series. "The Prevaricator" (First published in F&SF, July–August 2018) "The Friends of Masquelayne the Incomparable" (First published in The Book of Magic, October 2018) A God in Chains (2019) "The Last Legend" (First published in F&SF, March–April 2020) The Ghost-Wrangler (working title, TBC) To Hell and Back To Hell and Back is a contemporary fantasy trilogy about mild-mannered actuary and superhero fan Chesney Arnstruther, who causes chaos in the spiritual realm when he accidentally summons a demon and refuses to sell his soul. His actions cause Hell to go on strike but also provide Chesney with an opportunity to live out his comic book fantasies. The Damned Busters (2011) "Hell of a Fix" (an early version of the first three chapters of The Damned Busters, first published in F&SF, December 2009) Costume Not Included (2012) Hell to Pay (2013) Demon Princes Hughes's authorised sequel to Jack Vance's Demon Princes quintilogy, Barbarians of the Beyond, was released by Spatterlight Press. The book was published in the "Paladins of Vance" series, a line dedicating to preserving Vance's legacy by permitting authors to create new stories about new characters in Vance's worlds, avoiding the commodified "Frankensteinian reanimation" of characters Hughes criticised in posthumous continuations of series such those by Robert B. Parker. Hence rather than continuing the story of Vance's protagonist Kirth Gersen, Hughes's novel instead focuses on the new character Morwen Sabine, whose parents were enslaved in the Demon Princes' Mount Pleasant Massacre, as she returns to their much changed homeworld seeking a treasure she could use to buy her parents' freedom. The critic James Nicoll positively received the book as a "worthy companion to Vance's series" which was also accessible to readers who hadn't read the original Vance books. An audiobook narrated by Gabrielle de Cuir was released by Skyboat Media in February 2022. Barbarians of the Beyond (2021) Standalone novels Hughes has called his 2019 magic realist historical novel What the Wind Brings his "magnum opus". It was inspired by a footnote Hughes read in a university textbook in 1971, which described how African slaves shipwrecked on the coast of Ecuador in the mid 16th century created a mixed society with the indigenous peoples and successfully "outfought and out-thought" the conquistadors to gain their independence. Hughes was unable to pursue the idea at the time due to the lack of English-language scholarship but forty years later a Canada Council grant