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Christopher Fowler

Christopher Fowler would make a good serial killer. He's charming and English and lives in a white penthouse with a view of St Paul’s Cathedral, and you'd think butter wouldn't melt in his mouth until you read his dark urban fiction — 17 novels and over 120 short stories so far.
His œuvre divides into black comedy, horror, mystery, the odd revolting death and a set of novels unclassifiable enough to have publishers tearing their hair out. Emerging from a film industry background, he has come painfully close to having movies made of his novels Roofworld, Spanky, Psychoville and Calabash, but oddly it was his short story “The Master Builder” that became a film called Through the Eyes of a Killer, starring Tippi Hedren and Marg Helgenberger.
He is currently writing the ‘Bryant & May’ mysteries, featuring two elderly, argumentative detectives, but his latest book, Paperboy is autobiographical. His graphic novel for DC Comics was the critically acclaimed Menz Insana.
He also achieved three pathetic schoolboy fantasies, releasing a pop single, being used as the model for a Batman villain, and acting as a stand-in for James Bond.

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British writer (1953–2023)

Born 1953
Died 3 March 2023

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  • Cover of: I Shudder At Your Touch: 22 Tales of Sex and Horror
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    Cover of edition ishudderatyourto0000unse Cover of edition ishudderatyourto0000mich Cover of edition ishudderatyourto0000unse_q5b1 Cover of edition 22histoiresdesex0000step Cover of edition ishudderatyourto0000unse_t0c5 First published in 1991 — 12 editions
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    First published in 1989 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: Red bride
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    First published in 1992 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: Seventy-Seven Clocks: A Bryant & May Mystery (Bryant & May Mysteries)

    First published in 2005 — 4 editions
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    First published in 2007 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: City Jitters
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    First published in 1986 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Darkest day
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    First published in 1993 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Demonized: short stories
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    First published in 2003 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: The devil in me: short stories
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    First published in 2001 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Bryant & May on the loose: a Peculiar Crimes Unit mystery

    First published in 2009 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Ten second staircase
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  • Cover of: Seventy-seven clocks
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  • Cover of: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection
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    First published in 1998 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Full dark house
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  • Cover of: The Victoria Vanishes: A Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery
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    First published in 2008 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: The water room

    First published in 2005 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: How to impersonate famous people
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    First published in 1984 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Roofworld
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British writer (1953–2023)

Born 1953
Died 3 March 2023

Subjects

Fiction, Police, Arthur Bryant (Fictitious character), John May (Fictitious character), Mystery, London (england), fiction, English Horror tales, Fiction, general, Fiction, horror, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Crimes against, Serial murderers, Bars (Drinking establishments), Detectives, Fiction, short stories (single author), Horror tales, Investigation, Large type books, Murder, Subways, Artists, Criminals, fiction, Fantasy fiction, Romans, nouvelles

Places

England, London, London (England), Chiswick

People

Christopher Fowler, Holmes, Sherlock (Personnage fictif), Sherlock Holmes

Time

20th century

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May 17, 2024 Edited by abjectreptile Edited without comment.
April 22, 2024 Edited by MARC Bot adding https:// to link URL
April 22, 2024 Edited by MARC Bot move website to links
September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import