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Christopher Fowler is a British novelist that writes mystery, thriller, YA fantasy, and horror novels. Born in 1953 in Greenwich, London, Fowler attended Colfes before landing a position as a copywriter at J Walter Thompson.

Order of Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 Full Dark House 2003 Description / Buy
2 The Water Room 2004 Description / Buy
3 Seventy-Seven Clocks 2005 Description / Buy
4 Ten Second Staircase 2006 Description / Buy
5 White Corridor 2007 Description / Buy
6 The Victoria Vanishes 2008 Description / Buy
7 Bryant & May on the Loose 2009 Description / Buy
8 Off the Rails 2010 Description / Buy
9 The Memory of Blood 2011 Description / Buy
10 Bryant & May's Mystery Tour 2011 Description / Buy
11 The Invisible Code 2012 Description / Buy
12 The Bleeding Heart 2014 Description / Buy
13 The Secret Santa (Short Story) 2015 Description / Buy
14 The Burning Man 2015 Description / Buy
15 Strange Tide 2016 Description / Buy
16 Wild Chamber 2017 Description / Buy
17 Hall of Mirrors 2018 Description / Buy
18 The Lonely Hour 2019 Description / Buy
19 England’s Finest 2019 Description / Buy
20 Oranges and Lemons 2020 Description / Buy
21 London Bridge Is Falling Down 2021 Description / Buy

Order of Bryant & May Collections

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1 London's Glory 2015 Description / Buy
2 England’s Finest 2019 Description / Buy

Order of Bryant & May Graphic Novels

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1 The Casebook of Bryant & May: The Soho Devil 2012 Description / Buy

Order of Bryant & May Companion Books

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1 Peculiar London 2022 Description / Buy

Order of Hellion Series

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1 The Curse of Snakes 2010 Description / Buy

Order of Christopher Fowler Standalone Novels

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1 Roofworld 1988 Description / Buy
2 Rune 1990 Description / Buy
3 Red Bride 1992 Description / Buy
4 Darkest Day 1993 Description / Buy
5 Spanky 1994 Description / Buy
6 Psychoville 1995 Description / Buy
7 Disturbia 1997 Description / Buy
8 Soho Black 1998 Description / Buy
9 Calabash 2000 Description / Buy
10 Plastic 2003 Description / Buy
11 Breathe (Short Story) 2004 Description / Buy
12 Hell Train 2011 Description / Buy
13 Nyctophobia 2014 Description / Buy
14 The Sand Men 2015 Description / Buy

Order of Christopher Fowler Short Stories/Novellas with James Oswald, Jane Casey

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1 Wage Slaves 1997 Description / Buy
2 The Green Man 2002 Description / Buy
3 American Waitress 2003 Description / Buy
4 The Spider Kiss 2007 Description / Buy
5 Beautiful Men 2010 Description / Buy
6 #ChooseThePlot (Short Story) ( With: James Oswald, Jane Casey) 2014 Description / Buy
7 Bryant & May and the Nameless Woman (Short Story) 2015 Description / Buy
8 Reconciliation Day (Short Story) 2016 Description / Buy
9 The Washing (Short Story) 2019 Description / Buy

Order of Christopher Fowler Short Story Collections

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1 The Bureau of Lost Souls 1984 Description / Buy
2 City Jitters 1986 Description / Buy
3 More City Jitters 1988 Description / Buy
4 Flesh Wounds 1989 Description / Buy
5 Sharper Knives 1992 Description / Buy
6 Personal Demons 1998 Description / Buy
7 Uncut 1999 Description / Buy
8 The Devil in Me 2001 Description / Buy
9 Demonized 2004 Description / Buy
10 Old Devil Moon 2007 Description / Buy
11 Red Gloves 2011 Description / Buy
12 Red Gloves Volume I & II 2011 Description / Buy

Order of Christopher Fowler Graphic Novels

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1 Menz Insana (Short Story) 1997 Description / Buy

Order of Christopher Fowler Non-Fiction

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1 How to Impersonate Famous People (Short Story) 1985 Description / Buy
2 Ultimate Party Book (Short Story) 1985 Description / Buy
3 Paperboy 2009 Description / Buy
4 Invisible Ink 2012 Description / Buy
5 Film Freak 2013 Description / Buy
6 The Book of Forgotten Authors 2017 Description / Buy

Order of Bibliomysteries Series

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1 The Book of Virtue ( By: Ken Bruen) 2012 Description / Buy
2 Pronghorns of the Third Reich (Short Story) ( By: C.J. Box) 2012 Description / Buy
3 The Book Thing ( By: Laura Lippman) 2012 Description / Buy
4 The Book Case ( By: Nelson DeMille) 2012 Description / Buy
5 An Acceptable Sacrifice ( By: Jeffery Deaver) 2012 Description / Buy
6 Death Leaves a Bookmark (Short Story) ( By: William Link) 2012 Description / Buy
7 The Final Testament (Short Story) ( By: Peter Blauner) 2013 Description / Buy
8 Rides a Stranger (Short Story) ( By: David Bell) 2013 Description / Buy
9 The Long Sonata of the Dead (Short Story) ( By: Andrew Taylor) 2013 Description / Buy
10 The Book of Ghosts (Short Story) ( By: Reed Farrel Coleman) 2013 Description / Buy
11 The Compendium of Srem (Short Story) ( By: F. Paul Wilson) 2014 Description / Buy
12 What's in a Name? (Short Story) ( By: Thomas H. Cook) 2014 Description / Buy
13 Remaindered (Short Story) ( By: Peter Lovesey) 2014 Description / Buy
14 The Sequel (Short Story) ( By: R.L. Stine) 2014 Description / Buy
15 The Gospel of Sheba (Short Story) ( By: Lyndsay Faye) 2014 Description / Buy
16 Book Club (Short Story) ( By: Loren D. Estleman) 2014 Description / Buy
17 The Nature of My Inheritance (Short Story) ( By: Bradford Morrow) 2014 Description / Buy
18 It's in the Book (Short Story) ( By: Mickey Spillane) 2014 Description / Buy
19 The Scroll (Short Story) ( By: Anne Perry) 2014 Description / Buy
20 The Book of the Lion (Short Story) ( By: Thomas Perry) 2015 Description / Buy
21 The Little Men (Short Story) ( By: Megan Abbott) 2015 Description / Buy
22 Condor in the Stacks (Short Story) ( By: James Grady) 2015 Description / Buy
23 Mystery, Inc. (Short Story) ( By: Joyce Carol Oates) 2015 Description / Buy
24 Every Seven Years (Short Story) ( By: Denise Mina) 2015 Description / Buy
25 From the Queen (Short Story) ( By: Carolyn Hart) 2015 Description / Buy
26 From the Queen (Short Story) ( By: Carolyn Hart) 2015 Description / Buy
27 The Travelling Companion ( By: Ian Rankin) 2016 Description / Buy
28 Citadel (Short Story) ( By: Stephen Hunter) 2016 Description / Buy
29 Reconciliation Day (Short Story) 2016 Description / Buy
30 Dead Dames Don't Sing (Short Story) ( By: John Harvey) 2016 Description / Buy
31 The Haze (Short Story) ( By: James W. Hall) 2016 Description / Buy
32 Hoodoo Harry (Short Story) ( By: Joe R. Lansdale) 2017 Description / Buy
33 The Pretty Little Box (Short Story) ( By: Charles Todd) 2018 Description / Buy
34 Seven Years (Short Story) ( By: Peter Robinson) 2018 Description / Buy
35 The Hemingway Valise ( By: Robert Olen Butler) 2018 Description / Buy
36 The Last Honest Horse Thief ( By: Michael Koryta) 2018 Description / Buy
37 The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository ( By: John Connolly) 2018 Description / Buy
38 The Girl Who Did Say No (Short Story) ( By: David Handler) 2020 Description / Buy
39 The Traitor (Short Story) ( By: Martin Edwards) 2022 Description / Buy
40 The Dark Door ( By: Lisa Unger) 2022 Description / Buy
41 The Honeymoon Trap (Short Story) ( By: Peter Swanson) 2022 Description / Buy

Chronological Order of Bibliomysteries Series

# Read Title Published Details
1 The Book of Virtue ( By: Ken Bruen) 2012 Description / Buy
2 The Scroll (Short Story) ( By: Anne Perry) 2014 Description / Buy
3 Pronghorns of the Third Reich (Short Story) ( By: C.J. Box) 2012 Description / Buy
4 An Acceptable Sacrifice ( By: Jeffery Deaver) 2012 Description / Buy
5 Death Leaves a Bookmark (Short Story) ( By: William Link) 2012 Description / Buy
6 Seven Years (Short Story) ( By: Peter Robinson) 2018 Description / Buy
7 The Book Thing ( By: Laura Lippman) 2012 Description / Buy
8 The Book of Ghosts (Short Story) ( By: Reed Farrel Coleman) 2013 Description / Buy
9 Book Club (Short Story) ( By: Loren D. Estleman) 2014 Description / Buy
10 The Long Sonata of the Dead (Short Story) ( By: Andrew Taylor) 2013 Description / Buy
11 The Final Testament (Short Story) ( By: Peter Blauner) 2013 Description / Buy
12 Rides a Stranger (Short Story) ( By: David Bell) 2013 Description / Buy
13 What's in a Name? (Short Story) ( By: Thomas H. Cook) 2014 Description / Buy
14 It's in the Book (Short Story) ( By: Mickey Spillane) 2014 Description / Buy
15 The Nature of My Inheritance (Short Story) ( By: Bradford Morrow) 2014 Description / Buy
16 Remaindered (Short Story) ( By: Peter Lovesey) 2014 Description / Buy
17 The Compendium of Srem (Short Story) ( By: F. Paul Wilson) 2014 Description / Buy
18 The Gospel of Sheba (Short Story) ( By: Lyndsay Faye) 2014 Description / Buy
19 The Sequel (Short Story) ( By: R.L. Stine) 2014 Description / Buy
20 The Book of the Lion (Short Story) ( By: Thomas Perry) 2015 Description / Buy
21 The Little Men (Short Story) ( By: Megan Abbott) 2015 Description / Buy
22 From the Queen (Short Story) ( By: Carolyn Hart) 2015 Description / Buy
23 Every Seven Years (Short Story) ( By: Denise Mina) 2015 Description / Buy
24 Citadel (Short Story) ( By: Stephen Hunter) 2016 Description / Buy
25 Condor in the Stacks (Short Story) ( By: James Grady) 2015 Description / Buy
26 Mystery, Inc. (Short Story) ( By: Joyce Carol Oates) 2015 Description / Buy
27 The Travelling Companion ( By: Ian Rankin) 2016 Description / Buy
28 The Haze (Short Story) ( By: James W. Hall) 2016 Description / Buy
29 Dead Dames Don't Sing (Short Story) ( By: John Harvey) 2016 Description / Buy
30 Reconciliation Day (Short Story) 2016 Description / Buy
31 Hoodoo Harry (Short Story) ( By: Joe R. Lansdale) 2017 Description / Buy
32 The Pretty Little Box (Short Story) ( By: Charles Todd) 2018 Description / Buy
33 The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository ( By: John Connolly) 2018 Description / Buy
34 The Hemingway Valise ( By: Robert Olen Butler) 2018 Description / Buy
35 The Last Honest Horse Thief ( By: Michael Koryta) 2018 Description / Buy
36 The Book Case ( By: Nelson DeMille) 2012 Description / Buy
37 From the Queen (Short Story) ( By: Carolyn Hart) 2015 Description / Buy
38 The Girl Who Did Say No (Short Story) ( By: David Handler) 2020 Description / Buy
39 The Traitor (Short Story) ( By: Martin Edwards) 2022 Description / Buy
40 The Dark Door ( By: Lisa Unger) 2022 Description / Buy
41 The Honeymoon Trap (Short Story) ( By: Peter Swanson) 2022 Description / Buy

Order of Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories Series with Conrad Williams, Mark Morris, Tim Lebbon, Simon Strantzas, Gary McMahon, Sarah Pinborough, Rhys Hughes, Gary Fry, John Travis, Michael Kelly, James Cooper, Davin Ireland, Andrew Jury, Carol Weekes, Ian Alexander Martin

# Read Title Published Details
1 The Second Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories ( By: Ian Alexander Martin) 2008 Description / Buy

Christopher Fowler Anthologies

# Read Title Published Details
1 Drabble II: Double Century 1990 Description / Buy
2 The Mammoth Book of Vampires 1992 Description / Buy
3 The Giant Book of Zombies 1993 Description / Buy
4 Best New Horror 4 1993 Description / Buy
5 The Mammoth Book of Zombies 1993 Description / Buy
6 The Giant Book of Terror 1994 Description / Buy
7 Best New Horror 5 1994 Description / Buy
8 Dark Terrors 1995 Description / Buy
9 The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 7 1996 Description / Buy
10 Dark Terrors 3 1997 Description / Buy
11 Destination Unknown 1997 Description / Buy
12 Secret City 1997 Description / Buy
13 Dark of the Night 1997 Description / Buy
14 The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 8 1997 Description / Buy
15 The Mammoth Book of Dracula 1997 Description / Buy
16 Dark Terrors 4 1998 Description / Buy
17 Eleventh Annual Collection 1998 Description / Buy
18 The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 9 1998 Description / Buy
19 The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 10 1999 Description / Buy
20 Dark Terrors 5 2000 Description / Buy
21 Urban Gothic: Lacuna and Other Trips 2001 Description / Buy
22 The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, #12 2001 Description / Buy
23 Stranger: Dark Tales of Eerie Encounters 2002 Description / Buy
24 Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 13 2002 Description / Buy
25 Dark Terrors 6 2002 Description / Buy
26 Fifteenth Annual Collection 2002 Description / Buy
27 Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixteenth Annual Collection 2003 Description / Buy
28 The Mammoth Book of New Terror 2004 Description / Buy
29 The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror, Vol. 15 2004 Description / Buy
30 Shrouded by Darkness: Tales of Terror 2006 Description / Buy
31 The British Fantasy Society: A Celebration 2006 Description / Buy
32 Best New Horror 18 2007 Description / Buy
33 Summer Chills 2007 Description / Buy
34 The Mammoth Book of Monsters 2007 Description / Buy
35 Best New Horror 19 2008 Description / Buy
36 Best New Horror 20 2009 Description / Buy
37 The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 7 2010 Description / Buy
38 The Sounds Of Crime 2010 Description / Buy
39 Back from the Dead: The Legacy of the Pan Book of Horror Stories 2010 Description / Buy
40 Zombie Apocalypse! 2010 Description / Buy
41 The End of the Line 2010 Description / Buy
42 Visitants 2010 Description / Buy
43 Crimewave 11 2010 Description / Buy
44 Haunts: Reliquaries of the Dead 2011 Description / Buy
45 House of Fear 2011 Description / Buy
46 Full Fathom Forty 2011 Description / Buy
47 The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Three 2011 Description / Buy
48 Gaslight Arcanum: Uncanny Tales of Sherlock Holmes 2011 Description / Buy
49 Best New Horror 22 2011 Description / Buy
50 The Mammoth Book of Body Horror 2012 Description / Buy
51 Pandemonium: Stories of the Smoke 2012 Description / Buy
52 Four For Fear 2012 Description / Buy
53 Mammoth Books Presents Demonic Dreams 2012 Description / Buy
54 Best New Horror 23 2012 Description / Buy
55 Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane 2012 Description / Buy
56 Dark World: Ghost Stories 2013 Description / Buy
57 Fearie Tales 2013 Description / Buy
58 Flotsam Fantastique: The Souvenir Book of World Fantasy Convention 2013 2013 Description / Buy
59 Psychomania: Killer Stories 2013 Description / Buy
60 Kneeling in the Silver Light: Stories from the Great War 2014 Description / Buy
61 Interzone 258, May-June 2015 2015 Description / Buy
62 The Future of Horror 2015 Description / Buy
63 The Monstrous 2015 Description / Buy
64 Darker Terrors 7 2016 Description / Buy
65 In the Footsteps of Dracula 2017 Description / Buy
66 Invisible Blood 2019 Description / Buy
67 The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror 2021 Description / Buy
68 Body Shocks 2021 Description / Buy
69 Reports from the Deep End 2023 Description / Buy
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He created The Creative Partnership at 26. He made a name for himself in film marketing, not only in the UK but abroad. Fowler did everything from making trailers to creating movie posters and producing documentaries.

He has had the pleasure of working with significant figures like Peter Greenaway and Mike Leigh. He also lent his talents to Reservoir Dogs, Moulin Rouge, and other high-profile films.

Celebrities like Micheal Cain, John Cleese, and Pierce Brosnan are just a few of the clients for whom he has written. But Fowler did not limit his activities to film marketing. He also wrote ‘Menz Insana’, a graphic novel (DC Comics) that received positive reviews from critics and audiences alike.
While he has written plays and worked with Hollywood Studios (Paramount) to make video games (War of the Worlds), most people know the author for his novels.

Fowler made quite the splash in 1988 when he published ‘Roofworld’, his first thriller. The book became a bestseller. The novels that followed (‘Rune’, ‘Spanky’, ‘Disturbia’, etc.) proved that Fowler wasn’t just another one-hit-wonder.

Though, some will argue that his career only took off when he wrote the ‘Bryant and May’ books. The series follows two members of the Peculiar Crimes Unit. Set between WWII and the present, most of the books stand on their own.

The author created the series because he liked the idea of exploring the lives of a pair of Golden Age detectives that had to overcome various obstacles in a modern setting.

He made them old because he wanted to counter the idea that only young people could be trusted to solve cases and right wrongs. He also wanted to write about protagonists that had a lifetime of experience to draw from.

The first novel in the series should have been the last. Fowler did not intend to turn the adventures of his elderly detectives into a series. The notion of following them over the course of several books did not appeal to him. But the interest in the characters kept growing. So Fowler wrote more novels in the series.

From what the author has seen, Bryant and May are popular because their age gives them a lot of experience. But it also permits them to act like immature children. They are eccentric and bad-tempered and that allows them to stand out. London is an important part of the novels. The author has a lot of books on London. He does extensive research on the city.

Christopher Fowler Awards

Fowler has won the British Fantasy Society, Last Laugh, CWA Dagger, and Green Carnation Awards. He also won the Edge Hill Prize.

Christopher Fowler Books into Movies

‘Through The Eyes of A Killer’, a 1992 TV film starring Richard Dean Anderson was based on ‘The Master Builder’.

Best Christopher Fowler Books

Fowler is so dedicated to his craft that he kept writing ‘London Bridge is Falling Down’ during his time at University College Hospital. He was receiving chemotherapy at the time. Fowler’s best books include:

Full Dark House: Arthur Bryant is dead. He was 80 years old when an explosion in London claimed his life. John May is distraught. May and Bryant became partners more than fifty years ago.

This novel explores May’s efforts to understand the events that killed his friend. It also goes half a century into the past, showing readers how the pair met and the first case they solved, a case that is potentially connected to Bryant’s death.

The Water Room: Ruth Singh died of natural causes, or so everyone believed. Her heart just stopped. But the elderly woman spent most of her time at home. So why did she look like she was getting ready to leave the house when she died? Even more perplexing is the river water they found in her body. Detectives May and Bryant are determined to find the person that killed her.

But their careers are in a precarious situation. If they make one more mistake, the powers that be will shut their unit down.

When Does The Next Christopher Fowler book come out?

Christopher Fowler doesn't seem to have an upcoming book. Their newest book is Peculiar London and was released on December, 6th 2022. It is the newest book in the Bryant & May Companion Books.

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