Richard Calder (born 1956) is a British science fiction writer who lives and works in the East End of London.

A theme running through his work (such as in the 'Dead' trilogy) is agalmatophiliac male lust for young female gynoids, as well as the darker undercurrents of British national culture.

He was interviewed in the magazine Interzone in August 2001 about the theme of escape and his own attempts to break away from "the physical and psychological constraints of the cloying suburbia of his childhood."

He said: The quest for metaphysical, or psychological homeland you mention, a place of fulfilment seems to end, for my heroes and heroines, in a debacle often involving some apocalyptic rendering of the world.

It is illustrated by Filipino artist Leonardo M Giron who was introduced to Richard Calder by Terry Martin, the editor of the quarterly magazine Murky Depths.