Librarian note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name Christopher Fowler was an English novelist living in London. His books contain elements of black comedy, anxiety and social satire. As well as novels, he wrote short stories, scripts, press articles and reviews. He lived in King's Cross, on the Battlebridge Basin, and chose London as the backdrop of many of his stories because any one of the events in its two-thousand-year history can provide inspiration. In 1998 he was the recipient of the BFS Best Short Story of the Year, for 'Wageslaves'. Then, in 2004, The Water Room was nominated for the CWA People's Choice Award, Full Dark House won the BFS August Derleth Novel of The Year Award 2004 and 'American Waitress' won the BFS Best Short Story of the Year 2004. The novella 'Breathe' won BFS Best Novella 2005.
Series
Books
The Sand Men
2015
Flesh Wounds
1995
England's Finest
Stories
2019
The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories
2008
Personal Demons
1998
Calabash
2000
Roofworld
1988
Breathe
2004
Bryant & May On the Loose
2009
The Lady Downstairs
2005
Reconciliation Day
2016
Rune
1990
Hall of Mirrors
2018
Plastic
2013
Hell Train
2011
The Lonely Hour
2019
Soho Black
1998
Bryant & May and the Memory of Blood
2011
Seventy-Seven Clocks
2005
London's Glory
2015
The Invisible Code
2012
Fearie Tales
Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome
2013
The Bureau of Lost Souls
1989
Bryant & May's Mystery Tour
2011
Film Freak
2013
Crimewave 7
The Last Sunset
2003
London Bridge is Falling Down
2021
Paperboy
2009
City Jitters
1986
Ten Second Staircase
2006
Invisible Ink
How 100 Great Authors Disappeared
2012
Red Bride
1994
The Book of Forgotten Authors
2017
Bryant & May and The Bleeding Heart
2014
Darkest Day
1993
Bryant & May and the Burning Man
2015
Spanky
1994
Cursed
2020
Word Monkey
2023
The Devil in Me
2001
Bryant & May and the Secret Santa
2015
The Casebook of Bryant & May
2012
Bryant & May
Peculiar London
2022
The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror
2021
Full Dark House
2003
Black Static Issue 1
2007
Sharper Knives
1992
Oranges and Lemons
2020
Wild Chamber
2017
Nyctophobia
2014
Urban Gothic
Lacuna and Other Trips
2001
Story Behind the Book
Volume 3
2014
Hot Water
2022
More City Jitters
1988
White Corridor
2007
Oh I do Like to be Beside the Seaside
2012
Red Gloves
2011
The Victoria Vanishes
2008
Off the Rails
2010
Strange Tide
2016
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror
Sixth Annual Collection
1993
Psychoville
1995
The Water Room
2004
Demonized
2004
Old Devil Moon
2008
