Brian Howell (born 1961) is a British author and teacher living and working near Tokyo, Japan. He has published three novels and one short story collection since 1990. His first novel, The Dance of Geometry, and his first collection, The Sound of White Ants, were both reviewed favourably by Toby Lichtig in The London Magazine. His novels focus on Dutch seventeenth-century painters with an interest in optical devices. His stories have elements of the weird, fantasy, and magical realism.
Novels The Dance of Geometry, The Toby Press, 2002 The Curious Case of Jan Torrentius, Zagava (Düsseldorf, Germany), 2017 Sight Unseen, Zagava, 2019
Collections The Sound of White Ants, Elastic Press, 2004 The Stream and The Torrent: The Curious Case of Jan Torrentius and The Followers of the Rosy Cross, Vol.1, Zagava (Düsseldorf, Germany), 2014 [An earlier collection of novellas which later appeared in a slightly different format in the 2017 novel, The Curious Case of Jan Torrentius.
The Man Who Loved Kuras, Salt, 2022.
https://www.saltpublishing.com/collections/brian-howell/products/the-man-who-loved-kuras-and-other-stories-9781784632618
Selected other fiction The Vanishing Point, Darklands 1, Hodder, UK, 1991 A Friend in the Country, The European, 1993 Dutch Interior, Panurge 19, 1993 The Window, Critical Quarterly, 1993 Meeting Julie Christie, Time Out Net Books, 1995 Green To Blue, The Third Alternative, 2000 New York Movie, Linnaean Street, 2002 The Removal, Carriage House Review, 2002 Alsiso, The Alsiso Project, 2004 Indulgence, Smokelong Quarterly, 2004 Disappearing, FRIGG, 2005 The Counterfeit Smile, The Paumanok Review, 2005 The Study of Sleep, eNovella, Wind River Press, 2005 The Transfer, Night Train, 2008 The Sermon, Night Train, 2008 The Tower, Elasticity: The Best of Elastic Press, ed. Andrew Hook, 2017 The Shore, Infra Noir, 2018 The Mask, Milk, 2017 (reprinted in Best British Short Stories 2018, ed. Nicholas Royle, 2018
References
External links Article on Vermeer-inspired novels Historical Novel Society review of The Dance of Geometry Review of The Curious Case of Jan Torrentius in Seventeenth Century News Author interview on Bibliophage website