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Christopher Fowler

Fowler, Christopher

March 26, 1953 – March 2, 2023 (aged 69)

Birth place: Greenwich, London, England, UK

140 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
February 1976 14.5 Essay A Short Column BSFA Newsletter, #3
February 1976 22 Essay Publication and Distribution Officer's Report (BSFA Newsletter 3) BSFA Newsletter, #3
February 1976 24 Essay The Towering Airbug Juggerquake - Cert Z BSFA Newsletter, #3
October 1981 5 Interview The Last Rebel: An Interview with M. John Harrison Foundation, #23 October 1981
June 1985 46|46.1 Review Daybreak on a Different Mountain Interzone, Summer 1985
October 1986 Review City Jitters Paperback Inferno, #62
April 1989 19 Review Roofworld Vector 149
November 1989 36 Short Fiction Jumbo Portions Fear, November 1989
November 1989 22 Review The Bureau of Lost Souls Fear, November 1989
January 1990 63 Review Roofworld Interzone, January-February 1990
January 1990 18 Review The Bureau of Lost Souls Locus, #348 January 1990
February 1990 18 Review The Bureau of Lost Souls Vector 154
December 1990 12 Review Rune Vector 158
December 1990 13 Review The Bureau of Lost Souls Paperback Inferno, #87
1991 52 Review Rune Science Fiction Review, Summer 1991
January 1991 27 Review Rune Locus, #360 January 1991
January 1991 67|67.3 Review Rune Interzone, January 1991
September 1991 58 Review Rune Interzone, September 1991
January 1992 19 Interview Talking Fowler Language Interzone, January 1992
May 1992 13 Short Fiction Dale and Wayne Go Shopping Peeping Tom, May 1992
March 1993 63 Review Red Bride Fangoria, March 1993
April 1993 30|30.1 Review Red Bride Science Fiction Chronicle, #161 April 1993
April 1993 Review Sharper Knives Vector 172
June 1993 20 Review Darkest Day Vector 173
June 1993 31 Review Red Bride Vector 173
July 1993 64|64.5 Review Darkest Day Interzone, July 1993
July 1993 65|65.1 Review Sharper Knives Interzone, July 1993
June 1994 57 Review Darkest Day All Hallows, June 1994
August 1994 34 Review Darkest Day Vector 180
November 1994 59|59.6 Review Spanky Interzone, November 1994
1995 Review Spanky Vector 182 Spring 1995
1995 24 Interview The Black Tears Interview with Christopher Fowler Black Tears, #7
February 1995 57 Review Spanky All Hallows, February 1995
July 1995 94 Review Spanky SFX, #2
November 1995 19 Review Psychoville The Edge, Vol. 2, #1, November 1995
November 1995 9 Interview Sharper Knives: Christopher Fowler The Edge, Vol. 2, #1, November 1995
December 1995 Review Psychoville Vector 186
March 1996 23 Review Psychoville Locus, #422 March 1996
May 1996 17 Essay What You Don't See Can't Hurt You... The Edge, Vol. 2, #3, May-June 1996
June 1996 54 Review Flesh Wounds Interzone, June 1996
June 1996 54 Review Psychoville Interzone, June 1996
August 1996 Review Psychoville Vector 188
October 1996 76|76.02 Review Psychoville Science Fiction Chronicle, #190 October 1996
May 1997 17 Short Fiction The Man Who Wound a Thousand Clocks The Edge, Vol. 2, #4, 1997
May 1997 25 Essay The View from the Balcony: An All-Media Horror Overview The Edge, Vol. 2, #4, 1997
August 1997 5 Essay Letter (The Edge 5 August-September 1997) The Edge, Vol. 2, #5, August-September 1997
August 1997 11 Essay The View from the Balcony (The Edge, Vol. 2, #5) The Edge, Vol. 2, #5, August-September 1997
December 1997 11 Essay The View from the Balcony (The Edge, Vol. 2, #6) The Edge, Vol. 2, #6, December 1997-January 1998
January 1998 57 Review Disturbia Interzone, January 1998
May 1998 6 Essay The View from the Balcony (The Edge, Vol. 2, #7) The Edge, Vol. 2, #7, May/June 1998
October 1998 29 Essay The View from the Balcony (The Edge, Vol. 3, #1) The Edge, Vol. 3, #1, 1998
November 1998 61 Review Personal Demons Interzone, November 1998
November 1998 60 Review Soho Black Interzone, November 1998
October 1999 6 Essay The View from the Balcony (The Edge, Vol. 3, #2) The Edge, Vol. 3, #2, 1999
October 1999 61 Review Uncut The Zone and Premonitions, Autumn 1999
2000 38 Review Calabash The Third Alternative, #25
January 2000 23 Review Uncut Vector 209
2001 36 Essay Electric Darkness (The Third Alternative, #26) The Third Alternative, #26
2001 36 Essay Electric Darkness (The Third Alternative, #27) The Third Alternative, #27
March 2001 3 Short Fiction The Look The Urbanite, Spring 2001
June 2001 116 Short Fiction Crocodile Lady Crimewave 5: Dark Before Dawn
September 2001 40 Essay Electric Darkness (The Third Alternative, Autumn 2001) The Third Alternative, Autumn 2001
2002 40 Essay Electric Darkness (The Third Alternative, #29) The Third Alternative, #29
2002 38 Essay Electric Darkness (The Third Alternative, Autumn 2002) The Third Alternative, Autumn 2002
2002 38 Essay Electric Darkness (The Third Alternative, Spring-July 31, 2002) The Third Alternative, Spring-July 31, 2002
2002 40 Essay Electric Darkness (The Third Alternative, Summer 2002) The Third Alternative, Summer 2002
2002 34 Short Fiction The Green Man The Third Alternative, Summer 2002
2003 32 Essay Electric Darkness (The Third Alternative, Autumn 2003) The Third Alternative, Autumn 2003
2003 34 Essay Electric Darkness (The Third Alternative, Spring 2003) The Third Alternative, Spring 2003
2003 34 Essay Electric Darkness (The Third Alternative, Summer 2003) The Third Alternative, Summer 2003
2003 32 Essay Electric Darkness (The Third Alternative, Winter 2003) The Third Alternative, Winter 2003
June 2003 162 Short Fiction American Waitress Crimewave 7: The Last Sunset
2004 3 Essay Dancing in the Dark Postscripts, #1 Spring
2004 64 Review Demonized: Short Stories The Third Alternative, Summer 2004
2004 34 Essay Electric Darkness (The Third Alternative, Spring 2004) The Third Alternative, Spring 2004
2004 32 Essay Electric Darkness (The Third Alternative, Summer 2004) The Third Alternative, Summer 2004
2004 32 Interview Everyone Has to Do It The Third Alternative, Autumn 2004
December 2004 79 Essay 'Salem's Lot - The Mini-Series (movie review) The Horror Express, Winter 2004
December 2004 71 Interview An Interview with Christopher Fowler The Horror Express, Winter 2004
December 2004 65 Short Fiction Lost in Leicester Square The Horror Express, Winter 2004
December 2004 80 Essay Secret Window (movie review) The Horror Express, Winter 2004
December 2004 80 Essay The Stepford Wives (movie review) The Horror Express, Winter 2004
December 2004 78 Review The Water Room The Horror Express, Winter 2004
January 2005 132 Review Demonized Asimov's Science Fiction, January 2005
2007 6 Short Fiction The Twilight Express Postscripts, Winter 2007
March 2007 162 Short Fiction The Luxury of Harm Postscripts, Spring 2007
April 2007 5 Essay 25 IZ (25 Years of Interzone) Interzone, April 2007
September 2007 100 Essay Interference: Comfortably Dumb Black Static Horror Magazine, September-October 2007
November 2007 124 Essay Interference: What's the Big Idea? Black Static Horror Magazine, November-December 2007
November 2007 114 Review Old Devil Moon Black Static Horror Magazine, November-December 2007
January 2008 116 Essay Interference: I Am Legend Black Static Horror Magazine, January-February 2008
June 2008 38 Essay Interference (Black Static, June-July 2008) Black Static, June-July 2008
August 2008 78 Essay Interference (Black Static, August-September 2008) Black Static, August-September 2008
August 2008 151 Review The White Corridor Black Static, August-September 2008
October 2008 22 Essay Interference (Black Static, October-November 2008) Black Static, October-November 2008
December 2008 46 Essay Interference (Black Static, December 2008-January 2009) Black Static, December 2008-January 2009
February 2009 48 Essay Interference (Black Static, February-March 2009) Black Static, February-March 2009
April 2009 Essay Interference (Black Static, April-May 2009) Black Static, April-May 2009
April 2009 Short Fiction Piano Man Black Static, April-May 2009
June 2009 Essay Interference (Black Static, Issue 11 June-July 2009) Black Static, June-July 2009
August 2009 14 Essay Interference (Black Static, August-September 2009) Black Static, August-September 2009
October 2009 Essay Interference (Black Static, October-November 2009) Black Static, October-November 2009
October 2009 81 Review The Victoria Vanishes Theaker's Quarterly Fiction, #30
December 2009 Essay Interference (Black Static, December 2009-January 2010) Black Static, December 2009-January 2010
December 2009 Short Fiction The Eleventh Day Black Static, December 2009-January 2010
February 2010 Essay Interference (Black Static, February-March 2010) Black Static, February-March 2010
April 2010 28 Essay Interference (Black Static, April-May 2010) Black Static, April-May 2010
June 2010 6 Essay The Campaign for Real Fear Black Static, June-July 2010
August 2010 Essay Interference (Black Static, August-September 2010) Black Static, Issue 18 August-September 2010
October 2010 Essay Interference (Black Static, October-November 2010) Black Static, Issue 19 October-November 2010
December 2010 Essay Interference (Black Static, December 2010-January 2011) Black Static, Issue 20 December 2010-January 2011
December 2010 56 Short Fiction The Conspirators Crimewave 11: Ghosts
February 2011 Essay Interference (Black Static, Issue 21 February-March 2011) Black Static, Issue 21 February-March 2011
April 2011 Essay Interference (Black Static, Issue 22 April-May 2011) Black Static, Issue 22 April-May 2011
June 2011 Essay Interference (Black Static, Issue 23 June-July 2011) Black Static, Issue 23 June-July 2011
August 2011 Essay Interference (Black Static, Issue 24 August-September 2011) Black Static, Issue 24 August-September 2011
October 2011 Essay Interference (Black Static, Issue 25 October-November 2011) Black Static, Issue 25 October-November 2011
October 2011 Short Fiction The Curtain Parts Black Static, Issue 25 October-November 2011
December 2011 6 Essay Interference (Black Static, Issue 26 December 2011-January 2012) Black Static, Issue 26 December 2011-January 2012
February 2012 Essay Interference (Black Static, Issue 27 February-March 2012) Black Static, Issue 27 February-March 2012
April 2012 4 Essay Interference (Black Static, April-May 2012) Black Static, Issue 28 April-May 2012
June 2012 108 Review Red Gloves Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2012
July 2012 Essay Interference (Black Static, Issue 29 July-August 2012) Black Static, Issue 29 July-August 2012
September 2012 Essay Interference (Black Static, Issue 30 September-October 2012) Black Static, Issue 30 September-October 2012
September 2012 Short Fiction The Threads Tales to Terrify, No 38
November 2012 Essay Interference (Black Static, Issue 31 November-December 2012) Black Static, Issue 31 November-December 2012
2013 46 Review Hell Train Vector 273 Autumn
January 2013 Essay Interference (Black Static, Issue 32 January-February 2013) Black Static, Issue 32 January-February 2013
March 2013 Essay Interference (Black Static, Issue 33 March-April 2013) Black Static, Issue 33 March-April 2013
April 2013 83 Review Red Gloves (Volume 1: Devilry—The London Horrora and Volume II: Infernal—The World Horrors) Cemetery Dance, #69, 2013
September 2013 36 Short Fiction The Scent of Roses Black Static, Issue 36, September-October 2013
2014 41 Review Plastic Vector 276 Summer
August 2014 Short Fiction Down PodCastle, #325
April 2015 Short Fiction Oh I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside Tales to Terrify, #170
May 2015 1 Essay Freak Zone Interzone, May-June 2015
2016 51 Review The Sand Men Vector 284
January 2016 77 Review The Sand Men Interzone, January-February 2016
February 2016 |1.2 Review The Sand Men Strange Horizons, 8 February 2016
March 2016 22 Short Fiction Spine Interzone, March-April 2016
July 2016 107 Review The Sand Men Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2016

48 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
1986 Collection City Jitters Christopher Fowler
1988 Collection More City Jitters Christopher Fowler
1988 Novel Roofworld Christopher Fowler
1989 Collection The Bureau of Lost Souls Christopher Fowler
1990 Novel Rune Christopher Fowler
1992 Novel Red Bride Christopher Fowler
1992 Collection Sharper Knives Christopher Fowler
1993 Novel Darkest Day Christopher Fowler
1994 Novel Spanky Christopher Fowler
1995 Collection Flesh Wounds Christopher Fowler
1995 Novel Psychoville Christopher Fowler
1997 Novel Disturbia Christopher Fowler
1998 Collection Personal Demons Christopher Fowler
1998 Novel Soho Black Christopher Fowler
1999 Collection Uncut Christopher Fowler
2000 Novel Calabash Christopher Fowler
2001 Collection The Devil in Me Christopher Fowler
2003 Novel Full Dark House Christopher Fowler
2004 Chapbook Breathe Christopher Fowler
2004 Collection Demonized: Short Stories Christopher Fowler
2004 Novel The Water Room Christopher Fowler
2005 Novel Seventy-Seven Clocks Christopher Fowler
2006 Novel Ten Second Staircase Christopher Fowler
2006 Novel Ten-Second Staircase Christopher Fowler
2007 Collection Old Devil Moon Christopher Fowler
2007 Novel White Corridor Christopher Fowler
2008 Novel The Victoria Vanishes Christopher Fowler
2009 Novel On the Loose Christopher Fowler
2009 Nonfiction Paperboy Christopher Fowler
2010 Novel Off the Rails Christopher Fowler
2010 Novel The Curse of Snakes Christopher Fowler
2011 Collection Red Gloves, Volume I & II Christopher Fowler
2012 Novel Hell Train Christopher Fowler
2012 Novel The Memory of Blood Christopher Fowler
2013 Nonfiction Film Freak Christopher Fowler
2013 Novel Plastic Christopher Fowler
2013 Novel The Invisible Code Christopher Fowler
2014 Novel Bryant & May and the Bleeding Heart Christopher Fowler
2014 Novel Nyctophobia Christopher Fowler
2014 Novel The Bleeding Heart Christopher Fowler
2015 Novel Bryant & May and the Burning Man Christopher Fowler
2015 Novel The Sand Men Christopher Fowler
2016 Novel Strange Tide Christopher Fowler
2017 Collection Frightening Christopher Fowler
2017 Novel Wild Chamber Christopher Fowler
2018 Novel Hall of Mirrors Christopher Fowler
2019 Novel The Lonely Hour Christopher Fowler
2021 Novel Oranges And Lemons Christopher Fowler

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
1996 British Fantasy Award August Derleth Fantasy Award (Best Novel) Psychoville Nominee
1998 British Fantasy Award August Derleth Fantasy Award (Best Novel) Disturbia Nominee
1998 British Fantasy Award Best Short Story Wage Slaves Winner
1999 British Fantasy Award Best Collection Personal Demons Nominee
2002 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Short Fiction The Green Man Nominee
2004 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection Demonized: Short Stories Nominee
2004 British Fantasy Award August Derleth Fantasy Award (Best Novel) Full Dark House Winner
2004 British Fantasy Award Best Collection Demonized: Short Stories Nominee
2004 British Fantasy Award Best Short Fiction American Waitress Winner
2004 Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire Nouvelle étrangère Démons intimes Nominee
2005 British Fantasy Award August Derleth Fantasy Award (Best Novel) The Water Room Nominee
2005 British Fantasy Award Best Novella Breathe Winner
2007 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection Old Devil Moon Nominee
2008 British Fantasy Award Best Collection Old Devil Moon Winner
2008 British Fantasy Award Best Short Fiction The Spider Kiss Nominee
2008 Shirley Jackson Award Best Collection Old Devil Moon Nominee
2009 British Fantasy Award August Derleth Fantasy Award (Best Novel) The Victoria Vanishes Nominee
2011 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection Red Gloves, Volume I & II Nominee
2011 World Fantasy Award Best Short Fiction Beautiful Men Nominee
2012 Shirley Jackson Award Best Collection Red Gloves, Volume I & II Nominee

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