Stan Rogal

• Apr-2022
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A ghostly tale of family ties and madness.A young man, Ray, returns to where he was born, Weyburn, SK, after several years traveling anonymously around the country. He's recently been suffering from frightening nightmares and he feels they may have s...

• May-2020
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The novel explores issues such as political correctness/cultural sensitivity, personal and private space, social media, freedom of speech, huckster media, the notion of originality, and most especially the nature of humour itself -- what makes someth...

• Jun-2019
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This film noir novel begins with the Chilean government wanting to celebrate the life and work of the supposedly deceased Roberto Bolaño until they get an anonymous tip that he may still be alive and lurking. Afraid that he’ll show up and ruin ...

• Oct-2018
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A Rogue's Decameron consists of ten stories - tales - that loosely follow the fabliaux style and are based within the spirit of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and Boccaccio's The Decameron: extravagance, joy and ribald humour around sex, lust, vice, ...

• Feb-2018
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normalwhats'normal is a collection of stories which explores the notion of normalcy, both in content and form, when it comes to certain human relationships and behaviours in our culture. The stories are of mixed genre (even genre-bending: realism, ma...

• May-2016
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Mike Hanson is surprised to inherit his aunt’s farmhouse in rural Abbey, Saskatchewan. Even more surprising are the terms of the will: To keep the house, Mike must live there for three years, pursuing his long-abandoned dream of becoming an artist....

• Apr-2014
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Acclaimed poet and author Stan Rogal's newest collection of short stories will drag you into a mesmeric, macabre world of fragile characters dealing with crippling obsessions. Befriend a pitiful prostitute; watch a man's curiosity choke out his life;...

• Nov-2011
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Bloodline (a haunted crime story) is noir-style novel set in the suburbs of a mid-size North American city. The plot concerns a series of murders that involve young, female hitchhikers along a stretch of mountain highway. A string of coincidences, sh...

• Oct-2011
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A dark stretch of mountain highway. A lone hitchhiker. A car stops. When Peter Donaldson hears about the girls who are turning up dead in ditches, hes horrified. Who wouldnt be? When Detectives Johnson and Mallory hear another body has been found, th...

• Oct-2007
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As Good As Dead is a cautionary tale about an unknown writer "living in the bowels of anonymity" who suddenly hits it big with a novel-turned-movie deal. On his quick trip to fame, Vic stops along the way to comment on celebrity, marketing machines, ...

• Oct-2002
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If the ghosts of Woody Allen and David Mamet were available (at this early date) to float through the fiction of one writer, that writer would have to be Stan Rogal. In linked short stories imbued with wry humor, brutally frank honesty and causti...

• Sep-1999
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• Mar-1999
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What do two gay middle-aged hit men, a pathological interior designer, a gun-toting donut shop manager and an idiot savant child have in common? They are about to find out.Beginning from vastly different geographical and emotional points, a diverse g...

• Apr-1998
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This is Rogal's second short story collection. Here the reader returns to Rogal's Kafkaesque world of the bizarre. His nimble and energetic writing, coupled with a brittle rhythm, lead the reader down the dark corridors of these stories. Rogal's writ...