Christopher Fowler Books In Order
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Full Dark House | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Water Room | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Seventy-Seven Clocks | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Ten Second Staircase | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
White Corridor | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Victoria Vanishes | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Bryant & May on the Loose | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Off the Rails | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Memory of Blood | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Bryant & May's Mystery Tour | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Invisible Code | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Bleeding Heart | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Secret Santa | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Burning Man | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Strange Tide | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Wild Chamber | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Hall of Mirrors | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Lonely Hour | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
England’s Finest | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Oranges and Lemons | (2020) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
London Bridge Is Falling Down | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Bryant & May's Mystery Tour is a novella set between On the Loose and Off the Rails. |
Publication Order of Bryant & May Collections
London's Glory | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
England’s Finest | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Bryant & May Graphic Novels
The Casebook of Bryant & May: The Soho Devil | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Bryant & May Companion Books
Peculiar London | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Hellion Books
The Curse of Snakes | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Roofworld | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Rune | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Red Bride | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Darkest Day | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Spanky | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Psychoville | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Disturbia | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Soho Black | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Calabash | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Plastic | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Breathe | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Hell Train | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Nyctophobia | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Sand Men | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Hot Water | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Wage Slaves | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Green Man | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
American Waitress | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Spider Kiss | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Beautiful Men | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
#ChooseThePlot | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Bryant & May and the Nameless Woman | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Reconciliation Day | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Washing | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
The Bureau of Lost Souls | (1984) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
City Jitters | (1986) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
More City Jitters | (1988) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Flesh Wounds | (1989) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Sharper Knives | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Personal Demons | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Uncut | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Devil in Me | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Demonized | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Old Devil Moon | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Red Gloves | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Red Gloves Volume I & II | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Graphic Novels
Menz Insana | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
How to Impersonate Famous People | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Ultimate Party Book | (1985) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Paperboy | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Invisible Ink | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Film Freak | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Book of Forgotten Authors | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Publication Order of Bibliomysteries Books
Chronological Order of Bibliomysteries Books
Publication Order of Anthologies
Drabble II: Double Century | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mammoth Book of Vampires | (1992) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Giant Book of Zombies | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Best New Horror 4 | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mammoth Book of Zombies | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Giant Book of Terror | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Best New Horror 5 | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Dark Terrors | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 7 | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Dark Terrors 3 | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Destination Unknown | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Secret City | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Dark of the Night | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 8 | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mammoth Book of Dracula | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Dark Terrors 4 | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Eleventh Annual Collection | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 9 | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10 | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Dark Terrors 5 | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Urban Gothic: Lacuna and Other Trips | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #12 | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13 | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Dark Terrors 6 | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Fifteenth Annual Collection | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mammoth Book of New Terror | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15 | (2004) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Shrouded by Darkness: Tales of Terror | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The British Fantasy Society: A Celebration | (2006) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Best New Horror 18 | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Summer Chills | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mammoth Book of Monsters | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Best New Horror 19 | (2008) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Best New Horror 20 | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 7 | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Sounds Of Crime | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Back from the Dead: The Legacy of the Pan Book of Horror Stories | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Zombie Apocalypse! | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The End of the Line | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Visitants | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Crimewave 11 | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Haunts: Reliquaries of the Dead | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
House of Fear | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Full Fathom Forty | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Best New Horror 22 | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mammoth Book of Body Horror | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Pandemonium: Stories of the Smoke | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Four For Fear | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Mammoth Books Presents Demonic Dreams | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Best New Horror 23 | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane | (2012) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Dark World: Ghost Stories | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Fearie Tales | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013 | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Psychomania: Killer Stories | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Deadly Pleasures | (2013) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Kneeling in the Silver Light: Stories from the Great War | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Interzone 258, May-June 2015 | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Future of Horror | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Monstrous | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Darker Terrors 7 | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
In the Footsteps of Dracula | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Invisible Blood | (2019) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Body Shocks | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
Reports from the Deep End | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon |
The British literature landscape has witnessed a number of crime fiction writers. One of the most established British thriller writers is Christopher Fowler who is popularly known for dark urban fiction. He has developed a writing niche in crime novel writing, having understood the anatomy of the underworld of the various gangs in London city. Born in 1953, he was passionate about the crime fiction in the city of London.
At one point of his life, Fowler wrote comedy and drama for the BBC. He has spent many years working in the film industry. For example, in 1978, he formed “The Creative Partnership” a commercial production company and consequently worked for three years on horror films in Los Angeles. This has made him accumulate vast experience in horror films.
His writing career was conceived in 1984 and runs to the present. He reads a lot of books written by both established and debut authors. He says that he can do a panel with a certain author and then buy all of his or her books in order to experience the literary contribution of other authors. Currently, the author writes a column of The Independent which illuminates the lives of authors who were once famous but their popularity faded with time. He lives in London with frequent visits to Barcelona.
Writing Style
Christopher Fowler writes short stories, novels, reviews, scripts, and press articles. The works of Christopher Fowler are characterized by black comedy and anxiety. In addition to that, they are characterized by social satire. His novels depict shadows that have mystifying figures. He prefers developing plot and settings from events he is quite familiar with.
Fowler’s main principle during childhood was to concentrate on one thing, do it well, and not concentrate on the other things. His argument is that such a thing helps one to dedicate optimal energy, resources, and time in order to give the best, high quality, and high impact results.
Fowler says that he has purposely chosen London as the source of his inspiration. This is because its two thousand years’ history offers a rich historical events which can form the foundation of a rich story. However, he does not confine himself to London alone. He says that he has bought a flat in Barcelona and thus there is all the likelihood that Spain will feature in his upcoming works which are being conceived and developed.
He does not have a standard formula for plots and stories. Rather, he says that he needs to feed raw data all the time. This is achieved through traveling a lot. Moreover, talking to other people such as the detectives helps him come up with more authentic and timeless stories.
His unique writing style, amazing stories, and commitment to writing have enabled him win several awards. For example, is work Paperboy, won the inaugural Green Carnation Prize. Though Fowler does not have the taste and mind of science fiction, it is one genre that he wished he had. Having said that, he wishes to go to fantasy novels.
Roofworld
Roofworld is a story of secrecy and how The group lives high above London, in the roof tops of the city. The group has a bizarre code of honor and an occultist following among its members. Only a few people below the street know about the group. However, their secret activities is threatened from within due to a leadership wrangle. To make it more dramatic, two outsiders, Robert and Rose, are drawn into the world of the group. This was through Robert’s official line of duty in a film production company which requires them to locate novels which can be adapted to a film. This leads to an unimaginable terror and a control of London.
The police are not in an easy position to understand the nature of the war that has broken in the roof top. As deaths from the rooftop continue being recorded, the police take a bold action of investigating the causes of the murders. Chymes is the leader of the cult. He is not only violent but also mysterious and evil.
The book is endowed with a clever plot and Fowler goes to a great length in order to create something believable. The use of the famous London landmark is the icing on the cake. In addition to that, Fowler gives a social commentary on the life of the homeless and the dispossessed, a phenomena which continues to be relevant till today.
Hell Train
The story of four passengers whiose coincidental meeting on a train is the basis of this story. The four passengers must cooperate in order to unearth a number of mysteries in the train in order to survive. The mystery revolves around Arkangel and what is not known about him, the strange casket, the army brigadier, and the Red Countess.
In regard to this, the four passengers cannot understand why everyone seems to fear the casket. Their curiosity drives them to seek answers. Similarly, the army brigadier is well feared man. They want to know the cause of that. Perhaps, it is Arrkangel who is the epitome of mystety.
The action and the dialogue of the book pushes the reader to read quickly. In addition to that, the author keenly crafts the events of the plot, vividly capturing the details of characters and events. Most importantly, the thrill and the suspense makes the reader to read more of Fowler’s works.
Movies and Film
Fowler does not see anything good with Hollywood movies. He says that he cannot stand them. However, he is optimistic about world cinema and says that it will produce great films based on the books.
Fowler argues that video games can create faithful adaptation of popular novels. He therefore challenges key players in the gaming industry to adapt popular novels to video games.
Conclusion
Fowler writes about desperate people in desperate situations and their eventual response to their predicament. The fact that he uses familiar settings makes the reader relate to his stories. To sum it all, Fowler’s competency in crime fiction makes his various works outstanding.
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