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.
Christopher Fowler
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- March 26, 1953
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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.
Books by Christopher Fowler
Stephen King, Stephen R. Donaldson, Clive Barker, Disch, Thomas M., Ruth Rendell, Angela Carter, Valerie Martin, Christopher Fowler, Michael Blumlein, Michele B. Slung, Haydn Middleton, T. L. Parkinson, Ronald Duncan, May Sinclair, Patrick McGrath, Robert G. Ackman, Carolyn Banks, Robert Hichens, Harriet Zinnes, R. Murray Gilchrist, Jonathan Carroll, Eric P. McCormack, Hugh B. Cave: I Shudder at Your Touch (Penguin Audiobooks) (AudiobookFormat, 1994, Penguin Audiobooks)
I Shudder at Your Touch (Penguin Audiobooks)
by Stephen King, Stephen R. Donaldson, Clive Barker, and 20 others
