He began publishing stories inside 1989, and number one come to wider notice using a post-cyberpunk novel Dead Girls (1992). Dead Girls expanded into an acclaimed trilogy of books, for which he was in comparison William Gibson, J.G. Ballard and Alfred Bester. A Edge said: "Richard Calder's 'Dead' trilogy was perhaps the most extraordinary of the many post-cyberpunk science fictions." Inside 2004 Dead Girls was reportedly under stock to the film production company.

Since 1992, he has produced the farther septet novels, & astir twenty short stories. The notable theme going across his act is agalmatophiliac male lust for young female gynoids, when well as a darker undercurrents of British national culture. His novels & stories develop links & plot overlaps between the single an additional, & together form a mythos. His "epic masterpiece" ("Reading Richard Calder", Claude Lalumière) is said to be Malignos (2000).

He cites when inspirations Angela Carter and Georges Bataille, among others.