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For other people named Christopher Fowler, see Christopher Fowler (disambiguation).
Christopher Fowler (born 1953) is an English thriller writer. In addition to his numerous horror, satire and crime novels, he has also written a Sherlock Holmes audio drama for BBC 7 entitled The Lady Downstairs. He was born in Greenwich, London.
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Bryant and May Mysteries
He is the author of the Bryant and May mysteries, in which the two detectives, Arthur Bryant and John May, are members of the fictional Peculiar Crimes Unit. The series includes: Full Dark House, The Water Room, Seventy-Seven Clocks, Ten Second Staircase, White Corridor, The Victoria Vanishes, Bryant & May On the Loose and Bryant & May Off the Rails. A ninth novel, titled Bryant & May and the Memory of Blood, was released in hardback on 29th September 2011.
Seventy-Seven Clocks contains references to Gilbert and Sullivan throughout the narrative, while The Victoria Vanishes has vague similarities with The Moving Toyshop by Edmund Crispin.
Other novels and short stories
His book Rune is an update to a modern setting of the M. R. James story Casting the Runes. It also features Bryant, May, and several characters from that series.
His story "The Master Builder" was filmed as Through the Eyes of a Killer,[1] starring Richard Dean Anderson, Marg Helgenberger and Tippi Hedren. His tenth short story collection, Old Devil Moon, won the Edge Hill Audience Prize 2008.
His novella Breathe, published by Telos Publishing Ltd., won the British Fantasy Society Award for best novella in 2005.[2]
Novels and collections
How to Impersonate Famous People 1984 ISBN 0-7043-3463-1 The Ultimate Party Book 1985 ISBN 0-04-793087-X City Jitters 1986 ISBN 0-7221-3704-4 City Jitters 2 Roofworld 1988 ISBN 0-7126-2421-X The Bureau of Lost Souls (US: "More City Jitters") 1989 ISBN 0-7126-2459-7 Rune 1990 ISBN 0-7126-3466-5 Red Bride 1992 ISBN 0-356-20805-2 Sharper Knives 1992 ISBN 0-7515-0152-2 Darkest Day 1993 ISBN 0-316-90534-8 Spanky 1994 ISBN 0-7515-0959-0 Flesh Wounds 1995 ISBN 0-7515-1431-4 Psychoville 1995 ISBN 0-7515-1664-3 Menz Insana (graphic novel - illustrator: John Bolton) ISBN 1-56389-300-2 Disturbia 1998 ISBN 0-7515-1909-X Soho Black 1998 ISBN 0-7515-2559-6 Personal Demons 1998 ISBN 1-85242-597-0 Uncut 1999 ISBN 0-7515-2644-4 Calabash 2000 ISBN 0-7515-3040-9 The Devil in Me 2004 ISBN 1-85242-768-X Demonized 2004 ISBN 1-85242-848-1 Full Dark House 2004 ISBN 0-553-81552-0 Breathe 2004 ISBN 1-903889-67-7 The Water Room 2004 ISBN 0-385-60554-4 Seventy-Seven Clocks 2005 ISBN 0-385-60885-3 Ten Second Staircase 2006 ISBN 0-385-60886-1 Old Devil Moon 2007 ISBN 978-1-852-42925-6 White Corridor 2007 ISBN 978-0-385-61067-4 The Victoria Vanishes 2008 ISBN 978-0-385-61068-1 Paperboy (autobiography) 2009 ISBN 978-0-385-61557-0 Bryant & May On The Loose[3] 2009 ISBN 978-0-385-61465-8 Bryant & May Off the Rails[4] 2010 ISBN 978-0553807202 Forgotten Authors series
Fowler writes a periodic column for the Independent newspaper titled Forgotten Authors. In this series, he looks at a wide range of writers whose works, once popular, have now fallen out of the public eye.
References
- ^ Through the Eyes of a Killer at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ "The British Fantasy Awards". http://www.britishfantasysociety.org.uk/info/bfsawards.htm.
- ^ ""Bryant & May: Death Or Glory?", the author's blog, August 24th, 2008". http://www.christopherfowler.co.uk/blog/?p=74.
- ^ ""Bryant & May Return in Two-Book Deal", the author's blog, March 18th, 2009". http://www.christopherfowler.co.uk/blog/?p=1018.
External links
- Christopher Fowler's web site
- BBC Sherlock Holmes site There is a short story The Lady Downstairs written by Fowler which can be read or heard.
- Christopher Fowler at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
See also
- List of horror fiction authors
Categories:- 1953 births
- Living people
- English horror writers
- English writer stubs
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