Stepan Chapman, Robert Sawyer, Hayden Trenholm, Eileen Kernaghan, Sean Stewart, Tom Piccarilli, and D.F. Lewis.
He has been privileged to interview some amazing writers including William Gibson and James Morrow; and has published dozens of non-fiction articles for venues ranging from SF Signal to Books in Canada, from AE Science Fiction to Rue Morgue.
DLSproule is the alter-ego that Dale uses for his stone sculpture, painting and other artwork. Visit http://sculptorstouch.com
Bibliography
Dale L. Sproule : Selected Bibliography
Collection from Arctic Mage Publishing
17 stories including five original to this collection
The Human Template (novel)
Arctic Mage Press – November 2020
“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
“Grimmersion”
Portents (Magazine) – 1988
“Unhoused” (poem)
2 AM (Magazine) – 1988
“Pick-up Artists” (poem)
The Nightmare Express (Magazine) – 1989
“Rock”
EOTU (Magazine) 1989,
Best of EOTU (Anthology) 1990
“On Fire for You, Baby”
Standing Stone (Magazine) 1991
“Zenocide” (poem)
The Nightmare Express (Magazine) – 1991
“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
“Ring of Fire” NorthWords Science-Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Magazine 1996
“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
“The Ones Your Mother Gives You”
Black Treacle #9 (E-magazine) 2015
“Along Dominion Road”
The Colored Lens (Magazine) Autumn 2015
“The Unravelling”
Strange Mysteries 7 (Anthology) 2016
“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
“Two Yurts”
Hidden Animals: A Collection of Cryptids
Dragon’s Roost Press TBP 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”
Emanations #9: When a Planet was a Planet 2021
“The Night Reclaims Its Shadows”
Theme of Absence Jan 2022
“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
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
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
How to Find a Job in Canada (Non-Fiction Book) with Efim Cheinis Oxford University Press 2008
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 NFG Magazine – 2 covers 2003-2004Kissing Carrion(Prime Books)/The Worm in Every Heart (Prime Books) by Gemma Files Covers 2003/2006Psychedelia Gothique 2013
Plus illos in DeathRealm, Noctulpa, Scavengers Newsletter, Portents and many others.